October 16, 2009
On Wednesday (Oct 14th 2009), Darren and Ed attended the Institute of Videographers Trade show and (in the evening) their 20th annual Awards ceremony. Darren was nominated for best film for ‘Sugarcubes’, and we met Maggie Philbin of ‘Tomorrow’s World’ fame, who was genuinely... [Read more]
September 27, 2009
As you may already have read in Kevin’s great post, Backyard Productions recently had a great weekend filming at Pinewood Studios for our current production, ‘Cinders’. They have large, well maintained gardens, which you may recognise from such films as ‘From Russia With Love’,... [Read more]
September 12, 2009
Backyard Productions was lucky enough to be able to shoot at Ashby Hall in Lincolnshire on the 12th September 2009. The Gardens and lake are beautiful, and we had sunny weather for our scenes with the King, Queen and Minstrel. We also filmed inside in an attractive panelled dining room (for the castle... [Read more]
September 7, 2009
At the beginning of September, we had a very busy few days filming at Sundown Adventureland. On Wednesday 2nd, we filmed the Prince and Dandini in several locations around the park, then, at the weekend (4th-6th), when MANY more extras arrived, we filmed scenes at Cinders’ cottage with the Ugly... [Read more]
August 30, 2009
Backyard Productions were fortunate to have the use of the University of Lincoln’s TV studio to film some of the interior and exterior bluescreen work for the Cinders trailer. A new experience for many, we had a very productive three days at the end of August. The sets and props designed and overseen... [Read more]
July 10, 2009
Backyard Productions said a sad farewell to a much loved companion, crew member and actor today, our dog Chewie. He was always there by our feet during editing, barking during filming and even had the honour of knocking over our George Lucas! A gentle giant, he was our very own “walking carpet”... [Read more]
September 29, 2008
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]
September 28, 2008
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]
September 28, 2008
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]
September 28, 2008
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]