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Horses (2009)
A beautifully detailed and exciting documentary film following a year in the lives of three Irish racehorses, keeping as close to the horses as possible.
If writing what you know is good, then it's logical to presume writing something everyone knows and has experienced is an even better strategy for a filmmaker to employ. Director Ben Briand picked the universal theme of first love, for his ‘chance encounter' short Apricot, and joins us to discuss the importance of memory in his films.
I very much like the idea of being dropped into the middle of a scene [...] because as an audience it means you have to try and catch up or you have to try and piece things together. It's not just a passive experience.
Apricot Materials
Script
Showlinks
Ben Briand
Filminc Interview
Vimeo
M.I.A: Born Free
Red Camera
Canon EOS 7D
Canon EOS 5D
Apricot (2009)
Do you remember your first love? … Do you remember your first kiss? … Do you remember? …
Any film that features the tag line Spandex is the Shit! is destine for a spot on DN, particularly if it features an actor commonly know for his handlebar mustache and unicycling. Directing team Craig Webster and Florina Titz join me to discuss Wowie pt1 and their web series DaiDaiiRo.
We have a similar aesthetic vision, even if it's quite separate or quite different independently, but somehow we have an agreement once we're going down a certain road.
Wowie & DaiDaiiRo Materials
Script
Storyboard
Conforming Sheet Sample
DaiDaiiRo Installation Plan
Showlinks
Craig Webster
DaiDaiiRo Vimeo
Calvin Johnson “look at what the light did now”
Kyle Field
Wowie (2010)
Wowie, a delusional postman, spies on his love interest, Carina, while she does an aerobics routine. Later at a party he delivers an awkward performance involving spandex and hip-thrusts to impress her.
Using particle animation and lighting effects Chris Lavelle has created a living, organic piece of 3D art in his experimental short ASCENSION. Chris joins us to discuss the evolution of the piece.
I don't believe in copying, I don't believe in plagiarism, but what I do believe in is making knowledge free.
Showlinks
LDi Studios
Trapcode Particular
Graymachine
Adobe After Effects
Garage Band
ASCENSION (2010)
An experimental piece based around particle system generated by music and sound, pieced together to create a narrative of a cycle of life.
The comment “It was like watching a full length feature film on fast forward and only pausing at the good bits,” goes a long way to explaining the experience of setting into Neo-Mega-Ultra Tokyo to watch Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer. The film's director Andrew W. Jones joins me to discuss creating this hyper-real, tongue in cheek world.
The liberating thing about green screen is that I had make absolutely no compromises to production design and sets and not being able to put a camera in a certain place.
Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer Materials
Script
Storybook
Showlinks
Andrew W. Jones
Adobe After Effects
Christopher Shy
Dastoli Digital
From Beyond
Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer (2010)
In the annoyingly sparkly future-scape of Neo-Mega-Ultra Tokyo, reporter Holly Malone tracks a murderous urban legend. She discovers that a chain of drug related killings leads down a super natural trail. A trail that ends with no average pill pusher, but FRANK DANCOOLO: PARANORMAL DRUG DEALER!
Described as “A very British Ghostbusters”, Nick Whitfield's debut feature Skeletons has been gathering mounting praise from critics and audiences alike and also picked up the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature at this year's Edinburgh film festival. I'm pleased to have Nick on the show to discuss transferring his parallel world from shorts to a feature.
You can't put on screen anything that you don't believe. That is always the number one rule. If you don't buy it, then it's got no business being on the screen.
Showlinks
Skeletons
Skeletons Facebook
EM Media
Scottish Screen
Crying With Laughter
New British Cinema Quarterly
Soda Pictures