Bunny and Clive will be screening as part of the LA shorts Festival on Wednesday, August 9th at 9.55pm. Amazing to see it on the big screen again.
Bunny and Clive
2016 London Film Festival screening
Bunny and Clive was screened at the BFI SouthBank as part of the London Film Festival on 13th October 2016 and again on 14th October, at the Hackney PictureHouse. The LFF is an incredible festival with an awesome selection of films and events. Definitely worth a few or more days off to attend…Free Fire, Lion, Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Nocturnal Animals…the first few pages of the 114-page festival guide.
It was great to see it play to a packed NFT1 – their biggest screen (with the volume turned right up) – in front of fellow film makers, members of our cast and crew, contributors to the KickStarter campaign and festival goers.
Just to say it again – the film looked amazing and the audience reaction was brilliant. It’s a great experience to watch the film with so many people.
Bunny and Clive teaser and behind the scenes
Bunny and Clive Premiere at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival
Bunny and Clive will have its premiere screening at the London Film Festival on 13th October at BFI SouthBank, more info, tickets etc. at their site here. It will screen as part of the BFI London Calling showcase of 8 short films selected from the 20 funded.
Those involved with those 20 short films were invited to a collective screening at BFI last week. I’ve been to some great festivals before but the all day screening was one of the best and most enjoyable collections I’ve seen. If you’re just into your films or about to apply for next year’s London Calling I seriously recommend you catch either of the two BFI screenings on 13th or 14th of October.
SouthBank is buzzing – it’s a brilliant place for a festival, a short walk from either Waterloo station or Embankment tube/Charing Cross Station/Trafalgar Square. Best of all, if you don’t mind RnB turned up to 11 and the rumble of trains above, there’s possibly the best burger in town.
Bunny and Clive post production
Producing the soundtrack for BnC has probably been the biggest undertaking I’ve done musically. Ideas had been sketched out before filming based on temp-track ideas that ranged from the Utopia and Punch Drunk Love soundtracks to Aphex Twin’s Penty Harmonium.
By the time the first edit came through I thought I had it all in the bag for the 11 cues. A month later the BnC album on my iTunes has 113 tracks/edits. There were a lot of other Logic Projects that didn’t make it that far. On the bonus the tracks surplus to requirements will definitely be used for other projects.
Post production was handled at Technicolor London. The suite was incredible. Definitely a Ferris Bueller settling his eyes on a Ferrari 250GT moment. Awesome to see the film digitally projected onto an 18 foot (guess) screen and to see a pro colorist, Alex Gascoigne, at work.
The image from the Alexa Mini and Kowa lenses looked stunning. Another jaw dropping moment was to see the Phantom 3 Pro footage. It hadn’t let us down. The Phantom footage was 4k – 3840 x 2160, 24p, log color/ProlostFlat settings, using PolarPro ND’s to keep the shutter speed under control. It was almost too good. Alex added a subtle vignette and blur to ‘roughen’ the image up a touch. The Phantom’s codec was also robust enough to survive the grade and match the Alexa.
Bunny, Clive and a Saab
It’s a wrap on the short film Bunny and Clive. The final day of scheduled shooting coincided with a last of hurrah of spring wind and rain in contrast to the weekend’s glorious sunshine. We managed a few interior car shots but there was no way the drone was going to get airborne. A day of pickups is planned for a weekend in June, travelling/drone/interior car shots etc. All footage has been shifted to our editor, Edel McDonnell .
Around forty tracks have been composed for the film over the last couple of months based on the director’s mix tape and other film references. A look at the sizzle real and you know we’re in PT Anderson, Coen brothers territory. The chosen few that make the cut will be edited and remixed to picture. A massive shout-out goes to Boscomac whose Reaktor instruments are the best I’ve come across and have made producing the soundtrack a whole load’a fun.
Thanks to the Saab Owners Club UK, and Brian, the problem of the hero car was sorted out. The retro Volvo estate didn’t have the boot the script required. The Saab 900 is a beauty of a car with big, near ND free windows, a light beige interior finish, massive boot and a matt coat of faded red paint courtesy of time and Mother Nature. I’d like one. It’s design echoes another favourite, the Citroen DS.
Kickstarting Bunny and Clive
The Bunny and Clive Kick Starter campaign is up and running and already extending its goal to £7,500 for the following:
* Attracting better crew by having greater day rates
* Adding a sound assistant to our team so that our sound recordist doesn’t have to boom swing between actors, whilst recording and mixing at the same time.
* Paying for camera truck van hire from London to Sussex and back
* Paying for a further recce with first AD and heads of department
* Paying for costume hire from a leading London Costume house
* Paying for a MOVI camera op so that we can get excellent developing shots
* Paying for a professional focus puller to get the most from our limited shooting time
* Improving our locations budget to make crew and actors more comfortable on set
* Paying our still photographer to be on set for an extra day
* Expanding our EPK (making of) team and time with us
Contributions of any size would be gratefully received.
Bunny and Clive – short film funding
Great news to hear that the short film ‘Bunny and Clive’ has been awarded funding from Film London. To get through the process of pitching to finally being awarded funding is a major achievement in itself. More hard work to follow.
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‘Bunny and Clive‘ is written and to be directed by Rob Ford and produced by John Hollingworth. Pre-production is in full swing.
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