Tag: film

Movie Mates

We just launched Movie Mates, a new weekly comedy show helping you work out which mate to take along on Orange Wednesdays. I won’t try to explain the whole thing, I’ll let Phil and Jacob do that in this first episode, they do a much better job than me. Here’s their take on Inception:

 

… and The A-Team:

This is the fruit of nearly 9 month of concepting, casting, planning, writing, testing, building and a fair amount of pissing about making silly videos about films. It’s all turned out pretty nicely.

Secret Cinema – Blade Runner


All kinds of awesome from Secret Cinema as usual. This time our shuttle bus taking us to the space port for our flight to the Off World Colonies was pulled over by some Blade Runner dude and diverted to a holding area as a Replicant uprising had caused all flights to be cancelled. We ended up in a  dystopian Los Angeles, circa 2019, complete with snake merchants, eye makers, noodle bars, strip clubs and everything you need to make a pretty damn believable slice of the Blade Runner world.

 

Jason took a Voight-Kampff test, turns out he’s human, who’d have thought? I was rather pleased with my home brew lighty up umbrella. A good time was had by all – except for that stripper replicant who got shot to bits as we filed into the cinema, down-town LA in 2019 is a rough area.

 

Here’s some pics we took, or just pour yourself some whiskey and watch the slide show below.

 

All the Time In The World at Pokexhibition

Our short film ‘All the Time in the World’ is finally (just about) finished, and we gave it’s world premier at the Pokexhibiton on Wednesday. The Exhibition is full of stuff by people who work at Poke who might not normally get to display this kind of thing. There’s work from developers, managers, directors, designers and strategists – and whadayaknow? It seems we’re all creative little makers. A real mixed bag of work as well; painting, film, embroidery, steam powered remote control tank, a wig, pop promo, animation, a tweeting typewriter… all sorts. The work will be up on display for another couple of weeks, if you’re anywhere near Poke (trendy Shoreditch) pop in for a cup of tea and a look round.

A few photos of some of the work

Pokexhibtion on the Poke blog

Unto Others in Virgin Shorts


You’ve probably already seen this, but now it’s in the Virgin Media short film competition. If we win it we will be become the richer than our wildest dreams and shall eat peacock eggs for breakfast. So rate it 5 shiny stars and we’ll give you 7 million pounds each if we win*.

*actually we won’t, get stuffed.

Unto Others in Film Festivals


Film festival selections seem to be like buses, you wait ages and now 3 of them have come round the corner at once. Yey! Our 60 second short ‘Unto Others‘ has been accepted into the official selection of 3 international film festivals:

Foursite Film Festival, Utah
Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo
Mud Fest, New England

It’s being screened tonight in Utah (in HiDef no less, fancy pants), it’s shown in New England in a  few weeks, and then in Tokyo in June. Which of course feels pretty damn odd.

Looky here! We even made a poster for it, like a proper movie:

unto_others_poster

Waiting for Gorgo all over the internets

Woah, it’s a bit odd to see your own work pop-up in your rss reader but that just happened. That film we helped out on a few months back, Waiting for Gorgo, with a bit of good ol’ graphic design and some set building has been getting some geeks all excited it seems.

 

Jas noticed it first over at io9 where they have a link to our set photos, so I did some digging. I found it menioned on a forum on badmovies.org which then sent me all wobbly at the knees at the sight of a link to an article on FANGORIA ONLINE.COM! Get in! There’s totally a photo of our work on Fangoria’s website – hell it might even be in print for all I know. This is probably due to the film’s writter, M J Simpson, being a regular Fangoria scribe, he’s also put up a page about the film on his site, including a link to our photos, which is smashing.

 

It’s all jolly exciting. Here’s a few more links to help make us feel important:

 

  • RoboJapan / Monster Island – I Think this guy picked it up pretty early
  • Quiet Earth – Who also have the trailer from the original movie
  • Kailuphile – A mildly excited forum where Quiet Earth seemed to have found it
  • Cinemagine – The official site run by our mate Ben Craig, who directed the film
  • Monsterverse – This mainly links to io9 but it pads out this list nicely

28 Days video, done

So we’re off to buy some trendy hats and jeans that look like dad’s worn them to paint the kitchen ceiling – that’s right folks, we’ve directed a music video, so we’re cool now. We shot it ages ago, since then we sodded off to the states, and editing the beast took a lot longer than we’d though, but here it is, all done, and in glorious HD (well, Vimeo HD, which is kind of glorious).

Waiting for Gorgo, set build and shoot

The shoot for the film we were working on at Elstree Studios finished last weekend (we did the graphic design and helped with the set build), and we’ve just got all photos together of the final set build and shooting for you all to see. It all turned out looking quite splendid.

Enjoy