Archive of April 2005
Creative Review
Our copy of the Creative Review Annual arrived today complete with the Spooks games in it. Hooray!
10:22 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: spooks, creative review, annualEUWDPC file browser 1.7
This is probably the final release before it gets a complete rewrite, a ton of fancy new features and new name. Now with better sorting and when browsing a folder full of images you get Previous and Next links below each picture for easier browsing.
See it in action and download it here!
04:35 AM | 0 CommentsMore awards news
Last year our work for Spooks won pretty much everything going. This year it seems incapable of winning anything despite being twice the size and twice as good. The latest award we didn’t win was at FlashForward. Coming up, expect to see it not win a Webby, the first nomination Preloaded have had in there. Also expect to see it not win an NMA effectiveness award despite it being the second most registered for section on the BBC after CelebDAC and therefore the most registered for that doesn’t have it’s own TV show dedicated to the website. And it reached that position in the space of a few months. I’d call that effective.
There is a People’s Voice award at the Webbys though where YOU get to vote. So go on, help poor Spooks win something this year.
02:54 AM | 0 CommentsHitchhiker's Guide movie
Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend a screening of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie thanks to Preloaded having worked with Nick and Garth before and being involved in some of the online promotional material.
So, with possible biases owned up to, I’d just like to say it’s fantastic. The script is sharp and funny, the plot and direction pacey, the performances from the cast excellent. There’s definitely one slating review of it floating around the web at the moment which in my opinion isn’t even worth reading. It’s the picky obsessiveness of the comic book guy from the Simpsons and shows absolutely no understanding of the processes involved in getting a story to celuloid. There’s plenty of other reviews starting to appear which are much more on the mark, two of particular note coming from a couple of guys that have worked with Douglas Adams, Sean Sollé and Tim Browse.
Fans of the books and radio series will go see the movie regardless of what the reviews are saying and I’m pretty confident the vast majority of them will love it.
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