Shared Creation Projects

The new home page of Shared Creation has arrived. It features a slight evolvement in the site layout style. This will probably be updated further in the future. At the moment it is an access point for our existing sections whilst adding a central links repository and a fun polls section.

Hope you like it!

We haven’t mentioned the Consumed project for a while. It is still in progress. Below is a quote from the Consumed MySpace blog.

So where is Consumed?

Floating in preproduction that’s where!

A number of the crew have been taking exams and that slowed up preparatory tasks somewhat. That is something we are happy with. The education of all crew members (including myself) comes first.

We’ve gathered cast; but not assigned roles yet. Roles will come out of workshops / tests / rehearsals that are planned. We need to get a group dynamic just right. So the plan is to see the cast working together before 100% saying who plays who. It sounds long winded but we are after a certain cast chemistry and this seems like a way to get it. That said our cast are terrific. No one famous but we’ve seen them all preform brilliantly in improvs in the past and that gives us a lot of confidence.

Our special effects artist has told me he is ready for the first makeup screen tests. Makeup is very important to Consumed and we’re all keen to see how it looks on screen.

Our Myspace profile is looking better. We have a secret teenage weapon working on it. Look out for her name in the credits.

So where is Consumed?

Heading towards a shoot that’s where.

s7awek has passed on some great links that should be of help and inspiration to anyone writing online. These are

An ever expanding list of blog fiction at
http://fictionblogs2.blogspot.com/

An article about how blog fiction has evolved at
http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/process/index.cfm?article=91

And finally a very interesting and prominent piece of blog fiction
http://shes.aflightrisk.org/

Thanks to s7awek

N0 Liff but Tec is a fictional blog, written in some not so obvious future. It’s maintained by a fictional character, who is likely a girl or young woman from Europe sharing her insights and giving advice concerning her every day trouble with technology. The humor occurs from the situations at hand. It’s a sort of sitcom blog if you want. The language and the situations are sometimes excplicit. Or they are meant to be, unfortunately the real author is not a native english speaker and could use some help. But this fact might not disturb if you see it as adding some authenticity to the “accent” of the main character.

There is certainly a connection between this future world and our technology world. Which is what Cyberpunk or SF are supposed to be about. The connection here is however more about feelings. This work also differs very much from traditional writing. It’s derived from real blogs and from what real blogs talk about.
Only the time differs.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. It means you are allowed to use it and make derivatives of it.

You will find this blog here:

(change: 22nd June)

http://zeroliff.blogspot.com

Sorry I haven’t been posting for the last two weeks but we’ve been really busy my way and to top it off to our suprise and delight we won the Swansea Bay Film Festival Best Film Noir Award!!

To say that we had absolutly no idea we were in for a chance of winning may sound like the usual modest rubbish that people say but in this case totally true (the other nominees were all superb with far more experience beneath their belts) and so we’d actually joined the guests up stairs on the balcony meaning when our names was called then not only did it take us an age to get to the stage but I also fell down the stairs in excitement…

Of course we couldn’t of done it without our key players: Gareth Ward (A.D.), Rachel Logan (Proj Manager & all round awesomeness) and Ben Wilson (Composer); my actors: Geraint Connors, Dionne Glen, Hannah Shepheard, Nathan Diaz and Saqib Aziz; and all the people that helped in one way or another to ensure it got made: William Pughe (for the expertise and Steadicam), Monica and Robin Dale (for transport, food and support), Matt Fisher and Jenny Smith (for the imdb write ups), Crystal from Texas (for pimping us in the public voting sections), Stuart Neil & Wendy Key Bright (for the inspiration and constant encouragement) and of course my friends and family.

Thank you also to Binda Singh for the huge amount of enthusiasm and planning that has been put into the Festival itself (it blew Cardiff’s festival out of the water) and the judges for being a little daring with their selection (non linear psychological noir dramas are not known for attracting prizes!).

Finally I just wanted to add a thank you to ‘Scarpaci/ Kelly Productions’ for an unbelievably insightful week of seminars - the amount offered by these three people was beyond generous and I hope one day I can both somehow return their generosity but also make them proud with what I’ve gained from it.

Alun  

Last Saturday amidst blazing summer heat and a near empty bar (it was a nice day and people wanted to be outside), three film fans talked about making movies.

We covered subjects such as how to make steadicams for next to nothing; coping with production time scales, viable cheap camcorders and what is cool on Youtube at the moment (if in doubt - ask a ninja).

As a result of the chat I’ve decided to do some more research and post an article on how to make a steadicam; And of course I’ll be looking at running more meetings in the future. Though with the combination of summer holidays and Consumed production deadlines I may need to take a break from the film meetings. I’ll let you know the decision soon. Unless someone is really keen for more film meets in July. In which case I’ll oblige and get one set up.