tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256563682009-03-02T07:25:11.174ZThis blog chronicles the development of the Echo Black project.Echo Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835591134713249191noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-40559587962657868222008-02-13T12:26:00.002Z2008-02-13T12:31:45.897Z

This is yet another Uni Project. We had to reshoot a scene from a film. So in the middle of a terrible British winter we decided the best possible film to shoot a scene from was Predator... Well it made sense at the time!Shot over 2 days, we encountered a huge problem when we came to edit the footage. The camera we'd used for the first days filming had a fault (a lose wire or something)A number

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-20076947255031005022008-02-13T12:23:00.001Z2008-02-13T12:25:59.547Z

Not Really a post or update thing but what the hey, I've now started doing a film degree and this is one of my first year projects

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-79638028155437565782007-07-25T20:01:00.000+01:002007-07-25T20:21:58.716+01:00

So really long time and no posts! Has this become another of those poor forlorn blogs that gets bought for Christmas, cherished for a couple of days, then dumped on the RSPCA or in a canal by the start of the new year?Well never intentionally.Other stuff has been a little higher on my agenda for the last couple of weeks (okay months) namely writing, shooting and editing another little production.

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On the 28th of October 2006 Lazarus had its official premier. From what I understand (and I could be wrong here, I wasn’t particularly involved in the post production) it was originally supposed to be ready to go a month or so earlier.The Director had run into problems getting completed FX shot’s off a chap called Mike Todd. Mike had been with the club for a long, long time. He was responsible

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A couple of weeks later and I received an email from John. The shots were complete. He attached a tiny little compressed version of one of the shots and told me to come on over and pick up the full size masters on disk.Duly I down loaded the shot and watched with a content smile on my face as a corridor full of zombies got turned into crispy critters! A number of times in the run up to the shoot,

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So no posts for like two months, then 2 in as many weeks. Anybody would think I've learnt how to illicitly update the blog from work. Erm... If you are from work, specifically my boss, I haven't. Honest! Anyway.A fortnight later I attended Beacon Land (TM) with but 2 things in mind, pick up a copy of the Fort Widley footage so that John could start to rub some computerised funk on to it, and

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-64385545179828270332007-04-22T11:43:00.000+01:002007-04-22T12:09:37.739+01:00

Long tme no post. The sad fact is I'm to lazy to come up with an excuse so in the blank area below right your own. Then read my first actual post in a damn long time.After the flat out balls to wall excitement of day 4, day 5 was a much more familiar and sedate affair. No hordes of zombies or extensive networks of underground tunnels here, just a small group of Beacon regulars and the womb like

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-20761287706868697652007-02-25T02:53:00.000Z2007-02-25T03:03:30.616Z

OK it’s a good news, bad news post. Well work has begun in earnest on my first project outside of the world of Beacon. Well kind of.While the project originates from outside of the club, Beacon has agreed to support us in the endeavour with equipment. Some of the members may also end up on screen, so don’t be surprised at the end of the day if the show carries a Beacon Productions card. All in,

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The blog has now changed its address. Rather than being hosted on BlogSpot, its now a direct part of the Echo Black website, ready for when that grows in the future. The new address is http://www.echoblack.com/blog/. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.

Echo Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835591134713249191noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-87700769405148780112007-02-06T19:06:00.000Z2007-02-06T19:40:31.405Z

Okay so this post is really, really late. In short we had some trouble updating the blog to the all new singing and dancing ‘blogger’ which meant I couldn’t access the darn thing to post. But it’s all sorted now Hurrah! Anyway you’ve waited long enough so with out further a do, here’s the post…The site was booked from 10:00 to 18:00. The schedule had us on site for only 5 of those 8 hours.

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-1169251077534194762007-01-20T00:01:00.000Z2007-01-19T23:57:57.546Z

Oh My God the title isn’t just ‘Day 3’! What horrible, unexpected thing happened this time to throw the production off on a curve? Er… Nothing. It’s just that this post is way, way to long for one hit so I’ve broken it down into slightly more manageable sections. In the back of my mind I can already here Mark screaming at his monitor “Get on with it!” So with out further a do.So Widley was a big

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So in the last introduction I offered up a number of options as to how and why the next post was ready to go. It appears that I forgot option 4: It’s written by someone else. I couldn’t make the Tuesday night shoot as I was stuck at work. So at this point I’ll hand you over to Pete as he was actually there.When the decision was made not to shoot at the Secret Nuclear BunkerTM, because it was far,

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-1168043549437999802007-01-06T00:16:00.000Z2007-01-06T00:32:29.450Z

Wow a this is like 3 regular updates in a row! It gets worse the next is already done and is lurking in the shadows like a ninja, just waiting for the right time to strike! Clearly only one of 2 things can be happening here.1. I have a couple of days off work.2. I really should be doing something else and this is task avoidance.Okay I’ll give you the possibility that there is a 3rd option: All of

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-1167496579265278042006-12-30T16:36:00.000Z2006-12-30T16:36:19.280Z

Well the festive break is nearly over. The sock fairy has visited all of the good boys and girls (I was especially good and got many pairs of shiny new socks!) much beer has been drunk, and due to general merriment and family visiting I’ve been stuck away from an internet connection for almost an entire week. I’m back now though and the shakes have almost completely subsided.Talking about shakes,

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Okay so this actually started out as an introduction for another post, then it kind of blossomed out of control, got to big, and became it’s own little mini post. Unfortunately the introduction for the old introduction sucks. You’d better move down to the next paragraph now before it gets any worse.So it’s been eight months to the day since I last conducted a Google search for The Adventures of

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Long time no post, what’s up with that? Yes I know I promised to be more regular, but even a prune juice a day couldn’t have helped with November!An absence of staff at work, due to a delightful combination of sickness and leave, has meant that I’ve had precious few days off in the last month. Obviously, I've had an ungodly amount of stuff which I’ve had to jam into this limited time (who’d have

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-1162564737992881022006-11-03T14:22:00.000Z2006-11-05T15:03:18.296Z

So the Lazarus Beacon premier was last weekend (Halloween, how apt?) About 30 people in Fancy dress crammed in to ‘big’ Steve’s front room with enough booze to sink the Titanic, but I’m not actually going to talk about that now. After all I still haven’t told the tales of production, and post production yet.So why am I wasting time posting a none production/post production post? (wait I think I

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So the locations are sorted and the days are scheduled, I still had a whole lot of other stuff to sort out and it wasn’t nicely compartmentalised like these blog posts. All of pre-production happened in an incoherent blobs of panic, enthusiasm, genius and happenstance but something’s worked out nicely. I got introduced to the friend of a friend who did make-up. Not only was she really good, but

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-1161125670115454852006-10-17T23:54:00.000+01:002006-10-17T23:54:30.126+01:00

So Today is Tuesday the 17th of October 2006. An absolutly bog standard, boring, nothing happening today day. For that reason the National Trust has chosen it to be the day recorded for their 'one day in history' scheme. The idea is simply, a couple of weeks back they started a campaign, mostly aimed at bloggers, to get them to create a diary of day to day happenings in the uk. Once compiled the

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OMG another post and it’s only been 6 days since the last! It couldn’t possible be on topic could it?OMG IT IS!Ironically pre-production wasn’t as fraught as I thought it was going to be, that’s not to say it wasn’t fraught. I just imagined it’d be worse.The one thing which kept coming back to haunt me was locations. These days Beacon has a purpose built studio in Steve’s garage. It’s warm, it’s

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My I haven’t updated this for ages, despite much badgering from Mark (posting some photos is his idea of a subtle hint) So what have I been doing when I should have been slaving over a hot keyboard? Well first off I was slaving over a hot keyboard, just not writing stuff to go here. Some brainiac had the idea a few months back to create a brand new unit for Renewal, one of the largest LRP games

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I've posted a load of photo's taken during the filming of Lazarus to my flickr account, you can view them here. As I was among the extras it's pretty much all zombie.Here's a peak at some of the highlights:

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I’ve said before that writing to a budget is hard. It’s a brick wall of a problem that anybody who ever scripts an episode of Stephen Brown will repeatedly bang their head against, quite possibly until it bleeds. How big a problem? £60 that’s for the entire story which means I have to write to a budget of £30 per 25 minute episode, that’s £1.20 per minute, Tricky. There are also only 5 shooting

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02237212471491792903noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656368.post-1149289914713250872006-06-03T00:03:00.000+01:002006-06-03T00:11:54.733+01:00

Hence no posts for ages, bad Steve! But it gets worse. I said I’d post a link to Beacons website as soon as they set it up. Well that was a week ago and I’m only getting round to it now. I guess I was just revelling in my Google position (On the carpet knees slightly bent) Anyway find Beacon here. Also for the purveyor of incredible low budget sci-fi, clips from ‘The Adventures of Stephen Brown’

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A quick Google search today revealed that this page is now the second highest ranking page (wow!) on a search for ‘The Adventures of Stephen Brown’ Damn Wikipedia! But I shall beat you… Okay probably not, but Beacon will! The wheels are in motion and soon, soon I tell you, they will have their own page. Then Wikipedia will tremble in fear knowing it can never know more than they know, for they

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