Sunday, January 30, 2011

2011


CQ Films is back for another year. After a string of comedies in 2010, we're heading in the direction of action/horror with a little comedy thrown in.

We shot the remaining pick-ups this morning for our current film 'The Fatal Mistake'. The lead actor is Luke Watts from the Wild Goose Theatre Company, and he is as awesome in front of the camera as he is on stage.

So far the rough cut looks fantastic and it will easily be our best film to date. Our next film is 'Hunted', a pure horror we aim to shoot mid-year.

We also have a new Facebook page as well in the links section.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Clifton's a machine!


Three weeks after shooting 'How to make an Australian Feature Film', Clifton has already finished the rough cut and is ready to complete the project. The music has been selected, now we're just waiting on Mak to do the voice over and it's ready to lock off and be colour-graded.

If that weren't enough, we also shot a film on Saturday and it is entirely edited and finished. The man is a legend!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Movember



Baz is getting his mo on for Movember. If you would like to donate to his team 'Ranga & Baz', go to the link below and donate to Brian. Cheers.

http://au.movember.com/mospace/1106292/

Some pics from Australian Feature Film shoot

30 Days of Night: Dark Days


After going to the DVD store to get one movie, I invariably fell for the four for $15.00 special; one of which was the sequel to 30 Days of Night. I quite enjoyed the original but, truth to be told, I wouldn't have hired this on its own for $5.95. Throw it in as part of a bargain though, and I thought it was worth it. I read the blurb of the back cover, which sounded like an okay story, but all the pictures were close ups with few people in the scenes which screamed low budget. Suffice to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

For a start, the film had some good actors in it, two of which came from one of my favourite shows - 24 (Mia Kirshner and Rhys Coiro). They had a reasonable sized budget which, whilst still low, they did a lot with. It also had a fairly solid storyline. Sure there were moments where the plot was dictated to by the budget, like when they get trapped in a nest of vampires and pretty much can just walk out of there, but it was still a very good story. All in all, I was pleasantly surprised.

So if you like Vampires, real ones not gay ones that sparkle in sunlight, check out 30 Days of Night: Dark Days.

Another short film idea added to the pile


I've been collating my ideas for short films in a file this year and this morning I had 35 in total. Have to say, I'm pretty happy with that number. I don't force it, I just let the ideas come naturally and then jot them down. If I'm really taken with an idea though, I'll immediately write it into a script.

As of this afternoon I now have 36 ideas. Clifton and I were catching up and talking film and he said he wanted to shoot an action sequence soon to work on that style of shooting. We both agreed that we should somehow turn that shoot idea into a film, and what do you know, within less than a minute a new script idea was born.

Stay tuned for 'A Fatal Mistake'; we'll no doubt shoot it within a few months.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Updated schedule for 2011


Here is our schedule for next year. We've given away the paintball idea, it's been done before. Our aim is to shoot shorter films at the start of the year to enter into the Rocky Fringe Fest and do some longer ones in the second half. We're also going to do more horror in 2011, which is a good thing. Added to this we plan on doing some test shoots which we will no doubt turn into films as well.

So, it's set to be a big one.

Jan – The Returned Serviceman (comedy) & an Australian Horror Legend (horror/comedy)

Mar – The Exorcism of Jeremy Roads (horror/comedy) & Adopted (comedy)

May – Hunted (horror)

July – The Chardonnay Film Festival (comedy)

Sept – Death of a projectionist (comedy/thriller)

Nov – Held Hostage (action/comedy)