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BACK TO SCHOOL In-production independent movie, School Fight, is bucking the large format cinematography trend by re-energising older cameras
Inspired by The Inbetweeners / American Pie, School Fight is a new action comedy shot in Derbyshire, UK, that is soon to hitch its wagon over to Dubai for more action shots early next year. The movie is truly independent in that writer/director Damien Walters and producer Joby Stephens have been calling in favours to get it made, including some advanced Atomos technology to be able to bypass the internal Codec of their Sony FS7 and FS7 II cameras
“Damien phones me and asks if I wanted to be involved with something even more ambitious. It was a movie and meant me and my DOP Nathan Claridge driving up to Derbyshire to see Damien and discuss a film without a title. It has since been called School Fight , because that’s exactly what it is. I read the script, as did Nathan, and I’ve never laughed as many times as I did when reading that script. It has the feeling of The Inbetweeners and American Pie with lots of
to allow them the flexibility in post to achieve a more cinematic look. Stephens explains how the shoot came together: “I got a call at the beginning of the year from Damien, who I’d previously worked with on a short film a couple of years ago that went on to win some awards. We were really proud of the film and we spent about ten months in post-production, with me managing to get it into various agencies and VFX studios in London.
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