Brave Souls

Thursday was filming at the Doncaster Platform 51 women's drop-in centre.  We're putting together a promo for them to be shown at the City Women's Network event next month.

We heard some heartfelt and deeply harrowing stories that were humbling to the core.  All I can say is a big thank you to Diane and Lou, as well as Emma the Project Worker for opening up so bravely.

I'm editing right now and I have, surprisingly, been deeply moved on more than one occasion.

Our duty now is to make a film that will encourage support in the organisation that will hopefully allow more women and girls in need of help to find support in the future.

http://www.platform51.org/

I love NY

Dogs in bags, cats perched on heads. Pastrami on rye, baseball in the park, ice cream sandwiches and perhaps the best burger I've ever eaten. Having a fab Big Apple time.

Cheesy Hot Pants!

Slip Sliding Away

We had loads of fun today using Floatcam's new Dolly/Crane. Just adds so much quality to the shots.

A very big house in the country.

We got a call from the lovely Jo at freud communications on Tuesday, it was a classic "Is this crazy idea even possible with such a short turnaround time?  Only you guys can help!" type of call.

Naturally, everything is possible ;-)

Alex James has been a cheesemaker for over 10 years (I felt a dope when it seems everyone knew this but me).  He's launching a range of new cheese products at ASDA in the next few weeks and they need some UGC style promos for the ASDA consumer site, plus an interview & B-roll for broadcast on the Gino & Mel TV show next week.

We rolled to Alex's farm in the Cotswolds and spent the day chatting about melting cubes & bread-shaped ketchup-flavoured slices, epic cheese made by silent monks & Alex's crazy tomato plants.  It was a cool day, we had fun messing about with Alex and his kids and the shoot was smooth as a nice piece of Gruyere.

We shot the interview & B-roll on a Sony EX3 XD-CAM, and we took the 5D for the online stuff, it looks pretty.  Delivery is today & tomorrow so we're slaving over a hot edit suite right now.

I'll hook up a link when we have a draft approved.

Hot Cross Bun

Hey,

the, 'When God Was A Rabbit' trailer is now number 7 in the most viewed chart on Amazon! We're very pleased.

Overheard in the office...

Nick: "Let's make a film!"
Jim: "We need to get more work!"
Paul: "Look at that cat!"
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