Most Recent Impact50 Updates
How To Record Your Own Foley Tracks At Home
Now we are in the tweaking stage for Impact 50 I thought I would share a post from 50 Kisses about foley… Having reviewed many of the films for 50 Kisses, one common thread is emerging. A lack of solid audio post production, and in particular, a lack of foley. The video above gives you
Why I Made Two Versions of ‘I’m Afraid it’s Bad News’ by Lee Crompton
Having been very pleased with our version of ‘Sing, Mummy’, I started to think about filming another short for Impact:50. I’ve always felt more comfortable with comedies and Dave Stevenson’s ‘I’m Afraid it’s Bad News’ caught my eye. I was tempted by the idea of playing with humour, especially within such a dark theme. Could
How to leave edit notes on the Impact50 Films
Now that filmmaking challenge phase has closed, and yes there will be some latecomers we know about, we enter a month of reworking. We are going to leave edit notes on as many films as we can, and would love you to do the same too. It’s all part of the learning curve and the
The Art of Keeping Things Together by Dee Chilton
‘Arry Black Maskers (*), more likely known to you as Gaffer Tape or Duck/Duct Tape, is probably the most critical, versatile and adaptable piece of kit in the military. It was a running ‘joke’ that the long serving SeaKing helicopter was mostly held together with the black stuff, (as much of our kit was), 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
How To Record Your Own Foley Tracks At Home
Now we are in the tweaking stage for Impact 50 I thought I would share a post from 50 Kisses about foley… Having reviewed many of the films for 50 Kisses, one common thread is emerging. A lack of solid audio post production, and in particular, a lack of foley. The video above gives you
Why I Made Two Versions of ‘I’m Afraid it’s Bad News’ by Lee Crompton
Having been very pleased with our version of ‘Sing, Mummy’, I started to think about filming another short for Impact:50. I’ve always felt more comfortable with comedies and Dave Stevenson’s ‘I’m Afraid it’s Bad News’ caught my eye. I was tempted by the idea of playing with humour, especially within such a dark theme. Could
How to leave edit notes on the Impact50 Films
Now that filmmaking challenge phase has closed, and yes there will be some latecomers we know about, we enter a month of reworking. We are going to leave edit notes on as many films as we can, and would love you to do the same too. It’s all part of the learning curve and the
The Art of Keeping Things Together by Dee Chilton
‘Arry Black Maskers (*), more likely known to you as Gaffer Tape or Duck/Duct Tape, is probably the most critical, versatile and adaptable piece of kit in the military. It was a running ‘joke’ that the long serving SeaKing helicopter was mostly held together with the black stuff, (as much of our kit was), 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