Spring has quickly turned to Autumn and during that time, here is a little bit about what we’ve been up to:
- We completed our short documentary ‘The Long Haul’, shot on a lobster fishing boat in Maine USA. This was our first true directorial collaboration and an attempt to experiment with some of what we’ve been inspired by in films we love – strong emphasis on music to create an alternative, subjective reality (stolen from Herzog films like ‘Lessons of Darkness’ and ‘Wodaabe -Herdsmen of the Sun’) and long, uncut camera shots which allow the natural rhythms of the scene to play out in full (see things by the Sensory Ethnography Lab and ‘Maidan’ by Sergei Loznitsa – see Will’s thoughts on ‘Maidan’ below).Â
This has now been sent off to festivals and we’re hoping to get some good news soon. In the meantime, here is the trailer:
- Since returning to the UK following her US residency, Chloe has been off on more international filming trips. Â With Save the Children, Chloe went to film at Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, and more recently, was in Nepal shooting a short documentary for Oxfam about their earthquake recovery work.
 - Whalebone films now offer animation services!  We completed our first commission for adoption charity PACT (Parents And Children Together), available to view here:
 -Will worked with Prof Fred Deakin of Central Saint Martins School of Art to create a series of films to accompany Fred’s workshop, ‘Collabology’.  Collabology is designed to help students in the creative industries learn to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines.  Find out more at : http://collabology.org/
- Whalebone Films are making a series of recruitment films for Go Head London, London’s largest bus company.  We’ve been spending time at their bus garage at Merton, creating ‘day in the life’ films with three of their drivers.
- We are working with SPACE – an arts organization based in Hackney, to create a documentary about a workshop they’re running which involves primary school students gathering data in the Olympic Park, which they then find ways to visualize.
- Whalebone Films were commissioned to make a short doc about homelessness for criminal justice charity Only Connect. You can see the finished product right here:
- Other project include short films about the National Theatre, an educational film about the Islamic birth ceremony, and an interview with Jamie Oliver for Channel 4! Not a bad summer at all….
