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27/01/2025

*NEW FILM INFORMATION*

Hello all,

It is 2025 and we are aiming to thrive and a new project is well and underway with Colour Bird Studios involved and I am here to spread some fun news!

We are looking for actors and crew for this film very shortly! As the film will be in production by the end of March to the start of April. We are doing everything we can to get the perfect actors that can take on the challenge of this short film. To get involved, watch the video for more information and follow us on our Instagram and for updates on casting and crew calls as well as supporting us throughout the production promoting mens mental health and charities across the UK! Make sure to be registered and prepared on any auditioning websites such as Mandy or Spotlight.

As well as this, we need your help to get this film up to the best standards it can be. Any donation possible will be one step closer to achieving an indie film that no one has ever seen before, to open the eyes of the audience and show them how life treats people behind closed doors. Any proceedings that go over will be given to charity such as . To DONATE and help us make our film together, please follow us on Instagram, and click the link in our bio. Or search on INDIEGOGO to donate.

Any more information needed is in the video and any questions will be answered in the comments as best we can! We are here to work hard and do the best we can for indie filmmakers, why not start off with one that hits a little close to home.

INDIEGOGO:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dear-dad--10 #/

INSTAGRAM:
https://www.instagram.com/deardad_gradfilm?igsh=Z3hkYWl5bmgwNzNm

ANDYS MAN CLUB:
https://andysmanclub.co.uk/

24/01/2025

*2025 UPDATE*

Hello everyone!

Firstly, we’d like to thank you all for your patience in awaiting an announcement from us! We can’t express our appreciation enough to those who have stuck by us, and kept us in the back of their minds.

We’d like to share a little bit about what we’ll be doing over the course of 2025, as well as tell you a bit about the collaborations we’ve got in store for this year.

Colour Bird Studios is an entity that still seeks to create an innovative and original pathway leading to the goal of becoming a fully established independent studio, that is not only progressive but also equal to each individual that works with us.

However, this is a rather large task, and to achieve this, careful thought has gone into creating a method that uses modern techniques, that keeps ethical standards at the root of each decision.

We’d like to share a few things with you that we’ve already started putting into production, as well as some projects that are soon to start production.

This is Colour Bird Studios 2025 plan.

-DEAR DAD-

Dear Dad is a short film written by Megan O’Loughlin, that will be going into production over the first half of 2025.

This is not a Colour Bird Studios production, but rather a film that we will be assisting with when it comes to promotion. We will be sharing the amazing work that this team has put into this project, as well as sharing certain aspects of casting opportunities and crowd funding.

We will also be using this opportunity as a trial run for the sector of Colour Bird Studios that focuses on promoting Indie filmmakers that are external to our Studio. Having an opportunity like this gives us a really good test run of what we can offer when it comes to promotion/marketing and we are so honoured to have the chance to do this.

The script is extremely moving, and focuses heavily on men’s mental health, and we will be sharing more about this project very soon!

-COLOUR BIRD MEDIA-

Colour Bird Media is a brand new sector of Colour Bird that focuses primarily on creating social media content both for ourselves and for external companies.

Colour Bird Media (CBM) is something we will be putting secondary focus on for now as we organise projects that already have been announced, or are yet to be announced. However, we will be launching our first project in the social media realm very soon.

We have already started working on a project with a company that is a leading retailer in their specific industry, and we will be announcing more about this shortly.

-CBC25-

Colour Bird Conference 25 is an online event that will be up in March, and we will be going over details about every project that Colour Bird Studios will be working on over the next few years. This includes details about the Cypher Series, as well as a few other projects we have lined up.

For me personally, I’m very excited to share what we’ve been working extremely hard on, and we hope that our time and effort that has gone into working on these projects, will not only ease a lot of your minds about us, but also allow us to prove ourselves as a real addition to the industry.

That’s all for now, but stay tuned for more updates!

Have a great day!

-Alastaire

04/11/2024

A Statement from the owner of Colour Bird Studios

17/04/2024

Hello

We hope you’re all having a great day!

So we’ve been seeing a lot of comments about our response times to people trying to contact us, and we just wanted to address this quickly.

So we’ve been spending a lot of time replying to as many people as we can, both on our Facebook Messenger and our email, and we’re happy to say we have caught up with the majority of messages. However, we have seen a few people compare us to production companies with large teams that generally have the time and resources to respond more regularly than us.

We know that a lot of you understand this because of all the lovely messages and emails we’ve been receiving recently. But for those who have criticised us for not caring or just generally stating that we’re not serious, we will address this one final time.

Firstly, we are not a large company; we are a small independent production company, which is something we have repeatedly stated since our first film announcement.

Secondly, we are going to make mistakes, but we are trying our best. There’s a lot that goes into filmmaking, and we're also trying to build a production company that is well structured and that meets our ambition. It takes time, and there’s a lot to learn.

And lastly, we do not have a big team that we can dedicate to regularly replying to everyone; it is only 4 of us, and we are all very busy. We have been replying as much as we can; however, we still have to work on the film and also handle our personal lives. So please be patient and bear with us.

If you haven’t been responded to, this may be because you requested an audition through the improper method, by contacting our page rather than our email, which is why you wouldn’t have received a response (auditions have now been closed, so please don’t send another request to the email). For any future questions you may have, please email us at [email protected] and we will get back to you there. Please do not try to contact us through our Facebook Messenger, as we will not be checking this as often.

We’re very sorry for the long message, but we’re hoping that now we have put this behind us, we can go back to having fun with filmmaking and trying to create not only one of the best independent action drama films of the past decade but also an innovative production company like no other.

I hope you all have a great rest of your day, and we appreciate all the love and support we have been receiving lately! 🩵🩷

-Colour Bird Team

08/04/2024

We think it’s important to share with all of you what our goal is, and what we aim to achieve in the industry.

06/04/2024

*CYPHER: AGENT DOWN UPDATE*

Hello Everyone!

So we’ve just made this quick video to give you all an update on what’s been going on with our first feature film “Cypher: Agent Down”.

This film has quite literally changed my life, and we haven’t even started production yet! I cannot express how much I appreciate every single one of you that follows our page, and I cannot wait to to show you all the work we have put in to establishing ourselves!

I understand that having to delay Agent Down may seem like a bad thing, but in the long run we know that this gives us the greatest chance of not only creating a better film, but also being able to continue the Cypher Series in the way that I have personally always dreamed of!

We’re going to be a lot more active across all of our socials, and there’s some big things coming soon, which we’re so excited to tell you all about.

I’ll speak to you all soon, and again thank you all so much for even being there in the first place! 🩵

Kindest Regards
Alastaire Bird

*To all the people who received a call back confirmation, we will be in contact via email soon to give you a bit more detail on what our timeline is looking like.

01/04/2024

Hello everyone,

Please feel free to take a moment and head over to our instagram page for all updates on everything that’s happening in the world of colour bird!

Owen.

28/03/2024

*GET TO KNOW COLOUR BIRD CO OWNER*
MEGAN O’LOUGHLIN-

Hi I’m Megan, a freelance cinematographer and writer. From a young age my imagination has always been the stem of breaking into my world and being able to take myself places I never thought I could go and develop my own pathway. I feel every young filmmaker have struggled to find a way to break into the industry and trust their creative visions with company’s that can squash them. Our worlds are different and extraordinary and deserve to be shown and that is what we want to do with this company. We want to take short, feature, indie, high budget, scripts and edits into a place where they are valued each and every one of them and are shown to as many people we can. We all want to be apart of this journey. Which is why I am so excited to work hard and make this positive impact happen.

-Megan

27/03/2024

*GET TO KNOW COLOUR BIRD CO-OWNER*
LAUREN MASSEY

Hiya, I’m Lauren, a freelance director and editor. I’ve always been intrigued by how many roles that Directors interact with and seeing the whole film come together from early development to the final edit. My favourite influences are Damien Chazelle (I love his musical filmmaking style) and Greta Gerwig (she can put a fun twist on any story!) We hope to encourage and showcase young filmmakers like ourselves to build each other up in this industry and I can’t wait to share new experiences with you all through Colourbird!

-Lauren

26/03/2024

*GET TO KNOW COLOUR BIRD CO-OWNER*
ALASTAIRE BIRD

Hello!

My name’s Alastaire, I’m 23, and I’m from a small seaside town called Lee-On-The-Solent, in the South of Hampshire.

Films have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I started making short films with my childhood friend, on their dad's old VHS Camera, and instantly I fell in love with coming up with stories, and capturing them on film. Luckily this has been a Hobby that stuck, and landed me some interesting job roles based around content creation in the past. But it never felt right to create YouTube content for businesses, and I wanted to create something more ambitious. I wanted to create not only my own feature film, but a platform that can celebrate other Filmmakers, that share the same passion as me. Which is exactly what we’re working towards with Colour Bird Studios!

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been hard at work, building the foundation for a reputable Indie Studio. It’s not been easy, and there’s still a lot of work to do, but I can confidently say that with the team we have now, we are going to break expectations of what a Small Indie Studio can do!

I’m so excited to share what we have planned!

-Alastaire

01/02/2024

Good Morning Everyone, I just wanted to send a quick message out there, to those who received a rejection email.

A lot of you who auditioned have been so supportive and lovely about us and our production. As I’m sure most of you know, we had a fairly rocky start, but so many of you were understanding and compassionate, and I appreciate that so much, that I couldn’t ever put it into words. I’m so sorry if any of you feel let down by the response you may have received. It doesn’t feel right to do this to any of you. All of you are such incredible actors, and it’s clear to me that you have a bright future ahead of you. To be completely honest this is a part of the proccess I will always hate going forward, as I know this is the part that upsets people. I truly hope I haven’t ruined anyone’s day, and I really hope to see you again for our future casting call for supporting actors.

*In regards to those who may not have received their responses*

So most of the Self Tape audition responses went out yesterday, however due to the way WeTransfer send it’s files over, we have been unable to give you our response. WeTransfer sends them over via a “NoReply” email address, so any replies we’ve been sending have just bounced back. But we will be gradually going through each of them, and sending you your responses soon.

Have a good day everyone!

-Alastair

30/01/2024

*To those who sent in YouTube audition tapes that show as not viewed, aswell as WeTransfer links that appear to be unopened.*

So we’ve had a few people say that their YouTube videos were showing as not being Viewed, and obviously with those of you taking the time to learn the lines and submit a tape, of course we’re not going to let that time go in vain. So I’ve done some investigating Into this, to find out what has happened, and you are completely correct.

There is a folder of 40-50 YouTube auditions that have not been reviewed. And honestly that is completely my fault. While transferring data from my old Laptop to my Desktop, the file containing a lot of those links was misplaced, and was not grouped together with the other tapes for review.

Of course, with this being a mistake that I take full responsibility for, I will review all of those tapes tonight. So these will still be considered, and I completely apologise for this, and am very grateful to those who let me know.

In regards to WeTransfer links that have been showing as unopened. As many of you know, This has been a continuous issue, and we’re not sure why it’s been happening, but if you sent a WeTransfer link before 7/01 I can assure you it has been opened, and we have reviewed it.

I hope everyone’s having a good day, and I look forward to speaking with some of you very soon!

-Alastair

29/01/2024

Hello Everyone,

So it’s been a while!

We want to thank everyone for their patience in regards to hearing back from us. I just wanted to update you all on what’s been going on over the past few weeks, aswell as give you an update on what’s going on with the audition responses.

So firstly let’s talk about the self tapes. As I said before, narrowing down hundereds of great Actors/Actresses has been one of the hardest parts of Pre-Production so far. However we have finally got our shortlists of those who we would like to continue a conversation with, aswell as invite back to our London Call Backs.

We will be sending emails out tomorrow, and the day after, to all of those who sent in videos of themself doing a script read.

I don’t even know what to say in regards to thanking you all for giving Agent Down a chance. This experience continues to become more and more surreal as the days pass, and that’s mostly because of you. Whitnessing all of your talent, tailored towards our script has been one of the most interesting experiences I have personally had in the past few years of my life. So thank you all!

Now in regards to the crew side of production.

As you all may be aware, This production has been a lot of work so far to stay caught up with, and obviously it couldn’t carry on the way it was going. So I’m extremely happy to announce that we have added 9 extra people to our crew, meaning for the first time in 3 months, I’m actually getting a decent night sleep!

I have absaloute confidence in all of the Crew that we have added so far, and I now have more faith than ever, that this film has every opportunity to succeed. However obviously alot of you have enquired about Crew Work, and we still have positions available. We will be looking into hiring some more Crew soon, so make sure you keep an eye out for that post on our page.

Again I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has shown love and support, and I can’t wait for you all to meet our new team!

Have a great day, and hopefully we’ll speak soon!

-Alastair

10/01/2024

*WHAT IS THE CYPHER SERIES?*

So it’s time to reveal what our plans are with the Cypher Series, aswell as revealing a bit about why we believe our film is different, compared to the rest of the larger franchises.

So the Cypher series is a story that spans over the course of 8 Films, With each film fitting together like the pieces of a puzzle, while still having an original and fresh storyline.

But what is Cypher?

Cypher is the name of a “Secret Surveillance” group, that is contracted with the British Government. Being hired to carry out Off Record missions, that can’t be linked to any individual nation.

The series is inspired by the Incredibly popular Bond films, but rather than focusing more on one Individual Agent, it focuses more on each aspect of the Team Carrying out operations together. As the series goes on, you’ll meet our incredibly diverse set of Agents, aswell as being introduced to many more original characters, that you’ll get to know, and hopefully love as much as we do.

Each agent has experience as a skilled combatant, With each of them bringing a complex and individual personality, built on a rich professional history. Agents coming from a range of different Professions, such as Soldiers, Mercenaries, and Assassins, bring a unique skillset and thought process, when it comes to carrying out tasks and operations.

Agent Down is a film that not only establishes our series in an action packed way, but we’ve worked hard on the story and script to make sure that it’s completely original to Colour Bird Studios, and hasn’t got a predictable resolution. We want to make sure that this film can carry its weight, and that even with a far lower budget compared to the average action film, is something worth watching. So you won’t only be introduced to a range of unique characters, But also a fresh take on the “Spy Genre” films.

We want you to really get to know our characters in an interesting way, which is why we’re taking Character development very seriously. By the end of the series we want to make sure fans truly care about each agent, and are left wanting more. Over the course of the series you’ll get a look into the history of each character, aswell as the complex relationship they have with one-other.

We know all of this seems very vague, and we wish we could release more about the plot, But we cannot wait for you all to meet the agents of Cypher, and we hope you can all trust us when we say…

It will very much be worth the wait.

06/01/2024

We just wanted to say a massive thank you to every single Actor/Actress who submitted an audition tape for Agent Down! It’s a surreal experience watching so many incredible actors, not just reading parts of our script, but even giving their time to this project!

I don’t think I can put into words how incredible of an experience this has been so far, and we’re not even started on the official production! I’ll be going through each of your emails individually, which is going to take a while, so in the meantime I thought I’d just let you know what will happen next.

So we’ll be shortlisting those who have auditioned for each part, and coming to a decision of who will be invited for our London Call Backs. Now the issue here is that so many of you are so good at acting, that coming to that decision is going to take a while. So we’re going to try and reach out to everyone that auditioned by the end of January.

Successful or Not you should all be so ecstatic with your abilities, so many of you showed a side to the character that I hadn’t even thought of while writing them, and so many of you had actually left me speechless, with how much you understood the character. And with all that being said, we’re not even half way through watching all your auditions.

I am going to ask that everyone just hang in there until the end of January to hear back from us, I’m coming off the back end of Covid, so I’m fairly behind on a few things, but I promise everyone we’ll get back to you by then.

I hope to speak to you all soon! And again to every single person who has shown love and support towards us over the past weeks, we appreciate it so much!

Happy New Year Everyone 💙🩷

-Alastair Bird

04/01/2024

*AUDITION SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW*

This is just a reminder that your auditions need to be submitted by Tomorrow, unless you have requested an audition in the past week, or an exception has been made, in which case you still have until the 7th.

If you have already sent your audition tape by email, we have received all of them, And if we have any issues at all with collecting your tape we will be in contact.

Also for whatever reason, we have had a few candidates WeTransfers notify them that we haven’t downloaded their tapes. I can assure you we have downloaded your tape, and we have put it in our review file. Please don’t resend your WeTransfer links, as it is taking up alot of hard drive space, as we are downloading all of them. If you believe that there may have been an issue with your submission being sent over please comment on this post, and we will go through the comments tomorrow and get in contact with those who we have no emails/expired links from.

Other than that we hope everyone’s having a good year so far, and we’re happy to say we are finally making good progress! Thank you to everyone for the Love and Support, and we hope to speak to you soon!

-Alastair

31/12/2023

We want to wish everyone a Happy New Years, and we hope you all have a good night! 🎉

We’re so grateful for all the supportive messages, and comments that you have all left us, and we’re so excited to share more, and start giving you regular updates about “Cypher: Agent Down” in 2024.

We have been slowly getting through all of the audition tapes that have been submitted, and we have also been slowly going through the Amazing tracks that all of you Music producers have suggested for the film. We are in complete awe with the level of Acting, and Music Production that we have been recieving, and from the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you, for showing even a tiny bit of interest in our film!

2024 is going to be the year of the Colour Bird, and we’re so excited to have all of you along for the ride with us while producing Agent Down!

See you all next year🎉

And also just a reminder that the deadline for audition tapes to be submitted is on the 5th of January. Details on how to audition are below.

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*NEW FILM INFORMATION* Hello all, It is 2025 and we are aiming to thrive and a new project is well and underway with Colour Bird Studios involved and I am here to spread some fun news! We are looking for actors and crew for this film very shortly! As the film will be in production by the end of March to the start of April. We are doing everything we can to get the perfect actors that can take on the challenge of this short film. To get involved, watch the video for more information and follow us on our Instagram @deardad_gradfilm and @colourbirdstudios for updates on casting and crew calls as well as supporting us throughout the production promoting mens mental health and charities across the UK! Make sure to be registered and prepared on any auditioning websites such as Mandy or Spotlight. As well as this, we need your help to get this film up to the best standards it can be. Any donation possible will be one step closer to achieving an indie film that no one has ever seen before, to open the eyes of the audience and show them how life treats people behind closed doors. Any proceedings that go over will be given to charity such as @AndysMansClub. To DONATE and help us make our film together, please follow us on Instagram, and click the link in our bio. Or search on INDIEGOGO to donate. Any more information needed is in the video and any questions will be answered in the comments as best we can! We are here to work hard and do the best we can for indie filmmakers, why not start off with one that hits a little close to home. INDIEGOGO: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dear-dad--10#/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/deardad_gradfilm?igsh=Z3hkYWl5bmgwNzNm ANDYS MAN CLUB: https://andysmanclub.co.uk/

*CYPHER: AGENT DOWN UPDATE* Hello Everyone! So we’ve just made this quick video to give you all an update on what’s been going on with our first feature film “Cypher: Agent Down”. This film has quite literally changed my life, and we haven’t even started production yet! I cannot express how much I appreciate every single one of you that follows our page, and I cannot wait to to show you all the work we have put in to establishing ourselves! I understand that having to delay Agent Down may seem like a bad thing, but in the long run we know that this gives us the greatest chance of not only creating a better film, but also being able to continue the Cypher Series in the way that I have personally always dreamed of! We’re going to be a lot more active across all of our socials, and there’s some big things coming soon, which we’re so excited to tell you all about. I’ll speak to you all soon, and again thank you all so much for even being there in the first place! 🩵 Kindest Regards Alastaire Bird *To all the people who received a call back confirmation, we will be in contact via email soon to give you a bit more detail on what our timeline is looking like.

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