News

Dardentor Short In Production... January 4th 2009 1:00pm	I trust everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years celebration. We are currently producting the first viral short for the Dardentor website. It is also to be shown at an International Film Festival in April. Look out for it towards the end of January-Beginning of February! Another good piece of news is that we're starting to become popular in the US, with credit sales there building!
Dardentor Production Files... December 20th 2008 4:45pm	The "Dardentor" production files are now online. You can access them through the Dardentor site or perhaps more simply by clicking here. You may also have noticed that buyacredit.com has redecorated itself for christmas. At the moment, whilst Lizzie is working away at the screenplay, we are securing some more publicity through a number of websites and magazines. 4 days till Christmas!
Signing the Screenwriter's Contract... December 13th 2008 7:00pm	Today we sealed the deal on our screenwriter. We are pleased to announce that Lizzie Hopley, an award winning theatre and radio writer will be writing the screenplay for Dardentor. We met at the Curzon Cinema in Soho where we exchanged ideas and thoughts on the plot treatment. We are extremely excited to be working with her and she is very passionate about the project. "Dardentor" has advanced to the next step...the writing has begun!
Some More Press and a Chosen Screenwriter... November 21st 2008 8:00pm	We've had a busy week. Again we've been working on our scene by scene plot treatment of the film. Meanwhile we have had three articles written about the project-have a look at the press page for them! We have also chosen our screenwriter. We are extremely happy with our choice and will be posting info on the writer on both this page and the Dardentor production files as soon as possible. Goodnight.
Advertise On The End Credits-Buy A Logo Credit... November 17th 2008 10:20pm	As of today you can upload your company logo onto the end credits of Dardentor for just £10/$20! Go to the homepage and click on 'ADVERTISE ON THE END CREDITS' or click here.
Writing, Investments and Company Logo Credits... November 12th 2008 10:30pm	Admittedly it has been a long time since i last posted a message...sorry about that! Over the past few weeks we've been working hard on finally choosing and securing a screen-writer...so watch this space and with any luck, we'll have a name in the next few weeks. Meanwhile we've been looking at alternate investment opportunities to fund the film's development stages (all funds from buyacredit.com are locked away in a vault and will only be spent when the film is greenlit as it were.) I'm very excited to tell you that as of next week we will be selling company credits; basically, you will be able to upload your logo onto the end credits of "Dardentor" for £10. You never know, it could be an amazing advertising opportunity! Anyway, I promise to keep you posted more regularly in future! Goodnight.
Web Designer and some forgotten press pieces.. October 23rd 2008 10:30pm	Today the 150th issue of Web Designer came out and we are in their News Bulletin. Take a look. We have also dug up some past press coverage and loaded them onto the press page.
Dardentor Official Site up and running.. October 22nd 2008 10:30pm	The official site for "Dardentor" is now online; it's not quite finished, but online nonetheless! We are currently in pre-production on a short promo video for Dardentor; an extremely talented and upcoming recording artist is writing a song about 'Clovis Dardentor' as we speak. We are still looking at screenwriters and hope to choose one very soon. Meanwhile credit sales are going up, and all in all, the going's good! Goodnight.
Telling The Web About Buyacredit... October 8th 2008 8:30pm	Some good press this week! Web User Magazine have posted our story on their website. Click here to see the article snapshot. Web Designer Magazine are printing a story on the project in their next issue (out Oct 23rd). And to top it all off, we've been invited to the 'End Of The Pier International Film Festival'. So all in all, everything's going great! Also, as promised, here is the article from the Bucks Examiner which came out a few weeks ago. Bucks Article
Character Development And A Bit Of Press... October 5th 2008 7:00pm	We've been working Dardentor's characters over the past few weeks, but have also received a little bit of press in two newspapers. Below is the link to one of the articles, and i will post the other one later. Mercury Article
Just A Quick Update... September 21st 2008 9:45pm	Just a quick message to say that everything is going as planned. The majority of our potential screenwriters are still working away at the example scenes, and credit sales are still going up and up! Goodnight!
The process of picking a Screenwriter has begun... September 8th 2008 9:30pm	Last night I sent out an Example Scene pack to all of our potential screenwriters. They now have in depth information on the story and characters, as well as outlines for two example scenes we have asked them to write. Hopefully we will start recieving completed scene scripts sometime over the next few weeks; and with any luck, there will be a clear favourite.
Credits selling and Writers writing... August 28th 2008 10:30pm	It's nearly September and in about a week we will be sending out an example scene to all our potential screenwriters. With these scenes we will be able to see who best captures the essence of our vision, and accordingly select them to write the script. Credit sales are progressing at a healthy rate and everything is moving as planned...so all in all its been a good month!
Updated Storyboards and Potential Sceenwriters... August 15th 2008 10:00pm	Heike Scharrer and Rob Finlay at Previsualisation Ltd. spent the beginning of this week polishing up our storyboards for presentation. Thanks very much for that! Also, we've had a good number of potential screenwriters emailing us! Many of them seem perfect for the role, so we plan to send an example scene to all of them so that we can fish out the best one. We have targeted all the major film education institutions in the United Kingdom, and they are sending the message out to all their young and talented graduates. So in the end, we should end up with a highly talented young writer!
Storyboards Complete... August 10th 2008 9:00pm	On Friday, we drove up to Elstree FIlm Studios in the evening where the storyboards where in their finishing stages. Heike (Previsualisation's Storyboard Artist) was scanning in the last of the images after spending a good two weeks working tirelessly on them. After making some amendments, all 35 of the storyboard panels were complete by 9 0' clock. I took the time to compile some of these panels to give you a taste of the opening scene storyboard. You can find them here. Goodnight all!
Storyboard Thumbnails... August 4th 2008 11:15pm	A couple of days ago we went back up to Elstree Film Studios to take a look at the thumbnails that had been produced for us. In another couple of days we are set to revisit the studios to pick up the final storyboard of the opening scene.
Storyboard Planning at Elstree Studios... July 29th 2008 5:30pm	Today we went to Elstree Film Studios to meet with Rob Finlay (the director of previsualisaton.ltd) and his team, to start storyboarding our opening sequence. The storyboard artist is now drawing up thumbnails and we will meet her later on in the week to confirm that these are what we envisaged; then the full storyboard for the scene can be drawn out.
Best Wishes and Support From Sir Cliff Richard... July 22nd 2008 10:30am	Just a quick post to thank Sir Cliff Richard and his secretary, Gill Snow, for the lovely letter they sent back to us this week, which got to me this morning. Sir Cliff himself gave us his "very best wishes" for the project, as did Gill Snow. In return for this we'd like to offer them a credit each on the end of the film.
A Meeting At Elstree Studios... July 16th 2008 6:45pm	Today we drove to Elstree Film Studios to meet with Robert Finlay, the director of previsualisation ltd, a pre-production company based at the studios. He shared with us a wealth of knowledge aswell as friendly advice to help us on our way. We plan to contact a friend of Robert's at 'Screen-East' who we hope will help us through the pre-production process with preliminary funding. Meanwhile, we are working systematically through our adaptation of 'Clovis Dardentor', and at the same time persuing our efforts in getting the buyacredit project recognised by the industry and the general public.
Going once, going twice...SOLD... July 15th 2008 11:05pm	We listed our first 'ebay credit' today! The bidding for each credit will start at 10p (for now). To see the ebay credit just type 'film credit' in the ebay search bar. Alternatively, visit our ebay page here.
Still Working and Still Waiting... July 9th 2008 11:30pm	We have been working hard on the story and are tackling problems as they come. Characters are getting names (most of which are the same as in the book 'Clovis Dardentor') and ideas for the title are in the pipeline. We have discussed idea upon idea and could drink coffee for England---creatively, things are going well! However, we are still waiting for contacts to get back to us with their advice and support! Hopefully, in my next post, i will be able to tell you of the progression of buyacredit, and not just the storyline! Goodnight.
Working and Waiting... June 28th 2008 8:00am	It has been a while since my last post, and we have progressed greatly in the development of the story. We are starting to assemble our adaptation in a compilation of scenes, and at the same time developing characters, themes and ideas whilst keeping reference to Jules Verne's novel. However, as the creative process is rocketing into motion, the fund-raising has taken a slight pause as we await replies and support from various contacts. Watch this space for more updates soon!
Press Release... June 5th 2008 11:30am	The press release has just gone out using www.pressdispensary.co.uk To view our release page please click here.
The First Step... June 1st 2008 6:10pm	Its been a good few days-we are in the Herts Ad today! It is out until next friday. Its not a big article, and the newspaper itself is only local; just being available to St. Albans, Harpenden and Radlett-Nonetheless, it is a start. To see the Herts Ad article, click here. The press release was paid for today, so that should be going out very soon! Once again, if you haven't bought a credit yet, please do so! It will only cost you £1, yet it will help us enormously! Thanks.
The Project Begins... May 20th 2008 10:00pm	It has been an eventful 15 days of creativity since I posted last. Ever since the website's launch, all we have said is that our feature film will be loosely based on a relatively unknown Jules Verne novel. We knew the story, but we hadn’t read to book cover to cover. So the quest began to find one of the rarest Jules Verne books around. We ended up with the astonishing discovery that the book has not been published in English since its first release in 1897. The British Library had one copy, as did the national library of Scotland, the national library of Wales and also the university libraries of Oxbridge. Private copies were also on sale for around £2500/$5000. The British Library was clearly our only option. However, after visiting them we were told that we could not take out the book, nor read it at the library without going on a 'Library Usage' course. It ended up with us commisioning a photocopy to be made by the British Library. Although it cost us over £100, at least now we have the book at hand! The novel is 43rd in a collection named 'Voyages Extraordinaires'. The book (that is catergorised under the genre of 'adventure') was written and first published in 1896, in France. It was then translated into English and published in London the year after. However, since then, the story has become the sorry little book, sat at the bottom of the pile, gathering dust...almost forgotten entirely. Ideas are flowing fruitfully and the basis of the film is starting to come together. On the fundraising side of things, we have sold quite a few credits (mostly to friends and family) but are eagerly anticipating the results of our press release that we sent out earlier today. Soon we should be popping up in local newspapers etc. (the first small step on a stairway to success) and the credit sales should go up substantially. All we can do for the moment is hope for the best-and keep on working! If you haven’t bought a credit yet, please buy one and support our project! Goodnight...and watch out for the next update!
Website up and running... May 5th 2008 10:45am	After quite a few months of planning, the 'buyacredit' website is finally online! The website itself has taken a long time to build and the process has proved to be a maze of trial and error. With a domain, host and fully functional website, we are almost ready to begin. In a few weeks we aim to launch the ‘buyacredit’ project into the public eye, bit by bit. My name is Adrian Bliss, and i will be updating the news page whenever we have something to say!