Most Recent Impact50 Updates
‘Equal’ by Tandav Films
The idea of apocalypse was an intriguing one and a chance to tell a story of humanity within it, very promising. This world is waging a battle right now, which is not between Good and Evil but between one set of belief vs another set of belief. Confronted with death, belief will collapse. I liked
Stills For Your Movie… What you MUST get
If there is one complaint I hear from Sales Agents over and over, it’s that filmmakers simply don’t provide enough good stills from their productions. And we are going through that right now with Impact50. Most teams are getting shots, but only a few are getting killer shots. And the game is changing too, we
What next for Impact50? As the deadline looms, what should we do next? Have your say…
We stand at the end of a phase, the edge of a decision. In around one week’s time, the existing filmmaking phase of Impact50 will close. ADDENDUM… I am adding this line a day after this went live. All of my suggestions here are about ADDING to Impact50 and NOT taking anything away. Any changes made
How to float a man in the air with balloons for #Impact50… Making ‘Up, Up and Away’ by Rita Wheeler
As my script ‘Norah’s Ark’ was in the Second Chancers, I decided to make it myself but for it to be considered as a Wild Card I had to make one of the 50 finalist scripts. So I became a producer. As a member of Surrey Border Movie Makers I asked if they would like
How to Recut Your Movie… Mini Masterclass in Under Ten Minutes!
Looking back to learn lessons from the past… As part of 50 Kisses, we invited filmmakers to act on feedback from the community. One filmmaking team, Sweet Home Films in LA, made their film over 20% shorter, fixed some audio problems and overall radically improved their work. Watch the first submitted edit below… Above is the
How to Recut and Remix your Short Film… a Terrific Example
The power of editing never ceases to amaze me – actors, writers, DPs, designers, all offer incredible contributions to a story, but it’s the editor who takes that heady cocktail of ideas, creativity, drama, misfires, failures, surprises, technical problems etc etc that happened on set / location, and makes it all work as best it
The value of a GREAT location, backdrop and props… How to get production value for very little money
We just had a film submitted to Imapact50 that shows the value of getting a GREAT location, with great props. When you achieve this, the major benefit is that wherever you point the camera, it looks great (or at least credible). This is one reason why we found the location for the Presidents Speech that
Script to Scream by Ben Marshall
The script. After many months of Rock. Paper. Scissors being open to film-makers, not a sniff. I feared the opportunity was slipping away. Think me as Gollum and my script the ring. So at the end of London Screenwriters Festival 2017 I stood like Wonder Woman (the norm for all delegates), hands on hips, and I
Watch the Behind The Scenes From The President Speaks Shoot in the Oval Office
We are SOOOO excited to share this short film about the shoot with Olivia Williams, and even more excited to share the short film once edited and graded. It’s rather special. Expect goosebumps! Chris Jones Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Impact50… The Final Two Months And so
Check out the photos from the Presidents Speech
I have just uploaded the whole album of stills from the shoot last week, with Olivia Williams playing the President of the United States. Chris Jones Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Impact50 Video Update… The Edit Has Begun (but you can still make a film) Impact50… The Final
Making The Watchers… There and back again by David F. Jacobson
The Watchers has been a long-time coming. A very long time coming. I wrote the first draft on June 8th 2015, it was then titled ‘The Watchers of Worlds’ – a nod to the astronauts being the only witnesses to a world both pre- and post-impact. Since then I’ve gotten a degree in history, encountered
Meet the 46th and Final President of the United States… Filming The Final Address
Last Friday we shot the opening scene of The Impact, written by Joe Eszterhas and starring Olivia Williams. We shot in an extraordinary White House Oval Office reconstruction in Norfolk at RAF Coltishall in the sets owned by October Films. You will know we ran a crowdfund campaign to raise the initial finances needed (but
‘Equal’ by Tandav Films
The idea of apocalypse was an intriguing one and a chance to tell a story of humanity within it, very promising. This world is waging a battle right now, which is not between Good and Evil but between one set of belief vs another set of belief. Confronted with death, belief will collapse. I liked
Stills For Your Movie… What you MUST get
If there is one complaint I hear from Sales Agents over and over, it’s that filmmakers simply don’t provide enough good stills from their productions. And we are going through that right now with Impact50. Most teams are getting shots, but only a few are getting killer shots. And the game is changing too, we
What next for Impact50? As the deadline looms, what should we do next? Have your say…
We stand at the end of a phase, the edge of a decision. In around one week’s time, the existing filmmaking phase of Impact50 will close. ADDENDUM… I am adding this line a day after this went live. All of my suggestions here are about ADDING to Impact50 and NOT taking anything away. Any changes made
How to float a man in the air with balloons for #Impact50… Making ‘Up, Up and Away’ by Rita Wheeler
As my script ‘Norah’s Ark’ was in the Second Chancers, I decided to make it myself but for it to be considered as a Wild Card I had to make one of the 50 finalist scripts. So I became a producer. As a member of Surrey Border Movie Makers I asked if they would like
How to Recut Your Movie… Mini Masterclass in Under Ten Minutes!
Looking back to learn lessons from the past… As part of 50 Kisses, we invited filmmakers to act on feedback from the community. One filmmaking team, Sweet Home Films in LA, made their film over 20% shorter, fixed some audio problems and overall radically improved their work. Watch the first submitted edit below… Above is the
How to Recut and Remix your Short Film… a Terrific Example
The power of editing never ceases to amaze me – actors, writers, DPs, designers, all offer incredible contributions to a story, but it’s the editor who takes that heady cocktail of ideas, creativity, drama, misfires, failures, surprises, technical problems etc etc that happened on set / location, and makes it all work as best it
The value of a GREAT location, backdrop and props… How to get production value for very little money
We just had a film submitted to Imapact50 that shows the value of getting a GREAT location, with great props. When you achieve this, the major benefit is that wherever you point the camera, it looks great (or at least credible). This is one reason why we found the location for the Presidents Speech that
Script to Scream by Ben Marshall
The script. After many months of Rock. Paper. Scissors being open to film-makers, not a sniff. I feared the opportunity was slipping away. Think me as Gollum and my script the ring. So at the end of London Screenwriters Festival 2017 I stood like Wonder Woman (the norm for all delegates), hands on hips, and I
Watch the Behind The Scenes From The President Speaks Shoot in the Oval Office
We are SOOOO excited to share this short film about the shoot with Olivia Williams, and even more excited to share the short film once edited and graded. It’s rather special. Expect goosebumps! Chris Jones Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Impact50… The Final Two Months And so
Check out the photos from the Presidents Speech
I have just uploaded the whole album of stills from the shoot last week, with Olivia Williams playing the President of the United States. Chris Jones Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Impact50 Video Update… The Edit Has Begun (but you can still make a film) Impact50… The Final
Making The Watchers… There and back again by David F. Jacobson
The Watchers has been a long-time coming. A very long time coming. I wrote the first draft on June 8th 2015, it was then titled ‘The Watchers of Worlds’ – a nod to the astronauts being the only witnesses to a world both pre- and post-impact. Since then I’ve gotten a degree in history, encountered
Meet the 46th and Final President of the United States… Filming The Final Address
Last Friday we shot the opening scene of The Impact, written by Joe Eszterhas and starring Olivia Williams. We shot in an extraordinary White House Oval Office reconstruction in Norfolk at RAF Coltishall in the sets owned by October Films. You will know we ran a crowdfund campaign to raise the initial finances needed (but