Things have been quiet in film-world this year, as I have spent most of the year focusing on other things such as my photography and travel blog 'JC's Australian Daydream'. However 2011 looks set to be a big one. We're in negotiations on three feature films a series of Australian travel documentaries and much more. I should be able to go into more exciting details about them early in the new year.

Whatever it is you celebrate this festive season, I hope you all have an amazing time with a bright and safe  beginning to the new year.

James Cole

I've been busy over the last few weeks, tweaking the design and functionality of the new web site. I'm still not 1005 happy with it but who's got the time to fiddle with web sites when there are movies to be made...

What I have done though is ad some content to the portfolio section (at last).

I've split the work into two areas 'Motion' and 'Still'.

Motion is where all of our film and video productions will go, such as show reels, movie trailers, commercials, corporate videos, music clips and short films. At the moment I've added our Visual Effects Show Reel, a short little western film that was made for fun but turned into our I.D. tag, the Trailer for the horror film The Gates of Hell (which I edited and produced the visual effects for), and a slideshow of before and after work on a number of my digital art pieces.

Still is where a number of galleries will be, that show off my photography both commercial and for-the-hell-of-it work, artwork, graphic design and other still imagery. Right there now I have a small Commercial Photography gallery, Graphic Design gallery and Movie Posters gallery.

There's a lot more to go up in both areas so stay tuned for that.

Til next time.

J.C.

After a three day grueling film shoot, I realised I still had the camera for one more day. I couldn't let it go to waste... I came up with this little idea and set off with my co-producer Chris Daniels and Unit manager Brad Armel, to find a place to film it.

Luckily we didn't have to go far. I found a fairly bare looking field with one great looking tree in the middle and a wonky windmill in the background. It couldn't have been more perfect. Brad operated the camera, while Chris and myself got into character.

About two hours later and I was pretty sure we had all the footage I needed.

Unfortunately, post-production wasn't that quick. A number of other jobs got in the way and it was a good six months before I got the project finished.

The was shot on the Sony HVR-Z1 HDV camera. I loved almost everything about the camera except the format. HDV is truly a terrible format if you want to apply visual effects and heavy colour grades to the footage. It just doesn't hold up with all the compression that is on it. Oh well, I managed to save both this and the other project I was shooting at the time.