Luke Snellin is an 'up and coming' director who should definitely be one to watch.
Being a graduate from Bournemouth University Luke has been featured in many magazines including 'Shots' and 'The Reel' being named as a director to watch. At a young age of 23 he is quite inspirational winning awards for his work. His talent has been spotted by many big companies including Sony, Samsung and Malteser's giving Luke a chance to produce test commercials. Luke started off in the industry as an assistant editor for the television series 'Hustle', he then ventured into film working on 'Asylum Seekers'.
Luke started directing himself, starting off with self funded short films and documentaries, he then went on to commercial productions. You can watch his Malteser's test commercial with the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akEYubgBpkc
In 2008 he wrote and directed the short film 'Patrick', a film about a little boy who learns to fly. Luti Media are the production company Luke works for signing him on as one of their innovative directors, their permission was needed for Luke to produce this film and the response couldn't have been better. Money was found from funding bodies 'Chambers Film Finance' and 'Silver Birch Investments'.
Chambers Film Finance have helped Luke to finance both his shorts; 'Mixtape' and 'Patrick'. They invest in the completion and delivery of independent films, their website is http://www.chambersfilmfinance.com/
Other companies that helped Luke through this production were Panavision and Lighting media for loaning the equipment he needed in order to shoot it the way he wanted.
This all gives me an insight into how much loaning is needed in order to produce a short within the industry.
Friday, 29 January 2010
Patrick by Luke Snellin and Funding - Alex Lloyd
More Fact Ideas for Credits - Caroline Robertson
1 in 4 women will be a victim of domestic violence in their lifetime – many of these on a number of occasions.
On average, 2 women a week are killed by a current or former male partner.
-womensaid.org.uk
I like both of these as they will leave the audience with a shock factor and shows them that the issue shown in our film is real. I also think that it is important that our statistic is related to Britain as we are studying British Films.
Further Planning, what we are doing now. - Caroline Robertson
Our next step is to upload our storyboard as an animatic with the monologue so we have a good idea of how long each scene or clip will be. We have timed the monologue as going along to ensure we know approximate timing for each paragraph.
We will need to take location shots and find out what time we are all available to begin to film and edit, including actors and location owners.
Funding for WASP - Jack Storer, Caroline Robertson
Project name
‘Wasp’
Who is the applicant?
Cowboy Films
What is the project?
A 23 minute short film. Zoe a single mother is in search of an evening escape with an old flame but her romantic aspirations are hampered by her four small children waiting outside in the pub car park.
Who gave the money?
UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund
What was the grant programme?
The ‘Cinema Extreme’ short film scheme co-financed by the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and Film Four. The scheme was created in 2002 to encourage and develop directors with a distinctive directorial voice and cinematic flair.
How much was given?
The project received a total production budget of £53,250, fifty per cent of this amount was awarded by the New Cinema Fund and the remainder by FilmFour. Additional funds were made available by the UK Film Council to clear music rights and promote the film at international festivals.
Where is the project located?
The film was shot in and around Dartford, Kent. The ‘Cinema Extreme’ scheme is open to filmmakers and production companies based in the UK.
Why was the project so good?
The completed film has enjoyed enormous critical success and won 36 awards at international film festivals, including the 2005 Oscar® for Best Live Action Short Film.
It has firmly established director Andrea Arnold as one of the most interesting up-and-coming directing talents from the UK. At its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival the film attracted the interest of Denmark’s Zentropa and Scotland’s Sigma Films who subsequently commissioned Andrea to work on her debut feature ‘Advance Party’.
‘Wasp’ also helped to launch the career of Nathalie Press who stars in the film as Zoe. Nathalie has since drawn huge acclaim for her role in ‘My Summer of Love’, stars in Martha Fiennes’ ‘Chromophobia’ and is appearing in the BBC’s ‘Bleak House’.
this was all found on the national lottery funding page in discussion with WASP by Andrea Arnold.
This is a short clip from the film Wasp, as you can see they have used a short depth of film as we are planning to, this is one of our inspirations for the final piece.
Thursday, 28 January 2010
End Sequence - Jack Storer
we have decided that we will use a quote or a fact at the end of the film to draw in the reality of the issue that is child neglect and/or Domestic violence. here are a few I have found to give an example of what we want....
An estimated 3,154,000 children were reported to child protective service agencies as alleged victims of child abuse or neglect in 2008,
Approximately three children died each day in the United States from abuse or neglect in 2007.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 2001, over 1,300 murders were committed by a spouse or intimate partners. These numbers equate to nearly four murders a day
Over 25% of women have been victims of violence perpetrated by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
websites.
www.childabuse.com
www.safeatworkcoalition.org/dv/factsandstats.htm
Monologue part 2 - Alex Lloyd, Jack Storer, Caroline Robertson and Abi Black
They just sit their drinking smoking playing cards and drinking more.
I hate the sound of them laughing… I think mum does too… me and mum sit on her bed but she doesn’t say much we just sit there, I like being close to her when dads not around, I think she knows how I feel. Hiding…that’s what we do when Dad has his friends around, we hide…. He doesn’t like us to be seen…. I have to do a lot of hiding, sometimes its fun. I have a tree, I climb all the way to the top and watch the sun go down, I have to race against it getting home before its dark. The tree is just one of my hiding places I’ve found, I go out finding a lot.
Sam say’s he wants to be just like his Dad when he’s older…I don’t want to be like my Dad.
