January 2014 - New Videos, New Adventures, New Website, New Everything!

The decision to stop releasing videos in August 2013 was probably a good thing. Even though it left our channel extremely quiet, it allowed us to regroup, think things through and produce some higher quality videos that weren't rushed to an upload date. And so, here is the first trailer for 2014!

We weren't originally going to release that video, but we figured, what the heck? The next video coming up is a full length trailer which shows much more from our new videos and projects. So, what are these new projects and videos?
First up, Red Ops!
We made the decision to re-edit Red Ops in a higher quality 1080p HD format, with adjustments to the storyline and a couple of extra shots added in. It will be re-released on January 17th, as part of our 'new videos every friday' schedule.

The production of Red Ops Part 2 is around 75% complete, with Red Ops Parts 3 & 4 well in the pipe line for a late February release. We've decided to take Spare Moment Plus and use it as our new channel for Behind the Scenes content, bloopers, film-making tips, tutorials and more. There will be a new video every Wednesday, and the first video to go up will be the blooper reel from Red Ops Part One - on January 22nd.

Spectre is another web series we are working on, with short, five to six minute episodes, about the 'Spectre' games console, filmed in live action. A little bit like VGHS. Here's a production still of the interface: 

We'll discuss Spectre further later on in the year. For now, we've got Spare Moment Games on the ascend, with a bright new rebrand to the colour red and a shiny new logo!

New videos will be released every week, with things like Team Fortress Twosday, Left For Dead 2, Minecraft and more, from the good old team of Sam, Tommy, Ross, Stevie and occasionally joined by Toni, Alex and Daron. As we get into the spring months, we hope to obtain a capture card and start doing some Xbox 360/Playstation 3 gameplay videos, with games like Call of Duty, Rayman 3, Battlefield 4 and Grand Theft Auto V. 

Back in August we also made the decision to put our comedy and spoof content on a new channel, Spare Moment Comedy. We think giving comedy it's own identity is important, as often it made Spare Moment Studios look far too mixed and confused. That's not to say that comedy and entertainment is completely gone! Anything with a muzzle flash will probably end up on Studios. 

Furthermore, another exciting update includes our new website, which is gradually growing with more content everyday - we'll be posting new project information, updates, videos, podcasts, interviews, behind the scenes, stock footage and all sorts! It should be online around the middle of January. 

Our Doctor Who series has also taken off, with the sonic screwdrivers painted up, the TARDIS well under construction, scripts being wrapped up and cast being put together. At the rate it's going, it may even be worthy of it's own blog! 

The Team IDIOT movie is in development as well, scheduled to be finished around November-December time. We've produced a mini episode prequel, which will be released on the 24th January!

But that's all from us for now, until Next month. This has been the Spare Moment round up and the first installation of 2014! Happy New Year! 

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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!