Hugawookie Films

09/04/2018

Short Film: Ad Nauseam

...and here it is, the finished product of this year's 48 hour film challenge! https://vimeo.com/263840880

A short film made for the 2018 Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge, by Hugawookie Films. Good luck everyone else! Line of Dialogue: I usually keep a spare one…

09/04/2018

The whiteboard says it all... we really are very close to finishing now!!!

09/04/2018

As we move into our 39th hour of the challenge, the finished film is starting to take shape. The powerhouse that is Tim Callaghan, fuelled by little more than curry, gin, and raw talent is Making Stuff Look Good (his official job) and the legend that is William Price is Making Stuff Sound Good (which is, y'know, what he does). Meanwhile Matthew Dashper-Hughes is making drinks and occasional 'helpful' suggestions as well as coming up with the occasional bit of foley or a sound file or two ... and also dropping off and snoring from time to time!

08/04/2018

Shots are all being synchronised with the sound files. Musical motifs are at the conceptual stage, but luckily the man, the legend, the musician's musician William Price has just arrived to steer the musical ship. Probably time to order a curry...

08/04/2018

Have iMac will travel ... after a ‘refreshing’ three hours of sleep I have all my shot together to head back to Tim’s for the edit!

08/04/2018

7am and we have wrapped on the shoot. A mahoosive THANK YOU to our amazing actors for their time, patience, enthusiasm, and commitment - Laura, Alison, Roland, Chris ... you guys rock!!!

08/04/2018

Just finished all of the shooting in the Job Centre scenes. Just got all the other scenes in the house to do. And it's already 2.30am... I think that the wrap may be quite late this year!

07/04/2018

Jack was like “make me look like I’m in Hogwarts” ... everyone else was saying “Jack! Where’s your torso gone?!?”

07/04/2018

Matthew and Alistair have completed the shooting script ... Laura, Alistair, and Chris are smashing the script read throughs and rehearsal stuff ... Jack and Tim are set dressing. Time to order a pizza mo-fos!

07/04/2018

Script is complete (well done Alistair) and table read through is done. A few visual ideas added in as we've gone through it. Now the actorly types are getting costumes together, Tim is setting up mission control (editing suite), and Matthew is working on the shooting script and the storyboard...

07/04/2018

...and so another film-making adventure begins. The London SciFi 48 Hour Film Challenge 2018 has started GAME ON!

We have been given the following variables this year:
TITLE: Ad Nauseum
LINE OF DIALOGUE: "I usually keep a spare one on me but funnily enough I didn't think I'd need it today".
PROP: A character puts an SD Card or a USB Stick into a slot.
OPTIONAL EXTRA SCIFI TROPE: unemployment is illegal - everyone must work or face jail.

So far we have had an initial script meeting and now Alistair Hughes (aka Writer Wookiee) is feverishly belting out a first draft of the script.

13/04/2017

Short Film: Creating the Perfect

So here it is...We completed last Monday on time, and we're pretty pleased with it.

Made for the Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Film Challenge 2017 Starring: - Roland Guenther as Charles - Laura Fay Smith as Ada - Chris Hughes as Alan - Helen Jennings…

08/04/2017

Crew assembled! 2017

07/04/2017

2017 here we come.

25/07/2015

Been a while since I've cracked this open for a grade and edit. New version of Premiere Pro 2015 and Neat Video. Pushing the BMCC footage to its limits. Love how it holds up to some serious pushing.

Screen captures from Your Empire Needs You Episode 0

25/07/2015

Screen captures from Your Empire Needs You Episode 0

12/05/2015

48 Hour Challenge

Booooh... Well we didn't make the shortlist. Still, great fun. The shortlisted entries look excellent http://48hour.sci-fi-london.com/

Challenge date11.04.2015LATEST NEWS: Here is the official shortlist for 2015, these films will now go to our main jury for consideration.  Well done to all the teams who took part, it was a very tough selection process this year, the standard was excellent.  Click on the film title to watch the film…

20/04/2015

SCI-FI-LONDON 48hour Film Challenge

SCI-FI-LONDON 48hour Film Challenge

Well everyone has been asking for the news, so here it is. We received 148 films for the film challenge this year. Shortlisting has begun...and tough as always, some brilliant films! More news soon Louis & the SFL team.

13/04/2015

How cool is this?

13/04/2015

Vimeo

We did it, we made a film in 48 hours! Yeh it's not perfect, but it's a film and it's ours. Two people, three actors, a musician in Barnsley and a bit of quality assurance from Crewe. Happy to share our work our followers. It's password protected (competition rules), password is: chester

Now some sleep!

Title: LIVE STATE Dialogue: It could work or it could kill us all Prop & Action: A mug of a steaming liquid - a character sniffs the liquid, then pours it away. Optional…

13/04/2015

No sleep! 1PM deadline...just rendering out now, and then uploading to Vimeo. Please no last minute gremlins. Had enough of them this weekend!

12/04/2015

We have a five minute edit!...now the fun begins for me. I

12/04/2015

Ok, so we have an edit. But it's 7 minutes and 20 seconds long. It needs to be 5! GULP!

We might need to go a bit Benny Hill on it.

12/04/2015

We have edit lock on Act 1....whoop!

12/04/2015

Ermmmmmm... Holy s**t, we've lost our editing hard drive! It's just gone kapput! Trying to work around it now.

12/04/2015

Photos from Hugawookie Films's post

12/04/2015

And that my friends, is a wrap! 5.15 AM, Sunday. Home 6 AM and let the editing and VFX begin. Epic day, with epic people.

11/04/2015

We have our location (6th Floor Suite at the Abode in Chester), a script, well rehearsed actors, and story boards. Lights, and roll camera,... and Action! Gonna be a late one ☺.

11/04/2015

Hour 11: About to start filming

11/04/2015

Script done. Busy creating fake IDs and holiday snaps.
Like you do...

11/04/2015

Synopsis agreed by the whole team, script writing by Al now commences. While the rest of the team figure out the logistics of the shoot.

11/04/2015

Title, dialogue, prop/action and optional idea for our 48 hr film challenge. Can't believe we got the same prop/action as last time!

11/04/2015

We've received our challenge details and have just brainstormed a good outline for our film The Live State.

Scripting and scheming has commenced...

11/04/2015

Title card for the short film.

11/04/2015

Wohooo...so it begins. Think I better get some sleep, as there's not going to be much of that over the next three days.