WOODY by Stuart Bowen

Sydney

A$12,111

of $11,000 targetyrs ago

Successful on 3rd Nov 2011 at 3:00PM.

WOODY just passed 100% funding!! AWESOME!! Thankyou to everyone who supported the film and helped push it over the line! If you always wanted to donate but didn't - there is still 8 days to go and lots the extra money can go towards - more money to prep art department including getting the concert piano printed 3D, exploding his dream piano and the Woody sign and shooting it with a slow mo cam, getting a motion control rig to achieve a super tricky shot, more lights, more time in the studio...the possibilities are endless!!

Full details at: woodyshortfilm.com

WOODY is a stop motion animated short film written & directed by Stuart Bowen and produced by Jodi Matterson. The film centres around Woody, a wooden doll who dreams of playing the piano, despite the fact that he only has wooden paddles for hands. Dissatisfied with his life and not being able to achieve his dreams, Woody often escapes into a dreamscape of wish fulfilment and 10-fingered success. One day however, his dreams gets out of hand...

We’ve been prepping this film over the last year and recently shot one minute of footage. We’re really excited to see the story start to come to life and can’t wait to share it with everyone. To realise the full nine minutes we need help to fund the rest of the shoot. We have a lot of industry professionals donating their time on this project, but we need funds for studio hire, camera/lens hire, lighting and equipment hire. Stop motion is a very time consuming process and it will take a further ten weeks to complete the film. By becoming a supporter of WOODY, you get to be part of the process by getting updates on the project’s progress as well as some sweet rewards which are listed here on the website.

Check out the video above for more details including 1 minute of footage from the final film. Please share this project with friends or family who may be interested in Woody’s quest, every little bit counts!

The Creative Team

Stuart Bowen
Director/Writer/Editor

Stuart is a Communications and Music graduate who started a career in editing after making ‘fake’ trailers for AUSTRALIA and landing a job editing at Bazmark. He has since edited mood reels and film trailers George Miller, Michael Gracey, Barrie Osborne, Tim Bullock and Darren Ashton and campaigns for Liptons, Nokia and Tourism Australia. Stuart is starting his transition into directing with his first short film WOODY.

www.woodyshortfilm.com

Jodi Matterson

Producer

After an apprenticeship with the producers of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT and CHOPPER, Jodi moved to the UK and worked with many of England’s top producers before returning to Sydney and managing Hi-5. Since then she has produced two films for Darren Ashton, THUNDERSTRUCK and RAZZLE DAZZLE, and is currently in production with her third film NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN with Oscar nominated director, Peter Templeman starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood).

http://www.exit.com.au/commercials/

Damian Wyvill
Director of Photography

After moving through the camera ranks and working as one of Australia’s busiest focus pullers, Damian started shooting his own stuff after his ‘apprenticeship’ on the STAR WARS prequels. He shot second unit on AUSTRALIAN RULES for Paul Goldman and collaborated on WEST with Daniel Krige. He then shot a unit on AUSTRALIA, shot CAUGHT INSIDE on location in the Maldives, the highly anticipated Australian musical GODDESS and now rejoins Baz Luhrmann shooting second unit on THE GREAT GATSBY

http://www.damianwyvill.com/

Craig Deeker

VFX/Post Production Supervisor

Craig started out as a human to computer interface designer before moving into the advertising industry working in the dual roles of production mangement and creative/art director at companies like Y&R, Wunderman & Ogilvy and Mather. Craig then set up his own post-production company The Gingerbread Man working in many fields including art, music, advertising and film. Recently Craig moved into film production pipelines doing VFX on RECREATOR, performing various roles in the delivery of LBF, TOOMELAH and REDD INC.

http://www.thegingerbreadman.com.au/home

Josh Abrahams
Music Director/Composer

Josh started his professional career forming the ARIA award winning group FSOM with David Carbone and Steve Robbins. Josh has released 2 solo albums, winning 2 more ARIA awards for his album featuring the hit single ‘Totally Addicted to Bass’. Josh also collaborated with Baz Luhrmann on the UK #1 single ‘Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen)’ and also in the music department of MOULIN ROUGE helping to produce the hugely successful soundtrack. Since then he has collaborated with Amiel on her Gold selling album ‘Audio Out’, written music for many advertising campaigns and worked on the soundtracks for ONE PERFECT DAY and the Ang Lee produced ONE LAST RIDE.

http://samplify.com.au/

Russell Thornton
Composer

Russell studied music composition at Newcastle University receiving an Honours in Film Music Composition and mentorship from Nigel Westlake. Russell has written music for advertising campaigns including Wattyl, Mitsubishi, The National Dissability Service, AGL and the Cannes award winning campaign ‘We Gave Blood’ for the Red Cross. Russell has written the scores to short films PAUL’S DREAM, POSESSIONS and BROKEN and has won awards for his TV scores to various shows including SUPERNOVA.

http://www.russellthornton.com.au/

Sweet Music Tracks:

'Last Night I Heard Everything In Slow Motion' - Oliver Tank

http://www.triplejunearthed.com/OliverTank

'Wooden Dreams' - Josh Abrahams

http://samplify.com.au/

Epic gratitude, email updates and a thankyou on the film's website

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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website plus a HD digital download of the completed film when its released

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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film when its released plus a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director

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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film and a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director, a set of posters being designed specifically for the film available for digital download, a thankyou in the film’s credits, one of the extra Woody dolls used in the film signed by the director with a personal note, a model prop created specifically for the film plus a visit to the studio while shooting the second half of the film (location Redfern, Sydney, Australia) and a double invitation to the cast and crew screening.

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Epic gratitude, email updates, a thankyou on the film's website, a HD digital download of the completed film and a DVD copy of the completed film when it is released, signed by the director, a set of posters being designed specifically for the film available for digital download, a thankyou in the film’s credits, one of the extra Woody dolls used in the film signed by the director with a personal note, a model prop created specifically for the film, a visit to the studio while shooting the second half of the film (location Redfern, Sydney, Australia), a double invitation to the cast and crew screening plus Associate Producer credit on the film (including credit listing on IMDB)

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