Firstly, thank you so so much to everyone that attended. The room was full.
We screened, In Memories, The Zombie Room Book Trailer, In Pursuit of Perfection and Detached.

Throughout the evening, we had some Live Music on offer, courtesy of The Beth Macari Band who kindly cancelled a previously arranged gig to perform at the event.

Because of you, we raised £343.84 for Age UK Newcastle.

Thank you.

We have some exciting and unique projects with various North East organisations in the pipeline - we can’t wait to get them into production.

We will also be working this Summer with the University of Sunderland who will be mentoring us with our business plan and ideas in preparation for this October’s North East Blueprint Business Planning Competition.

Remember, if you know anyone who is an Artist (Acting/Musical/Film Crew) – in any shape or form – tell them about our Artist Database. We are always on the look out for new and upcoming talent to become apart of any of our future or ongoing projects.

We now need your help.

This year, the organisers have enabled the opportunity for any film to gain a position in the shortlist – It’s called The Lucky 13th Spot.
To be eligible for this position, the film must gain the most “shares”.

Please head over to http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/2499/in-memories and click the social networking share buttons below the player.

Remember, the more shares, the bigger the chance will be that the film is awarded The Lucky 13th Spot.
As always, thanks for your support.

We have been named a Bronze Winner in the Internet/Online Commercial Category at the prestigious 33rd Annual Telly Awards for our recent Book Trailer, The Zombie Room. With nearly 11,000 entries from the United States and numerous countries, this is truly an honour.

The Telly Awards was founded in 1979 and is the premier award honouring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and online commercials, video and films. Winners represent the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world.

I know for sure that the whole Contrapunto team would like to send a huge thanks to the book’s writer,
R. D. Ronald and to Nickola Gray, who is based at the University of Sunderland for all their support throughout the entire project. We would also like to send words of appreciation to all the Artists and Crew involved. Without them the making of this trailer would not have been possible.

We’ve got some exciting plans ahead in the next few months. We are soon going to be officially launching Contrapunto as a production company – watch out for details relating to our charity launch event.

Press

University of Sunderland – 18th May 2012

For more information about the trailer head over to The Zombie Room page.

It’s been a fairly busy week for the team with a few of us working on securing the picture lock for our upcoming 20 minute drama, Detached. On Monday afternoon the team, alongside Newcastle author,
R. D. Ronald took part in a press call for the promotion of The Zombie Room Book Trailer.

After a brief photo-shoot, Adam, Amy & Richard were interviewed by Spark Sunderland’s, Sam Willey:

Reproduced with the kind permission of Spark Sunderland.

The Zombie Room has been entered into the IMTF, an international trailer competition. Each entry can be from a wide variety of genres but must fit into four categories; Fictional Movie, Documentary, Web Series or Book Trailer.

The initial reaction to the trailer has been fantastic. A massive thank you to each and everyone of you who has so far taken 5 minutes out of our time to watch and vote. We’re currently leading the Book Trailer category but we need to keep those votes coming in…

Support the North East’s film industry and aspiring talent – vote here.

Spread the word!

What’s the IMTF all about?

The International Movie Trailer Festival (IMTF) aims to build an innovative online community for indie moviemakers, giving them a venue for sharing their creativity while providing online entertainment for fans around the world.

An extract from the IMTF Mission Statement.

The Zombie Room Book Trailer – Released April 2012

Book Release – Summer 2012

Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of being introduced to some guys from Arri. From London, they brought with them the Alexa Plus and some lights including their new LED technology powered, L7-C and some Tungstens to mention but a few. In the morning and after getting over all the shock of being round such a fanastic bit of gear, we were set loose (of course, Arri still being in the room!). We filmed some small scenes with minimal planning, in order to gain some experience using these high quality industry items.

In the afternoon, Arri delivered a Masterclass on the Alexas where they revealed some useful information and Workflows, utilising C-Log & Apple ProRes 4444 alongside all the other technical specifications on the unit. It comes standard with a 120 frames per second feature and SxS Card compatibility. The Alexa Plus (one of four in the range) also comes with a wireless Focus & Iris & Zoom unit, enabling you to control the camera from a distance. They also talked about their current and upcoming lighting range.

Arri are hopefully travelling back up to the North East in the New Year. We are really excited about working closer with them in the near future.

Are you a tweeter? – Follow them
@arrichannel

It’s so exciting to be part of Contrapunto. I’m really excited about working with the team. We’ve already finished some cracking productions, and I’m looking forward to see what we can achieve next. It can only get better.

Artist Database

We have also launched our own Artist Database. Despite the fact we use larger scouting websites, we would like to build up a network of contacts who in turn can help each other in creating productions in the North East. We love meeting new people. We’re always looking for talent – Join our Artist Database.

The Zombie Room

We were recently gained a the commission to produce a book trailer (a phenomena in the US, which is yet to hit the UK), promoting, local Author, R D Ronald. Filming wrapped quite recently, and we are really excited about the book’s launch party, where the trailer will be showcased and released to various sources and websites. This is happening earlier next year. Check out some snaps I posted from the shoot.

In Memories

Don’t forget to take a look at In Memories our latest short film production. We’ll be entering this into various competitions over the coming months. If you have any, we’d love to hear your thoughts on this piece.

We have a few meetings over the next few weeks to pin down the rest of our pre-production on our next big project. All of the crew will be posting their updates over the coming months to give you a glimpse of our production process story.

Thanks for checking out the website. I hope you enjoy the look around.

Josh =D