January 2013 - Announcements & Exciting News!

Welcome to our first blog for the new year - 2013! We hope all of our readers have gotten the year off to a great start. This year we're really going to town with our social media, keeping it qualitative and regular, both on Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and most importantly, YouTube. For this year, we've got some great new stuff planned - series four of Team Idiot, another Call of Duty spoof, a series of OASIS, Safari as a stop-motion plasticine animation, the Encounter version 3, the Lock down horror movie and plenty more!

The World of Business Videos
In 2012, we spent a lot of time connecting with people and starting possible video threads, producing promotional films for local business's and local events. We are happy to say that we will be re-producing the "Bicester Voices" video by the Bicester Chamber of Commerce, thanks to Ben Jackson. Chamber events will also be covered by us, and we have some possibilities for work up in Banbury!




As part of our re-branding, Sam has produced a low-resolution version of our new logo!
Still the typical blue circle, but we think the simplicity is so much better, and the shape is far more recognisable. 





Our blog will be updated on the 25th of every month, and we will now start embedding the videos we have produced in here so that you can view them 'at a glance'. This month, as we make some finishing touches to our website (www.sparemomentstudios.com)  we have produced some new chroma key green screen videos. Videos will be uploaded every week on a Tuesday. The first video we uploaded this year however, is the "New UK Health Clinic Parody". We made this last year, and thus we hope to produce content a little stronger than this.

Starring Neil Cole, Daron Coaker and Ross Arrowsmith (A spoof without Sam? How can this be! This is not right!) Neil is a northerner with his own private medical clinic, and he serves two very ill patients, showing us his daily routine. The following video we made was the sequel to 'The Care Home Parody Part I', about a man with memory loss and the comical problems he encounters. 

Neil, or Brian Fartstrom has a soft spot for Carol Vordamen (Ha Ha!) Moving on, we decided to return to our initially popular 'Toast, Coast Parody' video and did a sequel, but this time in-studio with a toast eating competition between Sam and Daron. Ross, or Meal Oliver judged the competition, and the two battled it out to see who could make and eat Toast the fastest, and with the cleanest plate. 

This was with Ross Arrowsmith, Sam Isaacs and Daron Coaker. The latest spoof we did before updating this blog entry was our News Night Spoof! Ross took the place of Jeremy Paxman to bring you the latest news on the Afghanistan Conflicts, the weather and Ian Rankin's new novel. Again, these videos were all filmed in 2012, before we got our minds into gear about 2013 and we started to improve our comedy ideas. 

With the usual trio that turn up to filming days! So what videos to we have planned for next week and the next coming months? Next week, we give comedy a break and have a short lego stop-motion animation in store - a little warm up for a bigger lego animation project we'll be working on later in the year. We'll be giving you a few more rounds of comedy before our first series production - the Lockdown - comes into play, which will be released around the spring time of 2013. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow this blog for regular updates on our activity!