We have come to the end of another year, and we hit the goals even if we over ran by a few days to get the last few pounds in. Some of the pressure is off for getting money in. Though we still need a small flow of money for odds and ends and to get the film out to festivals, however with more new merch coming, the sound track and the making of book we should see enough coming in to tide us over. We have a rough target to make £3000 by May 2011; this should cover us for our initial round of festival submissions. I have faith that we can all make the festival circuit and we will see many of our donators and fans along the way.  So…

A BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE HELPED

We made our 2010 goals.

The Final Production Stills

These stills are from filming day eleven, though we filmed for 12 days, we had a minimal crew on the last day so never got many shots for the archive.  So this is the last of them, I think next we will go through our development archive and see what we have in sketches and other odds and ends.

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Well this is a quick update, to say we’re moving forward, playing catchup mostly as there has been a nasty cold/flu thing going around. So on to the SFX list and the sound over the next few days. I still have a horrible hacking cough, which slows things down a  little but that should be gone soon.

Day Nine

And here is this weeks installment of the production stills. This was from the Atrium, with the green screen Work. We have some Publicity shots of Old Bob so we may put them out for all to see in the near future. So for now here is day nine.

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Just keep swimming, at least that’s what Dori the Bluefish tells us. It seems there is so much to do and never enough time. I have to work on the sound, getting foley this weekend, and work getting the SFX plan sorted this week. Then I have to work on a plan to meet the targets for the end of December.

At the moment were close the end of November totals, I hope some of the eBay auctions get bids, and that we can get some apparel orders in for the new designs. With Chicago TARDIS this weekend Jenn has made badges and will be nipping around asking for people to donate a few dollars or some change. So if you see Jenn coming your way brandishing some groovy badges, she will probably give you one and ask nicely with a winning smile if you can spare some change. There are two exclusive designs for Chicago TARDIS once they are gone we won’t be doing any more.

Here’s where the fundraising is at for this month.

Atrium Students and their Projects

I have the first video from the students at the Atrium in Cardiff, this one is from the title sequence project. Once I get the files from the others I’ll upload them, I’m also persuading them to do a mini doc showing their design and development progress.

Anyway here is the first title sequence.

More from the Set

I have uploaded day eight of the behind the scenes stills, this was out last day filming at the Coal Exchange.

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Well that’s that, the edit is now locked and we’re starting to put together everything that is needed for the effects, sound and music. This edit is somewhat different to the original ideas, like all things film everything can change at any point. We have played around with the timeline changing some elements to flash backs/forwards. This makes for a more intriguing film and offers better pace overall.

I’ll be starting on the sound next week and Clarky on the music the week after. We should be seeing the first tests from the Atrium students this week and they will be getting their grades. After that we will be setting to getting all the CG elements and matt paintings made.

We’re making our way to the month end totals and I think this next week will be a good one as we should be launching the new embroidered t-shirt designs. I’m hoping to get a call from the printers tomorrow to pick up the last of the screen printed designs so I can get them posted this weekend.

The new design is the Casimir Effect logo design is first, I’ll be getting that on to the store this weekend. I’m also looking at getting some new stuff on to the Casimir Effect Café Press store and Alice’s Leather Survival gear on eBay.

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Production Stills Day 7

Now for this week’s installment of the film’s production stills, this is the first day of the second week of filming, and the second to last day of filming in the Coal Exchange.

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The good news is we will be doing a panel at Chicago TARDIS, on the Saturday morning. The bad news is we won’t be there in person. We’re doing a live chat via the internet, so you can hopefully hear us and if we are lucky we can get video going to.  I’m looking into exclusive stills for the event and as an extra special bonus I’m working hard to get a scene finished and some polish added to show at the end of the talk.

So if you want to see something cool come to Chicago TARDIS and be up on the Saturday morning for the talk, and to get you going it’s a touching scene where Bob and Alfred first start to bond and it ends at a nice cliff-hanger.

Production Stills

Here is another set of stills from Day 5, we have some nice shots of the actors in costume. Some of the costumes are yet to be sold off.

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eBay & Store

All the apparel has gone from the store other than items we have in stock. In a few weeks I’ll put up the first design from the embroidered range. These items require smaller orders so we can ship a lot faster. All current orders are with the printers, and fingers crossed will be ready in a week or so, as I want to get these out to everyone before we start on the new designs. Let’s hope we have better luck with these new ones.

We still have plenty of items on eBay, we’re working on Alice’s costumes at the moment. Many of these have been custom made for the film so are wholly unique, and extremely well made, thanks to our excellent costume department.