Beach Patrol DVD available via Bittorrent

You can now download burnable DVD goodness of Beach Patrol via Bittorrent! Just download the .torrent file below and open in your favourite Bittorrent client. The DVD comes as a VIDEO_TS file, which you can burn to a DVD, to enjoy in the comfort of your living room. Alternatively, pop the Beach Patrol Folder into […] [Read more]

TENCLO Pickup Weekend

As with all big movies, it is normal practice to bring the cast and crew together again to shoot extra scenes or re-shoot things that did not come out as planned during principal photography. Well TENCLO is no different and in November 2005, the team returned to Lincoln for a weekend of filming and sound... [Read more]

Geriatric Park Screenshots

We had a lot of fun with our first full-length film Geriatric Park, but we made it such a long time ago, I don’t think digital photography had even been invented! So, since we don’t really have any production photos from this film, you can enjoy a selection of hand picked screenshots from the film [Read more]

TENCLO Principal Photography

The main filming, or ‘principal photography’ for The Emperor’s New Clones took place over a gruelling 16 day period, with activity on set from 7am until midnight every day. [Read more]

TENCLO Set Building

Many (but not all) of the TENCLO sets were built over the period from May to August 2005. Some had to be made in modular form, ready for quick assembly when other sets were struck. We were short of space, especially considering the number of sets we planned to use! These frantic bursts of activity, […] [Read more]

Darren Interviewed on NZ Radio

Interview, which was broadcast on 30th January 2008 in New Zealand, after the most recent flurry of media interest in Backyard Productions.

Geriatric Park Trailer

“A Film Nine Months in the Making”

The trailer for BYP’s first film – Geriatric Park: Billionare businessman John Hammock has enlisted the help of the infamous Dr Nagasaki-Hiroshima to bring back ancient geriatric species from their fossilised dentures to be the main attraction of a new theme park. Now Hammock needs geriatric expert Alan Grunt and his esteemed collegaue Ellie Phant to endorse the park. But will the Geriatrics behave?…

A Parody of Jurassic proportions!

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Be Kind Rewind

Absolutely brilliant. We watched it last night after a long couple of days working on the new website. It’s so funny for us, especially as it so accurately captures what it was like for us when we first started making our films and sketches.

I have a bit of a love / hate relationship with Jack Black films: sometimes they are just too silly and self-indulgent, but it works here…. definitely quirky and perhaps not for all, (my girlfriend hated it when we saw it in the cinema – she preferred Son of Rambow), but if you have any interest in amateur filmmaking and fanfilms, it’s definitely worth a look.

What is even more clever, is that the Director, Michel Gondry (who also made Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), has sweded the trailer of his own film:

Finding the Force Tunisia Selection

Here are some photos from our recent trip to Tunisia, in search of Star Wars locations. [Read more]

TESBY – Mockumentary

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