Here's our big idea!

Hey!

So it's been two months since the last post, and not a lot has actually happened. Well I say nothing but actually we've finished one film and finished the shooting of another.

The first film is a nice and short documentary about the ancient greek philosopher Heraclitus who is famously known (kind of) for his doctrine of flux. Basically that's the idea that nothing in the world ever stays the same, which is true!

The film was written, directed and edited by Mr Michael Dodds (likes to do as much as he can, clearly). It was filmed by me: Oliver Watson. And I believe we both dabbled with the sound equipment which went great!

We used a friend of ours and coursemate Josh Gajree and another long time friend Connor Doherty for the dramatisations. Josh played Heraclitus whilst Connor played Plato, another ancient greek philosopher who disagreed with the doctrine.

We were pretty lucky being in Edinburgh for the shoot as we had access to some really spectacular locations. One of these locations was the peaceful River Almond in Cramond, where we found a good secluded spot to have Josh don a toga. Connor on the other hand didn't have the luxury of privacy. No, he had to change at one of Edinburgh's most famous monuments at the top of Calton Hill surrounded by Japanese tourists in the typical Scottish weather of rain and hail stones.

Getting to these locations would have been near impossible or at least extremely time consuming without the great help of our drivers. Eve Jarron and Connor.

I feel like its necessary to mention that we celebrated the completion of the shoot by having a lovely meal at Frankie & Benny's where we went in soaked through and made a rather large mess at our table.

Anyway that's enough for that project! You can check it out on our YouTube page! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFgNDa7cDWI

I'll write a new post concerning our latest quest! An advert for the ludicrously tasty Crunchy Nut Cornflakes!

Bub-bye!

Oliverus Watsonus (I'm Greek now!)

We're aiming bigger and better and even bigger and even better!

So after last year we managed to get extremely little done. We have one film that we are all very proud of 'Buskers' and that will be uploaded onto the youtube channel soon.

However, all the little films that we planned to make were left behind. They were mostly written and planned out but just sort of pushed to the side whilst there were better things to do. Now I'm not saying that we are going to make them, what I am saying is that we aren't going to announce stuff like that anymore and then never get round to making them.

I'm now going to announce our new 'business model'. Basically Michael and Myself both have jobs now apart from Group Six and are going to start creating budgets for our films. We have contacts that can lend us equipment so buying that isn't necessarily an issue, it's more for costumes and locations and things to make our films that little bit better and more real.

If your clever with money you can get things done for very little of it. The two short films based on the video game half life called 'Escape from City 17' show what can be done with little money. Sure the script and actors are pretty terrible but it looks amazing.

Anyway once we have some money and a plan of action for a new film I'll let you know!

Peace Out!

Olly Watson

Everything new!

Buskers is done. Mike posted it on his vimeo account the other day and you can watch it here: http://www.vimeo.com/24664781

It's about 18 minutes long so you better have some time put aside to watch it.

Next up on the news is that I've ditched 'Stolen By Curiosity' or whatever it was. It was becoming a hassle and was getting out of hand, for me anyway, so instead I wrote something completely different. It's a sci - fi kind of thing. It used to have lots of computer nerd dialogue in it but now in the version 2.0 of the script it features none of it and is just a pure and raw story of an amnesiac alien sent on a mission to destroy earth but with recurring visions of his mother saying goodbye forever. It will be 100% finished by 17th June or else.

Anyway back to work!

Olivero Watsono!

Hey! We made a new film!

So yeah, been a while. We've had Neil, a member of Group 6 since 'Castelletti' was made, leave us. So it's back to being just a two man team. Just the way me and mike like it I guess. You wouldn't believe how much easier making a film is with two people.

Anyway, for the past wee while we've been writing and writing and writing to come up with some films. We've got two for you. One of them is actually just getting finalised in the editing process and the other is being postponed whilst I waste time (I could spend writing it) here.

Honestly 'Buskers' by Michael Dodds, is looking to be an awesome film. We premiered a rough edit of the film today at our old high school to the media class and it got an awesome reception. Once it's finished we will post it on our youtube channel.

The other (with a working title of...) 'Stolen By Curiosity' is being penned by none other than Oliver Watson a.k.a Charles Noble a.k.a Moi. Sadly whilst I have the idea all formulated in my head I just can't seem to just get down and write it. It's annoying me and I'm sure it's annoying everyone else involved.

Still 'Buskers' will be 100% complete next week sooooo keep an eye out.

Peace out!

Oliver Watson!

New Projects

So here at Group 6 we've been busy. We have a total of about 8 films on the go just now so time is pretty much eaten up with work. Four of the films are on that interesting subject of statues, of which here in Edinburgh there are plenty of. Our subjects are Sherlock Holmes, World War Memorial and James Young Simpson. The films will be 3 minutes and 30 seconds long each according to our brief.

The statues we have chosen are pretty interesting. They each have a story and a reason for being there anyway. Take my statue for instance: Sherlock Holmes. Everyone knows him, the genius sleuth with something like 56 stories written about him and now with Steven Moffat's new modern day version it's brought the character back. Well anyway, my statue has mysteriously disappeared which makes it difficult to make a film about it. Or does it? What I decided to do instead was make it about me tracking down the statue. Which is so far going well. I know it's in storage anyway getting restored. I also know it's been moved forrrrr... you guessed it, the trams! So that's my statue.

Mike's is the war memorial and he is basically making his film about what it stands for. I'll let him fill this in about his statue later. Same goes for Neil who is making his about James Simpson the founder of using chloroform as a anesthetic.

The other films are two dramas and a documentary although they aren't nearly finalised so I can't really talk about them.

So that's a short update on what's happening at Group 6 for the time being!

ciao. Oliver Watson.

IGNIS

IGNIS is being edited tonight. I hold all the video clips filmed on that night. The production team will be meeting and sitting down to discuss all their ideas for the finished edit. It will be difficult as we are all a really creative bunch of people and all have our own idea of what it should and should not look and sound like but hopefully we will make the most impressive and visually stunning film that we can.

This is Group 6's first attempt at an advertising campaign and already we can see where we would do things slightly differently such as getting more close ups or just more takes for example. The finished article may arrive later on tonight or tomorrow morning uploaded to the Group Six Productions YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/GroupSixProductions) and also to this blog. If you are a close friend of ours look out for it on facebook.

This is a Noble post from Charlie Noble.

IGNIS

'IGNIS' is a short advertisement for a fictional brand of mens perfume. It features the dazzling Harry Grieve as seen in Castelletti and Fuck It.

Crew list:

Director: Charlie Noble

Assistant Director: Michael Dodds

Lighting and Candle Supervisor: Katy O'Donnell

Official Chauffeur, Runner and general all round awesome guy: Connor Doherty

Harry Grieve as himself.