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The Lesser Giants – ‘Take Me Away’ – Music Video

23 Saturday Dec 2017

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We at Skybird Entertainment are thrilled to share the new music video for the great Aussie band The Lesser Giants, with their new song ‘Take Me Away’.
It was an absolute pleasure and a great time to make the video with these guys. Plus it’s just an excellent song to begin with!
So, get around them. Support the guys, see a show, watch the video and share it with your friends.
Cheers!

The Lesser Giants – Music Video Shoot – Day 5 (Final Day)

14 Saturday Oct 2017

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And after today’s work, we’ve officially concluded filming for the next music video for The Lesser Giants.
Spread over the course of the last month or so, we’ve spent a total of five days filming in and outside the Melbourne outer east. From factory estates, creepy forests and even a garage, we have accomplished a very satisfying collection of images which, over the next couple of weeks, we will craft into a piece of visual and audible entertainment.
We can’t thank enough Duncan, Zoltan and Daniel for all of the effort that they have put into this project.

While we all eagerly anticipate the release of this new video, revisit the band’s first video, Little Rock Family, from their recent EP, B.E.A.R.

The Lesser Giants – Music Video Shoot – Day 4

08 Sunday Oct 2017

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A couple of weeks ago, we headed up to Redwood Forest in Warburton to begin the third day of filming for the latest music video for The Lesser Giants that we’ve been whittling away at over the last short while. Due to unforeseen equipment troubles, we had to cut the night short. That being said though, we did still manage to get a hand full of shots.

Come last night, we trekked out once again for what we knew was going to be a long night. Because it’s daylight savings time here in Victoria at the moment, nightfall didn’t come until around 8pm. Regardless, we got stuck into it, and by 5am, the team were more than ready to head home for bed. Thankfully, we’ve now wrapped everything that involves the band, leaving us only a handful of shots still to get outside of that.
As tiring as last night was, I am so happy to know that our efforts have not gone unrewarded. The weather behaved, the moon was bright, all equipment worked without a hiccup. Reviewing the images today is a reminder for why we choose to be filmmakers. Sure, filmmaking is a hungry beast, but the feeling you get after finally starting to piece everything together, makes up for all of what was lost to make it.

So for now, here’s a hint of what’s to come…

Stay tuned for more updates soon!Bear Box

My Imaginary Friend – Update

16 Saturday Sep 2017

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Well, this is a long overdue update to our long gestating short film, My Imaginary Friend.
It’s somewhat scary to know that we first begun filming for this production back in August of 2015! That’s two years already…
The reality is though, Skybird Entertainment is an independent venture, consisting of just two people, Dean Woodward and myself, Chris McKee. As is the case for many independent filmmakers, we all have unrelated day jobs, families, relationships and a whole assortment of other commitments and obstacles in our lives, so until the day comes that we can turn this hobby into a career, it often finds itself taking a reluctant back seat. This short film in particular, a highly ambitious project, requires even more time than usual.
That being said, however, I’m very pleased to say that we have completed our lead character’s dialogue sessions.
Sporadically over the last few weeks, we have had the amazing Kayla record her lines for the film. Even though she first performed them over two years ago, she still manged to nail every line. We are not just proud, but very lucky to have such a capable little artist working with us on this project. DSC_0565[462]
From here on, we are hopeful that we finally have this project back on track after a long period of hibernation. Over the journey, we have some very talented and all-round great people contribute to this film. Such as Rebecca Dorothy Valastro, Jennifer Angsiting, Vincent Kos and Davis Angsiting.
We still have one small, but significant, role to fill, but we hope to announce that very soon.

As for now, please continue with your support and we will do everything we can to bring you further updates in the not-too-distant future.

Cheers and thank you!

The Lesser Giants – Music Video Shoot – Day 2

16 Saturday Sep 2017

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I might be a little late with the updates, one week in fact, but we recently got through the second day of filming with the guys from The Lesser Giants.
The follow up video to their first video, Little Rock Family, is shaping up to be a cracker. These guys are nothing but professional on set and are bringing a fun but earnest performance to their on screen characters.
We’re really looking forward to what Day 3 brings in the next week.
Stay tuned!2017-09-16-16h28m02s908

The Lesser Giants – ‘Little Rock Family’

20 Thursday Jul 2017

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We are very excited to share with the world the new music video from The Lesser Giants, ‘Little Rock Family’.

It is a tremendous pleasure to have worked with such a talented band to create this fun and entertaining video.
We can’t tell you enough to check out these guys and help support some quality rock & roll.
Very seriously, keep an eye out for these guys…

Band: The Lesser Giants
Song: Little Rock Family

Music video created by Skybird Productions.
Directed by Chris McKee and Dean Woodward.

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Summer Sing Fling, The Ultimate Summer Romance 2016

22 Sunday Jan 2017

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In association with Mark White and Tom Conyers of Little Man Screaming, we are proud to share this visual production we recently produced together.
A first-time collaboration of The Decibelles Female Pop Choir, shOUT Youth Chorus, Low Rez Male Choir and MGLC who perform individually and then combine into the Summer Sing Fling Chorus.

We hope you enjoy this presentation as much as we did making it.

Phase One: Complete!

04 Sunday Sep 2016

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We are very pleased to announce that we have finally completed principal filming for our short film ‘My Imaginary Friend’. Believe it or not, it has been over a year since we first started filming for this project. Unfortunately, due to the existence of day jobs, family life and such, this is the reality for many emerging filmmakers.

As well as the always hard-working Kayla McKee, we are so grateful today to have had the amazing talents of Jennifer and Davis Angsiting, rounding out the completion of the live action portion of filming for this project. Everybody did an amazing job.

BUT… work has by no means come to an end for this project just yet. Due to the nature of this film, we have really only rounded out phase one of an admittedly ambitious creation. We still have the enormous task of rotoscoping this beast. For those that don’t know what that is, this means that we are going to use the live action footage as reference and redraw the characters, FRAME BY FRAME, to leave only animated characters.
On top of this, for what was simply going to be ‘only’ hand drawn/painted backgrounds, we still have some interesting ideas for this yet.
Of course, there is also the matter of music, sound design, and everything else that packages together a film. As happens to be the trend these days, many short films require the assistance of crowdfunding to make these jobs possible and ‘My Imaginary Friend’ is no exception. Especially when we are making a genuine effort to produce the most quality and entertaining piece of film we can.
We plan to have more information and other updates soon, so stay tuned!

As always, we appreciate everybody’s support that they’ve given to this project so far. All across the board. From the actors, the assistants, and even anyone who has bookmarked our website or liked our facebook page, every little bit of support is not just appreciated, but it’s essential in allowing a project like this to exist.

Until next time, please check out some of the photos from today’s shoot.

Thanks – Chris and Dean

My Imaginary Friend – Filming continues.

15 Sunday May 2016

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We’ve finally begun filming the final scene of our short film ‘My Imaginary Friend’.
Today we were lucky enough to have the lovely Rebecca Valastro join us once again, along with the wonderful Vincent Kos.
As usual, Kayla has had more than her share of work cut out for her, but she managed to get through the busy day. All twenty shots as a matter of fact!
It’s taken a tremendous amount of work to get to this point, but it’s been a fulfilling journey throughout.
Even as this phase nears completion, it’s not time for the campaign just yet.
There’s still the small task of animating the whole thing.
More on this soon, so stay tuned!MIFHOSP