Metroland

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

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.

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.

My Kingdom for a Horse

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.