Warrioress - Deep, DEEP In Post-Production

Hello one and all, apologies for the long radio silence. We have been deep in the murky territory known as post-production for some months now. Here is an update for you:

The CGI - We've had an incredible final shot delivered by the Wizards at Lightworx Media Ltd. They have really pulled out all the stops and we are incredibly grateful to them. Here is the link to their website - http://www.lightworx.co.uk/

Additionally Steve Hayes at ZoneOne Studios has been delivering lots of other CGI shots for the film, including totally replacing the backgrounds for a set of scenes. He's totally saved the scenes visually, as well as cleaning up many shots and adding blood effects etc. Steve has worked with me on all of my features so far, as well as on some corporate work and he is a great collaborator. The company website is www.zoneonestudios.com

The Sound Design - Having done a post-production deal through John Adams at Angry Badger Pictures (a superb production company), we have been working closely with veteran Sound Supremo Nigel Albermaniche and the team at Wave Studios, who have been doing an excellent job of recreating the soundtrack for Warrioress.

Cecily Fay dubbing her dialogue as Boudiccu.

We have had virtually the whole cast into the studio over the last couple of weeks to re-record their dialogue and we have listened to a first pass at the sound design. The swordfight sounds are mind-blowing! Their teams in Soho and Amsterdam have been working round the clock to create the different layers of sound needed, and all being well we are sitting in on the final sound mix in the next week or so, so watch this space!

Brendan Carr recording his dialogue as Tetherin.

One of the excellent engineers at Wave Studios, Ed, synching up some dialogue.

 Check out the Wave Studios website - http://www.wavestudios.co.uk/

Keith Eyles dubbing some dialogue as Gravin.

The Music - Cecily has been remixing the music as per the specifications laid out by Nigel and the team are now synching the tracks up.

There's still a fair bit to do but it finally feels like we are on the home straight.

Thanks for all of your support. As ever check us out on Facebook and Twitter. We'll be announcing screenings of the film as soon as it is ready to deliver.

Best wishes, Ross and Cecily

Post Production!

Apologies for the delay between posts! Cecily and I have been insanely busy in the post-production phase of Warrioress.

We have locked the cut of the film, which currently runs to a rather tight 89 minutes, and the team at Lightworx have delivered our splendid final shot, which is a 100 percent, EPIC CGI creation. They have totally outdone themselves and Cecily and I are incredibly pleased with their work. Extra-special thanks go to Andrew Dymond and Jonathan Brown and their team on delivering such stunning work.

Our remaining CGI work is currently being completed by my long-time friend and colleague Steve Hayes at zoneone studios. Steve is delivering excellent results on some no-doubt highly challenging shots. It's been fascinating working with Steve on my first three features, and seeing his work develop from project to project. He always delivers, and always exceeds expectations.

Post-production sound is now underway in an excellent London facility and we've been lucky enough to have Angry Badger Pictures working with us to co-ordinate the sound, final picture colour-correction and grading. More on this as we progress, but here's a link to their website. John Adams and I have been working towards getting numerous projects off the ground and it's a pleasure to be finally working with him in an official capacity.

In other news Cecily is now working on a huge Hollywood project, and I'm very proud of her continuing success. More news in the weeks to come as I'm not sure what can actually be revealed at this time.

We look forward to bringing you further news and images very soon. In the meantime thank you all for your continuing support.

Cheers

Rossco

Welcome To The World Of Warrioress

Welcome one and all to the blog following the trials and tribulations of the production of Warrioress. The film is a martial arts fantasy feature in the vein of Red Sonja and Xena: Warrior Princess, and we will endeavour to regularly update the blog with information, pictures and videos. 

Cecily Fay as Boudiccu in Warrioress

Please check out the official website here.

We are also on Twitter here.

And Faceboook here.

Last but not least the imdb page for the film is here.

That's the last of the links for now, hope you can bear with me as this is my first ever blog.and I'll attempt to keep things interesting. My good friend, the excellent writer Chris Regan, whose excellent blog is here could probably tell you how long/often I have agonized over even just coming up with the title for my own blog, but now that the decision has been made to focus on Warrioress, that's no longer an issue.

As a bit of background, Warrioress is my third feature as a director (my previous two films being Left For Dead and Ten Dead Men), and I've been working closely with the multi-talented and generally all-round awesome Cecily Fay, who amongst other things is the producer, star, fight choreographer, costume designer and music composer for the film. Cecily has devoted an enormous amount of time and energy to the film, which is currently in post production.

Warrioress is being sold internationally and distributed in the UK by Stealth Media Group. Here is the current teaser trailer:

We are currently editing the new trailer which will be ready for Cannes 2011 and I'll post a link to it as soon as it is ready. We are also creating some artwork for the film.

Cecily and I have worked with some amazing people in the process of making the film, some old compadres, some new friends, and we will spotlight some of their experiences along the way. As we've started this blog quite a long way into the the production process, we will regularly post current news but will also look back at the past ups and downs of making the film along the way.

Anyway, that's enough for now. I wish I could think of a cool way to sign off, but for now I'll just say "skip to the end".

Cheers and have a good week.

Ross Boyask

Director, Warrioress