Redsnappa's Blog

Comedy Meets Politics

redsnappa — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:04:51 +0000

Patrick Rolink and Phil Differ hosted highly entertaining night at the Tron in Glasgow with George Galloway and the acclaimed actors David Hayman and the lovely Libby McArthur with one of Scotland’s funniest comedians Des McLean.

Des kept us in hysterics whilst George proved surprisingly warm, measured and loquacious.

Next time we’ll film it for a pilot.

Tree Planting in Kenya

redsnappa — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:31:02 +0000

RedSnappa is committed to supporting organisations that are providing balance with agroforestry.

This website is well worth a quick visit. http://takingrootfilm.com/trailer.htm

Johari Fashion

redsnappa — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:57:21 +0000

RedSnappa hold exciting fashion shoot at Blair House for Johari.

3 first time models were given the chance to colaborate on a fashion shoot for the amazing label www,johari.co.uk that aims to help young people out of the slums of Kenya by training them in fashion design. It has taken many years to secure textiles, skills, support, funding and design to produce an ever expanding, exciting range of clothing. Melanie Van-der Velde is championing Johari and Seth Gardner and RedSnappa will be looking to support with video and photography.

Images at RedSnappa later this week – see the fashion section.

Models: Efia, Beth

Nandwani, Verity Power/ Make-UP: Carole Taylor/Photography Seth Gardner/Video Kyrie Barker/Art Design Rebecca Peloso/Location Blair House http://www.blairestate.com/

Keep On Playing

redsnappa — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:35:35 +0000

Playing and playfulness have to be allowed to flourish some time in a working week to keep the imagination alive.

It was with great delight that I pick up the cameras and headed out for a bit of ‘practice’ with a good friend of mine. The brief – shoot whatever moves with the knowledge that any and all images can be discarded. It was time to practise some of the more exoteric applications of the camera – one’s that in any commercial situation would just not be tried in case the shoot got messed up. This kind of pressure free enjoyment got us to challenge lenses, cameras and photographic skills and have a great laugh.

The second most important creative thing to do is have a personal project running alongside your pro work. Get out the kit, the lights, the reflectors or filming buddies and offer somebody a freebie in the knowledge that you get to try your hand at a subject matter you normally wouldn’t get booked for.

Thirdly – get linked up on-line with your talented friends and share info and ideas such as the wonderful Holly Miller’s http://folio14.com/

Pakistan Floods

redsnappa — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:35:30 +0000

Editing footage from Pakistan which puts one’s own life into perspective. This poor soul tells of how the flood took away his wife and all his cattle in one go.

The filming followed the delivery of food aid and valuable cooking items that had all been washed away. Hoping that the edit will raise vital funds for re-housing for thousands of people. More details once finished.

Guerilla Filming

redsnappa — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:47 +0000

Employing the time honoured tradition of guerilla filming in the centre of Glasgow today to create material for the Glasgow Passion Play. As difficult and stressful as this kind of filming can be, over the years, I have definitely had the most fun just turning up and with a skeleton crew and cast and just relying on the raw talents, passion and enthusiasm of everybody taking part.

We intend to make a film trailer type website to raise awareness and hopefully funds to stage this modern take this ancient story.

Huge thanks to everybody who is coming out today to crew and star in film and photography.

Premiere Success

redsnappa — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:47:33 +0000

The premiere of RedSnappa’s most recent short film, ‘The Car Park’ was a huge success. Almost 200 people turned up to watch the comedy of subversion and enjoy the after-show hospitality of the GFT. Thanks to everybody who bought me a drink. It was great to get so much support and really felt like a great day for the Scottish Indie Film making movement. The next film will call on the growing group of talented collaborators and will look at the very nature of the Blogger as the last bastion of the investigative journalist.

We also raised over £200 for the Salem Uganda Children’s Home.

Here’s to the next one. Film and trailers to follow soon for viewing at www.redsnappa.com

Film Premier The Car Park

redsnappa — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:26:20 +0000

As a huge thank you to actors and crew we are premiering RedSnappa’s new short film ‘The Car Park’ at the GFT (Glasgow Film Theatre) this Saturday.

The GFT has a beautiful small capacity cinema, as part of the complex, with a state of the art digital projector and screen making it a must for anybody wanting to get the best out of all their, digitally filmed, hard work.

This eponymous situation comedy of subversion, sees a small and excellent cast explore themes of perception, exploitation, and parking. The film questions the changing reality of roles in society that were once valued for the extra they contributed to community life rather than their function.

This is the mulit-talented John Hatfield’s second outing as writer with Seth Gardner as director and editor balancing miniscule budget and shooting options with a combination of experienced and complete novice actors. This is the second of a proposed trio of short films designed to perfect the filming skills of the small RedSnappa film collective. After that the feature film blockbuster wil be started – watch this space!!!

Full Moon

redsnappa — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:28:34 +0000

African Moon

As long as the full moon heralds a full day, a full week and full diary and then a full bank balance all will be well in the land of RedSnappa.

Don’t you just love the fact that when you offer independent advice to colleagues and clients that they then go and cheerfully act on it – with somebody else!! Sheesh I should be up in a helicopter today yet some other lucky devil is doing the job that I recommended to a certain hotel would be great for their publicity and web site. Sigh! Like the Murphey’s I’m not bitter.

redsnappa — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:46:28 +0000

A busy day of editing materials for the Salem Uganda charity today at www.redsnappa.com. The wonderful Hilary returns to Africa next week and is desperate to bring some footage back to show everybody and, at the same time, we need to urgently raise awareness about the precarious predicament of the children’s village.

I hope that the films will allow people to gain a sense of personal connection with the children and the house parents, and all who are making this amazing project worthwhile. As Lieh Tzu said, and I paraphrase, ‘It is better to make a donation to somebody that you know than one based on the word of another. Otherwise it might be just as easy to condemn or ignore on the word of another. If we make the effort to know whom it is we are giving to then the gift is personal and so much more powerful and also rewarding to the giver.’

It is my hope that the films will eventually create a small community of people who can experience joy in their ability to gift time and money to people and places that they have a strong connection with.

Children of Uganda