Phil Wheldon
Alphagraphics
Just The Tonic
Strafe Creative

Guest Blog – It’s late, but I still want to start now

Well hello everyone, this is an entirely delightful enterprise.

I thought I’d spend my first evening giving you guys some idea of the kind of jabber likely to emerge over the next fortnight. Hopefully you’ve read the 10 questions thing, if not then all of this will be a wonderful surprise.

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Guest Blog: An expanding little world

Well I guess this is my last piece as ‘Guest Blogger’ on Creative Nottingham, but I hope you’ve enjoyed an insight into my little world. Of course, when I say ‘little world’, it’s a world that’s constantly expanding with new opportunities opening up every day, not only in film, but also in the computer games [...]

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Links Round-up: Competitions and Commissions

 

Castle at Light Night 2010 by 1st Galaxy who organised these lights

It is all competitions and commissions this time:

Light Night Commission

The Light Night events have become a feature of Nottingham. If you missed the last one, you can relive it via our photographic record.  The next one will be on 18 February next year, [...]

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Guest Blog : A feature film with £0 budget!

After gaining so much experience from making ‘Ay up me duck of the Dead’, a short film that was shot in Nottingham, it made sense to take things a step further. I guess you could say it was a massive step further as we’ve now decided to make a feature length film called ‘Zombie Hood’.

While [...]

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Creative Nottingham Image Competition Now Closed

Our Art & Design Image Competition is now closed to new entries! The Creative Nottingham team will be going through all the designs and selecting which four will appear on our very first postcard marketing campaign over the next few days and will announce the winners very soon! You can check out all the entries [...]

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Guest blog: Ay up me Duck of the Dead

It all started as a conversation in a pub beer garden with a group of game developers debating zombie films. The discussion quickly moved on to how a game is actually developed and the possible similarities between the two. So, we decided to pool our skills, write a script and produce a short zombie film. We [...]

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Guest Blog: Time isn’t just for time travellers

Walking to work this morning, wondering what to write for my first blog post, it suddenly dawned on me that finding the time to blog, produce a feature length film and still hold down my full time job, was an interesting conundrum in itself.

The answer though was quite simple – delegation.

I’ve found that surrounding myself [...]

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Introducing Steve Best – Our New Guest Blogger

A warm welcome to our new Guest Blogger Steve Best from Monumental Games and aPint Film Productions, the film production company behind the short horror film ‘Ay Up Me Duck of the Dead’. Steve will be joining us for the next two weeks, we asked him 10 questions to get to know him a little [...]

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Links round-up: click here for opportunities

Image by Evan Agee

Designers

Carrying a torch for the 2012 Olympics?

Like the idea of your designs being viewed by millions of people around the world? Find out how to apply to design the Olympic and Paralympic torches for 2012, plus the Olympic and Paralympic cauldrons, packaging for the torches pre and post use and more, here.

Filmmakers

Docs 360 [...]

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Links Roundup: Opportunities

Draft Nottingham Street sign – by This is Awkward on Flickr

If glory not payment is your objective, actors of all ages required for low budget zombie feature film being made in Nottingham from September onward.  “Low budget” means pay = zero, but you might see your name in the credits, which would [...]

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