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Trailer 2 – Its coming to get you today

Here is the updated trailer for the final film Control Loss is released on vimeo and youtube at 1pm TODAY Trailer 2  

ANNOUNCEMENT:- Control Loss Released today

Hi. Writer, Director and Producer Sophie J Lees here. Big news, the final film is released today at 1:00pm on youtube and vimeo. It is a 3 min 30 sec Sci-fi thriller exploring what happens when something goes bump in the night and comes for Lilly. I am so happy that this film is finally finished and ready to distribute. The end result is quite different to how i first imagined it but it is still…

Director’s Daily Production Blog:- Monday 16 November 2016

Today I finished shot 2 of scene 6 in after effects by adding in the cgi set from blender (a blend swap product). I fitted it in with the scene and perspective then added all the lighting. I then moved on to shot 3 where I started on the masking, I created the first 2 masks and started key framing mask 2 which was small and took a very little time. Mask 1 was quite a big chunk of the picture…

Director’s Weekly Production Blog:- General update from last post to now

Up to now, the trailer is up and running with the 2nd one being uploaded as we speak. Also mainly I’ve been slowly editing Scene 6, which is a much bigger visual and sfx / cgi post production operation that originally thought. I have been doing mainly the PR and Marketing and getting distribution and PR plans tied up, updated and finalised. However due to personal and family illnesses, things…

UPDATE AND URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT

The film is now to be released on Friday 8 January 2016. This is instead of Friday 18 December 2015. This is due to edit progress and the need for more space to get the finalised distribution cemented.

Director’s Daily Production Blog:- Tuesday 3 November 2015

Yesterday, I was still recovering a cold, so I didn’t do much work apart from spreading PR and messages about the trailer. I sent links and updates to the cast and crew. Also before my day started officially, I did LAW OF ATTRACTION – MIND WORK aka a plan or todo list of ideas for pr and marketing for trailer and Facebook page. Today I started by confirming that I was going to get a load of…

Director’s Daily Production Blog:- Wednesday 28 October 2015

Firstly I opened up After Effects and the Scene 6 Project. I started and attempted green screening with my footage, on Shot 1,but was having problems. While struggling with keying and masking, i re examined set set-up and thought it actually would look fine with tweaking and colour grading and lighting add ons and effects and light colouring. I then moved on to shot 2 and started masking and etc.…

Director’s Daily Production Blog:- Monday 26 October 2015

Hi, Its been a few days and I’m back at work with Edit 4 SEQ 5 (aka Scene 5). This is a long one to work out all the visual effects and etc. Today I am focusing on getting as much of this edit and the whole edit done as quickly and as well as possible as my deadline is Friday 30 October 2015 along with trailer release. This is a really tight deadline and looks impossible, but Im a filmmaker with…