We are planning a Mini Film Festival and hope to invite local talented film makers to enter a film.
More about this soon...
In the meantime if you are interested in this please contact Jane at ginger@sparkyink.co.uk
During 2019 we expanded our development in Our first Studio Video Arcade Game - "tHAT bIRTHDAY gAME" has been given some new backgrounds and some new levels; which include some 'Fan Levels' created by some of the students who attend our workshops.
We are currently in the process of creating our own music for the game and adding the finishing touches.
The game will be available online soon.
In 2020 we will be embarking on becoming a 'Gun For Hire' with the launch of our Professional Edit service
This service is to help put those captures of special times into a professional format with titles and editing in or out to create a visual memory that can be kept and shared. We are also keen to edit other pieces too such as films a
In 2020 we will be embarking on becoming a 'Gun For Hire' with the launch of our Professional Edit service
This service is to help put those captures of special times into a professional format with titles and editing in or out to create a visual memory that can be kept and shared. We are also keen to edit other pieces too such as films and animations.
If you would like to know more about how we can help turn your video into a professional memory or film please drop us an email to ginger@sparkyink.co.uk to see if we can help. Prices vary.
Back in the summer of 2019 our studio was commissioned to work with five talented local Students/. As a business we encourage work experience and the chance to help develop trade skills within the digital creative industries, so we jumped at the chance to be part of this.
The brief was to create an animated video for the launch of DEBP's new website. This was an amazing opportunity for our studio and the students involved who somehow managed to thrive even on the hottest days during August. With Clay Armatures melting and software issues we managed to pull together a project which involved each of the students within their own talent pool.
The Video was only part of the project. We also made a mini behind the scenes docu and one of the students created a small Maze game which will be published online too. The partnership was a brilliant team effort which although very time limited managed to achieve its main objectives; importantly raising the aspirations of the young people we worked with by introducing them into the digital creative industries and working within a live working studio. In addition the group managed the project by forming and agreeing ideas, tested their ideas and chose the best content for the video that fitted the brief. Each young person worked within a specific part of the project although there were chances to interact and share the various experiences from Stop-motion and Claymation, live filming, camera work, script writing, lighting and sound, music, some special effects and editing, using industry software, Concept Art and art animation. All in all the project was a resounding success.
We would like to Thank DEBP for choosing our studio for this project and we look forward to hopefully working with DEBP in the future.
Thank you to all the students involved.
There will be more about this project including the videos once they are launched in early 2020.
We called 2019 'Reach for the Stars' and boy did we go for it!. As well as moving Studio to a larger building and having the chance to deliver more workshops, we were invited to embark on some really exciting projects.
Documentary
arly on in the year when we offered to create a documentary for local Artist Ian Judson. At the time of meeting Ian and filming his 4 Room Gallery exhibition at West Studio's, we didn't realise that he had created a small community business in the heart of Killamarsh called Art and Minds. Art and Minds was developed to help those with Mental illness to realise their potential and help them back into society. The small shop in Killamarsh is a treasure trove of creative talent that has decorated the walls and adorns the repurposed and upcycled furniture. With a waste not want not attitude Ian is leading a local revolution in turning old unwanted items into desirable decorative and useful items and the money raised goes back into the community group. Ian and Baz who closely works with him have initiated small groups locally including an Art Therapy Group at our Studio each Wednesday.
Our Documentary; which is due to be shown in January 2020, is based on Ian's exhibition of his journey from his lowest point to how he deals with those challenges each day. The documentary also takes in the views of the participants at Art and Minds and how this has helped them in their own journeys. The film will be available online on our youtube channel after the VIP Viewing.
While filming Ian heard the Community Choir who practice at West Studios and felt their music would work well in the documentary. We went down and recorded several beautiful tracks with them which appear in the Doc.
Poster of the Event
We delivered our First ever Film Premiere in May 2019 from our New Studio at Holywell Street. This little film was enthusiastically accepted by the VIP guests. The Film; a project that we created with Kaps.Autism Community Group back in the summer of 2018 during one days shoot. All the actors in the film are from the group. We filmed entirely in one day at our Studio (then at West Studios) and then the film spent around 5 months in post-production being edited by Josh. The film is a silent B type movie titled "They came from your feet"
The film will appear in our mini Film Festival in 2020.
Screenshot from the film 2018
We are hoping to have the documentary completed for the Old Cestrefeldians towards the end of 2019 early 2020. This is a voluntary Docu from us as a gift to the society. In the early part of 2019 We were invited to create a documentary from some very old footage of the building where we are based at West Studios. Our old studio was in fact the Old Headmasters Study and so this had a large significance to us. The www.oldcestrefeldians.org.uk will be working with us to create this slice of history and legacy.
We are also producing a video or them too which we made during their Remembrance day service. Which remembered the 100th Anniversary of the end of the Great War.
Both these films will be published late 2019 early 2020.
Picture taken from www.oldcestrefeldians.org.uk
For our Second Birthday we decided to design and develop a small gameon GameMaker Studio 2 to be played at our 8-Bit Evolved Gaming Events and also as a tool for allowing our students to create extra levels on the game. Here is the footage from the game. "tHAT bIRTHDAY gAME" was made in 2 weeks from concept to development.
During 2017 we created an animation for Pumpkin Night. Here is the behind the scenes documentary that we made. Check out the Pumpkin Horror video at YouTube Channel.
When we first started up in 2016 we were keen to create a couple of Studio Characters that could star in their own animations.
Sparky as well as being our studio logo is a creation made by Inky an inventor Drone Bot. Sparky does not speak only 'Beeps' and his creation is heavily influenced by some fantastic 1980's films and TV programmes. The Art behind Sparky and Inky is from Studio Artist Jake.
Pink Alien was created by accident by Ginger who then made a quick Claymation for Easter.
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