Narration!

Hello all!

Yesterday we spent the day recording narration for each programme. We had the privilege of having an amazing guest offer his voice, Bernard Hill.

You may recognise him from films such as Titanic and Lord Of The Rings! It was a real pleasure.

Long Awaited Update

Hi everyone!
We apologise for the long delay of updating this production blog. A little bit snowed under with all the fine progress we have made.

The offline edit for programme 1: Capture and programme 2: Captives has been completed. This means that the narrative of each programme has been finalised. This leaves the magic of grading to make it look lovely. It also means that the sound can be pushed into production allowing us to neaten and perfect it's quality in GLORIOUS HD.

The wow factor

Now this has got us REALLY excited.

 

This is a test render of an aerial showing the scale of the Long March. It's a little hard to see here, but if you click the Youtube button and watch it there in 720HD, you'll see the details of the men all moving along.

The plate (empty aerial shot) was filmed in Poland and the people have been digitally added by the extremely talented Evan Davies at Z-Depth. There's loads more where this came from and it's going to add the sense of scale that we were after. Let us know what you think.

A true Commonwealth effort!

We were thinking today, that much like the Long March itself, this show has been a true commonwealth effort! It's been produced in the UK, composed in Canada and our Kiwi pals Afterglow Films have been busy creating our GFX in Auckland, which have been fantastic so far.

God save the Queen!

Musical score from across the pond

I've recently been track laying our composer Neil Clements' music score, which he has been writing in Vancouver - and boy does it sound good.

Neil in Canada

Long time collaborator Neil has got the tone of the film spot on; harrowing and desperate.

It's truly remarkable how much of a difference specially recorded music makes to a film. Library music can be good, but it's just not the same. Stephen Saunders (Producer/Director) and I are really excited by how it's making the edit come to life.

A short taster will be uploaded soon, so watch this space.....


- David Arshadi, Editor

New Trailer!

Here is a new trailer for the programme. Let us know what you think!

At picture-lock!

Today we have achieved 'picture-lock' in the cutting room i.e we have our full story edited and ready to be finished. Exciting!

Watch this space for some sneak previews......