Festivals I want to submit my film to...

I want to submit my final film to as many film festivals as possible so that it can gain some publicity and I can show off my hard work! I have been researching and found a list of the ones that I am going to submit, all of them with fee entry fees. Below are the main ones that I will be submitting to.

 

Business Cards

At the beginning of the year I made some business card ideas, pictured below.

However, I decided that I wanted to redesign them as I wasn't happy with the images I had used on them. So, I used my new puppets and new links that I had created and the new design is below. I want them to have a slightly more handmade feel to them so I wrote my name in my own handwriting and used a handwriting script font to match. I also used a deep red colour, which I felt looked a lot more professional than the original pinky colour, as it matched the hearts on my puppets. I wanted the cards to look professional so I edited out the background and used a variety of photoshop brushes to make my own design.

Branding

Here were my original ideas when I started thinking about a brand for myself.
I wanted it to have a hand-drawn feel to it, as stop-motion is very much handmade. So, I designed a few logos playing on the idea of a strawberry as it relates to my last name.

 

Strawberry doodles!

 

I then refined them a little more and decided that I most liked the little strawberry waving that's characterised as me.

Here are the final logo and name designs I drew up in Photoshop. I decided that I didn't want colour so that it could go on any document and blend in quite nicely.

I then used these to make my title card!

PP3: Sending Off Applications Elsewhere...

I also wanted to send off my application to a few other studios around the world, because why not!

Here are the studios I have sent off to:
Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Bix Pix Entertainment
Laika
Screen Novelties

Lets see if any get back to me! Even if I were to get some feedback, I still feel like this would be beneficial to me for the future.

PP3: CV

PP3: Sending Off LOADS of Speculative Applications in the UK

As I didn't want to pigeon hole myself, I have decided to send off my portfolio, CV and showreel to as many studios as I can.

I found a really good resource for studios in the UK at these links:
http://www.fatcat.co.uk/showcat.php?choice=an_  (Although some are outdated links)
http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/page/animation-studios

Here is a list of the studios I have sent my CV & Showreel off to, from all over the UK:

• Aardman
• Factory Create (They've explained they have no vacancies currently)
• Brown Bag Films
• Makinnon & Saunders
• Finger Industries
• Blink Ink
• Passion Pictures
• Loose Moose
• Studio AKA
• Puppets Magic Studio
• Wonky Films
• A+C
• Carse and Waterman
• The Operators
• Second Home Studios
• Red Door Studios
• Beakus
• Kerrupt Animation
• Chocolate Films
• Sun and Moon Studios
• Wild Brain

PP3: Showreel