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Coping Alone / Dead Beat screen-tests - 7 April 2008
Well, lots going on at the moment. Firstly, I've recently sat down and edited the screen-test footage for Coping Alone, which was filmed last year. I felt it was important to do a test scene for this particular film, because of anticipated technical problems, for a scene where the main character has a conversation with a man, who is on her television set. As anticipated, there were technical problems and results of the test, have helped me work out, a better method for filming this scene, should we decide to make this film in the future. Although the results of this test do have much room for improvement, I did feel that it was worth putting online to give an impression of one of the ideas we are currently working on. This can now be viewed in out Watch Films section of the web-site.
Now, on to Dead Beat, which is one of Joe Ogden's screen-plays. It's not actually about Vampires, he keeps telling me, but more about people suffering from an unusual medical condition, which gives them Vampiric type symptoms. Allergy to sunlight, a need to drink blood, reduced ageing, etc. Well, whatever his final plans, I've seen the first draft of the script, and was very impressed with it. He too has decided that screen-tests are a good way to test an idea, and we have recently been busy filming these.

Filming Screen-test scene for Dead Beat.
Left Edmund Davies. Right Joe Ogden.

Silent Invaders - 20 February 2008
Well, in the early hours of the morning, I finally completed uploading Silent Invaders on to YouTube, and then today, I've added it to the Silent Invaders section of this site. I've also, embedded it on to the Film Digital MySpace site (may upload a copy on to MySpaceTV in the near future) and I've also added it on to my Facebook page.
So, why did it take so long, when the DVD edit was ready near the end of last year? Well, I was busy re-editing a version for YouTube in December, when there was a sudden and very serious illness in the family. It resulted in lots of stress and worry as well as constant visits to the hospital. This pretty much took most of my time, and all of my energy. Eventually it resulted in me becoming ill myself (although not seriously) and was quickly followed by a mad rush to be ready in time for Christmas. The worst of the problems had eased by early January, but I still continued to be ill for about another month. When I did get back to work, I confess that I did not continue work on Silent Invaders, but concentrated on writing a couple of new screen plays, whilst the ideas were fresh in my mind. Still, about a week ago, I continued editing where I left off, and have now finally completed it.
I had someone ask me recently, why bother re-editing for YouTube and not just use the same edit you did for the DVD? Well, for a simple, non technical answer to this question, YouTube videos are much smaller than a TV screen, and this often leaves title screens, credits and on screen text too small and distorted to read. Also, YouTube videos now have a maximum length of 10 minutes. Silent Invaders is 18 minutes long. This means at the very least, the edit needed splitting in to Parts 1 and 2.
Now, for the more technical answer (Feel free to skip this paragraph, it's long and very boring). PAL DVDs and PAL DV footage, have a pixel resolution of 720 x 576. YouTube has an encoding resolution of 320 x 240. That means the raw footage is about 2.3 times bigger than the encoding resolution, and does not evenly divide. Although the video editor seems to scale the video footage cleanly, I have found it isn't great with title screens (which I create in an external graphics package) unless they evenly divide. Also, titles created for DVD can't go too close to the edges of the frame, as they will be off the edges of the screen when played back on a TV. YouTube titles can go right to the edge of the frame, as none of the frame is cropped or lost. Add to this, that the titles often look too small anyway, and that is the reason I redesign all the titles for a 320 x 240 resolution. I have also found that some of the more complex special effects and moving paths, often need minor adjustments to the mathematics, in order to look just right for a smaller resolution. Interleave is another reason. The video footage needs to be deinterlaced when encoding at 320 x 240, again because the resolutions don't divide evenly and create a distorted split of the two fields across each frame. DVD footage, keeps it's best quality when retaining the interleave of it's native DV footage.
So, in short, what is the difference between the DVD edit and the YouTube version. Well, in terms of actually program content, there are none. Every scene and sound has been cut the same for both versions. The main difference is in the actually on screen text and credits, which are much bigger in the YouTube version, so that they can be more easily read in it's small window. Other minor tweaks are in the form of slight alterations to graphics and special effects, but again, only to maintain picture quality. They are not changes that you are likely to notice, as changes in the program content.
In terms of sound, the DVDs stereo sound track, has a depth and atmosphere that is a little dull in some parts of the YouTube sound track. This is because YouTube's sound is mono, for faster streaming, so this is to be expected.
Of cause the DVD is higher quality, but to my mind, YouTube is still one of the best and most ground breaking sites to appear on the Internet. I mean, you click the button and the video plays, and anyone can post their own videos for free. I mean, how else would ultra low budget film-makers like myself and the rest of film digital, broadcast our films to the world?

A little something for Halloween - 31 October 2007
Check out our Halloween 2007 Jack-O'-Lantern video 'Gummy Lantern'. Kind of a last minute idea, and put together in a bit of a rush, but good fun in a bloggy, Blue Peter, here's one we made earlier kind of way.

Nice Jam on Bradford's Big Screen - 8 May 2007
Well finally, six years after it was originally made, Nice Jam has made it to the big screen. After being recently excepted for the BBC Bradford's Big Screen in Centenary Square, it has been showing each day (more than once I believe), at randomly selected times. Why, at randomly selected times you may ask? Well, it's so that it's not just seen by the same groups of people, who walk through Centenary Square at the same time each day, and has more chance of being seen by different groups of people passing through at different times of the day. I'm not sure how long it will run for, although I believe it's due to be a good couple of weeks.
We would like to give many many thanks to Matthew Pells (Bradford's Big Screen Manager), for taking the time to meet with us, and making sure that Nice Jam made it's way on to the Big Screen.

Script Writing, Documentary Footage and More - 21 March 2007
Well, first of all let me apologise, for not keeping everyone up to date with our current progress. Things have been happening, but in the chaos of it all, updating the web-site often gets put to the bottom of the list.
I'm currently recovering after having to spend some time in hospital, so I'm only working when I'm not feeling too run down. I currently don't think it's wise to risk a relapse, but I'm hoping to be back in the full swing of things soon.
Silent Invaders is more of less, finished. I say more or less, because I'm still spotting out a dead pixel, which runs through most of the pub scene, due to a camera fault which occurred during filming (cameras always go wrong at the worst times). This is a long job, which entails taking a sample colour from next to the dead pixel, and overlaying it over the dead pixel itself. Unfortunately, this is a frame by frame job, and every time something or the camera moves, then so does the colour next to the dead pixel. As soon as I'm happy, that this fault is covered up to the best of my ability, then I will be handing out DVD copies to everyone I've promised, and compiling an Internet version for all the world to see :-)
On the writing front, I having been working on the script for a short Art-House film called Coping Alone, and I have also filmed a small screen test, to see how a particularly fiddly scene actually works on screen. I've filmed two version of this, one in 16:9 widescreen and the other in the standard 4:3 ratio. I'm considering making some of my new films in widescreen, and thought this the perfect way to test the ground. Once Silent Invaders in online, then I will be editing this screen test footage and also putting it online, as an example of a film I'm aiming to make fully, later on.
I have recently begun writing a film-makers blog, called Diary of a No Budget Film-maker. This is available to read from my MySpace site (I'll add a link to this from the Link section soon), but I think I shall also start placing it's entries directly of this site as well.
Other projects in the making, are a radio play, which had been written and directed by my loyal sidekick Joe Ogden. I myself am one of the actors in the play, and to my understanding, the finished play will be broadcast on BCB Radio (Bradford Community Broadcasting) sometime soon after it's editing is complete. I know Joe's aiming to have a web-cast version available online, so I'll see if I can sort out a link to it, when the time comes.
Also, a run of the rarely performed Shakespeare play, All's Well That Ends Well, has recently been on at the Priestley Theatre in Bradford. This performance, put on by ACT (Actors Community Theatre), had a small scene filmed during a dress rehearsal by Joe, for the big screen in Centenary Square. I helped him edit this, and designed some of the title screens, and to the best of my knowledge, this was on, and got repeated about ten times, during each day, running up to the play. I was unable to go and see this for myself, as I ended up very ill in hospital soon after editing it. To see the online version, please click link below.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys7TYagivMI
Well, in the next few days, I aim to update the web-site, and create pages about Silent Invaders, as well as information about the upcoming documentary - Silence on a Shoe String. It's basically the documentary about the making of Silent Invaders, and the ways that we as a team, manage to deliver the goods on screen, despite having very little money off screen.

New Media Section Added - 25 August 2006
Long have I dreamed of the day, that the Film Digital site, could become a TV on demand style showcase for our short films, animations and media files in general. Well, finally that day has come. By setting up accounts with lovely new organisations like Ourmedia and The Internet Archive, we are now able to put much more of our media online for you, the Internet audience to freely watch.
Please note though, that Ourmedia and The Internet Archive are free, and rely entirely on donations to run. Hosting many thousands of peoples video and media files, is an expensive and difficult task. So, if you wish to support Independent Art / Film and help empower individuals to be able to showcase their work though the Internet, this is one way you can do it.
Please check out their web-sites.
www.ourmedia.org
www.archive.org

A Wiccan Scorned - 17 August 2006
Our new film, A Wiccan Scorned, has now undergone it's final edit, and I have just added a page about it, today. Introducing the talents of newcomer Angela Bancroft, Wiccan was a quickly planned and completed project, which I have to say, I'm rather proud of. Also, it makes up for the fact that Silent Invaders is taking so long to complete. I'm currently recording sound effects and composing music, and after that, there are some quite difficult visual effects (mostly CGI) to design and complete, so sorry, the final version of Silent Invaders in a still a little way off.

Almost Complete - 19 April 2006
Well, finally the time is drawing near. 95% of the filming is done, I have made a rough edit which I am now improving upon, and with the filming near to completion, my thoughts are turning to the 'making of documentary'. New screenshots have been added here, and I will make further updates to this web-site soon.

Fight Choreography and Rehearsals - 23 June 2005
Unfortunately, due to various actors and crews prior commitments, we aren't really managing to get filming done more than once a week at the moment. Never-the-less, I can't complain, as no one's been paid to be in this film, and everyone still has to make a living. Also, on the up side, everyone is giving 100% when we do film, and the footage so far has been really good.
Still, the time has not been wasted, as between filming, I've been capturing, editing and backing up all the footage so far (and for a short film, we really have got a hell of a lot of it). There again, that's what I get having three camera people, encouraging improvisation, and also for filming the filming, for a 'making of' documentary which we plan to edit later on.
I've also spent a lot of time altering the Alien's mask, as I'm still not completely happy with it yet, as well as altering it's cloak and staff.
Another big step, with the help of Joe, has been the choreography and rehearsals for the Alien stick fighting scene (I'm the Alien) with Keith, which not only, for safety reasons has to be rehearsed to perfection, but also in order to make it look real on filmed.
On the equipment front, I've just bought two rechargeable fluorescent tube lights, plus a 5 million candle power rechargeable Halogen spotlight. These should be useful for quickly lighting locations where we are unable to correctly rig up and use mains lights.

Editing and Backing Up - 11 and 12 May
I'm currently busy capturing, reviewing and backing up all the footage that's been filmed so far. Also, I think this is a good time to update the web-site :-)
To see some screen shots, from the filming so far, Click Here.

Good Progress - 10 May 2005
A couple of days ago, we made some progress in getting hold of some of the props we need, mainly a 1950's night shirt, two metal tankards and a metal hip-flask. Also, today me and Tina have filmed Keith, waking from the Nightmare that was filmed a couple of weeks ago (long sleep). Joe in the mean time has been busy looking in to the possibility of funding and showcasing our work. On the whole, we are making good progress.

More Filming - 29 April 2005
This morning, myself (Phil Wainman), Joe Ogden, Keith Wilcock and Tina Watkin (our new trainee Camera Woman) headed out in to Thornton for another day of filming. We had originally planned to do one of the indoor scenes, but due to our main actress being ill, had to put these scenes on hold and quickly make other arrangements. The shoot went well, despite one of the cameras breaking down part way through the day, and we finished off the afternoon, by driving to Judy Woods and completing some of the shots we needed there.
To see some screen shots, from the filming so far, Click Here.

Now Filming
Well, after much struggling to sort out costumes, props, locations, actors, extra equipment, etc, we have finally done our first day of filming for Silent Invaders (17th April 2005).

To view more screen shots Click Here.

Silent Invaders - Coming Soon....
I suppose, I've been turning over the idea of a Silent Science Fiction film (with sound effects and music) for quite a while now, so after a few re-writes, and a little story boarding, the early planning stages for Silent Invaders are now under way.

Not a lot happening recently, why?
Well, it's true. Due to lack of money, a shortage of free actors and basically just been too busy, Film Digital did grind to a bit of a halt. Anyway, new scripts are now ready, some new actors have been found and serious planning have begun for our next film. This new year - 2005, is going to be the year that we show the world, what this group of very low budget film makers can really do :-)

Coping Alone / Dead Beat screen-tests - 7 April 2008 Well, lots going on at the moment. Firstly, I've recently sat down and edited the screen-test footage for Coping Alone, which was filmed last year. I felt it was important to do a test scene for this particular film, because of anticipated technical problems, for a scene where the main character has a conversation with a man, who is on her television set. As anticipated, there were technical problems and results of the test, have helped me work out, a better method for filming this scene, should we decide to make this film in the future. Although the results of this test do have much room for improvement, I did feel that it was worth putting online to give an impression of one of the ideas we are currently working on. This can now be viewed in out Watch Films section of the web-site. Now, on to Dead Beat, which is one of Joe Ogden's screen-plays. It's not actually about Vampires, he keeps telling me, but more about people suffering from an unusual medical condition, which gives them Vampiric type symptoms. Allergy to sunlight, a need to drink blood, reduced ageing, etc. Well, whatever his final plans, I've seen the first draft of the script, and was very impressed with it. He too has decided that screen-tests are a good way to test an idea, and we have recently been busy filming these. Filming Screen-test scene for Dead Beat. Left Edmund Davies. Right Joe Ogden. Silent Invaders - 20 February 2008 Well, in the early hours of the morning, I finally completed uploading Silent Invaders on to YouTube, and then today, I've added it to the Silent Invaders section of this site. I've also, embedded it on to the Film Digital MySpace site (may upload a copy on to MySpaceTV in the near future) and I've also added it on to my Facebook page. So, why did it take so long, when the DVD edit was ready near the end of last year? Well, I was busy re-editing a version for YouTube in December, when there was a sudden and very serious illness in the family. It resulted in lots of stress and worry as well as constant visits to the hospital. This pretty much took most of my time, and all of my energy. Eventually it resulted in me becoming ill myself (although not seriously) and was quickly followed by a mad rush to be ready in time for Christmas. The worst of the problems had eased by early January, but I still continued to be ill for about another month. When I did get back to work, I confess that I did not continue work on Silent Invaders, but concentrated on writing a couple of new screen plays, whilst the ideas were fresh in my mind. Still, about a week ago, I continued editing where I left off, and have now finally completed it. I had someone ask me recently, why bother re-editing for YouTube and not just use the same edit you did for the DVD? Well, for a simple, non technical answer to this question, YouTube videos are much smaller than a TV screen, and this often leaves title screens, credits and on screen text too small and distorted to read. Also, YouTube videos now have a maximum length of 10 minutes. Silent Invaders is 18 minutes long. This means at the very least, the edit needed splitting in to Parts 1 and 2. Now, for the more technical answer (Feel free to skip this paragraph, it's long and very boring). PAL DVDs and PAL DV footage, have a pixel resolution of 720 x 576. YouTube has an encoding resolution of 320 x 240. That means the raw footage is about 2.3 times bigger than the encoding resolution, and does not evenly divide. Although the video editor seems to scale the video footage cleanly, I have found it isn't great with title screens (which I create in an external graphics package) unless they evenly divide. Also, titles created for DVD can't go too close to the edges of the frame, as they will be off the edges of the screen when played back on a TV. YouTube titles can go right to the edge of the frame, as none of the frame is cropped or lost. Add to this, that the titles often look too small anyway, and that is the reason I redesign all the titles for a 320 x 240 resolution. I have also found that some of the more complex special effects and moving paths, often need minor adjustments to the mathematics, in order to look just right for a smaller resolution. Interleave is another reason. The video footage needs to be deinterlaced when encoding at 320 x 240, again because the resolutions don't divide evenly and create a distorted split of the two fields across each frame. DVD footage, keeps it's best quality when retaining the interleave of it's native DV footage. So, in short, what is the difference between the DVD edit and the YouTube version. Well, in terms of actually program content, there are none. Every scene and sound has been cut the same for both versions. The main difference is in the actually on screen text and credits, which are much bigger in the YouTube version, so that they can be more easily read in it's small window. Other minor tweaks are in the form of slight alterations to graphics and special effects, but again, only to maintain picture quality. They are not changes that you are likely to notice, as changes in the program content. In terms of sound, the DVDs stereo sound track, has a depth and atmosphere that is a little dull in some parts of the YouTube sound track. This is because YouTube's sound is mono, for faster streaming, so this is to be expected. Of cause the DVD is higher quality, but to my mind, YouTube is still one of the best and most ground breaking sites to appear on the Internet. I mean, you click the button and the video plays, and anyone can post their own videos for free. I mean, how else would ultra low budget film-makers like myself and the rest of film digital, broadcast our films to the world? A little something for Halloween - 31 October 2007 Check out our Halloween 2007 Jack-O'-Lantern video 'Gummy Lantern'. Kind of a last minute idea, and put together in a bit of a rush, but good fun in a bloggy, Blue Peter, here's one we made earlier kind of way. Nice Jam on Bradford's Big Screen - 8 May 2007 Well finally, six years after it was originally made, Nice Jam has made it to the big screen. After being recently excepted for the BBC Bradford's Big Screen in Centenary Square, it has been showing each day (more than once I believe), at randomly selected times. Why, at randomly selected times you may ask? Well, it's so that it's not just seen by the same groups of people, who walk through Centenary Square at the same time each day, and has more chance of being seen by different groups of people passing through at different times of the day. I'm not sure how long it will run for, although I believe it's due to be a good couple of weeks. We would like to give many many thanks to Matthew Pells (Bradford's Big Screen Manager), for taking the time to meet with us, and making sure that Nice Jam made it's way on to the Big Screen. Script Writing, Documentary Footage and More - 21 March 2007 Well, first of all let me apologise, for not keeping everyone up to date with our current progress. Things have been happening, but in the chaos of it all, updating the web-site often gets put to the bottom of the list. I'm currently recovering after having to spend some time in hospital, so I'm only working when I'm not feeling too run down. I currently don't think it's wise to risk a relapse, but I'm hoping to be back in the full swing of things soon. Silent Invaders is more of less, finished. I say more or less, because I'm still spotting out a dead pixel, which runs through most of the pub scene, due to a camera fault which occurred during filming (cameras always go wrong at the worst times). This is a long job, which entails taking a sample colour from next to the dead pixel, and overlaying it over the dead pixel itself. Unfortunately, this is a frame by frame job, and every time something or the camera moves, then so does the colour next to the dead pixel. As soon as I'm happy, that this fault is covered up to the best of my ability, then I will be handing out DVD copies to everyone I've promised, and compiling an Internet version for all the world to see :-) On the writing front, I having been working on the script for a short Art-House film called Coping Alone, and I have also filmed a small screen test, to see how a particularly fiddly scene actually works on screen. I've filmed two version of this, one in 16:9 widescreen and the other in the standard 4:3 ratio. I'm considering making some of my new films in widescreen, and thought this the perfect way to test the ground. Once Silent Invaders in online, then I will be editing this screen test footage and also putting it online, as an example of a film I'm aiming to make fully, later on. I have recently begun writing a film-makers blog, called Diary of a No Budget Film-maker. This is available to read from my MySpace site (I'll add a link to this from the Link section soon), but I think I shall also start placing it's entries directly of this site as well. Other projects in the making, are a radio play, which had been written and directed by my loyal sidekick Joe Ogden. I myself am one of the actors in the play, and to my understanding, the finished play will be broadcast on BCB Radio (Bradford Community Broadcasting) sometime soon after it's editing is complete. I know Joe's aiming to have a web-cast version available online, so I'll see if I can sort out a link to it, when the time comes. Also, a run of the rarely performed Shakespeare play, All's Well That Ends Well, has recently been on at the Priestley Theatre in Bradford. This performance, put on by ACT (Actors Community Theatre), had a small scene filmed during a dress rehearsal by Joe, for the big screen in Centenary Square. I helped him edit this, and designed some of the title screens, and to the best of my knowledge, this was on, and got repeated about ten times, during each day, running up to the play. I was unable to go and see this for myself, as I ended up very ill in hospital soon after editing it. To see the online version, please click link below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys7TYagivMI Well, in the next few days, I aim to update the web-site, and create pages about Silent Invaders, as well as information about the upcoming documentary - Silence on a Shoe String. It's basically the documentary about the making of Silent Invaders, and the ways that we as a team, manage to deliver the goods on screen, despite having very little money off screen. New Media Section Added - 25 August 2006 Long have I dreamed of the day, that the Film Digital site, could become a TV on demand style showcase for our short films, animations and media files in general. Well, finally that day has come. By setting up accounts with lovely new organisations like Ourmedia and The Internet Archive, we are now able to put much more of our media online for you, the Internet audience to freely watch. Please note though, that Ourmedia and The Internet Archive are free, and rely entirely on donations to run. Hosting many thousands of peoples video and media files, is an expensive and difficult task. So, if you wish to support Independent Art / Film and help empower individuals to be able to showcase their work though the Internet, this is one way you can do it. Please check out their web-sites. www.ourmedia.org www.archive.org A Wiccan Scorned - 17 August 2006 Our new film, A Wiccan Scorned, has now undergone it's final edit, and I have just added a page about it, today. Introducing the talents of newcomer Angela Bancroft, Wiccan was a quickly planned and completed project, which I have to say, I'm rather proud of. Also, it makes up for the fact that Silent Invaders is taking so long to complete. I'm currently recording sound effects and composing music, and after that, there are some quite difficult visual effects (mostly CGI) to design and complete, so sorry, the final version of Silent Invaders in a still a little way off. Almost Complete - 19 April 2006 Well, finally the time is drawing near. 95% of the filming is done, I have made a rough edit which I am now improving upon, and with the filming near to completion, my thoughts are turning to the 'making of documentary'. New screenshots have been added here, and I will make further updates to this web-site soon. Fight Choreography and Rehearsals - 23 June 2005 Unfortunately, due to various actors and crews prior commitments, we aren't really managing to get filming done more than once a week at the moment. Never-the-less, I can't complain, as no one's been paid to be in this film, and everyone still has to make a living. Also, on the up side, everyone is giving 100% when we do film, and the footage so far has been really good. Still, the time has not been wasted, as between filming, I've been capturing, editing and backing up all the footage so far (and for a short film, we really have got a hell of a lot of it). There again, that's what I get having three camera people, encouraging improvisation, and also for filming the filming, for a 'making of' documentary which we plan to edit later on. I've also spent a lot of time altering the Alien's mask, as I'm still not completely happy with it yet, as well as altering it's cloak and staff. Another big step, with the help of Joe, has been the choreography and rehearsals for the Alien stick fighting scene (I'm the Alien) with Keith, which not only, for safety reasons has to be rehearsed to perfection, but also in order to make it look real on filmed. On the equipment front, I've just bought two rechargeable fluorescent tube lights, plus a 5 million candle power rechargeable Halogen spotlight. These should be useful for quickly lighting locations where we are unable to correctly rig up and use mains lights. Editing and Backing Up - 11 and 12 May I'm currently busy capturing, reviewing and backing up all the footage that's been filmed so far. Also, I think this is a good time to update the web-site :-) To see some screen shots, from the filming so far, Click Here. Good Progress - 10 May 2005 A couple of days ago, we made some progress in getting hold of some of the props we need, mainly a 1950's night shirt, two metal tankards and a metal hip-flask. Also, today me and Tina have filmed Keith, waking from the Nightmare that was filmed a couple of weeks ago (long sleep). Joe in the mean time has been busy looking in to the possibility of funding and showcasing our work. On the whole, we are making good progress. More Filming - 29 April 2005 This morning, myself (Phil Wainman), Joe Ogden, Keith Wilcock and Tina Watkin (our new trainee Camera Woman) headed out in to Thornton for another day of filming. We had originally planned to do one of the indoor scenes, but due to our main actress being ill, had to put these scenes on hold and quickly make other arrangements. The shoot went well, despite one of the cameras breaking down part way through the day, and we finished off the afternoon, by driving to Judy Woods and completing some of the shots we needed there. To see some screen shots, from the filming so far, Click Here. Now Filming Well, after much struggling to sort out costumes, props, locations, actors, extra equipment, etc, we have finally done our first day of filming for Silent Invaders (17th April 2005).

To view more screen shots Click Here. Silent Invaders - Coming Soon.... I suppose, I've been turning over the idea of a Silent Science Fiction film (with sound effects and music) for quite a while now, so after a few re-writes, and a little story boarding, the early planning stages for Silent Invaders are now under way. Not a lot happening recently, why? Well, it's true. Due to lack of money, a shortage of free actors and basically just been too busy, Film Digital did grind to a bit of a halt. Anyway, new scripts are now ready, some new actors have been found and serious planning have begun for our next film. This new year - 2005, is going to be the year that we show the world, what this group of very low budget film makers can really do :-)