Films and Things

Renault

2010-11-18T11:36:00.000-08:00

This a still from a Renault commercial that recently aired on channel 4. I worked in the art department, building and painting various miniatures for compositing (including the sea mine above). It was a really fun shoot, lots of green screen and ambitious miniature sets.

More stills from The Magician's Wife

2010-06-18T17:15:00.000-07:00

My director kindly handed me a CD full of great stills of the set I built for our grad film, so I have a few more to show you. Click on them to get a bigger view.

Ashes

2010-05-29T05:06:00.000-07:00

Ashes was a short film directed by Derek Ewers that I did production design for a little over a year ago. It involved the construction of a creepy basment belonging to an artist. Here are a couple of stills of the set:

More stills

2010-05-13T12:11:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more stills of the set I built for our graduation film. Taken by our script supervisor Savvas Stavrou.

graduation film

2010-05-08T04:54:00.000-07:00

I've been busy beavering away on our grad film recently. If you are interested check out the website. Here are some stills that show of the set I built for the film - it was a magician's workshop attic space. It was a complicated and time-consuming build but I was really happy with it by the end. Click for bigger view.

Proof.

2010-03-27T04:25:00.000-07:00

Just a little link about the award for anybody who's interested. I've also had a great (but mega busy) couple of weeks, worked on a commercial over the last weekend in the art department building miniatures and painting and the like. Will try and get some pics up from off my phone.

Kodak award!

2010-03-10T10:51:00.000-08:00

A script I wrote for the Kodak Commercial Competition won "best script" beating other entries from film schools across the country. So great news - really happy. They haven't posted the winning info yet on their website but I'll put up a link when they do.

The House

2010-02-05T04:09:00.000-08:00

Here are some photos to demonstrate the evolution of the house - from the initial concept sketch, to the maquette, to the final model fully set up. We filmed the model house scenes the other day, which is (in theory) the final thing we need to film for episode one - once we get it uploaded we are going to have our CG wizard work his compositing magic on it and we should have a really impressive little opening shot for the film.

SHOWREEL

2010-01-25T11:42:00.000-08:00

My production design showreel:
http://vimeo.com/8944791

Some clips of Sad Town in there for anyone interested, which is probably about 80% complete. Just need to shoot final shot of the model house (which is looking great, photos up soon), record voice over and additional music.

Stills!

2009-10-12T12:07:00.001-07:00

Horay! Here are some photos taken by our stills photographer Teresa Song. Betty in the attic:
The germs:
A busy crew:

More to come!

JW

2009-10-03T07:29:00.000-07:00

Finished shooting the other week and filming went great! Here's the ammended crew list:

Director/Writer/Production Design: John Wilkinson
Director of Photography: Maiya Davies
Producer: Derek Ewers
Camera Operator: Sam Ebrahim
Camera Assistant: Joseph Jones
Gaffer: Cenay Said
Art Director: Alex Brade
1st Assisant Director: Will Shelmadine
Stills: Teresa Song & Harry Sloane
Art Department Assistants: Joe Fitzgerald & Yunjoo Chang

Production stills to come.

A germ

2009-09-06T12:52:00.000-07:00

Busy building some germs and doing some animation tests, here's a photo:

More pics of these critters to come.

JW

Cat Evolution

2009-09-02T15:59:00.000-07:00

The cat in the film "Mr. Darcy" is going to be a hand puppet. Here's some photos of it in its very early stages (constructed from socks and love):

Here's another in progress image with fur:

More images to come.

JW

The Concept

2009-09-02T10:25:00.001-07:00

Emily is a young girl living in "The Saddest Town in the World". Every morning she wakes up and works all through the day, taking on countless thankless chores. Without her the town would probably wither up and die, as each and every townsperson are simply to sad to do anything themselves.

Each episode tells the tragic backstory of an individual townsperson, bookended by the over-arching story of how Emily's life of chore and toil came to change the town forever. Episode one "Betty" tells the story of Betty Scrubblepot, the town cleaner, a darkly comic Poe-esque fairytale of laundry, monstrous germs and a grumpy cat.

The series will utilise several different filmmaking methods, for example episode one will contain minatures, greenscreen, stop motion animation and traditional puppetry (all with live action actors).

JW

Crew

2009-09-02T10:03:00.000-07:00

The crew as it stands.

Director/Writer/Production Designer: John Wilkinson
Director of Photography: Maiya Davies
Producer: Derek Ewers
Gaffer: Cenay Said
Camera Operator: Sam Ebrahim
Art Directors: Ben Simpson and Sam Dyson
Music: Alex Brade

JW

The Saddest Town in the World

2009-09-02T09:38:00.001-07:00

Hi all,

Welcome to the first post of what I hope to be a nice prolific blog documenting my various film productions and writings. I am currently in the mad run up to shooting the first episode of a series entitled "The Saddest Town in the World", that I am writing and directing.

Here's a peice of concept art I did a while back to tantalise:

JW