We are nominated in the Free Fall category, which is for films that don’t easily fit into any normal genre.

Limelight Film Awards is the annual short film competition, followed by a red carpet awards ceremony, attended by over 500 film makers, celebrities and TV/ Film personalities. In its fifth year, with 12 film categories and a £10,000 production award, Limelight is paving the way in identifying emerging British film makers while helping to strengthen the industry.

You can get out the Limelight Awards for yourself here:

http://www.limelightawards.com

The full programme can be found at the festival website here.

I’d like to thank everyone who was involved with the project including Angharad, Dave and Mark, Bernard, the guys at Voiceover Soho, all at Urban Apache Films, Sam from Red Dog Film and Harry for his excellent “handy” work.

The project was so much fun and proves that all you need is an idea……the rest will follow.

Check out our other projects on our Vimeo Channel. In the meantime you can watch The Wraith, in full, right here:

You can visit the festival site here.

The Wraith – Trailer from Polymath Pictures on Vimeo.

Here’s a quick sneaky peak at some if the initial DVD sleeve designs.

I got in touch with Bernard a month or so ago and he agreed to be part of the project. So yesterday while killing time in the capital we went into a cool little voice over recording studio and recorded the narration for the film. It sounds fantastic and I’ve spent the day editing the narration into the film and preforming the final grade.

We’re almost there now. Just a few private screenings to iron out any creases and chop it down to time (15 mins for most short film festivals). Then it’s press pack time and it’ll be sent out to festivals around the world.

Watch this space for festival news! xxx

After the shooting was complete we jumped right in on the editing. We definitely managed to get the coverage although you always want more with hindsight but the story is king and that’s covered, so kudos all round for that one. We’ve been noodling with some visual effects but in actual fact we’re laying off for the most part. The film has taken on quite an organic feel and we’re starting to feel like adding in FX for the sake of it is a big no no on this one.

We did however decide a while ago that we wanted to include a stop motion sequence for either the opening titles or the end credits and so we set about doing that. We set up a pretty simple but charming sequence using props from the film and animated using a Canon DSLR, Macbook and Dragon Stop Motion (if you ever need to do any stop motion, then use this software, it’s awesome!).

It took a day, which is probably fairly quick in stop motion terms, but the end result is cool. We added some FX afterwards just to give it an other-worldly feel and we’re really happy with the result. There are some photos below of the set up.

We’ll be back soon with a music special. x

It’s now onto the editing and the rest of the post-production which should hopefully take no more than a month….famous last words. So here’s a few production photos…