Crushing Blow
Hey people who read our blogs,
A fairly stinging defeat for the man ALIVE guys today. We entered Empire magazine’s “Done in 60 Seconds” competition, (remake a famous film, make it last 60 seconds), which we did quite well in last year (top 10).
Well, results are in and man ALIVE were asked to stay at home again this year, not making it into the top 5, or even the top 13. So thats pretty bad, but pair it with the fact one of the top 5 films was made by another Dundee film maker, and you can probably tell we’re feeling a bit down. Of course we’re happy for the success of the other Dundee guys and their film Roverfield, and i’ll be voting for them to win for sure, flying the Dundee banner and all that.
Check out Cloverfield/Roverfield at: http://www.empireonline.com/awards2009/done-in-60-seconds/
here’s ours. Hope you enjoy them.
Stu
Animal Art
Hey man ALIVErs,
Stu again here with another sweet blog. If you read yesterday’s post then you’ll have tried to check out the websites I mentioned because they sound way cool. Unfortunately due to technical issues the websites aren’t working. I can only apologise but perhaps this will make up for it.
Watch this!
Peace and love x
Stu
Not As Funny As Limmy?
Hi man ALIVE fans, Stu here!
Its been aaaaa(ages)aaa long time since I last blogged, I usually let my employee Liam do all the company communications whilst I attend to more important matters like photoshopping moustaches, monacles and pipes onto the faces of well known animal stars. Feel free to check these out at http://www.highbrow-animalhumour.com or http://www.pets-of-sherlockholmes.com
Anyway, its been an incredible day for man ALIVE Studios today. We took an early morning road trip through to Dundee’s west-coast big sister, Glasgow and visited some very nice people at The Comedy Unit, (producers of Chewing the Fat and Rab C Nesbit) to talk a bit about our blossoming careers. To put it bluntly, and that is how it was put to us, we’ve got nothing. Its true, we made one comedy piece that won a competition a year ago, and have somehow been given the opportunity to talk to top industry people about…US!
“You’re not the best, but you’re not the worst” is a phrase that was used, most graciously and honestly, in our meeting this morning, but despite being no further forward in our attempts to achieve Andy Millmanism (check out extras for the reference), we couldn’t be more excited about our future in Comedy.
And this is great for all our viewers too because we’ve realised just how much more quality entertainment we need to produce in order to break through. So I’m starting by getting everyone geared up for a daily stream of man ALIVE blogging and twittering.
You MUST check us out. Comment us and we’ll get back to you and when we get big you can show your friends that you were there in the beginning!
Alright, peace and love
Stu
Happy 2009!
Okay, it’s a little late, but, considering the frequency at which we’ve been posting blogs here, it could’ve been a lot worse!
Hope everyone is keeping well? We’ve been hard at work (most of the time) and would like to kick things off with our newest video; a promo for this year’s “Dare to be Digital” competition.
Hope you enjoyed it! It was great to work with people like Mario and Solid Snake. We even managed to grab an interview with the plumber himself!
He was a little threatening…
Anyways, we’ll try to keep you posted on all that’s happening here over the next 12 months, and who knows, maybe someone will read it!
L.
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Long Way Home
Last week, “man, ALIVE Studios” went to Glasgow to film some contemporary dance antics.
The filming went fine and we were all set to head home. Little did we know that Glasgow was very like the thunderdome in “MAD MAX 3”, but even more sinister;
“Two men enter, no man leaves.”
This is the story of those two men…
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Good times? I’m not so sure…
L.
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"That’s my wife!"
I was just looking back over our blogs and realised that I never actually got round to posting our first entry to the “Done in 60 Seconds” competition!
So here it is, a re-make of the 1920s classic, “NOSFERATU”.
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If you’ve never seen or heard of “NOSFERATU”, then I can’t honestly say you’ve missed out (even though it was groundbreaking at the time and still succeeds in giving people the creeps), but here’s a weird video from youtube that contains some clips of the original set to a track by the band “Mogwai”.
That’s all from me today!
L.
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