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Our new pychological horror film “Daddy’s Head” from multi talented Writer / Director / Editor / Composer Benjamin Barefoot is coming to Shudder. A Shudder Original - Daddy’s Head will hit the streaming service in North America, the UK and Australia on October 11th. The film will have it’s world premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Textas on 22nd September 2024.
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Our new science fiction film T.I.M. has been released in the UK to positive acclaim and achieved No. 1 status on Netflix (UK and Ireland) and was in the Top 5 for over 2 weeks.
“A Fatal A.(I).ttraction for the digital age…. As unnervingly smart and sinister as its insurgent android….” - Sight & Sound Magazine
★★★★ Total Film
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★★★★ Starburst Magazines.
Capture has partnered with Stigma Films to make Daddy’s Head, a new psychological horror film from Writer / Director Benjamin Barefoot (Double Date). Shooting began in 2023. Partners on the project include Quickfire, Onsight Post, Shoutload Creative, Arthrofilm, and International sales with Alliance Media Partners (AMP). Find out more below:
Capture created the titles and motion graphics work on director Michael Winterbottom's film Greed and when we pitch on film or TV work, we always look for the design and overarching aesthetic to come from the story, rather than just try and make something 'cool' looking. We'd much rather create something creative meaningful and fitting to the actual story. Thankfully Greed provided our team at Capture with a multitude of ideas which in turn we could present to the director.
As you’ll see from the reel of our work above the hints of fuchsia used in the graphics were inspired by a key scene from the film and also subliminally connected with the production design and costume departments work. In total we completed around 6 minutes worth of montage sequences in total.
We came up with the split-screen idea to swiftly convey the key information and story points Michael and his editor wanted to get across. Within these split-screens we introduce the motif of a fashion designer’s cutting lines to support the film's backdrop to the fashion world.
Michael at the film’s premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.
All of this work culminated with the 'end doc' sequence of the film which highlight's key facts the film-makers wanted to make.
After all our hard work the team at Michael Winterbottom’s production company Revolution, kindly invited us to the film’s premiere at the BFI London Film Festival!
Capture was selected by Virgin EMI Records and The Smalls to produce a music video for emerging music artist Zuzu and her self-penned track 'Skin and Bone'.
Director Lee Holmes had the challenge of delivering an emotional performance from the talented artist as the song focuses on the subject of domestic abuse.
Shot enitrely across one day in a unique house location in Streatham, different rooms were used to reflect different aspects of domestic abuse.
All Photography By Lucy Fletcher at Virgin EMI.
Watch the full video below:
The Man from Mo'Wax continues to add to its worldwide festival screenings with the latest installment at the European Film Festival Palic. The filmmakers and James Lavelle were invited by Illaja Tatic, the festival’s Executive Producer, to be part of an out of competition, special screening of the film and a live DJ set by James at the Summer3p Music Festival which would then unite the two long standing events.
The film screened to a near full-house cinema at 9pm on Thursday 25th July 2019 and the following night James Lavelle headlined and played his set in the early hours to a crowd of over 1000 people.
The following day after the screening a press conference was held with the Serbian Media.
The jury was lead by British actor Tom Burke and following on from its Cannes film festival success the Golden Tower prize for best film was Les Miserables directed by Ladj Ly.
James Lavelle’s DJ set by the side of Lake Palic, as part of the 17th Summer3P Festival
This month our friends at HireHand came to us with a brief and script for a Walk & Talk promo to help promote their new crowdfunding campaign. HireHand connect businesses with people who are available for short shifts to help out businesses at their peak times and with the early success that the company has had, they were looking for investment to help the company grow globally.
We shot on location in Hoxton, East London and teamed up with long time collaborator and steadicam operator Max Rijavec as well as sound recordist Jassim Jaffer who we first worked with on our short drama Killing Thyme.
But the real star of the show was HireHand’s CEO Scott Erwin whose impeccable memorisation of the script and animated on-camera performance (including singing!) made for a fun shoot.
Watch the video below to see how the final piece turned out.
CEO Scott thanking everyone for their hard work at the end of the day!
**UPDATE** We’re very happy to anounce that HireHand successfully reached their £3 million target!
We had the privilege of making the first ever music video for Modest! Management’s band New Rules, which we shot in London on a sun-lit Sunday.
Modest!, who have previously managed acts including One Direction, were looking for a lo-fi performance led video. Our concept involved several locations around London, starting bright and early in Greenwich.
Nathan with the band’s videographer, taking charge of the behind the scenes content.
The shoot was partially set in a studio but mainly on location, which is always a risk weather-wise, but we were really fortunate on the day with sunshine and blue skies, particularly in the morning.
This photo below, taken from our recce just a few days earlier, shows the effects of the heavy rainfall that luckily went away in time for our shoot.
Take a watch of the video below to see how it all came together (including dancing on a storage container!)
The Capture edit suite is once again a hub of activity, this time home to Gerard Johnson’s newest film, psychological thriller Muscle. The film starring Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass centers on Simon, an office worker working a dead-end job he isn’t good at whose life is turned upside down by his very hands-on personal trainer Terry.
This is Johnson’s third film, following on from the acclaimed Tony and Hyena, all three are written and directed by Johnson.
We were thrilled to come abroad on the project working on VFX and the film’s titles, it was a pleasure to once again be working with producer Matthew Wilkins of Stigma Films who is producing Muscle along with Ed Barratt and Richard Wylie of Hook Pictures and Fred Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures.
Keep your eyes peeled for Muscle’s release, we can’t wait to watch the finished film, judging from the snippets we’ve been lucky enough to see to it’s going to be a knock out.
Muscle stars Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass
An early draft design for the poster.
Part of what enabled James Lavelle to grow his record label Mo’Wax into an artist-signing and trend-setting powerhouse was a strong visual identity. By working with artists and designers like Futura, 3D (Robert Del Naja), Ben Drury and Ian ‘Swifty’ Swift, James curated an urban aesthetic that married graffiti pop-art with abstract cosmic psychedelia.
It made sense, therefore, for us to ask Swifty - the original Mo’Wax designer - to create a poster for The Man from Mo’Wax.
His design incorporates trademark Mo’Wax design elements to resurrect the label’s funky 90s style. The vertical title stripe (aka obi strip) on the left is a throwback to the way that artists’ names would be presented on Mo’Wax record sleeves. The central design adapts the title artwork of the original The Man from U.N.C.L.E - the 60s TV show that was an early piece of inspiration for James’ musical collective U.N.K.L.E.
Once the design was ready we sent it to artist and screen printer Luke Pantelidou of Studio LP, who silk-screened 100 numbered and limited edition prints. Here he is in action:
Luke had this to say about the process:
There were some challenges in producing the print. One of the main hurdles we had was the very fine text and details in the logos that run along the bottom of the film poster. This is usually very small in nature but it was even more of a challenge as the poster was to be printed at half size. I did a few test prints and wasn’t happy with the first results. Capture made some fine tuning adjustments to the text and logos on the black layer and I advised them to change inks to a slower drying system. With those adjustments and by creating a new stencil on a higher mesh count screen, I managed to pull out all the detail on the poster.
The inks we finally used were Swiss made Lascaux studio acrylics which are a very high quality artists standard ink range with excellent pigmentation and great permanence and lightfast qualities. The paper Capture decided on was Fabriano 5, a beautifully made paper with a brilliant white finish and a good weight for printing. A perfect compliment to the bold colours chosen.
I love the printing process. The anticipation when seeing that final colour go down and then lifting the finished print of the bed and seeing it in all its glory is a real buzz. I love that you can screen print all sorts of images in this medium. It lends itself equally well to sharp computer graphics, hand-drawn line illustrations and photographic images. I also like that it’s a hands-on process. There’s a physical aspect to it which beats sitting on your arse all day staring at a computer screen! - Luke Pantelidou
Swifty posters available now at: http://www.themanfrommowax.com/shop/
As with all aspects of filmmaking it’s always a team effort and thanks to our friends at Spaceland Presents, KCRW, Los Gaupos and The Regent Theatre, our feature length music documentary The Man from Mo’Wax had an amazing L.A Premiere!
Having opened as a cinema in 1914 the Regent Theatre was the perfect place to screen the film, as over time the building has also been used as a concert hall and performance space and meant the film screening and then DJ sets from both Money Mark and James Lavelle could all happen in the same space!
To start the night Jonathan Rudnik from Los Guapos introduced the film, James Lavelle and two of the film’s producers; Brian A. Hoffman and M J McMahon.
Born and bred in L.A., it was great for Brian to get to watch the film in his hometown, having previously travelled as far as Melbourne and London in the past with the film across it’s festival run.
Another person who didn’t have to travel far for the screening was Mo’Wax alumni Money Mark who had a lovely reunion with James Lavelle before playing an impromptu DJ set which featured him scratching some Victorian sheet music!
There was time for a quick signing session with James Lavelle before a DJ set that finished off a great night perfectly.
Simon and Ash are happily installed in our editing suite and working away on the cut.
This is the second time that Simon has collaborated with Capture - we produced the opening and closing title sequences for his debut short film, Ernestine and Kit. Ernestine and Kit was nominated for the 2016 SXSW Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short - by coincidence, it was screened alongside Capture’s The Man from Mo’Wax at the festival that year.
Producer Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films brought Simon’s short to Capture after enjoying our work on the opening and closing titles of his 2012 short Worm.
This month Capture has had the pleasure of hosting Inbetweeners star Simon Bird and editor Ash White as they work on Simon’s directorial debut, Days of the Bagnold Summer. The script was adapted from Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel by Lisa Owens. It is a funny and touching story of a 15 year-old metal-head trying to connect with his mouse-y librarian mum, and all the brilliantly excruciating awkwardness therein.
Check out the video below for an interview with Director Simon Bird and lead Earl Cave at the Locarno film festival.
The film is now available online and you can checkout the official trailer trailer below:
We’re excited to announce the release of The Man from Mo’Wax limited edition 3 disc Blu-ray/DVD box set! Capture worked in conjunction with the BFI to create the box set which includes the film in both high and standard definition, over 5 hours of exclusive bonus extras and a 43 page artbook featuring a foreword by James Lavelle and director’s notes. Limited to 3000 numbered copies the box features the film’s stunning illustrated artwork by Ken Taylor and the artbook is packed with amazing photographs from James Lavelle, B+ and James Dimmock and original paintings by Futura and 3D. To get your hands on a copy click here!
Our debut feature, The Man from Mo’Wax, has been quite a journey but from the 31st of August it will be in cinemas nationwide! To kick off the release we had a launch event at the iconic BFI Southbank, a jam-packed celebration of music which was a pretty special night (if we do say so ourselves!). As the audience arrived DJ Lord Ant set the mood for the evening with a great playlist of Mo’Wax classics and before the film screened there was a Pitch Black Playback of three tracks from the new UNKLE album Lost Highway. Straight after the film Edith Bowman hosted a Q&A with the film’s star James Lavelle, director Matthew Jones and producer M J McMahon.
The night didn’t stop there, as the audience poured out of the cinema they were met with a set from Mo’Wax artist A J Kwame who got the after party going followed by a set from the man from Mo’Wax himself, James Lavelle who played into the early hours. The launch event was also the first place in the UK to have the official soundtrack and limited edition prints to buy and take home! We couldn’t have been happier with how the night went, check out some of the photos from the event and the Q&A with James, Matthew and M J below:
We've been working hard in conjunction with Universal Music Catalogue and Island Records on the release of The Man from Mo'Wax (Music From The Motion Picture) which is now available to pre-order!
To be released on limited edition blue and red coloured vinyl, CD (including a 16 page booklet containing director's notes and artwork) as well as download and stream, the soundtrack contains music from the film picked by director Matthew Jones. Featuring tracks from DJ Shadow, UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke and Ian Brown, Dr Octagon, Queens of the Stone Age, DJ Krush, The Wild Bunch, Blackalicious and more the release is a real celebration of Mo'Wax, UNKLE and James Lavelle's musical collaborators and influences.
You can pre-order your copy now and check out the artwork for both physical releases below!
The Man from Mo'Wax official trailer is here! We're so excited to share it with everyone as we quickly count down to the film's release on the 31st of August.
You can watch it below:
Hey everyone it’s Joe Reynolds from Killing Thyme here! I haven’t seen anyone at Capture since I filmed Killing Thyme back in 2014. Whilst filming I was 8 years old and I’m 13 now and in only a couple months I will be 14! Because of this, I wanted to take the opportunity I had in the form of work shadowing to go and see everyone at Capture. Also, I am still really interested in acting now and when I leave school, acting is what I want to do. Therefore I thought that having a look at the kind of work that goes on in a production studio would be a great experience and give me further knowledge to help me when I’m older and trying to succeed as a professional actor.
On the 5th and 6th of July I got the train into London to do work shadowing at the Capture Studio. At school we have been looking at life after school and how to cope with jobs, finance and other adult responsibilities. These two days were a chance for me to go to the studio and learn about jobs that I have an interest in.
My working day started at 10:30 and I met with Hen, Mac and Lee (Matt was at the studio on Friday) who I was really pleased to see again. I was nervous because, as a Year 8 student, I had never been to work anywhere (apart from acting). However everyone at the office were such friendly and familiar faces that I almost felt at home and I could relax!
Over the two days, Mac, Hen, Lee and Matt set me some tasks which I could complete alongside the booklet I was given by the school such as writing my own reviews of Hawk, The Girl in the Dress and Gin & Dry to post on Vimeo and IMDB – I thought all 3 films were great! Mac also helped me to develop my photography skills when I went to different parts of the studio and he helped me to try different methods to get the best picture out of each frame.
It was an amazing experience to see a potential future career of mine and learn more about it and also it was great seeing everyone at the studio again! I would like to thank everyone at Capture for giving me this great opportunity and making these past couple of days really interesting as well as incredibly fun!
On the 12th of May The Man from Mo'Wax took over Everyman's iconic cinema The Screen On The Green as part of the Everyman Music Film Festival. We were thrilled to screen a special preview of the film in the city we call home before its release later this year (the 31st of August to be exact)!
The film was introduced by director Matthew Jones and the film's star, DJ and underground music mogul James Lavelle. To transport the audience to the world of Mo'Wax before the screening and to keep the party going afterwards DJ Lord Ant played a set of 90s Mo'Wax classics. Now we can't wait to share the film with everyone in August....only a few months to go!
Director Matthew Jones and James Lavelle
James Lavelle
DJ Lord Ant
Director Matthew Jones and associate producer Tessa Gough
Photography courtesy of Johnny Stephens Photography and DJ Lord Ant
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We spent a fun day shooting at Street Studios in East London with great young artist Liv Lovelle for her new track Special. After a couple of months chatting with Twin about the possible music videos we could work with them on Special was the perfect fit.
What struck us about the track? Liv's beautiful soulful voice! And we weren't the only ones, the track was picked up by Spotify for their great playlist 'Sweet Soul Sunday' which currently features Special along with tracks from Leon Bridges, Sade and Jorja Smith.
With the acoustic feel of the soulful track we really wanted to create a stripped back video - which took us down a route of giving it a real behind-the-scenes feel. We wanted to show Liv with different styling and in front of different backdrops, but at the same time rather than just having classic heavily stylised visuals we wanted to show the framework of the video, so that included showing the crew, lighting, backdrop stands and everything in between! That way we could contrast the behind the scenes feel with more fashion editorial style shots.
As Liv is such a strong character and incredibly watchable, one of the key things we did is make use of mini-dv camera footage in between using our main camera (Sony FS7) to enable us to shoot on the hoof and catch more varied shots really quickly. As much as 4K 100 frame-per-second footage shot on a gimbal gives you great shots, with lens changes and lighting change, we made use of bits of down time to capture Liv with this smaller camera. We think this adds a really nice, personal element to the video and the fact the we had such a fun time on set hopefully comes through in the final video.
We were in very good company at Street Studios!
We're excited to finally reveal the amazing artwork for our feature doc The Man from Mo'Wax! The illustrated poster created by the extremely talented Ken Taylor features an ensemble of the film's cast including James Lavelle, DJ Shadow, Grandmaster Flash, Josh Homme and Thom Yorke to name a few. Capture was inspired by the world of comic books and science fiction and decided on the red and blue colour way in line with the film's graphic identity and early Mo'Wax artwork. Check out the portrait poster below and the quad above - we couldn't be more thrilled with it!
Today also marks the release of the official The Man from Mo'Wax teaser, watch it below and subscribe to the film's YouTube channel here.
For more news and updates on The Man from Mo'Wax keep on eye on the film's Facebook page.
