Élan Standard Productions

Amazing day!! Tom, Emma and I were at the Zimbabwe Arts Festival at V22 studios last Sunday in South London. We spent the day meeting people who have just come for a visit to England and lot of people who are from Zim and now live here beautiful London. The reception our film Somewhere Between Now and Then was positive and the amount of contacts and possible interviewees was high. A big thank you to Ivan Mudzudzu manager of House of Stone Events who invited us to have a table for the day. On a side note if you have not tried goat curry, sadza and spinach with peanut butter I highly recommend it, it’s a amazing Zimbabwean dish!

I have enough experience to know first-hand that sound for films is largely overlooked. Image gets priority over sound, and rightly so, the image is the most important thing. Sound however makes the experience immersive by subconsciously tricking the watcher into believing that they are inside the world of the film. It is for this reason that sound must be perfect all the time, if not, we risk breaking the illusion of the picture. Directors or producers that overlook sound for their film do so at their folly. Keith Kopp (Director) and Emma Horton (Producer) on “Somewhere Between Now and Then” gladly understand the importance of sound and want to get the best sound equipment possible for this shoot, so the stories to be told will be captured to the highest quality. The power of these stories is so great, it would be foolish to overlook the quality of my work.

Chris Light - Sound

Here’s a read I’d recommend if you’re interested in learning more about the core of the documentary. Alexandra Fuller’s ‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ is a sensitive and innocent recollection of Fuller’s childhood memories from troubled Rhodesia. It’s as though her 10 year old self stands beside her and they’re writing it together. A wonderful and touching introduction to the troubles of the past. - Emma

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24687.Don_t_Let_s_Go_to_the_Dogs_Tonight

A warm thank you to peter moody for donating 50 pounds to this film production! Peter has purchased the Cinephile Package which will give him a digitial copy of the film, a limited edition score from the film by Matthew Walker the composer, contributors credit in the film and a button badge of the film’s design. 

A big thank you to Sally Moody for giving 500 pounds to help us make this film! That means she will receive a Executive Producer credit as well a ticket to the exclusive wrap party!!!!  -Keith 

Only 19 hours since the launch of our fundraising campaign and already such a positive response! Thank you to everyone involved so far. We’re already one step closer to bringing these incredible stories to the surface. - Emma