Working

It's been a while since my last post. The latest news is that Fallen has now been submitted to a number of festivals, the London Film Festival is the one with the closest date being on in October. I haven't heard back from the festival office yet, but I hope it will be accepted. One has to have high hopes.
Nic Wassell, who cut the film, is also cutting a trailer for Fallen so I will post that in the next few days.

Meantime I've had a go at some cover art for It So Happens and came up with these images. I'm not sure which (if any) will be used for the DVD and poster yet, but I also have the wonderful Fabrizio "Spino" Spinelli, who designed Uncharted FIlm's logo, doing some artwork. Here are the samples of what I achieved with photoshop... 

Graded

Fallen is now officially graded. It was the last thing to do in post production and it's done. More news coming soon.

Fallen's sound

At last the sound for "Fallen" is all finished. It really adds a third dimension to the story, very unsettling, very dramatic. I love it. We just need to find a colourist for the grading and the film is finished. I cannot wait to show it to people. I will keep you posted.

It's a cut!

Great news. "It So Happens" is now cut and looks ace. I hope the rest of the post production will go as quick and as smoothly as the work done so far.

Here's a still from the actual footage... beware of zombies!

Let's cut it

Right, it has taken me a few days to recover from the shoot. Not that it was hard work in itself, but all the pre-production and me juggling lots of bowling pins in the air was tiring. I've returned to work, but that seems like rest compared. I have a day off tomorrow to actually get my sh** together, then more work over the week end. But on monday I should catch up with Nic Wassell, my friend, work colleague and fellow filmmaker (and film editor for Fallen and now for It So Happens) to start looking at the rushes and at editing the new baby. Can't wait. Onward and upwards!

Pics from the set of "It So Happens"

Here are some lovely pics taken by our on set stills photographer Ten K Mega.

Daniel Fazio (Director of Photography)

   Francesca Silveri (Writer/Director/Producer)      

Finn Lilburn as "Mickey"

Gary Lilburn as "Dad" (as a vampire)

Daniel Fazio (DoP), Gabrielle Reidy as "Mum" (as a zombie) and Finn

  

Daniel Fazio, Matteo de Castello (1st AD) and Francesca Silveri

The amazing Make Up team Virginia Popova and Olivia Whitaker

Behind the scenes of "It So Happens"

Gary Lilburn plays "Dad" (as a Zombie, Vampire and frying pan murder victim)
Gabrielle Reidy plays "Mum" (as a Zombie, a Vampire's victim and a frying pan wielding murderer)
Finn Lilburn plays "Mickey" a child with as macabre and vivid an imagination as a child of 11 can have.

Written/Produced/Directed by: Francesca Silveri
Director of Photography: Daniel Fazio
1st AD: Matteo De Castello
Make up artists: Virginia Popova and Olivia Whitaker
Sound Recordist and Gaffer: Yuri Nunes
Stills Photography and Gaffer: Kaveh Khatiri
Gaffer: James Harmer
PA: Almaz Anderson
Costumes/Props: Francesca Silveri

"It So Happens" (a new short)

Pre-production is now finished (in record time I may add -- 2 intense weeks) and production begins tomorrow at 8.30am. "It So Happens" is a new short film about Mickey, an 11 year old boy, who has some rather macabre daydreams involving his ever-arguing parents.

Gabrielle Reidy and Gary Lilburn play the argumentative parents and their son Finn will play Mickey. We shoot in 1 day and in 1 location. We will have zombie and vampire make-up, a bit of gore and blood... blood...

I now better go to sleep as the clocks go forward and getting up at 6am in fact means being up at 5am on my biological clock. There simply aren't enough hours in a day, but we even lose one, so a tough one for me and my fellow crew and cast members for a Sunday shoot.

I'll post some photos after the shoot.

Good night all!

Mixing

The sound and music of Fallen are in the process of being mixed by a professional studio. Once that's all done we'll match it with the video, add the last credits and send the video out for grading. One last push...

Sound Mixing and New Website

It has been months since my last update. Progress on Fallen has definitely been made, albeit slowly. But to do things well it takes time. Rob has almost finished with the sound mixing and the music. He was courageous to take on such a mammoth task whilst working full time elsewhere, so all his spare time is being used to work on Fallen. I will never be able to thank him enough for all the hard work. Anyway, sound mixing and music are almost finished, Nic Wassell has edited the film, including opening title sequence and credits roll (big big thanks to Nic as well), so when that's done you know you are almost at the end of the post production stage. I can't wait to show the film to everyone who worked so hard to make it happen.

Meantime I have launched a brand new website, you can see it at www.unchartedfilms.com

Enjoy!