The following media items map out some of the. N.B. they are not actual movie scenes, just some stills and audio that set the story. Most moving footage will also be reshot. Many of the voice characters are recorded and where not I am reading in the part myself.

Now here are some audio sections set at the Secret Museum but not used in the preview. Some or all of this will end up in the movie

IT IS DAWN. THE ZEPPELIN IS IN THE CLOUDS OVER THE SEA.PEOPLE ARE JUST WAKING UP

The rapping on the door is Mike Findley SuperMayor. He is incensed that the Zeppelin took off without a properly lodged flight plan caught him up in the rudder whilst he was taking his evening flight over Skinningrove Jetty

Franz Nahrada who plays Herr Pilot Franz suggested that the old and retired Franz Flieger could set the story in motion by reminiscing about the Great Adventure of the old days. And so we begin with an intrepid young explorer walking the streets of Vienna in search of the Secret Museum which is the rumoured last known place that the old Pilot was seen. He meets two custodians of the Secret Museum who eventually take him up a winding staircase to the retirement apartment of Pilot Franz where we hear the story of the Greatest Adventure.

The two scenes 1 The Secret Museum and 2 The Retirement Apartment are almost ready to shoot. The voice parts a recorded and  the set is almost built (see pictures below) Details of the production of these scenes here.

Vocal Recording in the Secret Museum by STMedia

This production will be an occasional soap, meaning that we will release episodes sporadically on a loose timescale. Below is the full version of the theme tune.

Part Two

See also THE MAKING OF:

Picture by Mikko Lipiainen

The collaborative community animations event in Saltburn last Thursday, (Animex Saltburn), was a resounding success. The matinee for schools was standing room only and the evening event presided over by the mayor of Redcar & Cleveland, Councillor Ray Goddard was close to capacity too.

Building up to the event a visiting arts group from Finland had provided workshops in Saltburn, Carling How & County Durham and then on the evening presented their own animated film. The Finnish visitors had participated in the filming of one of the Teesside films and had met many of the cast in second life but now were able to meet them in real life.

The event was web streamed and picked up by people across the UK and Europe, and you can watch all of the films presented and see images from the event at www.tvcm.co.uk/animex2011

There was a fourth visitor from Finland namely a coat who sadly did not make it home with his compatriots. You can read about the adventures of the Finnish coat by clicking here.

If you can’t make it to the event in Saltburn today  (Thurs 3rd March) you should still me able to enjoy it online. I say “should” because this is experimental. At http://tvcm.co.uk/animex2011 there is a tweetstream with the hashtag #tvcmanim11 – a chat stream, a live stream and a “blogcast” releasing each film at the same time as the audience sees it.

Steven Thompsonberg and his crack team of machinima artists shooting a scene from the forthcoming production “Tommy and Barry Go Back”. This is the scene where they travel back to 1941 to find Fatty Smith guarding the British nation against invasion whilst four sheets to the wind. All this effort goes to produce a simple shot of two characters looking surprised.

Next production day is Friday 21st (Destinations Again) when we hope to finish the 1945 Jetty scene. Below are some stills from scene 6.

Smith and Bluster

Tommy and Barry in 1945