Monday 28 February 2011

Cannes You Dig It?

Went to a Cannes Survival Guide talk today. We was taught how to survive off of the local food sources, interact with the wildlife and build a shelter to live in, which may unfortunately be the most practical solution. We are now ready and racing to go armed with tools, weapons, and information.

Friday 25 February 2011

It's my Birthday today!

...and I've been doing nothing but work! Up at seven to have final talks with our composer Rod Anderson. He's an amazing fellow who's recently re-released his re-composition of the children's TV Show Hobberdy Dick! Get it on iTunes if you're a fan!



Here's his website: http://www.rodanderson.co.uk/ check it out!

I feel so sorry through, we've been altering this film since last year and he's shown such patience as well as immense talent. Well it's all coming together and it's now time for me to relax, and maybe eat some cake!

So if Rod sees this we all love you dearly, and don't know how to thank you! You're fantastic!

- Stark (Andrew RB)

Sunday 20 February 2011

The beginning of the end


In the beginning there was nothing then earth was created, man was created. Life began
We as a species evolved and began to question our own existence and strived to become our own fathers.

Like a circle, the wheel was invented. This wheel changed the life of everything that lives and breathes on planet earth.

Like a circle the wheel goes round and round, but the invention of the wheel like life was the begining to the end.

This is why

Martin Askem

Thursday 17 February 2011

Next Gen Console Predictions

Ok there is a lot of speculation about what is up the sleeves of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. I myself have been doing some digging, some interrogation, and even held a candle under some peoples toes to come up with a solid prediction for what is ahead in the next 5 years.

Let's start with our old friend's - Nintendo.

After the fall of the Gamecube and the rise of the DS Nintendo realised that it was once again time to innovate in gaming technology, and came out with a way to revolutionise the gaming experience. Through the years Nintendo has innovated with their DS with teh DSi and XL, but no HD or i versions of the Wii.

With this I must admit the Nintendo Wii's motion control revolution has taken off, but now with Microsoft's innovations alongside Sony's copycat motion controls things have got...well, a little stagnant.

Let's look what Nintendo could possibly have up their sleeve. Well they've annouced their next gen handhold, so that's out. The vitality sensor seemed to gather some attention, then went under the radar. So all that's left is to bring out more Wii games. Which after 5 years is past it's prime. No-one's buying it anymore.

So first things first, a next gen console announcement (yes announcement) has to be the next step at this year's E3. Now my predictions will be a small trailer, some press pictures, and maybe even a tech demo at most. What Nintendo wont show you will be it's next gen controller. Our predictions for that are very exciting.

What would happen if your mind was the controller? Now this technology isn't as far fetched as it seems, I have personally used this technology a good 3 or 4 years ago, and while there were a lot of kinks to work out, if you coupled it with eye motion tracking, and the vitality sensor you'd get one hell of a gaming experience.

SPEC PREDICTIONS:


- Full HD and 3D TV compatible
- Same power as the PS3
- Medium-Large SSD for online downloads and gaming.
- Flash memory and SD slot. Full Wifi and Ethernet comparability
- Backwards Compatible
- Headset controller


Release Prediction: 2013 - 2014


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Ok now Nintendo are out the way, let's move onto Microsoft's next gen.

As we all know out of the current gen systems, Microsoft's has been out longer than all the others, by a whole two years in some countries. All Microsoft have to show for themselves is a motion control upgrade from the Wii's, and that can surely only last them an extra two years at the most before sales once again flat-line. We can't blame them, they are a lot older than it's younger, more powerful rival. So it's going to have to be time to bring something out soon.

I don't think Microsoft will innovate  too much further with it's Kinect - it may get better at recognition of human bodies of different skin tones, or even read sign language, but Microsoft aren't really big innovators, they usually wait around for Nintendo to take the risk, and then alter and possibly improve on the design, all in all through Microsoft's console plan is usually cowedly and "safe." It seems to me that Microsoft want to make their console as cheap as possible, so 3rd party licencing doesn't need to be paid, so I wouldn't expect mircosoft to allow you to play a blu-ray movie or play online games for free. What I can guarantee is that it'll be a beast of a console allowing games developers to go that one step beyond what they can do now.

My prediction is that we'll get some new Kinect games announced and a press conference revealing the next gen xbox this E3, if not it'll be 2012.


SPEC PREDICTIONS:

- 3D Compatible
- 2GB GPU +
- 3 or 4 times the power of the current system.
- Minimum of 500GB HDD
- Full Wifi, and Ethernet comparability
- New Kinect packaged in
 - NOT Blu-Ray compatible unless special blu-ray player bought
- Download x-box, x-box360 games compatible
- Innovated for comfort new controller, smaller.

Release Prediction: 2012 - 2013

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Last but certainly not least is Sony's next gen console. 

Sony have finally reached it's prime age, and I see no reason why Sony should rush another console, especially when they're finally turning a profit on the damn thing. Not only that but it's clearly the best entertainment system on the market to date, allowing both gamers and movie goers a cross platform experience, and I'm only just starting to enjoy the flood of games coming out for the console. It's really a golden age for Sony, and what with their NGP handheld coming out, they can stay afloat just on the sales of that let alone the Playstation 3. It would be foolish not to be planning ahead, but it would be foolish to rush things too.

The best thing Sony could do is stop copying Nintendo, and innovate, even if it's as small as a redesign of the Playstation controller. Which in my opinion is better than motion control, all you need is a comfortable handset with buttons that you don't have to think about what to press next, you just know. Again see Nintendo's controllers, especially the Gamecubes.'

SPEC PREDICTIONS:

- 2GB GPU +
- 3 or 4 times the power of the current system.
- Minimum of 500GB HDD
- Full Wifi, and Ethernet comparability
- Optional Motion Controller bundled in
- Blu-Ray compatible
PS3 compatible
- Playstation Network Upgrade: , download Playstation and PS2 games as well as PSP and NGP
- Unfortunately no hope for a better controller.

Release Prediction: 2013 - 2015

- Stark

Vloggers News

Hey everyone, we are proud to announce that our next "Officially Announced" project is also now in pre production come the beginning of March. So now is the time if you are interested in it, or even being involved leave a comment or message us on twitter!

Vloggers will be a groundbreaking British comedy exclusive to blip.tv

It's all very exciting, and we can't wait to sink our creative teeth into it!

So com'on be part of something special!

Wednesday 16 February 2011

... top that if you will ...


an exhausting and productive day – high tension, massive decisions, and then superlative results - all leading to [and from] the ADR suite of our dreams. 
And then washed down with two episodes of STAR TREK and some wonderful integrity ...  
where to next Mr Sulu?
:)

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Smoke and Mirrors


Smoke and Mirrors
The Influence of Hunter S Thompson by Martin Askem
A smoking man, an image, and an image I recently drew with pastels to portray Hunter S Thompson.
Hunter S Thompson, Iconic journalist and author and creator of ‘Gonzo’ style of journalism. A style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is also known for his use of psychedelics, alcohol, firearms, and his iconoclastic contempt for authoritarianism.
I first stumbled across Thompson in early 2009 when watching the surreal film ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, a film which was a portrayal of Thompson most famous work. This film an inspiration for a surreal poem I wrote entitled ‘Fear and Loathing’
Hunter S Thompson was a complex, confusing yet brilliant man. A man who for me was surrealism in the written form. Surrealism as a subject being the most powerful and indeed attractive of forms for my work.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson grew up in the Cherokee Triangle neighbourhood of the Highlands He was the first son of Jack Robert, an insurance adjuster and a U.S. Army veteran who served in France during World War I, and Virginia Davidson (née Ray; 1908–1998). Introduced by a mutual friend from Jack's fraternity in 1934, they married in 1935.
His father died on July 3, 1952, when Hunter was 14 years old, leaving three sons — Hunter, Davison, and James to be brought up by their mother. Contemporaries indicated that after Jack's death, Virginia became a "heavy drinker. James was openly homosexual, and died of AIDS.
Interested in sports and athletically inclined from a young age, Thompson joined Louisville’s Castlewood Athletic Club, a sports club for teenagers that prepared them for high-school sports, where he excelled in baseball, though he never joined any sports teams in high school, where he was constantly in trouble
In 1970 Thompson wrote an article entitled The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved for the short-lived new journalism magazine Scanlan's Monthly.
Although it was not widely read at the time, the article is the first of Thompson's to use techniques of Gonzo journalism, a style he would later employ in almost every literary endeavour. The manic first-person subjectivity of the story was reportedly the result of sheer desperation; he was facing a looming deadline and started sending the magazine pages ripped out of his notebook. Ralph Steadman, who would later collaborate with Thompson on several projects, contributed expressionist pen-and-ink illustrations.
The first use of the word Gonzo to describe Thompson's work is credited to the journalist Bill Cardoso. Cardoso had first met Thompson on a bus full of journalists covering the 1968 New Hampshire primary. In 1970, Cardoso (who, by this time had become the editor of The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine) wrote to Thompson praising the "Kentucky Derby" piece in Scanlan's Monthly as a breakthrough: "This is it, this is pure Gonzo. If this is a start, keep rolling." Thompson took to the word right away, and according to illustrator Ralph Steadman said, "Okay, that's what I do. Gonzo."
Thompson's first published use of the word Gonzo appears in a passage in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: a Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream:
I could write page after page about Thompson, about Gonzo. For me the smoking man is an inspiration and tells me to look beyond the smoke.

Martin


House of the Dead: Overkill

One of the best Wii-Rail shooters to date? Your responses please!

- Stark

High Five Everyone!

After a hard day's client based webdesigning/building. I come home to have an epiphany: Dead Lucky's edit wasn't as tight as it could be, with a brilliant stroke of genius [if I'm not being TOO big-headed ;-)] I've cut down some scenes by seconds. Maybe to some people seconds isn't that long, but to an editor, it's a lifetime. So I'm beaming with a huge smile right now, maybe i can just relax and chill out for tonight before tomorrows HUGE ADR session!

Peace

- Stark

Monday 14 February 2011

Websites, Horror and Biscuits

Andy "Stark" Cooper and Andi "Colombo" Cooper have both been very busy today with client based web projects and organising more ADR on Wednesday for Dead Lucky.

We hope everyone had a wonderful day today, and hope tomorrow holds out for better things.

PS: It's very weird talking about myself in the third person.

- Stark

Friday 11 February 2011

Brilliant Borne Ultimatum

Paul Greengrass like an old Italian master leaves clues all over the NY CIA anti terrorism bureau by crossing the line practically every other shot in those scenes  – implying you can't trust anything in this building - what a Genius :)

The theory to creation


The theory to creation

We have questioned our self-existence since our day of creation

One person who is indefinable created us, the person who created us is irrelevant to our existence at this moment in time

We are here because one person created us

We are part of a designed script

We have questioned since the program was created, we have asked why it was created.

It was created because the person who created us wanted to and was able to, the person who created us once evolved as we have

From the day of creation of the script, the language within script has tried to understand why it was created and who created it

The script has evolved as in the Darwinian sense. This evolvement is however the key to what we currently perceive as life; the continued self-question is the ‘Key’ to our ultimate success or demise

As we have evolved, the one key thing physical thing that has evolved with us is technology

This is because we are continuing to question ‘why’ we are here and are developing our own script within the machine of existence

This continued evolvement of technology holds yet again, the key to our success or demise as the human race

We are a script within a machine. We were created and our continued development is a journey, which has an ending and proves that infinity do not exist

The technological advancements we have made, and will make, are testament to our evolution. An evolution within a script, evolving in an attempt to leave the machine and see the creator and become a creator


When we reach the point of technological advancement where we can finally step out of the machine and write an identical script to our own existence.

The question of how we were created will be answered, as we will then become a creator

When this happens, true evolvement will be achieved, as we will then have the ability to recreate. This will then allow us to travel within time, space and sound

Once this happens we then become what we perceive as god


This is where our ultimate success or demise lies

Martin  

Mindspace

Where do ideas come from?

Zib-Zab

Big business meetings today, things are moving forward.

It's the most exciting time at the moment to come join in and invest time, money and talent into the unstoppable force that is becoming Reality and Biscuits B-)

- Stark

Thursday 10 February 2011

Matt Damon in Star Trek


So it is quite obvious that Matt Damon should have been cast as Captain James T Kirk in Star Trek 11 – he exudes the charisma intelligence and most importantly the integrity in the Bourne Series that Shatner did in TOS

It is in fact almost heartbreaking that Chris Pine was chosen in his place merely because of some ageist realism in the casting.
Seeing the 1st 2 Bourne Films in the last week it is obvious that Damon was perfect – and would have continued the drive for excellence that Rodenberry set up – Gene Rodenberry  was a genius – long may his children reign
Andi Columbo Cooper :)

What do you want??!

Reality and Biscuits are committed to diverse and cutting edge media productions, we are also equally committed to providing our public, yes YOU! with the entertainment that you enjoy and ultimately want.
With this in mind we ask the question: What do you want from us?? Comedy, Horror, Podcasts etc...

We welcome your feedback and suggestions as without you Reality and Biscuits cannot live and breathe.

So if you have a n idea or a hidden creative talent drop us a line @ martin@batcc.com

Best

The Reality and Biscuits Team

the bi-polar nature of the singularity



So it feels like planet earth is  spinning out of orbit – things that we’re once true have now been proved false and things that were once untrue have now grabbed me by the nose and dunked me in a bowl full of minestrone soup.
Was it a REALITY AND BISCUITS creatives meeting  that got mesmerised talking about Terrence McKenna's unique vision of the 2012 changing everything we hold dear? Or was it just a hard day in the REALITY AND BISCUITS post production edit suite?
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Reality and Soundbites

We stat down with our sound designer Joe Kelly. He's great, and has an amazing sense of humor. We've worked very hard, and have laid down the ADR on top of his amazing SFX work, mixes in pretty well. All we need now are two more tracks, recording next week [fingers crossed eh? ;-)]

Anyway, it sounds brilliant, looking forward to showing you guys a teaser trailer soon!

Onwards and upwards eh?

- Stark

Wednesday 9 February 2011

Another night at the Bada Bing!

A welcome return to the television screens this evening with a re-run of the complete series of The Sopranos, a series which I personally have watched at least 3 times.
The Sopranos is a groundbreaking pop-culture gangster drama which has received critical acclaim. The complexity of the characters and plot is something to savor with outstanding performances by James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli to name but a few.
I never imagined that classic gangster movies such as The Godfather and Goodfellas could be replicated in television format, however The Sopranos does that and beyond.

David Chase I salute you.

Martin

Nothing Like a Cup of Reality in the Morning!

Hello everyone reading this on the interwebs. It's Andy "Stark" here. I just thought I'd let you know that Dead Lucky is making another breakthrough, our quarter final audio mix happens today, pretty excited. Also trailer should be around the corner so you guys can get a sneak peak at Dead Lucky!

Take care y'all!

^_^

Tuesday 8 February 2011

2001 A Space Odyssey

'2001 A Space Odyssey'  By Stanley Kubrick.

A film that even now is ahead of it's time., not only does this film deliver cinematic magnificence with the visual effects, the movie score and acting, it explores and provides us with a unique and stark depiction of Arther C.Clarke's masterpiece of work.

This film without doubt sets a very high standard for science fiction films, this film goes beyond what recent films such as 'Inception' have provided. 2001 challenges the audience from it's very first scene, begging you try and understand what Arther C.Clarke had created, begging you to understand and answer the question that mankind has indeed asked from day on. Why?

Thank you Mr.Kubrick for providing us with this piece of cinematic genius.

Martin.

Monday 7 February 2011

Tarantino

Tarantino, A modern day film genius? Or a just another director? Pulp Fiction..Crude For the sake of crudeness or a an iconic cut masterpiece?

ADR Rehersals

They're tougher than you think, anyway recording ADR today, all seems to be going well :-)

- Stark out

Saturday 5 February 2011

congrats Johhny Bedford

superstar of the year award (so far) must go to John Bedford for having knocked up two Hollywood credits CAPTAIN AMERICA with Joe Johnson  and WARHORSE with Steve Spielberg  - cool dude   cruising your talent in both WW2 and WW1 - awesome. really looking forward to seeing them in June and September - a matter of weeks after your debut at Cannes with your Wes Craven inspired "Johnny" in DEAD LUCKY -  you truly dance with angels :)
keep the faith, big respect Andi Colombo

Friday 4 February 2011

Circus Act


Circus Act

Are you with us or are you without us
Are you here or are you there
Is it heartbreak or is it sorrow, is it today or is it tomorrow
Do you care, do you share
Do you think or do you act
When do you smile and why do you frown.
Does this make sense or are you just a clown


Martin 

Reality and Shatner

It was Andi "Colombo" Cooper's Birthday last month. To celebrate I got him the remastered Original Series of Star Trek.

I being a TNG fan had never really taken interest in TOS, it just seemed out of Date and I preferred the level headed Picard to Kirk.

However since getting Andi's present we've been watching in chronological order, as opposed to broadcast date (yes, we're THAT dedicated to EVERYTHING we're passionate about) and things seem to make a lot more sense, characters are developing naturally and instead of getting a mish mash of different designs for the enterprise and it's crew, we get a fluid evolution.

Anyway due to this re-education of TOS I've learned about how revolutionary this series was, and how I can appreciate Captain Kirk and William Shatner's acting, as so far, it hasn't really become all that bad, there's plenty of wooden acting, but none of it so far (apart from Enemy Within) has come from Bill Shatner himself.

Anyway what I'm blabbering on about is the inspiration and the social example Star Trek set for a future generation, how we should treat each other, morals, and technology to invent for the future. Gene Roddenbry, you are a genius!


This is something we hope to continue to do: inspire people to make a better world in which to live, educate, to tell stories that emotionally connect to each individual on the planet using the latest and greatest technologies about, and try and tailor content to suit the user weather it be at the Cinema, on TV, on a laptop, PC, Radio, Comic Book, Video Games Console or iPhone/Pod/Pad. It's all going to be covered here at Biscuit HQ!

Anyway why this blog is so full of Star Trek analogies with reality and Biscuits is because after tweaking Dead Lucky for the 23rd draft we're finally coming to the last graphic here and there. The sound is on standby, and music just needs to be tweaked to fit our latest and last edit before Cannes submission. After a hard day and night slaving away over a hot Mac/Final Cut Machine, we decided to watch back to back TOS  until the wee hours of the morning to celebrate. What a night! :-)

- One to beam up, Stark out

Thursday 3 February 2011

Our Commitment To You

REALITY AND BISCUITS Entertainment’s Vision: is to fuse superlative storytelling with cutting edge technology and sublime human passion to tell (and re-tell) essential and compelling stories that emotionally connect to each individual on the planet with consistent integrity across every platform inspiring them to make a better world in which to live.

Business Meetings

Very handy for your company, but when you're also in charge of post production and have a film, AND  trailer to finish it kinda overloads your abilities to multi-task. :/

Still it's a very exciting business meeting. Oooh reminds me our re-branding of the blog's gotta be done, so many things, and so little time to do them in! 0_o

Peace

- Stark

PS:

Just saw a goose chasing a duck, then a rabbit  intercepting and breaking up the fight, and policing them. Sure I've seen something similar on youtube, any ideas?

- Andy "Stark" Cooper

Where is my Mind?

My mind is on editing the Dead Lucky Teaser Trailer, so like Sammy L says in Jurassic Park "Hold on to your Buts" Although i have to say I'm currently not chain-smoking.

Looking at the window outside the editing suite, for once it's sunny and warm, what is up with British weather? Madness!

Anyway we're nearing the announcement of our secret surprise series currently in production, one day you'll be just browsing the web, minding your own business then WHAM! This new series will be in your face, and bringing you some new and original entertainment. Look out for it! Cause you never know when ;-)

- Andy "Stark" Cooper

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You know it makes sense

Have a great day all
so if we  run clockwise around the universe every other morning, will that interfere with magnetic north in Downing St ?

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Be part of something special


An exciting film investment opportunity will soon be made available for the 2011 Cannes Film Entry 'Dead Lucky' 
'Dead Lucky' Is A Slasher Mockumenty: Scream meets Shakespeare in Love - With a Comic Book Twist
Various levels of investment will Be available with potential to join the Reality and Biscuits team in Cannes Later This Year.

Please Register Your Provisional Interest By emailing Martin Askem via martin@batcc.com

Best
The Reality And Biscuits Team!