We have everything ready to launch our new crowdfunding campaign to cover the shoot and post-production costs for our short film, Doris and the Pennies from Heaven, starring Honor Blackman and Robert Goodman.
We have prepared a nice and fresh pitch and some great perks, so stay connected: we will upload it in just a few hours!
Polaris Team
It has been a long day at the Musigrama studios, but certainly a productive one. We have finished shooting Paco Ortega’s music video ‘Apretaíto pero relajao‘ and we also shot some parts of ‘A mi mare‘.
Tomorrow we will shoot the rest of ‘A mi mare‘ on location in Madrid, so stay tuned for more news and pictures to come.
Part of the team of Polaris Film Productions landed yesterday in Spain to shoot two music videos for the prestigious Spanish music producer Paco Ortega, from today until the 10th of May. They are for the songs ‘Apretaíto pero relajao’ and ‘A mi mare’ from his last album ‘Baila por mi‘.
The shoot will take place in several Madrid streets and in the famous Musigrama Studios, located in Madrid, where some of the most representative voices of the musical world, both national and international, have recorded their albums. Just to mention a few, Alejandro Sanz, Julio Iglesias, Paco de Lucía, Alfredo Kraus, Take That and Stevie Wonder have recorded there.
Musigrama Studios were founded in 1973 by the four time Grammy winner Pepe Loeches and Joaquín Cobos and seven years ago Paco Ortega himself was left in charge of them. They are one of the most representative studios of Spain and still survive the crisis affecting recording studios. Besides, they can take pride in having one of the last surviving Neve Vintage mixing tables, which is, as they say, ‘the Rolls Royce of the mixing tables’.
If you want to learn more about them, visit Musigrama and Paco Ortega’s blogs (in Spanish).
‘A mi mare’ will portray a story of seduction, love and frustration, and ‘Apretaíto pero relajao’ will be a fresh and fun video that matches this upbeat song.
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Robert Goodman will play Danny in our short film Doris and the Pennies from Heaven. He is a versatile actor, presenter and writer.
Here is Robert Goodman’s amazing biography. Robert will play Danny’s role in our short film Doris and the Pennies from Heaven.
As well as acting in films all around the globe and TV, Robert is a TV presenter, a writer, has worked as a first assistant director in the film Rapt in Eire (2009) and has written and directed his own short and feature films, applauded in several film festivals.
Robert Goodman was born in Northampton in 1955 and, after being trained as a cook at the Savoy Hotel, he decided to pursue an acting career. He studied at the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. He is a keen follower of the Acting Method and has taken several courses on it, and still does. Besides, he writes about this expertise in several magazines and newspapers, such as the Empire Magazine.
While studying and as a young actor, Robert also worked as a magician at the Hamley’s Toy Store and as a London’s tour guide.
His acting career is a long and prolific one. He has worked with world acclaimed directors such as Charles Crichton in A Fish Named Wanda, 1988, Luc Besson in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, 1999, Martin Scorsese in Gangs of New York, 2001, and Steven Norrington in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2002.
As a writer, he contributes to various magazines and newspapers with articles about the acting method and technique and the paranormal or the esoteric. Besides he has worked alongside Watchmen‘s and V for Vendetta‘s graphic novelist Alan Moore in several projects.
His writing and directing credits include short films, theatre ‘One Man Shows’, the horror/comedy feature film Who Pays the Ferryman? and directing theatre plays such as Walk like a Black Man (2011).
If you want to know more about his impressive and versatile career visit his website http://www.robertgoodman.co.uk/
We are very happy to announce that Amsterdam based BonBon Boutique is going to design and create the jewelry that Honor Blackman is going to wear in our short film Doris and the Pennies from Heaven.
Check their great designs at http://www.bonbonboutique.nl/
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Do you think this could be possible in the future? Aldous Huxley found the jump between silent and talkie film an inspiration for this sensory cinema, and technological advances allowed us to see films in 3D. So, do you think that it could be likely to create a sensory cinema? If so, what films would you like to see?
Tim Curry starring Clue (1985) was one of the pioneering interactive films, as it portrayed three different alternative endings; despite that, you could not really choose them, as each cinema theatre chose one randomly. You have other films that show you different versions of the same story, such as Blind Chance (1987) or Run, Lola, Run (1998), but they don’t offer the possibility to choose which one to see.
However, there has been a tendency lately to make ‘choose your own adventure’ films, like Bob Doucette (director), William H. Macy and Frankie Muniz (voices) The Snowman (2007) or Bob Gale’s Mr. Payback (1995) but unfortunately they are not widespread yet.
Do you think it is a good idea to be able to interact with a film? Would you like to have more interactive ‘choose your own adventure’ films and what kind of films (horror, adventure, romance…) would you like to watch? How do you think they could be shown on cinemas?
In Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick used a NASA special lens, the high-speed Zeiss 50mm f/0.7, designed for the Apollo Moon landing program, to shoot interior scenes.
As he didn’t want to use artificial lighting in order to create a more natural look and recreate candlelit interiors to perfection, he used this lens that captured light better than any other. The lens was adjusted to the camera with a Kollmorgen adaptor.
Besides, the lens also created the effect of bi-dimensional figures, that, together with the lighting, especially candlelight in dark interiors, and the fact that Kubrick made actors pose in a particular position, made the shots look like 17th-18th century paintings, like Rembrandt’s or Delatour’s.
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