First ‘behind the scenes’ from Man In A Cat from the new Man In A Cat dedicated YouTube channel.
It’s quite a complicated scene involving the rotoscoping of Michelle, the animation of the Cat, Yorkie, a Car, and a boom shot in homage to the famous shot in Citizen Kane:
For fear of this becoming the Man In A Cat /Popcorn /Man In A Cat blog, we’ve set up a new YouTube channel dedicated to any behind the scenes interviews, ‘making of’s and in-progress linetests. Subscribe to it at: http://www.youtube.com/AllConsumingLove.
In other news, I got me a big lightbox! A lot of scenes could do with being cleaned up in A3 and I want something proper to draw on. Here’s the evolution of my (until now) homemade lightboxes. That little one is still my trusty companion. His name is Arthur. The red one is Gordon, named after the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. This new one is secondhand but I didn’t catch it’s name. I’ll have to take it to the vet to find out what sex it is. What do you think?
In unconfirmed news we have a very lovely producer attached, plus I’ll be sharing some new offices to get me out of the house and stop me becoming the summery equivalent of Jack Nicholson in the Shining. More on that later.
We’re amazingly chuffed to say that out of over 130 proposals All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat) has impressed Screen WM and the UK Film Council enough to become one of the final 6 commissioned films! It’s not all that often you get to be completely self-indulgent on a project for 6 months, especially with the support and backing of some the most experienced people in the country.
So far we’ve had to be fairly hush hush about the development process, if only because we’d look like wankers if the film never actually took off, but now would be a nice time to say thanks to the people we’ve met and who have helped us get here.
The process up to getting commissioned has been fantastic. Before that development process it was getting hard to know what to do with the story. On the first day of development we met Kate Leys, who just with a few anecdotes and case examples, completely opened our eyes to the art of story telling. That was really empowering.
I also had the priveledge of bashing out ideas with Camilla Deacon of Lupus Films and about 15 other talented animators in London. That was really invigorating and affirmed a lot of what we’ve been learning over the last 3 months. Big thanks to The Square for seemingly unlimited chocolate, fruit, coffee and some quite spiffing toilets! Not unlimited toilets. That would be incredible… ANYWAY.
Simon Flynn and Dan Lawson from Screen WM, and June Goldrei on behalf of UK Film Council were in charge of commissioning the final films. They had the balls to see that this could work, and their notes and questions have made sure the story has developed in a very nurturing and understanding way.
Overall, we’re really thankful that we’ve been given the chance to make this unsual and edgy film, and that everyone involved were nuts enough to with the idea in the first place. Now we’ve got to hammer out the last few kinks in the script without desmantling the whole thing, get the look of it all completely pinned down, get some communal office space/therapy for me, and round up some amazing talent to help out with the project. All within the next couple of weeks if we’re to have a good chance of finishing this by the end of August! Ha ha ha!… Oh my God.
While ‘Man In A Cat has been talked about for a while, and the tester trailer alone has got over 850,000 views, it had to stand on ice for a while as our other projects and work relationships developed. But after having the storyboards on my wall for over a year it’ll be great to get some outside input. I’m particularly excited to see how the original story changes. While I love the idea of a Man, Woman, Cat love triangle (not like that), there’s still plenty that could be done on the script.
Huh, will yer look at that. Message in a Bottle was on the same page. Page 32 was obviously drinking well that year.
SacroBirmania.com – an Italian website that belongs to a cat – has kindly ‘paw’sted (groan) about ‘All Consuming Love‘.
We’re now proud to be official YouTube partners. Yeehaw!… that really did escalate quite quickly. This means that we’ll now earn a share of YouTube’s advertising revenue in turn for us making highly viewed videos.
Thanks to CiB‘s Chris Unitt for plugging us too.
WTFs, LOLs and ROFLs are being banded around like nobody’s business as the trailer for All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat) gets featured on YouTube. That makes two features in two weeks! If you can’t see it being featured, that because it’s featured ‘Globally’ and not in Britain… You’ll have to ask YouTube how that one works.
The trailer does feature the opening score to Forest Gump. That was done as a last minute choice as things had got stuck with my sound designer at the time and the music does actually suit quite nicely. So, he next thing will be to get a lovely sound designer onboard and get all that sorted out.
Here’s the lastest glimpse of the upcoming film, All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat). Should be a good’un when it’s done.
Here’s the flyer of what Louis’ been working on for the last 9 months. Tagline – ‘Coming out of a cat’s ass near you…’ 
It also doubles as a lovely postcard, so now you can inform both distant friends and estranged relatives about the pros and cons of potential beastiality attacks. Useful AND entertaining!
Here’s the flyer of what Louis’ been working on for the last 9 months. Tagline – ‘Coming out of a cat’s ass near you…’ It also doubles as a lovely postcard, so now you can inform both distant friends and estranged relatives about the pros and cons of potential beastiality attacks. Useful AND entertaining!
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