The clips have been posted on Youtube


1. We fixed the comments, thanks to Suzanne’s cyberbrain, so feel free to leave one (unless it’s spam. You can stick spam comments up your arse)
2. We now have a myspace page (just some Capturing The Libertine clips up there right now)
3. And holy crap. Just one week till Christmas.

Actually we arrived back in London late on the 20th, after the usual airport delays, had a meeting early on the 21st and have been busy every day since. We finished some robot designs for Glassworks‘ new Ford project (which we’ll tell you about as soon as we can). Then boarded out a commercial for Daniel Kleinman (which will be hilarious and we’ll tell you all about it…when we can). And now Danny has asked us to come up with some concepts for…erm…a cool film opening title thing! How cool is that people? It’s going to be so great to be a part of something like that…but we’ll tell you all about that (including what it is) when we blah blah blah.

Oh! I know something i can tell you about; We’ve posted another clip from ‘Capturing The Libertine’.

(Featuring; Director Laurence Dunmore - Johnny Depp -DOP Alex Melmen -Stand-by art director Lisa McDiarmid -Candleman Erik Peterson -Johnny Vegas and Tom Hollander) In this clip the film makers discuss the shooting style of the Libertine, and why we had to get so muddy everyday.

The region 1 version of the Libertine is out on DVD this week. If you haven’t seen it yet i suggest you do…and, while you’re at it, check out our making of. Enjoy!

One morning we shot a couple of hours worth of tape while Johnny Depp put on his makeup and prepared for his scenes. Unfortunately, since we could never afford clearance on the music that was being played in his dressing room, most of the sound was unusable -he was listening to Tom Waits, in case you’re keeping notes- Howevz, we think the footage we got, really captured a moment and it ended up working nicely with a voice over. So here’s a little clip from a chapter called “Why Should I?”

UPDATE:::By the way… The other guy you see talking in that clip is Stephen Jeffreys. He’s the genius who wrote The Libertine and knows everything there is to know about Rochester…More on Stephen later:::

If you bought the Libertine on DVD in the UKand are saying “Hey, no making of? What’s the deal?” Here’s the deal (as far as we know); The Weinstein Company rep the domestic release of The Libertine in the US and they’ll be releasing the DVD, I believe, on July 4 -That version will have Capturing The Libertine (which is the new title for our making-of) available on it- Odyssey Entertainment reps the rest of the world and didn’t commission any “making-of” of their own. Their UK release deadline was months before The Weinstein Company even thought about putting any EPK’s or making-of features together for the US release, so they didn’t add one to the package.

The truth is we don’t know shit about that side of the industry. All we know is; when we asked if anyone was ever going to see Capturing The Libertine, someone turned and said “Huh? Ya, sure kid. Don’t you worry that stuff. You did a good job. Here’s some money. You like money right kid?”

So we took the money and said “Gee, that’s it? Golly, well thanks mister. We sure-”

“Great! See ya round kid. Thanks.” …That kinda’ thang.

In all honesty, working on that film was beyond great. We wanted to try our hand at directing something so they let us do it on their dime. It was our job to hang out with a world class cast and crew. To say we’ve learned a lot is an understatement. It was a lot of work and, at times, frustration levels were higher than normal but we had Joe to make it easier –If you people ever need an editor call Joe Howes. Not only is he proficient, clever and inventive but nothing gives him a bigger boner than going weeks without sleep just to get the job done right- We also had the best producers watching our backs and filling our stomachs. Laurence Dunmore and Mr.Mudd have been on our side since the beginning and we’ll never forget that.

So there you go. The post you thought we’d never post is now posted. I was hoping to have a clip of the film ready for you but I’ll have to wait till later on tonight or possibly over the weekend -I know I know shhhhh!- In the meantime…here’s another still.

The Libertine was lit mainly by candle light and available light. The image above shows Johnny warming his hands over what gaffer Garry Davies called a “birthday cake”.

A lot of you have been waiting for us to update you in on what’s happening with our little film called Capturing The Libertine. Tomorrow we’ll post a little clip and fill you in…How’s that?

We captured the above image from our Libertine days. The actors in it are Francesca Annis (left) and Rosamund Pike (right) -the crew behind her (from left to right) Nick Cosens, Chaz Lyon, Robert Dibble, Paul Schwartz, Erik Peterson, Laurence Dunmore