Stupid O’clock in the morning, featuring runner, lisa derrick
Filming underway at bute park
Posted by hp on March 11, 2012
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Dammit Janet
Wrote a whole blog post then accidentally deleted the whole thing linking to this short film I made last weekend. Oh well.
We have our first proper full day of filming interviews tomorrow, which I am SUPER excited about. It means a ridiculously early start meeting Lisa Derrick in Bute Park, as she is our first interview and being a keen runner, we’re going to capture her in her natural habitat (a Cardiff park at stupid o’clock in the morning!)
We also have a bit of a crew – me, driving and troubleshooting, Shane, sound man, Dave, pictures man, Pascalle, running (yay for our runner!), and Adam Chard, photographer extraordinaire.
The film I accidentally posted was this, which I made on my travels around cultural institutions of Cardiff last weekend. This won’t be in the final documentary, as I think we’ll be doing something else with Catapult later in the year (possibly in conjunction with Spillers, and also with Swn festival).
Anyway. For the drum and bass heads out there, enjoy it!
Posted by hp on March 10, 2012
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We Are Cardiff Can Has Trailer!
Sorry it’s been radio silence on the blog for a bit – been busily investing in kit (and begging and borrowing some!) to prepare for our second filming outing – doing a bunch of interviews this Sunday! We have our wonderful photographer Adam Chard coming along to document the day, so we’ll stick photos up next week for you to have a good old nose at.
In the meantime, our good friends Dangerous Doug Films have put together this rather nice little trailer for the film. We have a whole bunch of other stuff to update you on REAL SOON, including super exciting news about a collaboration with Swn Festival!
but in the meantime, enjoy this!
(Pictures by Dangerous Doug Films, music by My Name Is Ian)
Posted by hp on March 8, 2012
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Introducing – Dangerous Doug Productions!
We’re very happy for you guys to meet Dangerous Doug – the film collective who will be making the We Are Cardiff documentary! They have written a guest post for us below. Enjoy xxx
Hi, we’re Dangerous Doug.
Dangerous Doug is a collective of like minded film makers, based in Cardiff. We have between us a wealth of experience in the film and TV industries and as a collective we have been making mainly music videos for local bands over the past five years. We have filmed Sibrydion, The School, Spencer McGarry Season, the prolific Pagan Wanderer Lu and our proudest moment so far KUTOSIS, to name but a few.
We first became aware of the “We Are Cardiff” project sometime last year and thought it would make a great film. A few months later and we find ourselves on board helping to make the film happen. We’re very excited to be working on such a project as we are all now Cardiffians ourselves, ranging from lifers to people that were wooed to the city to set up new lives here. We love Cardiff for our own reasons and hope to find out more about parts of Cardiff we never new existed from those who also live here.
The We Are Cardiff film is in it’s early days of production which is moving along nicely. I think this bodes well for an exciting, informative and entertaining journey. We hope to successfully translate all of that to the film itself.
Doug x
Posted by hp on February 17, 2012
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Musicians and bands! We Are Cardiff film needs your music…
I posted a little while ago that we were looking for theme music for the documentary. Well, we still sort of are. BUT what we really need right now is Cardiff bands and artists (or bands and artists with links to Cardiff) to send us music that we can use license free in the final project.
I know it sucks. I really wish we could pay everyone a shitload of cash. But we’re running the project on a shoestring. And we’re pretty certain that the end product is going to be a super duper lovely film that will get a load of coverage at film festivals around the world next year! And that’s pretty good exposure for your music, no??
If the film ends up making a load of cash, we’ll be paying everyone who has volunteered time or skills in the first place. It’s only right and fair. We’re not about making a massive profit. We just want to make enough to cover costs and get the thing out there. That’s the most important thing!
SO – ARE YOU A CARDIFF BAND OR ARTIST WHO WANTS A SHEDLOAD OF EXPOSURE??? Send us music that we can use license-free in our film. You’ll be hitting a massive audience who might never get to hear your music.
Email us on hackflashflash at gmail dot com, and send us your ditties. We want to hear them! There’s no deadline for this, so we’ll keep posting the link til we’ve got enough music.
(be aware – if you’re a signed band, you’ll definitely have to check with your record label or management that they are happy for you to do this … we don’t want any legal battles!)
peas
x
Posted by hp on January 30, 2012
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We Are Cardiff documentary – a change of direction
Hello! and welcome to Monday. The documentary changed direction slightly last week, almost immediately after I wrote the last entry on the blog.
We got some wicked press in plastik magazine (thank you lovely Adam Smith and Marc Thomas for featuring us on there once for the fundraising effort and then with this article). I had pretty much resigned myself at that point to the fact that we were going to have a bunch of different people working on the film, throughout the project. Which was fine. But then….
I had a meeting with a couple of film makers last week. They were interested and loved the project enough to want to take on the whole thing.
They came to the meeting with a handout for me. AND they had made a mini trailer for it!
I was, obviously, overjoyed, not least because the one thing this project really needs is people who know what they’re doing to guide it from a technical point of view. Storytelling, ideas, interviewing, I can do all that stuff. But I haven’t the faintest ideaabout actual, practical film making (and things like legal considerations), and it’s a pretty steep learning curve from scratch. Much better to have experienced folk at the helm, guiding the ship. And I think I’ve found some!
This is obviously going to take the film in a bit of a different direction that if it were a more collaborative effort. There may still be opportunities for other film makers to get involved and help out in places (especially later on in the year for covering big events like Swn). So keep in touch with the blog if you’ve already offered your services, as we’ll be putting out another shout later on when we need more hands.
I’m going to ask them both to write guest posts for the blog, introducing themselves. I’m excited. I’ve got a good feeling, as they say!
I’ll also post the short trailer that they’ve made soon for you. I hope you like it as much as I did.
They’ve also agreed to work on a short introductory version of the film (maybe five minutes long), which we’re going to use to try and get some funding from local businesses and brands. If you know of any local businesses who’d be keen on spending some advertising budget on a film that promotes their home city, please let us know!
Other news about music for the film coming soon… stay tuned.
happy monday
x
Posted by hp on January 30, 2012
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Contacts, people, places, things
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve met with a whole bunch of people and different organisations who have all been very supportive of the project and eager to help out with many wonderful ideas of things we can cover in the documentary. We have SO many ideas. We are idea rich and cash poor! So here’s a cheeky plug – if you haven’t already, spare a few pennies towards our fundraising campaign and help us making something totally amazing. You can donate as little as £3.20 to the We Are Cardiff campaign on Indiegogo here.
I thought I’d just give everyone who I’ve met a little shout out. We’re going to be covering some AMAZING things, no?
- National Theatre of Wales. These guys do some amazing work in the community, and I’m excited that we’ll hopefully be documenting some of that work that happens in Cardiff this year. They also have a really successful online community, which you should check out…
- Cardiff and Co. These guys work to bring private investment into making Cardiff an attractive visitor destination – for the public and for businesses. They are also extremely well connected and know pretty much all the big events going on at any time. They spearhead the Creative Cardiff umbrella for all the events that take place in Cardiff in October (which you may have noticed is a pretty damn busy month!)
- Lisa Heledd Jones (Storyworks). Lovely Lisa tipped me off on about a million different events and people that I should cover. She also part runs the alternative comedy night Junket Club, who may be having a very special event later this year…
- Tom Betts (Secrecy, Chapter Moviemaker). Tom is involved in so much it makes my brain hurt, and he’s given me so much advice it probably made his brain hurt. But you should definitely check out his debut feature Secrecy, and also the monthly meet up on Cardiff based indie film makers at Chapter, Chapter Moviemaker.
- Matt Callanan. Matt is an independent film maker, who will excitingly be filming the TED X CARDIFF event taking place here in March. Did you manage to get a ticket?
- Tiger Bay Brawlers roller derby team. The Tiger Bay Brawlers are a ferocious snarling bunch of blood thirsty roller derby femmes who will kick your head in. Not really! They’re Cardiff’s premiere roller derby dames, and they’re damn good! We’ve been supp0rting the Brawlers for some time and we’re chuffed to bits that they’ve agreed to let us cover one of their extra special bouts this year for the documentary…
- High Contrast album launch party, Catapult Records. Our old buddy drum’n'bass producer Lincoln ‘High Contrast’ Barrett is going to be releasing his next album The Agony and the Ecstasy in 2012, and we’ve been invited to film part of the album launch party at Catapult Records, Cardiff’s only dance music record store based in the Duke Street Arcade (and the only in-store he’s doing anywhere to promote his new album). Linc is also big into film and directed his music last video. You should check out his blog for his various musings…
Ok. That’s your lot for now.
Peas!
x
Posted by hp on January 23, 2012
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We need your footage!
As part of our documentary, occasionally, we’ll be asking YOU to get directly involved by giving us some footage we can use!
So. We’re looking for footage – preferably shot in HD (we know, we don’t ask for much!) filmed in Cardiff on this New Year’s Eve just past.
You could be at a house party, at a club, or in town…
if you can provide us with some of this, PLEASE DROP US A LINE! hackflashflash at gmail dot com.
As ever, your faithful friends…
We Are Cardiff
x
Posted by hp on January 23, 2012
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Candid shots from today’s filming…
Brilliant day shooting the first wassail at the riverside community garden at the pontcanna allotments on bute park. More and better photos soon – thanks to everyone there for having us, esp jenny for being so accommodating (the last photo was taken by her too, credit where credit’s due).
Posted by hp on January 14, 2012
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Featured on Docublogwales, and first filming session planned
We got featured on the docublogwales blog…..
terribly nice of them.
Not much else to report today – other than OUR FIRST FILMING SESSION is going to be happening THIS SATURDAY!!
I can’t tell you where, or who with. That would be spoiling the surprise, eh? The wonderful James Cuff is going to be filming, and photographer Simon Ayre is coming along to take some snaps. It will involve roast chestnuts, hot apple cider and chasing the evil spirits away… I might leak something to the blog for you to take a look at afterwards (if you’re lucky!)
Posted by hp on January 10, 2012
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