Teasing Volume 2

A1’s latest release is nearing completion and is now due for release at the end of May: Capture Anthologies: Volume 2 – Love, Lust and Tragedy. This volume’s films take our viewers on an emotional voyage, we have comedy, romance, true love, lust and plenty of tragedy. Rather than Capture volumes sticking to a single [...]

Have Faith

Months ago I finished work on a great short film by Bryan Dickinson. Faith was his first film in the writer / director role with a full team behind him and his first professional shoot after working with Workshop Productions on a Script 2 Screen workshop course. Since finishing post production on the film it [...]

Location, Location, Location Take 3

Myself, and ‘Workshopers’ James Loginov, Amanda Jesson as well as our esteemed MD D.T. Guest recently braved the wilds of Lancaster on a Saturday night and Lancaster University campus to film the latest of our LU: Live undergraduate recruitment films.
Lancaster University is using this series of shorts to showcase various aspects of student life at [...]

Location, Location, Location All Over Again

Well I’ve been let out of the Workshop Productions office again recently – I might get used to daylight at this rate. On this occasion it was for another trip to Lancaster Uni to film another LU Live episode. This one was all about the Sports Clubs and Societies on offer to the students.
Like the [...]

SOLD OUT!

The office got some great news from HMV this week – less than a week after its official release date Capture Anthologies: Volume 1 – Fables and Fairytales as sold out at HMV.com!
So we’re off to a great start for our label A1’s first DVD release. More stock on the way so no worries there.

But [...]

Reel Vision: Real Success!

On Monday 22nd February 2010 saw the first Reel Vision Film Network event at The Storey CIC in Lancaster.
The team at Workshop have been developing the idea the ‘filmmaker’s film network’ for a while now and Monday saw the new network get off to a great start. The great turnout from filmmakers from all over [...]

Capture Anthologies: In Store Monday!

Well I could get used to posting stuff like this! Capture Anthologies has been on sale via pre-orders online at Amazon.co.uk, HMV, The Hut, Play.com and a whole bunch of others for a while now. But come Monday 22/02/2010 Volume 1 is on the shelves on the high street!
This is going to be my first [...]

Location, Location Location

After what seems a very long time living in the office I was out on location yesterday filming for a project that Workshop is putting together for Lancaster University. LU Live is a new recruitment program designed to show potential students some of the advantages of studying at Lancaster.
Before Christmas the first episode of a [...]

Capture Volume 2 Filmmaker Insights

Like the first volume of Capture, Volume 2: Love, Lust and Tragedy comes loaded with some great ‘Filmmaker Insights’.
As well as loading Capture with director’s commentaries to provide the viewer with a insightful perspective on the world of short film production, the ‘Filmmaker Insights’ are designed to give an accessible glimpse into various subjects within [...]

Capture Anthologies Update

Bit of an update on the Capture: Anthologies front, Volume 2: Love, Lust and Tragedy is well into production with 5 great shorts from around the UK. The confirmed list for this volume is:
1. Hard Labour
A 21st Century ‘ménage a trois’ as a Croation nanny seeks to deal with the fact that she is pregnant [...]