The I AM part three
What starts in the shed ends in the shed
The end is nigh for Hal Maybury’s adventures. Here is the third and final installment of The I AM. It’s been a tremendous pleasure hearing from so many listeners and viewers of the trailers & If you’ve enjoyed it, please share and retweet. If you’re here for the first time parts 1 & 2 of the I AM are available as a podcast here.
Special announcement: The I AM will very shortly be available on AMAZON KINDLEYour support is greatly appreciated & allows for more interesting superrocketman creative projects. To listen use the player below.
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As well as on AMAZON KINDLE The I AM will also be available as a signed ‘real book.’ send superrocketman a telegram expressing an interest here and one of the worker elves will respond. Thanks so much for listening & reading.
The I AM part two
The adventures of Hal Maybury have only just begun. The I AM part two is now HERE. Watch trailer two and listen the podcast below. The concluding part three of the I AM is out in just a week. To catch up on part one scroll down.
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Welcome to part two of continuing adventures Hal Maybury, husband of sorts, ale drinker Finchley resident & maybe something else altogether. Thanks for listening and & feel free to share. The concluding part of the I AM is coming next weekend. Also available to listen to on iTunes on the link below.
The I AM will be available at the Amazon Kindle store as well as in limited edition signed print versions via the superrocketman shop very soon. Enjoy & Mahalo.
The I AM part one
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THE I AM – A NOVELLA BY ROBERT SAMUELS
Welcome to the errant adventures of Hal Maybury, husband of sorts, ale drinker and Finchley resident. Writing the I AM, creating the podcast and making the trails has been a wonderful and tiring adventure, which I hope as a listener you enjoy ½ as much as I did creating it.
In a few weeks The I AM will be available at the Amazon Kindle store as well as in limited edition signed print versions via the superrocketman shop.
BIG thanks and Rocketman shouts to:
Andrea Low BSc MD MSc, Jesper Lind, Nic Lawman, Peter Dobes, Kip Katesmark, Katy Slater, Elizabeth Osborne, Kelly Owen, Steve Partridge, Colin Wadsworth, Kenneth Colley, Ursula Rani Sarma, Tom Lindsay, Mark One, Nial Brown, Mike Larwill, David Rom, Andrew Kuchanny, Max Herman, Cliff Briggs, Dan Sollis, Kiel Robinson, Scott Marshall, Femi Houghton, Rodrigo Souza, Ricardo Antolin, Joan Hillery, Justine Deighan, Peter Fehervari, Dennis Grasse and Venus Samuels.
Special men of the match awards to: Scott ‘the sound’ Marshall & Bam Studios, Dan ‘quantum of’ Sollis, Kiel Robinson. Above and beyond the call of duty gentlemen. It’s been a pleasure sailing with you.
Part two coming soon y’all. Click below, you can follow or shout me via contact page, easy.
We Can Bring You Back on Kindle
We Can Bring You Back now available at Amazon Kindle store
The short sci-fi story and first superrocketkast We Can Bring You Back is now available on Kindle. Go-on download it, what else you gonna do on the tube/subway/greyhound/rickshaw/shire horse? Here’s the link:
Adventures in Tilt Shift
Look I can see my house from there
A couple of shots from a recent project filmed on an Arri-Alexa with Tilt-Shift Lenses with cinematographer David Rom. It was great to experiment with the Lenses and to create the miniature effect optically instead of in post. They can be difficult to focus but great fun to play and experiment with. Music: Anywhere Anyone by Dntel
Inside Out
Inside Out – Booze Free Christmas – Directed by Robert Samuels
I’ve always greatly admired the titles work of the legendary Saul Bass & creating this trail for Inside Out I was fortunate enough to be able to create a work in the style of the original Ocean’s 11 and a raft of cartoons and TV shows from my childhood like Bewitched & the Pink Panther. It was great to work again with Dan Sollis at Digital Distortion and the illustrator Paul Middlewick & we’re very happy with the result. To see more of Saul Bass’ titles work, check out the excellent movie titles stills collection
Superrocketcast
My fellow Musketeers, Lords, Ladies and Gentleman. Welcome to the very first Superrocketcast, a Podcast featuring free-to-download audio stories, written by me writer-director Robert Samuels (trying to improve my google rating here!) and read by special guest readers. I always wanted to strip storytelling back to it’s oldest form, the spoken word, the campfire, the story as told. “We Can Bring You Back,” is the first. Time for sci-fi Jackanory yo!
We Can Bring You Back – Written by Robert Samuels
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Special thanks to Scott Marshall, guest reader Neil Newbon, Max Herman, Mark One and Tom Lindsay & Chris Gravely. We Can Bring You Back was written by Robert Samuels © All Rights Reserved
Tomorrow Calling
Tomorrow Calling – Directed by Robert Samuels
Tomorrow Calling was a very exciting project to do. It is a series of talks and think tanks hosted by Red Bee Media. The promo is a teaser to go online with a button at the end, which launches the website. The filming of the project thew up certain logistic and technical challenges. The location was a disused Thames Water pumping station.
The trio were completely unaware of the VFX artist about to pounce
Due to access issues, all ofthe film-equipment had to be winched in; carried down two small ladders – including the dog. Technically, there were tracking issues, for the cube, due to with strobe lighting. Basically don’t try and track with strobe lighting! Luckily we had two VFX wizards, Dan Sollis and Nial Brown on set.
Ed and I wanted the colours to be reminiscent of Terminator 2, with a blue cast augmented by small pools of red lighting.
The Rocketman on set pointing. Who knows what he’s pointing at – but he’s pointing.
Additional challenges were animals, which I’ve never worked with before but Lilly the Lurcher was amazing, if you didn’t like her, you had no soul.
“Look away, now look at me, look away, now look at me. You are holding the three of diamonds.”
I wanted the cube to faze in and out of reality and designed the skeletal metal underlaying structure; below left, which Katrina based her 3D model on right for the Cube. The Cube was built using Lightwave.
Concept sketch: Robert Samuels/3D Model Katrina-Ensor Oxley
Alex Brown took this model and created several cube ‘skins’ in Maya that could be composited in Smoke, and with Dan’s match-move tracking data, we were able to cut between and composite all of the different skins in any order we like.
The cube was voiced by the actor and thoroughly top guy Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line). The compositing was done entirely by Smoke Artist Nial Brown at BBC Studios & Post Production and scored by Max Herman. For more information and credits on the finished promo click here.
Electric Dreams
Photograph by Ed Rutherford
The Rocketman on set directing once again. This new & exciting futuristic project will be online very soon. in other news the Hunting Moon has been nominated for an award at the New Media Age effectiveness awards next month. Big love all.
Hello World Again
Photograph by Robert Samuels
Yes, the Rocketman’s used his jet-pack and SAS survival rations to travel to South America. Brazil may have the football, the weather and a killer ‘carnaval.’ It also has some proper dope beach rhymers like these two gentlemen, who’ll freestyle anything.
Bet you thought I was dead? Well like a Haunted house picture, things are afoot. News just in The Hunting Moon has been awarded gold at the Promax BDA Europe awards in Berlin and Bronze at the Creative Circle Awards and IAT, a superrocketman PS3/Xbox game is well… I can’t tell you, the guy on the right is packing heat under that tambourine. The nights are getting shorter, the speedos are being ironed & several projects from feature films to games to music are in development. I’ll fling something up here from time to time but in the meantime Big Love all.