The latest from The Borderland State:
Lookin’ pretty spiffy!

Got our grade in two days ago, thanks to the brilliant guys at Blue Post, and we’re very happy with the result. So now I’ll be able to bling up our prop with amazing looking screen grabs! Also our visual effects are looking great, so want to throw in a big thank you to our visual effects artist Adam White, who happens to have his own short in SXSW at the mo!  For your viewing pleasure here are a couple of grabs from our graded trailer now…

Just a quick note to say that we are still busy slaving away on The Borderland State – the script is getting some serious work and the trailer is so close now – just going through some of the final processes which are proving to be quite lengthy!

Back with more blogging shortly.

Peeking in

So it’s been awfully quiet in here for a while, yeah we know. Settling back into our groove after the break (not that mine has ended yet but that’s another story!) Reassuringly though, things are still slowly churning under the surface. Edit and special effects are complete, audio mix is happening approximately as we speak, [...]

Downtime

I’m back in Christchurch – holiday destination for this Christmas holiday. We’ve been showing the trailer around to a whole bunch of people and the feedback we’ve been getting overall is very good. A few tweaks look in order here and there but I’m feeling like our hard work is starting to pay off. Apart [...]

Keeping up with the holidays.

Christmas is just around the corner and in between pre-recording a tonne of television so that I can have a break, trying to buy presents, and committing to the compulsory festive season partying I am crawling closer to having a trailer for our film. At last count The Borderland State trailer is going to clock [...]

Dear Diary,

It was Saturday morning – one day of the trailer down, two to go… Having taken on enough jobs for myself and three clones, I found myself alone – cloneless, without even the time to drink the elixir of film set life – coffee.  Without miracle science at my fingertips I realised I needed to [...]