Stirton Productions and Beyond

HBO Buys One Day Removals

2012-01-23T14:04:00.003Z

Thanks to our excellent sales company - Cinemavault, our movie "One Day Removals" has been acquired by broadcaster HBO.This is a great bit of news and we're all pretty happy. Currently it is only available in Eastern Europe, but we're hoping that other territories will be opened up soon. It is fun to watch "faceci-od-przeprowadzek" in Polish though, it's so sweary! Here is a link to the home site

World's Rudest Movie Invades Loch Ness

2011-05-23T12:03:00.007Z

Stirton Productions sweary, Scottish comedy 'One Day Removals,' is to screen at this year's Loch Ness Film Festival.The festival, now in it's second year, is located in Drumnadrochit, on the banks of Loch Ness. The festival will run from May 26th - 29th and will be screening short films and features from around the world.The movie's production team, director Mark Stirton and producers Michael

24th Edmonton Film Festival - One Day Removals

2010-09-20T09:15:00.006Z

The 24th Edmonton International Film Festival is to screen our mad black comedy "One Day Removals." The film will be screened on Thursday, September 30th at 5pm.Our distributor, Cinemavault, have provided a subtitled copy of the movie for the screening. The subtitles will be in English, to help the audience with some of the Doric phrases, but I'm sure they'll be able to understand most of the

The Next Movie

2010-06-04T12:27:00.004Z

I know you've all been asking for a while now what the next film will be, so lets put you out of our misery with this announcement.We're in the scripting and pre production art phase of our next movie - 'Good Guys Versus Bad Guys.' To get the ball rolling Mark Stirton has posted some of his layouts on his blog - here. I'll do the same and hopefully quite soon we'll have heaps of stuff to play

Cinemavault releases One Day Removals

2010-05-13T14:11:00.004Z

Stirton Productions, Doric road movie "One Day Removals," has been acquired for international distribution by Cinemavault. A well regarded movie sales company, based in Canada.The film is now being touted by the company for sale; so should be on the shelves near you soon. The sales sheet for the movie can be downloaded from here.The movie is also available online from Bablegum and Blinkbox,

A Birthday Cake

2010-03-26T09:10:00.004Z

A non-specific director of Stirton Productions is a non-specified age on Saturday the 27th of March. So we had a little party for him last night to celebrate the thing that isn't happening.Susan, wife of producer Kerwin Robertson (in photo wearing a blue shirt), made a special cake (with the help of Kerwin, apparently...) for Mark. Mark Stirton, may, or may not be, a huge geeky fan of the world's

The Planet - Now on Blinkbox

2010-03-19T09:48:00.003Z

Watch movies online and free tvThose lovely folk at Raindance TV have released our first movie, "The Planet," online. It is being hosted by the movie/TV site Blinkbox, for rent or download.The Planet was released in 2007 and is available on DVD in the USA and Japan, this new online release is licensed to UK only. So apologies to anyone

New "One Day Removals" Trailer

2010-01-26T09:18:00.006Z

Hi folks. Stirton Productions, commander in chief, Mark Stirton, has created a new trailer for our hit Doric murder comedy; "One Day Removals."This one is work and child safe, so bang up the volume and have fun.If you feel you're up to watching the whole movie, it is currently online: here.

Celebrity Big Brother 2010

2010-01-11T11:09:00.002Z

Hi folks, and a happy new year to you all. Hope you are all having a good one, snow permitting.I'll start the new year off by saying 'Celebrity Big Brother'.... 'Why?'Really, why? I'd give them all chainsaws and unlimited drugs - whoever makes it out alive gets a new film contract.To vent my spleen I did another texty animation. In Doric - The language of the gods.

Happy Fu*king Christmas

2009-12-24T09:58:00.007Z

A happy Christmas/holidays etc to all you people out there.I hope you all have a good time and enjoy yourselves. A special mention to all the service men and women overseas at this time, all the very best to you and stay safe. And remember the true message of Christmas, Dr Who is on tomorrow. I'll have my Tardis pajamas and woolly dalek cap on to watch it - will you?

DVD Demand Demands DVD Duplicates

2009-12-18T12:01:00.004Z

Sorry, I got carried away with the title. Sales for Stirton Productions, murder comedy "One Day Removals," have gone a bit mad so we've had to extend our sales into the new year.We have limited stocks now, so anyone wanting to buy a copy online better get a move on. We are going to be stopping selling the movie ourselves, but you'll have to wait for news on that.Also, the annual Stirton

One Day Removals on Raindance TV

2009-12-03T14:38:00.004Z

Big beefy Scottish snuff/road movie - "One Day Removals," is now available to watch online from those lovely folk at Raindance TV. The film will be available via a number of players, but at the moment it is only on Babelgum Film. It is the whole movie, so check it out if you can.In other news: The dvd of the movie will no longer be sold from our Stirton Productions website after Christmas. So if

Inverness Film Festival One Day Removals Screening

2009-11-17T17:17:00.009Z

Well, that's the Inverness Film Festival over. We had a run up the road from Aberdeen to attend and it went rather well. There was a good turn out for the screening and the crowd really loved the film, as usual. One Day Removals seems to have fans of all ages. We were signing copies for folk in their late teens and into their 80's. Two elderly ladies said it was the best laugh they had had in

Inverness Film Festival 2009 - One Day Removals Screening

2009-10-22T09:35:00.005Z

"One Day Removals," has been chosen for selection at this year's Inverness Film Festival. We'll be appearing alongside some cracking new international movies, like "Cold Souls." So rush out and buy lots of tickets now.The Inverness Film Festival, now in it's 7th year, has earned a name for itself as one of the premier festivals in the UK. The festival runs from November 11th to Sunday 15th at the

BAFTA Scotland and the Amazing Screening of One Day Removals

2009-09-08T14:15:00.006Z

Yes, it's an old school dr who title for the amazing screening we attended at the BAFTA Scotland headquarter in Glasgow.Funnily enough, BAFTA is the floor below Scottish Screen, so it took quite an effort to get director Mark Stirton (or me) in the building after the history we've had with them. But hopefully that's all changed now as one of the attendees at the screening was from Scottish Screen

BAFTA Scotland Screening One Day Removals

2009-09-02T15:21:00.003Z

Stirton Productions's Doric comedy, One Day Removals, is to have a screening at the BAFTA Scotland headquarters in Glasgow, next Monday.The movie is part of this month's screening schedule, alongside some other great movies. It may be the only comedy though.So, if you want the best laugh you've ever had with your clothes on (and you're a BAFTA member) head on down to 249 West George St, Glasgow

One Day Removals - Doric Murder Black Comedy Road Movie - now on sale

2009-08-24T15:34:00.006Z

The most fun you'll ever have while watching a van load of bleeding corpses.Available now on PAL DVD from Stirton ProductionsAlso, Click on link below to join the Facebook fan page for the movie. Lots of photos and behind the scenes stuff. FacebookLots of exciting things have happened in the past week, but we better not speak about them until things are confirmed. It's got us excited though, and

Scottish Screen - Who are they helping?

2009-08-13T07:55:00.003Z

A contact page has been set up for those interested in expressing their opinions, good or bad, about Scottish Screen. The official film body of Scotland.Over the years many people have been unhappy about the way the Scottish Screen works. If you are a film professional, or have had dealings with Scottish Screen you may want to sign up and have your say. We hope later to publish our findings in

One Day Removals - Facebook Fan Page

2009-08-12T11:44:00.003Z

Hi folks, our movie 'One Day Removals,' now has a Facebook fan page for you to glare at. Join the fun and excitement of Stirton Productions comedy classic in the comfort of your own computer. Link is here:- Facebook

Cass Joins the Aberdeen City Firm

2009-08-03T12:50:00.006Z

Last Saturday saw the closing gala of the least advertised festival in the world, the Aberdeen City and Shire Film Festival. Apart from the opening screening of 'One Day Removals,' which sold out, numbers for the other films were terrible. Hopefully next year the organisers will try promoting the venues a bit more. For a city with more money than most others in Scotland the effort was pretty

One Day Removals - The funniest film of the Aberdeen festival

2009-07-28T10:41:00.007Z

Mark Stirton in full flow at the Q&A after screening Michael Clark reaching where other producers fear to go! John Lovett, Julia Stewart and Mark Stirton The stalwart crew of the Belmont Cinema Mark Stirton with Provost and Lord Provost, masters of bling Here are a few photos from the Aberdeen City and Shire film festival gala, last Friday. As you can see it was a fun night with a capacity crowd

One Day Removals - now on sale

2009-07-27T08:56:00.002Z

Just a quick update. The online sales for 'One Day Removals,' are now active. Visit the Stirton Productions homepage or lazyclick on the link here:)One Day Removals DVD

One Day Removals wow's Aberdeen Film Festival

2009-07-27T08:48:00.003Z

The 1st Aberdeen City and Shire Film Festival opened with a bang on Friday. The Sell out screening of our movie 'One Day Removals,' was a huge success and the audience literally laughed their faces off. Attending the festival were Director, Mark Stirton, lead actors Patrick Wight and Scott Ironside and several other cast and crew. Oh, and me of course.The night went really well, even the tiny

One Day Removals DVD Now On Sale

2009-07-17T13:28:00.004Z

The new 'One Day Removals' DVD is now available from One Up Records - 17 Belmont Street and Bruce Millers - 363 Union Street, Aberdeen. More stores in town will carry the film soon, check main Stirton Productions site for details. DVD's will also be available to buy after the Aberdeen film festival launch next Friday, 24th July.Online sales will start on Monday July 27th from the Stirton

One Day Removals opens Aberdeen City and Shire Film Festival

2009-07-13T13:20:00.006Z

Stirton Productions movie 'One Day Removals' is to launch the 1st Aberdeen City and Shire film festival, on Friday July 24th 8.30pm. There will also be a party afterwards at Bar 5 (The Hub) on Union street at 10.30. For networking and general fun.There will be a question and answer session after the screening, where the audience can grill the cast and crew. At time of writing, those attending

God! Has it been that long?

2009-06-12T15:32:00.005Z

Bloody hell, it's been ages since I posted anything. I've been so involved in the marketing stuff that I ain't done nothin' else. Well, apart from find twitter. Think I've lost a week somewhere. This is me tweet here.To make up here's a still I did recently for One Day Removals, that ended up not being used due to context. Nice bit of photo exercise for me though. I had to create a fake family

Colouring n' Stuff

2009-05-12T15:22:00.004Z

A comic artist I met whilst he was chained in a cellar in Aberdeen, is doing lots of work at the moment. Not only is he working on the graphic novel of Sweeny Todd (from the book not the musical Tim Burton destroyed) but he is providing wonderful covers and drawn thingies for lots of other publications.Declan Shalvey is the chap.A cover he's produced for the Boom Studio's new Poe, mini series

One Day Removals - Raindance Screening in London

2009-04-10T07:49:00.005Z

The latest movie from Stirton Towers - 'One Day Removals,' is to receive a special screening at the Raindance Film Club next week.The screening will be held on Wednesday 15th April, 7pm at the The Horse Hospital, The Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX. Click here for map. If you're in the area and fancy a chance to see it, come on down.Entry is free and we are assured the beer is cheap. Many

Down in Doune

2009-03-03T13:20:00.007Z

Last weekend I attended a christening for me godson MKII, Michael Macleod, in the wee Perthshire village of Doune. Service and all that stuff went well and we had a great meal afterwards at a large country house, Cromlix House to be exact. I do like properly trained staff and I didn't have to whip any of them.But my real reason for going down to Doune was to see the castle. Yes, I am that

Glasgow Film Festival Photos- Part 1

2009-02-24T09:08:00.004Z

Here are a selection of photos (thanks to Mark Wyness) from the 'sold out' screening at the Glasgow Film Festival on Friday. The film was very well received and the audience had a great time.Director Mark Stirton, with sign at front of cinema.Team with Allison Gardner, co-director of the Festival.From left - Patrick Wight, Mark Stirton, Michael Clark, Kerwin Robertson. Director, producers and

Glasgow Film Festival Photos- Part 2

2009-02-23T13:43:00.005Z

Full House! The Audience waits in anticipation.Director Mark Stirton and Producer Kerwin Robertson during the Q&A session.Director with One Day Removals actor, John Lovett.Actor Patrick Wight with on-screen wife, Susan Robertson.

Glasgow Film Festival - Full House for One Day Removals

2009-02-21T10:12:00.003Z

The Scottish Premiere of One Day Removals was a great success, playing to a full house at the Glasgow Film theatre last night. Tickets for the screening had already sold out before the night, so many had to be turned away at the door.The organisers and staff of the festival did a great job looking after us (nearly all of the cast and crew turned up) and we'd like to thank them all for their

One Day Removals - On the move to Glasgow

2009-02-19T16:45:00.006Z

Just a quick line to say we're off down to Glasgow tomorrow for the premiere. If anyone wants to meet up with the director and crew - come on down. Or up, if you're in the south.Show starts at 6.30 at the Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose Street.A full report will be here soon.

Darkness Aftermath - A review

2009-02-17T09:48:00.005Z

Allen Etter, friend of Stirton Productions and a director in the United of States has sent over his latest (and first) movie for me to look at. Having done some animation for the filum means I get a free copy 'yay' with millions of extra disks of stuff, 'more yay.'Writer/Director Allen and assistant director/VFX/punchbag Ted Tiefel have crafted a feature length movie from nothing more than string

One Day Removals Scottish Film Premiere

2009-01-20T10:26:00.005Z

News just in, One Day Removals has been accepted to the 5th Glasgow Film Festival and will receive its Scottish premiere on Friday February 20th. For further details click on the image above.Tickets for the premiere, and the other films and events at the festival, will be on sale from midnight tonight and are available via this link or directly from the festival box office at:GFF Box Office,

Sweary Movie Edit_One Day Removals

2009-01-13T00:01:00.004Z

Sweary Movie Edit_One Day RemovalsOne Day Removals Sweary Movie Edit. Feature screening on Dailymotion 30th Jan - 2nd Feb. Warning, contains constant strong language - really really constant. And there's a bit wi a guy hiz like a hole through hiz heid, like. Ooh, nippy.

One Day Removals Making of - Part 1

2009-01-12T12:45:00.001Z

One Day Removals Making of - Part 1 Video sent by OneDayRemovals-Movie Making of One Day Removals -Part 1. Feature screening on Dailymotion 30th Jan - 2nd Feb.

One Day Removals on Dailymotion

2009-01-08T11:36:00.002Z

One Day Removals is to have an online screening at the end of January, running from the 30th Jan to 2nd of February.A bumper page of clips and interview has been set up on the Dailymotion site, so rush off over there now for a good stare at it. More material will be loaded on the site in the coming weeks, including never seen before behind the scenes footage and general gibbering by all the

Hah Bumbug

2008-12-18T15:04:00.004Z

It's Christmas time folks, I've been prompted by producer bloke Kerwin Robertson to do a little card for One Day Removals fans and customers. Which there are a lot of now, fun!I'll have my head stuck in various computers over the holiday working away on film stuff, so humbug to all the festtive cheer and stuff. I will also be firing Bob Cratchet as he's a snivelling little oik with a gimpy

Stirton Productions Store - Now Open

2008-12-08T15:52:00.003Z

Just in time for the Xmas novelty market, Stirton Productions has opened a Cafe Press store with lots of fun gifts for the mentally challenged. It's a bit of a work in progress so there's only a limited amount of stock, but it will later include some designs from "The Planet" and some other stuff.One of the fave gifts so far has got to be the clock that has Ronnie's quote from "One Day Removals"

BIFA - Update 2........Electric Boogaloo

2008-12-04T13:24:00.006Z

Well Mark and Josie made it back safely home from the British Independent Film Awards, they were of course upset about not picking up the award: as we all were at Stirton Towers (the SP flag has been at half mast since Sunday and the guard dogs have had to be kept on a short leash). But they did still manage to have a good time at the party afterwards.They also managed to get copies of the movie

British Independent Film Awards - Mini Update

2008-12-01T15:44:00.003Z

Latest news from the BIFA's - One Day Removals did not pick up the Raindance Award, but was just pipped at the post by Zebra Crossings, Samuel Holland's gritty London based drama. We'd all like to pass on our regards to the writer/director and wish him and his team all the best for the future.A full report, with pictures, will follow in the next couple of days - as director bloke Mark Stirton,

British Independent Film Awards - One Day Removals

2008-11-28T12:46:00.004Z

As One Day Removals has been nominated for an award at the BIFA's, here is a little update.Attending the award ceremony on Sunday 30th November will be writer/director Mark Stirton and lovely Irish actress, Josie Walsh. Other nominees in the Raindance category are Clubbed, directed by Neil Thompson, Flick directed by David Howard and Zebra Crossings by Samuel Holland. Stirton Productions would

Poster Update for One Day Removals

2008-10-30T14:52:00.008Z

I've done a few little changes to the main poster for One Day Removals, to reflect the award nomination and festival attendance. I look forward to filling all the blank space with little laurels.I'd also like to bring your attention to the intended cover for the Japanese release of our last movie, The Planet. The design team for the Japanese distribution company have came up with a totally mad

British Independent Film Awards - Nomination

2008-10-29T11:26:00.003Z

The latest production to be released from Stirton Towers has been nominated for an award at the British Independent Film Awards, to be held in London 30th of November.The doric snuff movie 'One Day Removals', is competing in the Raindance Award category against 3 other independent movies -all of which had a catering budget larger than the total cost of our film. So we're totally honoured to be

Raindance Premiere Photos

2008-10-15T12:01:00.008Z

Here are a few shots from the Raindance festival in London. A more detailed report is on the previous blog, or at Mark Stirton's blog here. Director Mark Stirton, decides which trousers to ruin before the screening.Star of One Day Removals Patrick Wight, with director Mark. Actors Steve Tomas (left) and Patrick Wight (right) with director bloke. Stirton Productions producer bloke, Michael Clark

One Day Removals - Raindance Screening

2008-10-14T10:06:00.005Z

London, 16th Raindance Festival - Premiere of One Day Removals - huge hit.That's all I really need to say, but I'll carry on.The screening of the movie on Saturday went so well we were cleared out of the 100 or so dvd's we'd brought down with us. People were so happy to get a copy they actually thanked us - now that makes a change. It was great to see the movie on a big screen and the audience

Going down south!

2008-10-09T11:28:00.004Z

Well, that's me heading off down to London for the premiere, I'll be back next week with lots of updates and pictures. Keep an eye on the news for any bizarre stuff happening there. When you get a lot of folk from Stirton Towers under one roof, reality goes a bit bongo.

Raindance Festival Top Picks

2008-10-01T09:28:00.002Z

Much to the surprise of all of us at Stirton towers Elliot Grove, the founder and director of the Raindance Film Festival, had included our Doric Dialect snuff movie 'One Day Removals' in his top 5 line up.What fun! For more details click - here.Meanwhile, the founder and director of Stirton Productions, Mark Stirton, has arrived in London for the start of the festival and will be making regular

One Day Removals - Raindance Festival Premiere

2008-09-19T15:31:00.005Z

Just in case somebody forgets that the world premiere of 'One Day Removals, 'is happening next month, I'll be running regular reminders.Screening starts at 12 noon, Saturday 11th of October at the Cineworld cinema, Shaftesbury Avenue, London (that's England).Myself (me) director Mark Stirton and actors Patrick Wight and Mike Mitchell will be attending: so just follow the hordes of screaming girls

One Day Removals - Now on Sale

2008-09-08T14:05:00.005Z

Fun news for all the millions of film fans after a copy of our new movie. 'One Day Removals,' is now on sale for a limited period, via our online store - here. The dvd is the same one being sent out to every film agent/distributor and their cat at the moment, so it's a good time to see it in it's original state. The movie features a director's commentary, outtakes and a novelty Easter egg -

16th Raindance Festival - One Day Removals

2008-09-02T12:36:00.005Z

Fun news film fans, the latest movie to be produced at the Stirton towers facility has been accepted to the 16th Raindance Film Festival in London. Schedule dates are still to be released, but until then here is a link to the Raindance festival site.Needless to say all of the cast and crew are pretty happy with the news and are looking forward to attending the festival. I should have updates soon

One Day Removals - American Remake

2008-08-06T09:38:00.005Z

Just a what if, prompted by some of the recent comments. But not too far fetched as we believe this movie has quite a lot of international potential as it deals with basic human principles. Fear, stupidity, panic, not being bright at all - and swearing.If anyone has further ideas of an ideal cast please let me know, just for fun of course. If William Shatner or Cuba Gooding's agent is interested

One Day Removals - DVD Cover

2008-07-29T15:37:00.005Z

There's been a lot of tweaking to the original dvd box design in the past few weeks, but as the disk and artwork are about to go out the door to the dvd printers, I thought I'd share them with you.Here's the original cover, very dark, but with all the movie elements (or elephants). Only a little nod to the fact that it's a comedy, with the expression on Patrick Wight's face.While doing the

One Day Removals - Trailer & Clips Online

2008-07-12T22:43:00.012Z

Warning, trailer and clips feature lots of swearing and Scottish people, if you're offended by either look away, run - run for the hills!Here is the initial trailer and a preview clip for the new movie - One Day Removals. This and some other clips are in a dedicated youtube site, the link can be found to the right. These are of course tiny versions of the real material, so please excuse web

2008-06-25T08:29:00.005Z

The Planet - AftermathWell, the movie has been out in the States for about 2 weeks now and we're finding a total split amongst the people who have seen it. There's the indi film fan or people who know a bit about what it takes to make a movie and there's folk who were expecting Star Trek. We've had reviews from 'fantastic invention and story,' to 'what's happening, why have they got a tent, why

2008-06-17T06:53:00.004Z

Stan Winston - RIP I got a bit of a shock last night when Mark (director bloke) texted me saying that Stan Winston had died. He had to check the information a few times to make sure, which made us both sad that it was correct. Stan, who had won Oscars for special effects in numerous movies including Aliens, Terminator and Jurassic Park, died on Sunday aged 62. He had been suffering from myeloma

The Planet - Unleashed

2008-06-09T16:04:00.003Z

Our last film 'The Planet,' is now for sale in north America. It's also available online from that Amazon shop here.Here's a pic of the cast - the roughest band of space mercs since that load in Wild Geese.

2008-05-20T13:31:00.003Z

The Planet - The BeastA blog dealing with giant movie monsters got in contact with us recently. They wanted to feature a big spanky image of the main 'god' monster from the film. Mark Stirton, director bloke, asked me to fluff up an image of the beast for inclusion in the site - so I did.I won't post it here as it's a bit spoilery, but if you really want to look it's on this site Undead Backbrain

The Planet - The Planet

2008-05-20T12:32:00.005Z

I've put quite a few bits of design work for the movie up recently, so I thought is was about time to feature the star of the film - the planet, himself (I'm sure it's a bloke).The design work for the planet came very early on, literally as soon as Mark had the title I started hammering out various planets - some were comically wrong. All of the designs were created in photoshop then mapped on

The Planet - Unseen Design Work

2008-04-29T10:49:00.005Z

As The Planet is going to be released soon in the US, I thought I'd put up some of the concept artwork that went into the design of the film. Attached are a few of the designs and visuals that never made it to the finished movie and a nice shot of the hero ship too.I'm responsible for the comically huge battleship, Kerwin Robertson designed and built the actual ship used and the e-pod. Tech info

2008-04-16T14:28:00.004Z

The Planet - US Release UpdateFun news this week from the company releasing 'The Planet,' in the US. MTI Home Video have set the date of June 10th, for the DVD release day.They have produced a spanky Hollywood type poster for the release: at the moment the artwork still has to be finalised, but hopefully they will keep the elements we sent over. The new dvd has the original making of feature and

2008-04-02T15:21:00.004Z

Last of the snapsHere are the last of the holiday photos before I start boring myself. I'd just like to say a huge thanks to Actoman for dragging me over to Lewis and forcing his nice parents to feed me for a week. It was much appreciated. Top photo show a group of traditional 'black houses,' used by the islanders before electricity and sense was introduced to the island. Half of the hobbit house

2008-03-31T09:01:00.003Z

Lewis TripJust back from Lewis, which may have been the coldest place I've ever been to. It's about the most westerly point in Britain and it's windy, really windy. As it has been inhabited for about 9000 years there's lots of old stuff to see. The most well known is the group of standing stones at Callanish and the iron age Dun Carloway Broch (sort of castle thing) where the famous Lewis chess

2008-03-23T14:22:00.005Z

HolidayOn a short visit to the island of Lewis with me mate - Aktoman. It's remote, snowing and looks like a pre-set Bryce 3d landscape, what fun for a texture nut like me.I'll be back on the mainland next Saturday, but until then you can follow the exploits on Akto's blog link on the right.Toodle pipSame location as above a few minutes earlier. Did I mention it was cold?

2008-03-14T13:05:00.003Z

The Wrath of CannesMark, director chap and CEO of Stirton towers has informed us that a copy of the new film is heading off to the Cannes film festival, for inclusion in this year's bash. It's taken a huge amount of effort to complete the movie in time for the submission date and all hats off to Mark for getting the disk away in time.We're having a bit of a rest now, until Monday. Ooh, a whole

2008-02-13T14:24:00.004Z

New WebsiteThe One Day Removals website is now up and ready to view. There are still a few pages to go live, but you can click on things and see stuff (you can tell I'm technical). Already got our first review on and the film's not finished yet, how fun is that!As advertised on the entry page there will be graphic content and swearing, very soon.

2008-02-06T14:33:00.001Z

Stay on target..Last Saturday I had a screening of One Day Removals, at the custom facility in Stirton Towers. It was a mostly complete edit, but before sound balancing and grading, so it gave me a pretty good idea of what the finished work will look like. Based on that I'd say it's already hundreds of times better than the previous movie 'The Planet,' and a well told and produced drama to boot.

2008-01-25T15:38:00.000Z

Burns Night - and a' thatHello folks, just a short note to say all is coming along fine with the movie (One Day Removals) and the last of the tweaking is nearly at an end. The imperious leader, Mark Stirton, is all ill just now with a nasty chest thing (not the thing from alien, or the alien's thing) and has been told to rest, but probably isn't, so the editing schedule is still on target.I can't

2008-01-11T15:31:00.000Z

Belated Happy New YearHello to all me chums and visitors that frequent the blogatron. Hope you all had a good one and are now as depressed as everyone else that had to go back to work.I was going to put some design stuff up, but I'm a bit busy, instead I'll do what I said I wouldn't and put a top 10 film thing up. I'm not doing it in order though as it changes with mood and/or weather.The List (

2007-12-21T12:43:00.000Z

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays etc.Thanks to all the folk that have visited the blog and main site over the past year. Lots of exciting news to come in the new year and more fun than you can shake a stick at. Have a great time everyone, and don't do anything we at Stirton Towers would do!

2007-11-30T09:50:00.000Z

Fags and FlamesThis week were were mostly throwing cigarettes past the camera and blowing up retired company directors; in this case Niel Simpson (friend of our film partner and financier, Ken Fraser). Normally chavvy scum like us rarely get to meet anyone wealthy or interesting, but making movies changes things, and sometimes we meet the most fascinating of people. Most people wouldn't allow

2007-11-21T15:40:00.000Z

Mean Streets A short break between movie work led me to purchase some great models from the Daz 3D site (home of Poser and Bryce stuff), so here are some renders in Vue 6.The models are from a vendor called Stonemason and they are very well done, I just stuck a few billboards for the film up, the rest comes with the model. As this is a poser model, the lights can be switched on and off and you

2007-11-07T09:10:00.001Z

Interview TimeA recent review of "The Planet" by M.J. Simpson, of SFX magazine etc., led a few of the Stirton Towers crew to get in touch with him. The review was sort of good but we thought it had missed the mark (pardon the pun) a bit in it's criticism of the movie's vagueness and lack of explanation of events - for those who haven't seen the movie, that was the point: lots of things happen to

2007-10-26T09:38:00.000Z

Bloody Hell!Thought it was about time I did a post about the film. Mark is currently editing the footage together and rarely sees daylight, but we're still doing bits at the weekends so everything is coming together nicely. The footage I've seen so far looks great and it's amazing the results Mark is getting from the Canon XL H1 with its comedy viewfinder, I think talent may have something to do

2007-10-22T10:54:00.000Z

Propeller ConferenceWell, I survived the digital skills conference in Sheffield, which I was attending as the Stirton Productions rep. The conference lasted about 6 hours was pretty well attended and seemed to go ok (apart from the initial technical stuff at the beginning, which wasn't our stuff so it didn't matter). Various industry experts attended the show, which I managed to mug for

2007-10-15T13:02:00.000Z

See Mike Speak, Speak Mike SpeakAs a shock to most people, including me, I've been asked to speak at a digital skills conference in Sheffield (England) this Friday. The conference, run by Propeller TV (the first place to pick up "The Planet," for public release), is at the Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield on Friday, 19th October from 12pm – 8pm.Director bloke, Mark Stirton will be

2007-10-01T12:39:00.000Z

Castle DraculaOoh, spooky (well, it's Halloween soon). Went out for a wander with my mate Aktoman yesterday, we decided to give his camera another work out on the ruins of Slains Castle, north of Aberdeen. Slains is a mad arse, ruin of a building, sitting directly on the edge of a sea cliff, built originally in the 17th century but extended later as a stately home. It really is an architectural

2007-09-27T14:42:00.001Z

Guns and AwardsThis week I have been mostly being busy, getting on with some of the film graphics again (nothing I can show at the moment, unfortunately). So to keep you little bunnies amused I'll tell you what's been happening with the previous Stirton Production movie, The Planet.A few weeks ago the movie was shown at The Festival of Fantastic Films, in Manchester. Last week it received a '

2007-09-14T11:58:00.000Z

Captain Universe V's EmmerdaleJust a little plug for that big chap Mike Mitchell, Mr universe, friend of Stirton Productions and general good guy: he's appearing in Emmerdale (UK soap) on September 21st. I'm not sure what character he'll be playing, but he'll be easy to spot (being way too brown and huge) he's hoping that the character will become a regular on the show and we wish him all the

2007-09-06T11:04:00.000Z

Festival FunLast weekend (31st August - 2nd September) the The Festival of Fantastic Films was held in Manchester (England). Our last movie 'The Planet,' was shown and received a pretty involved review by MJ Simpson of Brit SF mag 'SFX.'One fun thing about the festival is the guests they had, mostly stars of older cult hits like Dr Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde and Cannibal Ferox, but also one of my

2007-08-17T15:48:00.000Z

Mini-BlogSorry I haven't posted for a while, been as busy as a dozen posties (yes, I've done 2 hours work this week). Mark, the director chap is locked in the editing suite just now (located in the penthouse of Stirton Towers), whacking the film together in Final Cut Pro. I have to squeeze tuna sandwiches under the door to keep him going and produce fake newspapers for the end credits of the

2007-07-25T15:19:00.000Z

I Gave the Tardis Wood!Don't get excited, it's just the result of me looking for something to do during a dull, wet, weekend. I decided to fully texture the tardis model I'd knocked up in Cinema 4D, using the software's own texturer 'bodypaint.' Bodypaint was used recently for some of the texture work on Spiderman 3.After a few hours of cutting and pasting wood panel images on to the model mesh I

2007-07-19T15:44:00.000Z

The Tardis.Suffering from a bit of Dr Who withdrawal recently so I made my own Tardis. Downside is it's only a model - it won't travel in time and space and it doesn't come with a little Nicola Bryant or Janet Fielding... Arse! Good side is that it doesn't take up much space and won't attract the Titanic into your living room - like a big blue disaster magnet.Here are pics.

2007-07-16T14:54:00.000Z

Poster Presentation Post This week I have been mostly getting on to some of the marketing for the movie, so far I've came up with 2 main poster ideas (only drafts at the moment) and a bunch of variations. All the posters are created at the standard UK quad ( 40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm) or onesheet size (27" x 40" / 69cm x 102cm) for using in cinemas and retail. Large files, each about 100 meg or so

2007-07-09T09:43:00.000Z

Near MissLook 2 updates in the same week, I'll need a lie down now. Mark, Pat, Graham and Mark W. were out filming last week, getting some coverage of the van - long shots etc. Graham provided a stunt beard for Scott Ironside's character as they are beard twins (really).During some filming in a single track road in the country, Patrick was told to drive close to the camera for a nice shot. Pat

2007-07-09T08:29:00.000Z

Filming PhotosAs promised, here are shots from some recent filming. This batch is from the 2 days we had Mike Mitchell over, there wasn't much space left after he came into the wee room (as you see from the photo below). It was a pretty intense 2 days filming as there was so much to cover,but Mark did take us all out for lunch (working in town is so much better than eating in a windy field) so

2007-07-02T09:36:00.000Z

Interlude 3.I got an email from my mate Duncan (Aktoman) last Friday about a minute before I left work. 'I'm going up Bennachie (hill near Aberdeen) to try new camera, coming?' What can you say to that?I was knackered after a long day staring at a screen and was thinking of crawling into a cupboard and dying, but I went along instead. For the first time in a week it wasn't raining so we wandered

2007-06-26T09:52:00.000Z

Latest Filming News.Last Friday and Saturday Mark was able to get all of Mike Mitchell's scenes done, which was handy as Mike was flying back home to Turkey on Sunday (so no pressure there). Mike and Patrick had to cover 18 pages of dialogue in 2 days and Mark managed to cover all of it - with re-shoots, so good going there mr director.I was there doing my usual art direction stuff and covering

2007-06-15T14:54:00.000Z

Unlimited Rice Pudding....Just thinking out loud, but what would really make me happy just now? I guess it would be a longer season of Doctor Who, like the 26 episodes a year it used to have when I was a kid (instead of the 13 it has now). Doctor Who is great and I'm really enjoying the current season, it's even got scary again which is great.At 42 I'm sure lots of other things should be higher

2007-06-14T11:17:00.000Z

The Return of Mike MitchellThe star of previous Stirton Productions feature The Planet, is to return for a role in the latest movie, One Day Removals. Mike (2 times holder of the World Fitness Federation Mr Universe title and all round nice bloke) is to appear in a pivotal supporting role scheduled for filming next week. Mike's previous part as mercenary captain, Joe Morgan, meant he got to run

2007-06-08T08:19:00.000Z

Dragging PhotosMet up with photographer and matey bloke, Mark Wyness, during our Thursday op's meeting and got copies of the recent pics from him. It's so good having a pro photographer on the film to document all the fun stuff and take great publicity shots, we've got thousands of cool images now which make life a lot easier when marketing the movie.Anyroad, here's a bunch of pics from my lazy

2007-06-06T07:59:00.000Z

Life, the Universe and Everything...Apparently, according to the great computer Deep Thought, the answer (or an answer) is 42. Which by a mindnumbingly vague coincidence is also my age today.As ex-galactic president Zaphod Beeblebrox would say 'wow, that like sucks and stuff.' It's not too bad though as I can now legally refer to anyone under 30 as a kid and get into 18 rated films without my ID

2007-06-04T14:45:00.000Z

What a drag!Well, finally managed the main van drag on Saturday and I didn't die. A limited cast and crew spent the day dragging me around a little access road behind Ken Fraser's place in beautiful Aboyne (Ken is our partner and financier on this movie) .As head of the stunt team (which consists of me and Kerwin) I had performed a full risk assessment and concluded that the arse protector made

2007-05-14T10:21:00.000Z

Shots from previous filming.Here are a few shots from the filming last week. More bloody fun with Graham and me rolling around the back of the van, not included in the shots but also in the van was Mark Wyness as the 3rd victim. Mark is also the production photographer so couldn't take any shots of himself unfortunately.Mark Stirton (director) and Scott Ironside (Ronnie) stare at press cuttings

2007-04-30T10:07:00.000Z

Back to Work!Well, so much for my visiting my wee ginger godson (and his parents) last weekend as filming called and I had to lie in the back of a van with 3 bloody (literally) corpses for a whole day. As one of the mostly dead and make up artist I had to be there. Day went well, make up, blood, corpses etc. Scott Ironside, as one of the removal men, spent the whole throwing us around the van in

2007-04-11T11:09:00.000Z

Comic Artist Encounter 2...As some of you fine fellows may know I'm a bit of a fanboy when it comes to comics. After many years of not seeing any I'm getting a fast trak course in modern comicy things from my mate Mike, who owns the local comic shop (Asylum books & Games).Last Saturday I wondered into the store to find it empty apart from one bloke sitting at the main table, drawing stuff: as he

2007-03-31T16:22:00.001Z

Flash - ahaaaaaHi, just a quick bloget today. I'm currently hammering the new film website into shape and think it needs a bit more interactivity than it currently has: I'm thinking some games in flash would be cool. So far my flash skills are limited so I'm looking for some people that may be willing to knock up a game framework or basically do all the work while I point at things and provide

2007-03-29T11:09:00.000Z

It's for charity, mate....No, not for me. I generally don't give to charities as I know the sponging little funts just use the cash to eat crack and buy PS3's...My mate Duncan (Aktoman) is doing a cross country walk (starting this Saturday) from one side of Scotchland to the other. Existing only on captured haggises and tartan pudding his trek will take him across 212 miles of the most rugged,

2007-03-28T12:57:00.000Z

Production Artwork....While I begin to get my arse in gear for the next batch of filming here is some background stuff for the movie, One Day Removals.I'm including some costume design and colour work I've done for the main characters mostly because it was my first attempt at using Manga Studio 3 (great prog). All the line work was done using manga then exported as psd to photoshop, really quick