We’re pleased to announce that Metroland - a short film written and directed by Benjamin Bee and produced by Candle & Bell, will make its festival premiere at the Academy Award Qualifying Festival, Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Photos from the set of Strange Cities Are Familiar
Winners at the Royal Television Society Awards 2018
Photos from the set of Elsewhere
A look behind the scenes on STINE
New photos for Metroland released!
Four short films enter pre-production
The Creative Producer Initiative
Producer Maria Caruana Galizia recently completed a 7 month professional development programme with Creative England called the Creative Producer Initiative. The initiative was designed to help emerging producers generate and develop projects, strengthen their skills and learn more about developing projects for a variety of formats and platforms.
Candle & Bell Named in the Top 50
Understanding Audience
If you have a powerful story that you know can engage, interest and move your target audience, it doesn’t matter that there isn’t a single aerial shot in your video. In order to craft an effective story, you have to be inside your audience’s head, understand who they are, what they need, and how best to communicate with them.
Getting an Event Video Right
A Six and Two Threes makes the BIFA Longlist
Metroland
Candle & Bell are pleased to announce that they are producing another short film called Metroland. The film has been selected as part of Creative England’s iShorts funding initiative. Metroland is one of three short films the company is producing this summer. It is written and directed by award winning, Newcastle based filmmaker Benjamin Bee. Benjamin’s previous film Step Right Up was long-listed for a BAFTA.
Festival Success
Our short film The Lost Girl, written and directed by Laura Degnan, has just started its run on the film festival circuit and we’re pleased to say the reception it’s received has exceeded all expectation. Our short film A Six and Two Threes, written and directed by Andy Berriman, has also started its festival run.
Candle & Bell's Summer of Hard Work
Well, did it ever really feel like summer? With the sun only making a few fleeting appearances, the opportunity for drinking Pimm's and relaxing in our garden was reduced to a couple of hours on an unusually slow Saturday. Thankfully for us, we had sufficient work to keep us distracted from the disappointing weather.
What's Your Problem? And How Video Can Fix It
Video - it's a tricky thing. How much should you spend? Where do you show it? What purpose will it serve you in the long run? Why is video a good thing? These are all valid questions and ones we are asked everyday by businesses we meet. So here are our thoughts on some Key issues or problems a well scripted video can solve for you.
5 Tips for Appearing in Your Promo Video
Appearing in your video is a great idea. You're speaking directly to your clients, present and future. You're making business personal and that is what people like to see. However, if you appear tense and nervous, your credibility could be in jeopardy. Here are a few simple tips for how to prepare facing the camera.
Filming the Festival of Humanities
November 2014 was a busy month for us. We were commissioned by Northumbria University department of Humanities to film their event, The Festival of Humanities. Over the course of 8 days, academics from the department held various events across Newcastle city centre. From Britain's first actresses to fashionable diseases of the 18th Century, there were topics to interest everyone.
Candle & Bell Featured in the Newcastle Journal
Candle & Bell were featured in the Newcastle Journal's supplement on Intellectual Property. The article features Managing Director and Producer, Maria Caruana Galizia talking about the help the company received in its early days from Business & IP Centre Newcastle's Innovation Elevator master class. Maria described the master class as "hugely rewarding and useful".
My Kingdom for a Horse
Having made a career out of piecing details together to create stories, I find Shakespeare's famous line particularly apt when talking about how things might go wrong in the video production process. A video is made up of many parts. Without a great script, it's likely that your message will fall on deaf ears; Without great images, the visual appeal is lost and viewers get bored; Without clean sound you'll put people off; Every detail matters a great deal.