Hey everyone - just a quick update to let you know that everything is moving forwards at a pace now and the project is only a few weeks away from finally being completed. The VFX have been delivered (though I have not had a chance to look over the fx in edit yet) and I am preparing for the final mix at Pinewood in about 1o days time. Hopefully everything will be completed as intended and I can announce a screening date for you all to attend.
On another note I just want to apologize for the seemingly bizarre disappearance of both the IMDB page and the official website, something that I wasn't informed of, nor expected to occur, but clearly autonomous individuals have decided to remove the HS listing or otherwise indulge themselves in something altogether more creative. I have already made steps to reinitiate the IMDB listing regardless, and as far as the HS website is concerned expect those responsible for the revamp to at the very least consult with me before anything else goes up!
Elsewhere response to the Cannes sampler and teaser has been excellent and I am preparing to speak directly with the distributor over exactly the terms of the deal they are proposing. To finally be able to get HS out into the world will be fantastic for all of us!
Cheers for now!
N
Hard Shoulder Poster - First Draft
Saturday 4 June 2011
Saturday 17 July 2010
Assembly............
The first 'show-worthy' assembly will be completed next Thursday (22nd July) and the final cut should be finalised by the second week of October 2010 ready for the Raindance Int'l Film Fest, and thereafter AFM '10. We have assembled a great team for post production and the sound, score, and vfx elements are in place ready to move once we lock the first sequence of picture which I hope will be in 2-4 weeks time. So far everything is running smoothly and the assembly looks very intriguing........dark, gritty, and engaging.
Friday 9 April 2010
Sunday 14 February 2010
Post-Production
Hey everyone,
Just a quick update to let everyone know that post-production is progressing at a modest if not scintillating pace as we try to get to grips with the small amount of time we are able to grab with the great technicians at Technicolour courtesy of their enormous goodwill and patience.
We are currently compiling a very beautiful looking first assembly, negotiating with a top level composer and sound mix supervisor, and testing the waters of what is and what is not possible with a very well known VFX house. All things being equal we will be ready for our cast and crew screening by the end of June this year and submitting to The Venice International Film Festival for August/September.
It's all very much in our hands at this time but we are not going to rush this project out into the world just to make deadline on a film festival. That really would be counter-productive. Needless to say the entire remaining crew are working very hard to bring you all the very best product we can.
Thank you for staying with us.............
Best,
Nick
Just a quick update to let everyone know that post-production is progressing at a modest if not scintillating pace as we try to get to grips with the small amount of time we are able to grab with the great technicians at Technicolour courtesy of their enormous goodwill and patience.
We are currently compiling a very beautiful looking first assembly, negotiating with a top level composer and sound mix supervisor, and testing the waters of what is and what is not possible with a very well known VFX house. All things being equal we will be ready for our cast and crew screening by the end of June this year and submitting to The Venice International Film Festival for August/September.
It's all very much in our hands at this time but we are not going to rush this project out into the world just to make deadline on a film festival. That really would be counter-productive. Needless to say the entire remaining crew are working very hard to bring you all the very best product we can.
Thank you for staying with us.............
Best,
Nick
Sunday 4 October 2009
Done & Dusted
Hi guys,
Been a long while since I updated this blog - due I must confess to being totally snowed under with prep work on HARD SHOULDER.
Well latest news is that we have officially wrapped on principle photography (Sept 1st - Sept 26th) and bar a few pick ups and a couple of days to reshoot - the movie is in the can.
Next up is the long process of edit, grade, sound, and score in preparation for a March 2010 delivery of the final cut of the movie.
There's a definite subconscious something going on with this film - a sort of homage if you will - to the great classics of the 80's like Duel, and The Hitcher, and also to more recent "classics" like Saw, The Devil's Rejects, Lost Highway, From Dusk Til Dawn, Dead End. I don't know how exactly but I genuinely feel this is the sort of movie that would float QT's boat. Let's hope he gets to see it............and has something good to say about it too!
I've been absolutely amazed at the quality of the raw footage - not so much in that I didn't think it possible, for my great friend Steven Priovolos, Cinematographer extraordinaire, was behind the lens - but that after struggling for 12 years to get my work read and produced to finally see my written words in a 3D world, with life and colour, and characters I had created walking, talking, and breathing - it's truly awesome. I still can't believe we've done that!
So as a taster of things to come I have included a couple of set stills and a screen grab or two from the original rushes. Enjoy!
So, back to "The Room" they call the edit suite - otherwise you guys will never see the finished product.
Thanks for hanging with me. More updates soon!
Nick
Thursday 7 May 2009
No Rest on the Hard Shoulder................
We are so close I can smell the coffee and doughnuts at my 4am wake up call! Everything is moving along well, despite having to put back by 6 weeks owing to a foul-up with the financial completion. Now just tidying up cash-flow we have a confirmed schedule start of 10 July for pre-production with a 24th August 2009 first day of principal photography. Everything is in place - cast, HoD's, studios, equipment , and post-production elements. Money in the bank with a little more to gather and we are rocking ready!
It's getting very exciting as Steve Simmons completes the storyboards, concepts, mood boards, and costume preliminaries ahead of our first production meetings. Steven Priovolos, currently overseas will be back to help me with test shoot and equipment compilation ahead of final delivery requirements from Panavision. currently we are still negotiating with both Kodak and Fuji for their best stocks, unsure quite of which to go with. We may end up shooting test strips of both the Eterna 500 and the Vision2........only because Vision3 I feel will offer too saturated an image for our needs.
We are continuing with our production design ideas and will undoubtedly have something very intriguing for the Production Designer and Art Director when they are brought onto the project and the production meetings begin in earnest. Mike Peel, heading up our SFX department, is also working hard, currently on a scale model of the set, again for those first production meetings in July.
So all in all things are incredibly busy. If you want an update on any other of Oceanstorm Films projects then you know where to head by now........the blog is online here as well.
Catch you later!
Nick
It's getting very exciting as Steve Simmons completes the storyboards, concepts, mood boards, and costume preliminaries ahead of our first production meetings. Steven Priovolos, currently overseas will be back to help me with test shoot and equipment compilation ahead of final delivery requirements from Panavision. currently we are still negotiating with both Kodak and Fuji for their best stocks, unsure quite of which to go with. We may end up shooting test strips of both the Eterna 500 and the Vision2........only because Vision3 I feel will offer too saturated an image for our needs.
We are continuing with our production design ideas and will undoubtedly have something very intriguing for the Production Designer and Art Director when they are brought onto the project and the production meetings begin in earnest. Mike Peel, heading up our SFX department, is also working hard, currently on a scale model of the set, again for those first production meetings in July.
So all in all things are incredibly busy. If you want an update on any other of Oceanstorm Films projects then you know where to head by now........the blog is online here as well.
Catch you later!
Nick
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