Well happy summer everyone!
Just a quick post to update everyone on my whereabouts these days.
Workshop Productions of which I am a part, have just moved offices. We are now based at The Storey Creative Industries Centre in Lancaster. We’re still in the process of moving in and installing equipment etc but things are looking good at the moment with a number of projects coming up and continuing. The Storey is a fantastic new development with a number of other creative based companies already having taken up residence.
Workshop will be posting some pictures and a video or two of the new place as soon as the paint has dried!
Over at Workshop I’m working on a whole bunch of projects. One of these is a series of idents that will feature with the various projects that Workshop produces. The first one to be developed is for the educational branch of Workshop. ‘Bridging the Gap’ will feature as part of releases for Workshop films - that is films produced in the filmmaking classes that Workshop operates.
This is a work in progress and will no doubt change in the not to distant future.
The original version of this ident was used on the Limited Edition DVD release of Reflections. Obviously the gears are taken from the Workshop Productions logo, which I also developed last year. This logo is based on a much older version of the Workshop corporate image, which is in turn taken from Workshop’s first short film “Un Horlage Alarment” (Alarm Clock), produced back in 2004.
On Monday night I was in London watching the UK premiere of Star Trek at the Empire in Leicester Square. It rocked in every way. This is my first film review so please be kind, also there are very few spoilers. Enjoy!
This is not just a truly great Star Trek film this is a truly great film that stands on its own without the baggage collected over the years by the ‘franchise’. That’s not to say that there isn’t a whole host of wonderful in-jokes and obscure fan only references. The prefect example being when Kirk and Sulu are prepping for a dangerous orbital sky dive to take out a bad guy weapon; they are joined by a crewmember dressed in red. No prizes for guessing how long that guy lasts.
Star Trek has been reinvented with all the imagination and camaraderie of the original and been combined with a truly fresh approach to story telling in the Star Trek universe.
The truth is I’ve been a fan of Star Trek since I was a kid, anyone who knows me well will tell you that, and no doubt some comical example of my adolescent geekyness will spring to their mind. So I was going to get a kick out of a ‘new version’ of the original crew no matter what. But I not only enjoyed the new take on the story, the new cast, the new Enterprise and everything else that goes with a reboot of a classic but I really can’t wait for the new instalment, this is Star Trek now.
Last year I was given the great opportunity to edit a feature film produced by Workshop Productions. The feature, Reflections is a great example of Workshop’s mission; to stimulate the revival of the Britsih Film Industry through the promotion of grass roots film production. The 16 year old writer / director of the film, Ashok Baker partisipated in one of Workshop’s, filmmaking courses and went on to do a work experiences placement with Workshop. Soon after he presented DT Guest, MD of Workshop with a feature film script. In summer 2007 Reflections was filmed on location in Blackpool, England with a professional cast and crew. This is the trailer we produced around mid 2008, while we were still developing the look of the film. Hi the HQ button before playing, looks so much better!
This year Workshop are pushing to get Reflections into film festivals and get it the audience that it truly deserves. With any luck in the near future Reflections will at a film festival near you! Have a look at the press pics of the prmiere we held in Manchester:
Welcome to my new site. Its been a while since I’ve used this web-space as I’ve been working none stop on a number of projects at Workshop Productions. Please visit Workshop’s site and blog, links on the Blog-Roll.
I’m going to be posting some example of my work as well as updates of what I’ve been into working in the fabulous world of the British Film Industry.
Still experimenting with Word Press so expect things to change around here before too long.
