WOODY - Post Production Campaign
A$5,830
of $5,500 targetyrs ago
Successful on 13th Mar 2012 at 12:00AM.
WOODY is a stop motion animated short film written & directed by Stuart Bowen and produced by Jodi Matterson. The film centres around Woody, a wooden doll who dreams of playing the piano, despite the fact that he only has wooden paddles for hands. Dissatisfied with his life and not being able to achieve his dreams, Woody often escapes into a dreamscape of wish fulfilment and 10-fingered success. One day however, his dreams get out of hand...
We had been prepping this film for over a year when we put together our first pozible campaign which allowed us to shoot the film. Combined with the generous support of Screen NSW we shot for 7.5 weeks and now have an edited film. We’re really excited to see the story start to come to life and can’t wait to share it with everyone. We have a lot of industry professionals donating their time on this project, but we need funds for everything post production - VFX, Sound and Music. By becoming a supporter of WOODY or continuing to support it, you get to be part of the process by getting updates on the project’s progress as well as some sweet rewards which are listed here on the website.
Check out the video above for more details including new shots from the final film. Please share this project with friends or family who may be interested in Woody’s quest, every little bit counts!
Stuart Bowen
We had been prepping this film for over a year when we put together our first pozible campaign which allowed us to shoot the film. Combined with the generous support of Screen NSW we shot for 7.5 weeks and now have an edited film. We’re really excited to see the story start to come to life and can’t wait to share it with everyone. We have a lot of industry professionals donating their time on this project, but we need funds for everything post production - VFX, Sound and Music. By becoming a supporter of WOODY or continuing to support it, you get to be part of the process by getting updates on the project’s progress as well as some sweet rewards which are listed here on the website.
Check out the video above for more details including new shots from the final film. Please share this project with friends or family who may be interested in Woody’s quest, every little bit counts!
The Creative Team
Stuart Bowen
Director/Writer/Editor
Stuart is a Communications and Music graduate who started a career in editing after making ‘fake’ trailers for AUSTRALIA and landing a job editing at Bazmark. He has since edited mood reels and film trailers George Miller, Michael Gracey, Barrie Osborne, Tim Bullock and Darren Ashton and campaigns for Liptons, Nokia and Tourism Australia. Stuart is starting his transition into directing with his first short film WOODY.
Producer
After an apprenticeship with the producers of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT and CHOPPER, Jodi moved to the UK and worked with many of England’s top producers before returning to Sydney and managing Hi-5. Since then she has produced two films for Darren Ashton, THUNDERSTRUCK and RAZZLE DAZZLE, and is currently in production with her third film NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN with Oscar nominated director, Peter Templeman starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood).
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Director of Photography
One of Australia’s most exciting new talents, Lachlan Milne was born into a film making family, and grew up on film sets observing some of Australia’s great trailblazing cinematographers including Geoffrey Simpson ACS, Dean Semler ACS ASC and John Seale ACS ASC. At the age of 18 he joined the camera department and went on to load and assist on commercials and films for the next seven years, working along side a variety of local and international cinematographers. Since winning his first Gold ACS award at 25 for the outstanding Anthony Callea Per Sempre music video, he has been a practicing cinematographer receiving multiple Australian Cinematography Society and International Film Festival awards for his commercials and short films including the AFI nominated and St Kilda Film Festival winner Suburbia and Sam Bennetts’ John Jameson winner Octopus. He was highly commended by the Australian Cinematographers Society for the SBS documentary The Away Game which also won the Paladino d’Oro Best Cinematography Award at the Palermo International Film Festival. In 2009 he worked alongside AFI Award winning director Bill Bennett as cinematographer of his latest feature film, Uninhabited, which screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010. Lachlan just completed principal photography on Peter Templeman's feature film 'Not Suitable for Children' starring Ryan Kwanten.
One of Australia’s most exciting new talents, Lachlan Milne was born into a film making family, and grew up on film sets observing some of Australia’s great trailblazing cinematographers including Geoffrey Simpson ACS, Dean Semler ACS ASC and John Seale ACS ASC. At the age of 18 he joined the camera department and went on to load and assist on commercials and films for the next seven years, working along side a variety of local and international cinematographers. Since winning his first Gold ACS award at 25 for the outstanding Anthony Callea Per Sempre music video, he has been a practicing cinematographer receiving multiple Australian Cinematography Society and International Film Festival awards for his commercials and short films including the AFI nominated and St Kilda Film Festival winner Suburbia and Sam Bennetts’ John Jameson winner Octopus. He was highly commended by the Australian Cinematographers Society for the SBS documentary The Away Game which also won the Paladino d’Oro Best Cinematography Award at the Palermo International Film Festival. In 2009 he worked alongside AFI Award winning director Bill Bennett as cinematographer of his latest feature film, Uninhabited, which screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2010. Lachlan just completed principal photography on Peter Templeman's feature film 'Not Suitable for Children' starring Ryan Kwanten.
Craig Deeker
VFX/Post Production Supervisor
Craig started out as a human to computer interface designer before moving into the advertising industry working in the dual roles of production mangement and creative/art director at companies like Y&R, Wunderman & Ogilvy and Mather. Craig then set up his own post-production company The Gingerbread Man working in many fields including art, music, advertising and film. Recently Craig moved into film production pipelines doing VFX on RECREATOR, performing various roles in the delivery of LBF, TOOMELAH and REDD INC.
http://www.thegingerbreadman.com.au/home
Josh Abrahams
Music Director/Composer
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Josh Abrahams
Music Director/Composer
Josh started his professional career forming the ARIA award winning group FSOM with David Carbone and Steve Robbins. Josh has released 2 solo albums, winning 2 more ARIA awards for his album featuring the hit single ‘Totally Addicted to Bass’. Josh also collaborated with Baz Luhrmann on the UK #1 single ‘Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen)’ and also in the music department of MOULIN ROUGE helping to produce the hugely successful soundtrack. Since then he has collaborated with Amiel on her Gold selling album ‘Audio Out’, written music for many advertising campaigns and worked on the soundtracks for ONE PERFECT DAY and the Ang Lee produced ONE LAST RIDE.
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http://samplify.com.au/
Russell studied music composition at Newcastle University receiving an Honours in Film Music Composition and mentorship from Nigel Westlake. Russell has written music for advertising campaigns including Wattyl, Mitsubishi, The National Dissability Service, AGL and the Cannes award winning campaign ‘We Gave Blood’ for the Red Cross. Russell has written the scores to short films PAUL’S DREAM, POSESSIONS and BROKEN and has won awards for his TV scores to various shows including SUPERNOVA.
Daz Burgess
Animation Supervisor
Daz has been a stop motion animator for 20 years. With no formal training, Daz spend most of his youth learning on the job at an animation company in Adelaide South Australia. With a history of countless television commercials such as Home Hardware, Schmackoes, Louie The Fly and his first short film “Tales From The Powder Room” that he wrote and directed, Daz took to the world stage and headed to the UK. Upon arrival Daz was quickly snapped up by Aardman. Over a 3.5 year period Daz squeezed in as many animation projects with Aardman as possible, including Creature Comforts, Country Code TVC and the feature film, Wallace & Gromit, Curse of the were-Rabbit. Returning in 2011 and waving the Auzzie flag, Daz was able to hit the ground running on Pirates with a familiar work environment and a warm family welcome back that Aardman are famous for behind the scenes of their world class animation. Now settled back in Australia running his own business, Daz can be found roaming the streets of Melbourne and Sydney strongly supporting stop motion animation and managing teams of world class animators, all of us creating the magic only this medium of animation can offer.
Ed Jackson
Lead Animator
Ed studied and received a BA degree in stop motion animation at Glamorgan centre for art and design of Wales. Have been a professional animator for 7 years. He worked as assistant animator on Welsh BAFTA winning Hanas Helpline. He also worked as full animator on childrens tv series Igam Ogam for British Broadcasters Channel Five and Welsh Broadcasters S4C, for Welsh animation company Calon, who also produced Fireman Sam and Superted. Ed also animated on the Oscar nominated Shaun the Sheep at Aardman Animations of Bristol and for welsh company Dinamo on the award winning children's series Rastamouse.Jason Lynch
Animator
Jason Lynch is a filmmaker specializing in Stop motion animation. With a background in hand-drawn Illustration and also in nursing, Jason studied Animation at Griffith University (formerly QCA) graduating in 2003. Since then Jason has focused his energies on making high quality stop-motion animation, teaching junior filmmakers the finer points of filmmaking using his multifaceted background and his experiences on Academy award & BAFTA awards and Annecy & Sundance award winning feature films (Wallace and Gromit, Mary & Max) and a number of self funded shorts. Preferring a mix of classic film making techniques coupled with an admiration for and love of technologies, Jason is able to produce high quality imagery with a classic feel through which he engages his audience in telling his stories which are heightened by his understanding of the human condition.
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Matthew Holmes
Animator
Matthew Holmes has been a stop motion animator for 15 years, working on short films and TVCs. He worked with Australia's leading stop motion animation company Anifex Pty Ltd on many iconic TVCs including Home Hardware, Schmackos, Louie the Fly, and Mr Rental. He has won several awards for his work, and was lead animator o the 2006 AFI Award winning short GARGOYLE.
Epic gratitude, email updates and a thankyou on the film's website
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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film when its released plus a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director
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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film and a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director plus a set of posters being designed specifically for the film available for digital download
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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film and a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director, a set of posters being designed specifically for the film available for digital download plus a thankyou in the film’s credits
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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film and a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director, a set of posters being designed specifically for the film available for digital download, a thankyou in the film’s credits plus one of the extra Woody dolls and specifically made prop used in the film signed by the director with a personal note.
2 chosen
Est. delivery is Jul 25
Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film and a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director, a set of posters being designed specifically for the film available for digital download, a thankyou in the film’s credits, one of the extra Woody dolls used in the film signed by the director with a personal note, a model prop created specifically for the film and a double invitation to the cast and crew screening.
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