As per usual, we've been quite busy! Hopefully now we'll be back on track to update our blog every month. So, what have we been doing? We've managed to keep up weekly uploads, for a start. Plus, we've got a couple of videos from 2011 that we've taken and redone.
Wasteland
Wasteland is our new web series produced by Sam Isaacs and starring Ross Arrowsmith. There will be six episodes in total, and so far, two episodes have been released. The series is based around a surviving MoD officer after North Korea left the UK having been fought off by rebel militia groups - with a vital piece of intel on North Korea's military, the militia are now out for this surviving officer, but there is more at stake - he must call for military assistance from any other survivors, as warriors even worse than the local militia start to arrive.
Episode One - quite dramatic and eerie. We were very happy with the locations and camera angles.
Episode Two follows with a little more action and a massive improvement on our muzzle flashes, colour grading and special effects.
Wasteland Episode Three is soon to be filmed, and plans are in the works to make it some of our best work yet. But that's not all. We took "A Battle With no Tomorrow from 2011 and redid it as a war film with a more seriousness. It features the "Red Ops" arriving behind Russian lines to steal intel off a weaponry gang - intel on one of Russia's biggest criminals who actually planned the whole thing on purpose to lure the Red Ops into Russia in order to destroy them.
As you can see by the above photo, Sam made a comparison to A Battle with no Tomorrow and our newer 2013 version. Ross is personally very happy with the Call of Duty film opening and thinks it is the best opening yet - even though Wasteland will be the greatest (and only) overall series to date.
Aside from our war films however, we've been getting on with the usual few comedy-spoofs. Dr. Sunday came back after a couple of years and we tried something new in the form of a, erm, Western...
So that's it for comedy. Now I know we announced a lego animation series soon - which is still true! But it will now be done with Star Wars, based on a small unit known as the "Ice Ops". It will be done in stop-motion and all lasers and special effects will be done in Adobe Photoshop. Promotional shot below!
And not only this! Your Top Three Gerry Anderson Shows - our fan made documentary is quite popular on YouTube amongst Gerry Anderson fans. We are pleased to announce that we will be making more - little ten minute documentaries that go into more detail on each show - Supercar, Thunderbirds, Stingray and so on.
Otherwise, we're in for a productive summer with plenty more film-making! And we'll be back with more updates next month and more videos! A great help to us would be to subscribe to us on YouTube. Please?
http://www.youtube.com/sparemomentstudios
Until next month!
