Well, partly due to that. But it's mainly because my energies are currently being focussed into their next production, an adaptation of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. And yes, they want projected images for it. Two sets of projected images to be precise. I'll just put that nervous breakdown off until the New Year, shall I...
Having proved myself somewhat proficient at producing trailers (three teasers and one full for The Thrill of Love), I was requested to produce one for this production. Luckily I was way ahead of them, as I had already starting plotting a trailer for this while I was creating The Thrill trailers.
The starting point was always going to be the star in the Cardiff Players logo (which, by the way, is a masterfully designed one by Fred Skilton and gives me so much scope when composing the trailers). From there I shamelessly channelled one of my all time heroes, the pioneering cinematic master Mr Georges Méliès, in the cloud/cityscape imagery and the old-style film look. As with the previous mini-movies, this provided me with an opportunity to delve further into what the versatile program Final Cut Pro could do, and presented me with new challenges - none more so that the cityscape which took a fair few hours to figure out!
I would like to thank Jonathan Wheeler of the use of his face as 'Marley-in-the-door-knocker'. (Jon is actually playing Marley in this production). He doesn't really look that gaunt - I had to 'ghost' him up considerably using Photoshop to get that look! I'm also pleased with the door knocker I found using Google search, though I was a bit dubious about putting in the search term 'victorian knockers' for fear of what it brought back...
Anyway, there 'tis.
