Broadcasting via My Laptop

I have recently started up a Laptop Journal.

I will be stopping from time to time to record my thoughts about film related issues, topics, ideas as well as use the Laptop Journal to keep you all up to date with the progress of Into the Shadows.

The videos will be recorded directly from my MacBook Pro Laptop camera hence the title. So keep an eye out for them, feel free to engage with me by posting comments about the journals or even making your own video responses.



Here is my latest entry.

Cheers,
Andrew.

Dark Knightsbridge

Into the Shadows has finally had its first fund raiser!

A few weeks back at Dendy Canberra we put on a screening of the Dark Knight and had a raffle with many great prizes! Thanks to the businesses who provided free gifts for the prizes and a big thank you to Impact Comics for the limited edition Batman Mobile that we raffled off! (Hence there store is our banner link)Also thank you to the girls at Dendy who helped organize and run the event on the night.

We sold out the cinema and a fair few raffle tickets, which helped us raise a smidgen over $600. This money will be the beginning of a pool of money we aim to fund raise to help pay for an online edit in the near future. We see this as a great to way to include the community in post-producing a local independent feature film.

And a BIG THANKS to Phil's mum and my mum; with out your last ditch efforts the prizes the raffle would never had been so good.

Also cheers to the guys on the night who helped sell raffle tickets and to Daniel at Plushroom graphics who designed the flyer we gave out on the night.

After the screening a small group of us celebrated at Knightsbridge in Braddon, one of the guys coined the term Dark Knightsbridge. Any ideas for the next fund raiser? It will be Bigger.

The great Picture Palace

A week back I drove to Sydney with a new edition to the Into the Shadows team, Callum Craigee, to shoot overlay footage of the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace in Cremorne.
Walking into the Orpheum for me is like stepping back in time. Each cinema has its own personality, its own charm and of course its very own name.

I have only seen one film there, Michael Clayton (it was in the Walsh) but after going back there to film I will no doubt be back again and again and again. In a time when showmanship is hard to come by and cinemas are more like supermarkets an old Picture Palace is a soothing experience. If your love for cinema is flickering go to the Orpheum and the magic for you will spark back!

While there we interviewed Paul Dravet the General Manager of the Orpheum and shot lots of great footage of the cinemas. We even had the surprise pleasure of meeting Tv personality and owner of the Orpheum, Mike Walsh.

A big thank you must go out to Rachell and Brett (Booking Manager and Projectionist) who assisted us the whole morning and also thanks to the floor staff on that day!