March 2013 - Words Into Action & Lego Series Announced!

March has shown yet another leap in our progress as we continue to work on everything ranging from comedy, documentaries, radio shows and our website. Our main website (www.sparemomentstudios.com) is being converted to HTML-5 by the end of April, which means that it will look vast amounts better on an iPad or mobile device. As we work on "Your Top Three Gerry Anderson Shows", Jack Knoll from J3P Films has gotten involved as he sits down in front of his camera and talks about his favourite moments from Gerry, on Thunderbirds, Stingray and other aspects of his productions.
Our regular stream of uploads has resumed after a brief hiatus in February, and we believe the quality of our videos is gradually fine-tuning to be more understandable to the general public and much easier to connect with, rather than Spare Moment Studios insider jokes about team members. Along with this, we are proud to announce some new stop-motion lego videos coming up!

Our first video uploaded this month was a Teleshopping spoof - you may get the gist, but give us a few weeks before we start getting better things out!

Starring Sam Isaacs, Daron Coaker and Ross Arrowsmith - all made in front of a Green-Screen - at least this is done technically well!

Again, even we don't quite understand this video! A crazy guy with sunglasses infront of a green screen announcing a guy that's supposed to sing followed by a comedian who just gets laughed at?

And now here is something we are proud of. A video to showcase two years of Spare Moment Studios productions, right back from our beginning in March 2011, across a range of war, comedy, horror, science fiction and animation. With Ross Arrowsmith, Daron Coaker, Sam Isaacs, Neil Cole, Steven Fulford, Charlotte Golder, Alex Cook, Liam Duggan and many more!

We filmed all of these Green-screen "comedies" in one day! Give us a break, that's why they're all such nonsense and plain silly! (Again, we're happy with the way it green screened though!)

That's it, now we're starting to vaguely talk! This movie kind of resembles ASDF but in lego - this was basically just to practice our stop-motion techniques, which after some more offline practice are starting to get better!

We are quite pleased with this trailer. We feel the first part is very unnerving and suspenseful, and the second half is more action packed and thrilling - a great trailer to show an upcoming film that will doubtless have proper scripts and a production crew. Filmed April 1st 2013.

Lego Animation Series Announced!
Following Lego Lols and a lot of pondering, as well as thinking back on conversations with Shifty Potatoes's Alex Wilson, Ross decided it would be a good idea to divulge back into the world of animation, where this basically all starting. There will be a five episode series based around Lego City, and a three part series based around Star Wars : The Clone Wars, thanks to Liam Duggan's custom clones!
The reason we have decided to do this is simple. Sixth Form and College!
Because we don't make much income, we simply cannot afford to have all of the team go to Spare Moment Studios full/more/part time. The director is split from most of the team at college, and thus with saturday jobs and work, it becomes very difficult to organise filming dates, and this is made worse by the fact that around now is the time that our content should be improving.
Animation means that we don't have to worry so much about actors - yes, there are other, possibly more difficult challenges in other areas, (like the picture taking process!) But this venture could end up with potentially a new audience and more high quality, enjoyable content, with some live action stuff still mixed in on the side.

Over April, over on Radio Bicester, live shows on our schedule will be up and ready, but more information will be available on the Radio Bicester blog. See you again next month with our next reel of videos which will be considerably better, with some more news from us. Our target for April is simply just to keep building our audience up!