As you’ve probably noticed from watching the finalists’ films, the three-minute running time didn’t leave much room for credits. But we’re setting things straight by publishing the full credits for each of the Your Big Break films. Need cast or crew for your NZ-based short film or feature? These chaps and chap-ettes are the bee’s [...]
As you’ve probably noticed from watching the finalists’ films, the three-minute running time didn’t leave much room for credits. But we’re setting things straight by publishing the full credits for each of the Your Big Break films. Need cast or crew for your NZ-based short film or feature? These chaps and chap-ettes are the bee’s [...]
Rajneel Singh paces as Matt Wear, colourist at Park Road Post Production, makes minute adjustments to a frame of Blank Spaces – a close-up of a beanie-clad David Van Horn. Among the many challenges facing Matt is the fact that of the film’s two shooting days, the first was overcast, while the second was sunny; [...]
First off, you may have noticed a new section has appeared on the site – Visit New Zealand. If you want to have the experience of a lifetime – which could include checking out the stunning Your Big Break shooting locations, if you include spectacular Queenstown among your travel destinations – that’s the place to [...]
The atmosphere in the room is charged. Tim McLachlan is a bundle of energy – or is that nerves? Here in Mixing Theatre 3 at Park Road Post Production, Tim and his team, which includes sound designers Tim Prebble and Dave Whitehead and dialogue editor Chris Todd, have been working all day on the sound [...]
These two worlds couldn’t seem further apart.
In one of them, Tim McLachlan and his editor, Jonno Woodford-Robinson, sit in a plush, dimly-lit Park Road Post Production edit suite. In front of them, Frosty Man and the BMX Kid has been reduced, in just four days, from an actual awe-inspiring sun-drenched Queenstown vista to a no [...]
After the first days of any shoot, which are inevitably chaotic, every production office finds its own rhythms. This is happening now at Your Big Break, as the production team becomes accustomed to the challenge of working with five different directors on five different projects, all in either production or preproduction.
Tim McLachlan’s Frosty Man and the [...]
The sun is beating down on a narrow precipice near Jack’s Point, about 25 minutes outside Queenstown. This is the second of two locations that director Tim McLachlan is using to trick his diving shots in Frosty Man and the BMX Kid. Unable to find a suitable jetty, Tim changed his key location to a [...]
A full moon – indeed a blue moon, I’m reliably informed – has risen over the lake outside my window. It’s been a long day today. Hard to believe it’s only just over a week since the finalists were announced … and tomorrow it starts!
Even though they’re all scrambling to prep for the challenge ahead, [...]
I’m sitting in the Your Big Break production office at The Rees Hotel in Queenstown.
It’s a surreal experience. Try and imagine all the frantic insanity of a typical production office – producers, coordinators, assistants and crew hunched over laptops and/or phones, surrounded by whiteboards with schedules scrawled in different colours and towering stacks of contracts, shot-lists [...]
