Pammies, the eagerly awaited awards ceremony!

The Pammies was hosted by The College at Braintree and held the opportunities for the cast and crew to win any of the 20 awards on offer.

The first award for Justlikethat came for Best title sequence of the films shown,  this was purely to Charlie for his work on the HD footage involved in the title sequence.

Then came the award for Best crew for our shared efforts in pre production and on set, followed by Best lighting award which was obtained for our lighting effect which simulated darkness and moonlight at 3PM on a sunny spring day.

The night drew on, Liam accepted the prixe for his well deserved location sound which was pronounced as having immaculate qualities.

The cast then took their award for best ensemble acting, for their ability to work flawlessly between each other, creating an engaging and enjoyable tension in the film.

David gladly accepted his award for Best Script, having been the most justified and improved upon of the scripts in the group.

Finally came the award for Best director, awarded to myself for the creative and smooth management of an already effective team.  I would like to thank the other directors, casts, crews, and teachers respectively as they were the inspiration to work to, the bench mark if you like, which gave me an ongoing goal to ensure we worked well as a team.

This gave the cast and crew of Forgotten Pasts a collective of 7 awards, the most obtained out of the 3 groups.

I would like to thank you to all those who attended and a great way to cap off our time at college, it has easily been my best 2 years in education, having faced some big challenges and then having the success and pay off such as this award ceremony really makes it worth all of the effort and stress that went into every production at college.

Forgotten Pasts Film Premiere!

It’s been confirmed, the exclusive premiere of Justlikethat’s film Forgotten Pasts takes place at the Cramphorn Theatre in Chelmsford on the  9th of June 2010.

Tickets are fairly limited, if you wish to attend please send a message or speak directly to Justlikethat, they are £5 each to cover the costs of the theatre.

The Final Render is Near!

So the third and final week into editing, the film is very near to complete, just requiring a few tweaks to provide a full cinema graphic feel.

We would like to give a big thanks to Dan Clark (Facebook, Flickr, MySpace) for consultancy and production of some of our soundtrack, whilst fitting it around his study time at Leeds university.  He has provided us with a very moving piece which is needed to drive the theme of the screenplay.

Back in one piece (just)

Finally home after our week long trip at St. Gabriels, in a nutshell it was the greateast and most daunting week of my life.

We fell behind on schedule after the first day, due to the misconception that the convent would remain open all night for late filming. However, this ultimately was not a bad thing as it made us press on and remain focused on catching up and getting all of our shots filmed.

Collaboratively as a group, we are very proud of our lighting rigs.  As the plot is set entirely at night, and the majority of our filming was allocated to daytime, we had to make use of our time to simulate night on the set, going to extreme lengths and using our initiative to make impromptu light blocks.

Currently we are in the capture stage of the edit, stay tuned as in the coming days/weeks we will be posting some teaser shots and promos from Forgotten Pasts.

-Tom

Storyboards

I’m currently midway through scene 5 when it comes to storyboarding, having drawn and visualised over 100 shots.  I have received many criticisms and insults regarding skill and artwork of the drawings (*Ahem* Charlie and Liam), but ultimately, they provide some reference of how the shots should be composed, irregardless of how bad my drawings are!

Visuals should all be done by the final week, where we will then focus heavily on what equipment and props are needed for out shoot.

Half term inspiration

Sitting in on a rainy day listening to some new artists and albums.  I’ve been heavily inspired by the great work of Hybrid with their album Soundsystem 01, which is a mix album, combining all the tracks to create one long piece.   It features mixes of various artists including Harry Gregson-Williams, Massive Attack and John Murphy. This album alone has given my imagination an entire revamp of  how I would like Forgotten Pasts to perform aurally, I highly recommend a listen.

Hybrid – Soundsystem 01

05.02.2010

Having writing out our production meeting points, it is established that this week we have achieved:

• Liam has started the long and demanding task of the sound plot. 05.02.2010
• Completition of our sixth draft, ammended by Dave. 04.02.2010
• Working closing with the actors to get their input on the script, done by Dave. 03.02.2010
• Charlie has made some major updates, layout and content wise. 03.02.2010
• I created the Faceboook fanpage, then to be linked with this site. 02.02.2010

Tom – Entry 1

Just testing the ye’ olde account.