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Saving Henry Bramble!
Just submitted my application to the #JBAs (John Brabourne Awards) asking for support to help me finish Henry Bramble. I'll find out if I have been successful on March 3rd - As Raygo Rattlegum would say "May the Guardians of Minoitaniga watch over me!"
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Join the Adventure and save Henry Bramble!
Help us to finish the vfx for our enchanting short film and in return we'll let you loose yourself in Henry's infectious imagination as you slip away to Minoitaniga on an incredible family adventure! Find out why Henry's mother abandoned him with his estranged Uncle, Where Raygo Rattlegum comes from and why his Chumnink tribe need Henry's help. Uncover the truth about the terrifying Voydarkatrons and come face-to-face with Maliglut, the mysterious demon intent on destroying Henry's imagination! Choose from a selection of exclusive perks that include the opportunity to read the latest draft of the expanded feature-length version of our heart-warming family fantasy short! Alternatively attend a live reading of the feature-length screenplay on the London stage with professional actors AND then give us YOUR feedback. Join the adventure and support our #Indiegogo Campaign to help save #HenryBramble at: http://igg.me/at/infectious-imagination
Texturing of the Voydarkatron almost complete!
It is with a sigh of relief and a tingle of excitement that I can finally say the Voydarkatron texturing and painting has almost been signed off. Once I approve the eyes, we'll be ready to plough through the next stage of the process and Henry Bramble will finally see light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. Here's a sneak peak at the beast himself in all his fully rendered coloured and textured glory. Unfortunately you'll have to wait to see his gruesome face! The team has also been working on the inner trunk. I think this is going to be the most disgusting thing you've ever seen get close to someone's face - period!
Henry Bramble On The Move Again - Finally!
Here's a beautiful re-sculpture of the Voydarkatron's trunk just sent to me by Jan Daube and his team at Wham Bam Productions. Previous versions by the other vfx teams were not nearly as detailed and defined. This really does look like the flesh of an elephant! - Very happy right now!
Wham Bam! - Henry Bramble vfx get a boost!
So having lost all hope of getting the vfx completed, DiRoom, by the skin of their teeth, seem to have found a suitable replacement vfx team - Wham Bam Productions. Although their showreel leans more towards drinks commercials and certainly does not include seven foot monsters, their test demo's they've sent me are very promising and after a productive Skype call I feel confident they know what I'm looking for. They have been briefed before I go on holiday for two weeks and I have to confess I feel a small surge of excitement by the progress they should have made by the time I get back. Fingers crossed this is third time lucky! Here's their showreel below.
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Henry Bramble suffers another VFX nightmare
If you haven't already heard, we didn't get into Cannes. There were just 8 films selected out of a whopping 3,500 shorts from across the globe. It was a relief to be honest, because if we had been selected, our film would not have been finished in time. It is now June and has taken the vfx team six months to deliver just one completed and approved vfx shot out of forty four?! - I can't tell you how frustrated and angry this makes me feel, but in these instances, you have to just set your emotions aside and find a way to move forward.
Currently DiRoom (who were responsible for outsourcing the vfx work) have found three UK based vfx compainies who are willing to do the work for the remainder of our budget. However, despite their impressive vfx reels I have not yet been convinced that they are capable of delivering such specific work - i.e. a life-like Hollywood level cgi Voydarkatron. having had such a bad experience with the last team, I am being more than a little cautious as I try not to let paranoia cloud my judgement.
I was never convinced that the previous vfx team were qualified for the job, but my concerns fell on deaf ears. After all the delays and additional funding, the temptation to want to believe that they could deliver what we wanted within such a short timeframe was just too great. Our judgements were clouded by the desire to resolve the problem as quickly as possible, but in doing so the problem just got bigger.
The lesson that should be learnt here is simple - you pay for what you get. In reality we hugely underestimated the budget required for the vfx. The actual cost of the work to be delivered in such a short timeframe (a month), through a professional hollywood level outfit like Framestore, The Mill or the MPC is closer to £30,000. But rather than facing that fact we seem to be still looking for a way to get them done for less than a third of that estimate still within a similar short timeframe. With vfx artists expressing their anger at hollywood for not paying them an honest fee, I find this situation very uncomfortable.
Please can everyone wake up and smell the mocha choca. I really don't want to watch us make the same mistake a third time! In my mind, the only logical solution is to either be prepared to wait for as long as it takes for a smaller outfit to complete it for the money we have or raise £30,000. However the only way we can realistically raise this in a relatively short space of time, is through a carefully planned crowd-funding campaign like Indiegogo or Kickstarter. So for now I wait in hope for the Henry Bramble team to follow my lead.
ADR session for Henry Bramble
Had a good ADR session in East London with Archie Lyndhurst on Monday. It mostly consisted of getting better/cleaner recordings of some of his dialogue along with some moans and groans when he is attacked by the Voydarkatron. Nice to catch up with the busy young man and his Mother. There was a technical delay that took an hour to sort out, but Archie being Archie, sped though the material as a true proffessional does. We got the recordeing session free, so thanks to the guys at Filmfonix.
Evan Jolly - Genius Composer
Let me introduce you to Evan Jolly. He studied film composing at the National Film & Television School in the same year as myself back in 2002-03. We only officially worked together once in that time, on a short film called No Fixed Abode. Unfortunately part of the exercise was for the composers to be the sound designers so I never really got to experience Evan's true talents. However I was always was aware he had a lot of talent. He played the trumpet and the piano (among other things), his compositions on other films at the NFTS were diverse and of a high quality and above all he was a jolly nice chap! In the final year I asked him to write a musical song for my graduation short The Happiness Thief, which I loved, but then regrettably had to drop, as I was told that we didn't have the time or budget to include a full on musical dance number in the middle of the film - which would have been the icing on the cake!
So ten whole years later, I'm without a composer and I suddenly think, what on earth ever happened to Evan? I looked up my old contact details for him, but they were well out of date, I then Googled him, but he had no website, no Linked-In page - nothing! Eventually I checked Facebook and thankfully he was there, alive and well living in Brighton. Less than three weeks later he has just delivered me the most amazing score for Henry Bramble. I was welling up with joy listening to it. For all the troubles we've had on this short, this was the first time anyone had blown away my expectations. He truly is a master at his craft and I am forever grateful to him for lifting our beautiful little film into a whole new dimension. Evan Jolly, you are a God-damn genius my friend!
