Concept art 15/04/12

A large part of this film involves the creation of CGI robots/machines that will share the screen with our lead actor. Gareth and Neil are responsible for their creation.

Here is a taster of their vision so far:

First screening 17/02/12

On Friday 17th February 2012 at 7pm the team arrived at Rowes' studios for the first screening of Reconnoiter. The footage shown is by no means a finished project and still requires several more hours of work, but what we did watch was a great first draft.

The team watched the 1 hour and 50 minutes worth of footage in silence, scrutinising and making notes along the way and entering in to many hours of discussions afterwards. We disected every scene and tried to reach an agreement of what other scenes we could axe as ideally we need to cut around 20 minutes to achieve our desired running time of 1 hours 30. It was a tough but a thoroughly enjoyable evening as after two years of hard work it was great to watch the whole footage through, some of which had become a distant memory.

 There are still many hours of work left to do on this project. Although the CGI is in full swing it will be some time before this is added, meaning we had to use our imaginations at this stage! Once this element has been added we will reconvene for a second screening and the process repeated.

From tonights discussions the team will spend the next few months working hard to adjust and adapt the footage to ensure the film is as good as it can be. Therefore the team have a lot of work in front of them but are keen to address the issues raised during this meeting. Deadlines have been set so there will be no more leave granted!!

Update 23/04/12

Over the past few months the crew have been labouring away on this project, I assure you there has not been any let up! Neil  has been busy creating the visual effects to add on to the many hours of greenscreen footage we have captured so far and is achieving some great results. Take a look at the stills below which gives you some idea of what he has been up to. He has a long way to go and many more hours in the editing suite but he is getting there!

Administrator Amanda has started the process of securing the relevant permissions in order to use certain pieces of music to accompany the trailer, which if all goes to plan will be placed on our website. We are currently editing scenes together to make up the trailer which is taking some time due to the quantity of clips we have to choose from.

To date Amanda has made some great progress and has made contact with the chosen bands publishing team who handle their licensing permissions. I will keep you updated with the progress of this quest over the coming months. Again everyone have been very kind and helpful in this process.

CGI stills from the film:

Editing update 30/01/12

As the filming part of this project is complete Neil has been busy editing this piece together. Overall there is a total of 12 hours worth of footage to edit down to 1 1/2 hours making this quite a task. Good news though after many hours of work Neil has reached the 2 hour mark.

The team will be meeting later this month for a screening of this two hour edit where the plan is to sit down discuss and make some tough decisions over what else can be cut to get the running time down to 90 minutes.

We are almost ready to begin work on the film score. Once the footage running time has reached the 90 minute mark we will begin searching for a musician to come on board and compose that perfect score.