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21st March 2009
It's been quite a while since I have updated the site, because I was completing the new short which is called 'The German'. This 10 minute short stars Toby Kebbell (Control, RocknRolla, Prince of Persia) as a World War 2 Spitfire ace, who duels with a German officer, played by Christian Brassington (Elisabeth:The Golden Age, Easy Virtue) with unforseen consequences.
The opening section of the film is an aerial duel, which has been created once again through the magic of CGI. I am just about to put a site up with information on the film. I will post a link here as soon as it is up.
I can't release the film on the internet yet because of production stipulations and festival regulations.
DOWNLOADS OF A LONELY SKY
15th February 2008
I am in the middle of post production on my new short film, which I shot in November. I hope to have some trailers and a new site when I get a moment.
5th October 2007
It's been a while since I wrote in here, and I guess I should have mentioned that A Lonely Sky was selected and shown at the LA Shorts film festival in Los Angeles. I hope some of you got a chance to see it and enjoyed the big screen experience.
I have been busy at work and am about to commence on my next short film, shooting in November. I aim to raise the ante on this one!
For those interested in historical facts, the 14th of October, nine days from when I am writing this, sees the 60th Anniversary of Chuck Yeager breaking the Sound Barrier, in the Bell X1.
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Streaming Flash Video file - April 24th 2007
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FULL FILM ONLINE - April 21st 2007
Okay folks, so here it is... The full 10 minutes! I have put it here in Standard Defintion (PAL 720x307) quicktime. Right click and save.
A Lonely Sky film - (94mb Quicktime)
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AWARDS NEWS - February 13th 2007
A Lonely Sky won best film (production and post production) at the DMA's (Digital Media Awards), in Dublin in February 2007. Here is a picture of myself and Seamus accepting the award from Jeremy Biggerstaff, General Manager, UTV internet.
Also the film is also in competition at the 7th Belfast Film Festival, from the 22nd of March until the 1st of April 2007. So if you're in Belfast, please try and catch it up on the big screen.
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A Lonely Sky Trailer SD - 480p (4.5 Mb, quicktime)
A Lonely Sky Trailer HD - 1080p (48 Mb, quicktime)
A Lonely Sky is a short film written and directed by Nick Ryan.
In 1947, a test pilot who will risk his life to break the sound barrier, is forced to question his reasons and abilities by a strange yet familiar man.
Also produced by Nick Ryan of Image Now films, and co-produced by Seamus Byrne of Zanita films. Starring Keir Dullea (2001, A Space Odyssey, The Good Shepherd), Paudge Behan (Veronica Guerin), Padraic Delaney (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Legend), Sean Hanrahan, David Layde and Garvan McGrath.
I’m a commercials director here in Ireland, and I was lucky in that I could call on a lot of favours to make the film. I owe a lot of favours back now. Everyone put in a great deal of work and put up with me being very particular in the details, and I couldn’t have asked for a better cast and crew. People always say that, I guess, but given that no-one was actually getting paid, I think that really counts for something.
My approach to the film in both the live action and the CGI(Computer Generated Imagery) flight sequences was to be quite traditional. I tended to avoid moving the camera in any fashion that wouldn’t be possible in the real world. With CGI, there is a tendency to fly cameras all over the place, because you can.
There is approximately 5 minutes of entirely CGI effects in the finished film of 10 minutes. This was all completed at HD resolution (1920x1080) for projection in theatres. I completed all the effects work in the film by myself, with plenty of moral support from everyone here at Image Now, to stop me from going completely crazy.
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