School Gates

My semi-offical New Years resolution was to make one animation a month. Unfortunately this is what happens when you don't start until the morning of the last day!

This really is rubbish! Hopefully next month's animation will be better!!


School Gates
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Committing Treason.

I've been told my A-Team sketch is going to be used in the Treason Show this month which is a nice bit of news. I suppose it could have got dropped at rehearsals but I'll try to remain positive and assume it's in.

As news breaks over the run of the show they are constantly looking for quick topical sketches to slot in. Sensing I was on a bit of a lucky streak I decided to have a crack at another one. Here's something I knocked up this morning in between painting my bedroom and eating a Steak slice from Morrisons.

Fingers crossed it gets in, then I'll be able to afford TWO! Steak slices!

Nyom, nyom, nyom, nyom, nyom...

AIDE:
Mr Cameron, I've got some bad news,

DAVID
Did my wife get another text message from Ashley Cole?

AIDE
No. It's worse than that.

DAVID
Ken Livingstone?!

AIDE
No! The Sky engineer rang and said he can't fix your Sky+ box until Wednesday.

DAVID
But...How will I tape Scooby Doo?

AIDE
More importantly David, I'm afraid you're going to miss the Darts.

David drops to his knees, reaches up to the heavens and shouts.

DAVID
NOOOOOOO!!!!! Not the Darts!

The Aide addresses the audience, pulls a Sky+ remote out of his pocket.

AIDE
Now with Sky+ we can rewind David's reaction.

Aide presses rewind button. David does a re-winded version of dropping to his knees and shouting.

DAVID
Strad et ton! OOOOOOOON!!!

AIDE
And we can watch it again in slow motion.

Aide presses play, David drops to his knees, reaches up to the heavens and shouts in slow motion.

DAVID
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Noooot thhheee Daaaaarts!

AIDE
And If we press the red button we can watch it again from a different angle.

David gets up, turns with his back to the audience and then goes through it again.

DAVID
NOOOOOOO!!!!! Not the Darts!

Gordon Brown comes on stage.

GORDON
Uh-huh, Ooooh, this looks like a lot of fun, can I have a go?

David stands up, annoyed.

DAVID
Fuck this! I'm switching to Virgin!

David storms off.

Preloader: Swindon Heat

My short animation The Gunfighters was shown at the Swindon heat of the Preloader film festival tonight. And It's only gone and got through to the grand final in Chippenham next month!

I'm quite chuffed with that result, I wasn't expecting to get through, I just wanted to watch it on a big screen with an audience.

There was about 12 films shown tonight. My film was up first and generally I was happy with the way it looked on the big screen. When I made this film one of my main aims was to make it look cinematic, so tonight was a good test. Some of the wide angle shots didn't scale up very well, they still had that web animation look to them. I thought the close-ups worked well though, especially the moody panning across the eyes.

The sound however was amazing, Eric's vocals sounded like a proper Hollywood movie coming out of the big bassy cinema speakers. That was easily my favourite bit.

There was only about 50 people in the audience and they were all spread out so it was difficult to tell if people were laughing. Hopefully there'll be a bigger audience in Chippenham so I can get a better idea. From my Ninja eavesdropping on the students infront of me, they seemed to like it and the mean Cowboy even got an 'Awww' at the end... Bloody Students!

The competition was a mixed bag, some very good looking videos and a couple of absolutely bizarre ones! A few of the entries were made by School kids so I did feel a bit like Rodney when he won the under-14's painting competiton!

Overall it was an enjoyable evening with some interesting films shown. It's quite cool Swindon has it's own little film festival. Hopefully it's something that'll just get bigger every year. Now bring on March the 4th!

Newsjack: Week 6

Here is my single sketch entry for this week's NewsJack. I didn't submit anything for weeks 4 and 5 so this is my last shot until the next series.

Unfortunately I don't think they'll even consider using it because it contains copyrighted music and a (kind of) swear word so I've also submitted it to the Treason Show. Hopefully it'll have more luck there.

Tomorrow night, if nothing goes wrong I should be off to the Arts Centre to see my Gunfighters animation played in front of a real life audience of Humans. I hope they make laughing noises.

MILES
Four MPs have now been charged by the CPS over the expenses scandal. But they claim to be innocent. The only way I can get excited about this story is if I pretend it's an episode of the A-Team.

GRAMS. A-Team intro music.

NARRATOR
One year ago, a corrupt political unit was named and shamed by the Telegraph for a crime which they definitely commit.

These MPs promptly escaped from a Gordon Brown headlock to the Westminster underground.

Today, still wanted by the Parliamentary Commissioner, they survive as fiddlers of fortunes.

If you have a Second home, If nobody else likes you, and if you can claim it on expenses.

Then maybe you can hire...

The A-Holes

SFX. Gun Fire

Failed Sports: LOL Darts

I took a break from writing Newsjack sketches last week and decided to make this quick animation instead. I'd just like to point out that this video is in no way related to my Cat's recent clawing of my Sofa!