World war 1 Short Film Gets double award for Lion Eyes

Dec. 16, 2014 - PRLog -- An intriguing film that imagines how World War I would have been described by 21st century technology has received two awards from London’s Imperial War Museum.

tWWItter ­ David Tindal’s Story, is based on letters written by Private Tindal in France during 1915 and 1916. By stripping them down to messages of 140 characters or less and treating archive stills and moving pictures to make them look as if shot on a smartphone, the resulting short film is striking and moving.

The Judges of the IWM’s Short Film Festival gave tWWItter the First World War

Commendation and the award for Best Creative Response.

tWWItter was devised by Mark Gorton who said: “In a way tWWItter was a series of

accidents. A friend lent me the letters written by his great uncle and at the time I was

thinking about how social media might be used to tell World War I stories. I condensed

the letters into tweets, stills and footage. Martin Riley suggested that we make them into a taster for the social media project, and the result was a six minute film that stands up remarkably well as a piece of content in its own right.”

Lion Eyes Managing Director Martin Riley said, “It’s the kind of project Lion Eyes and our post facility The Den gets a kick out of developing. Steve Clarkson designed the look and animated it, Craig Leedham edited, and Paul Billington looked after the sound design. It’s a thought­provoking short and, in its own small way, a great example of what we can do at Lion Eyes.”

You can watch tWWItter here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J8191WHuzo



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tWWItter imagines World War I as seen with 21st century technology

David Tindal

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David Tindal’s first letter home

Both images courtesy of David Tindal’s family

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Notes to Editors

● Founded in 2006 by Martin Riley and Mark Atkinson Lion Eyes provide complete film and Television production and post production services to Production Companies, Broadcasters and Agencies throughout the UK. Clients include BBC, Channel 4, Universal Pictures, Baby Cow North, Cheethambell JWT, Phil McIntyre Entertainments, Disney Interractive and Goodnight Vienna Productions

● Lion Eyes won and RTS Award for their 2013 BBC commission ‘You Too Can Be An Absolute Genius’. The programme went on to be nominated for a children’s BAFTA and was part of official selection for the Japan Prize.

● Lion Eyes along with Phil McIntyre Television and Goodnight Vienna won an RTS award for the Channel 4 ratings smash “Peter Kay’s Britain’s Got The Pop Factor & Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soap Star Super Star Strictly on Ice” Lion Eyes worked with Peter and Phil McIntyre Television right from the initial script meetings through to final delivery.

● 2014 saw Lion Eyes launch ‘The Den Post Production’ www.thedenpost.co.uk, providing editing, grading, animation and audio post production services to the creative industries. Based in the heart of Manchester, they have resisted the urge to follow others to Media City. Most recently they have completed work on the title sequence for CBBC drama ‘World’s End’.

● Lion Eyes won two Cofilmic Audience Awards for ‘The Misadventures of Sir Randolph Tempest’, written by and starring Peter Slater and ‘CSO Manchester’ written and directed by Patrick Gallagher.

● Lion Eyes produced the winning film for best marketing film at the Silver International Summit

Awards for its series of award winning marketing videos for The Foundry Communications agency.

The campaign was up against 6000 other entries from 24 countries.


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● Lion Eyes also produced video content for SLAVE a question of freedom’ which won ‘Best new play’ in the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards.

● Lion Eyes’ commercials producer Tony Smith is an award winning commercials producer, having accumulated several Mobius ‘Outstanding Creativity’ awards and also both winning and being nominated for ‘Roses Creative Awards’.