Down & Out
OMF's final feature movie as we realigned ourselves towards shorter runtimes was completed in December 2024 and premiered at the Lucem Cinema in St Helens in January 2025. Awarded Official Selection in the prestigious Manchester Lift-Off festival, the northern UK element of the world renown Global Lift-Off series just one month later, Down & Out then joined previous OMF features on the award winning trail.
Although complete, premiered and award winning, with ITC closed captions currently being developed in readiness for a VOD submission, Down & Out remains in the postprod stage. If that submission is successful, Down & Out will join previous OMF features One Way Traffic, AfterAffects and Buying Time on the Prime Video Direct (Amazon) streaming platform and viewed worldwide.
OMF's final feature movie as we realigned ourselves towards shorter runtimes was completed in December 2024 and premiered at the Lucem Cinema in St Helens in January 2025. Awarded Official Selection in the prestigious Manchester Lift-Off festival, the northern UK element of the world renown Global Lift-Off series just one month later, Down & Out then joined previous OMF features on the award winning trail.
Although complete, premiered and award winning, with ITC closed captions currently being developed in readiness for a VOD submission, Down & Out remains in the postprod stage. If that submission is successful, Down & Out will join previous OMF features One Way Traffic, AfterAffects and Buying Time on the Prime Video Direct (Amazon) streaming platform and viewed worldwide.
Sight & Sound
With four music shorts filmed but only two completed, production of sSounds, our 2023 bespoke Christian music video channel, took a break during 2024 as we concentrated on the Down & Out feature. After lots of midnight hours considering available options, the decision to re-launch sSounds with a wider remit and name change to also include biblical short stories as Spiritual Sight & Sound Production has now been taken.
Music video production will continue to target broadcast production standards and treatments while remaining free to download and stories will specifically showcase the relevance of biblical passages to modern life.
With four music shorts filmed but only two completed, production of sSounds, our 2023 bespoke Christian music video channel, took a break during 2024 as we concentrated on the Down & Out feature. After lots of midnight hours considering available options, the decision to re-launch sSounds with a wider remit and name change to also include biblical short stories as Spiritual Sight & Sound Production has now been taken.
Music video production will continue to target broadcast production standards and treatments while remaining free to download and stories will specifically showcase the relevance of biblical passages to modern life.
As with the original music videos, all new music production will be in extra short film format of around three minutes with a main target of use in services where on-screen song leading has overtaken live organ, piano or groups. Biblical stories to link with service themes could run to five minutes. Whether music or stories however, all will of course be available free to download and use by Christian churches, House Groups and other Christians.
Dinosaur Shorts
After a career spent creating stills and movies, it's hardly a surprise that these days Ian is rarely seen without a camera of some sort in his hands. It could be a video camcorder filming a friend's model railway (Trains in the Attic), a Nikon bridge camera to shoot a few stills on a visit to a stately house or a camera phone on a visit to the park, but his love of creating and capturing is never far away.
Following his tongue-in-cheek reference to being old when naming OMF, Ian again used the same principle for a brand specific to short video's, coming up with Dinosaur Shorts. Similarly, although now used specifically for still images, video post production and publishing, Gulf Media Man can be traced right back to Ian's overseas work for international companies, captains of industry and royal families.
After a career spent creating stills and movies, it's hardly a surprise that these days Ian is rarely seen without a camera of some sort in his hands. It could be a video camcorder filming a friend's model railway (Trains in the Attic), a Nikon bridge camera to shoot a few stills on a visit to a stately house or a camera phone on a visit to the park, but his love of creating and capturing is never far away.
Following his tongue-in-cheek reference to being old when naming OMF, Ian again used the same principle for a brand specific to short video's, coming up with Dinosaur Shorts. Similarly, although now used specifically for still images, video post production and publishing, Gulf Media Man can be traced right back to Ian's overseas work for international companies, captains of industry and royal families.
