The Marionette Unit "Inception" teaser will feature at the Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition (http://www.steampunkexhibition.com/) on March 14th in San Francisco. This is fantastic exposure for us within the growing Steampunk community and will hopefully generate even more fans for our film! Executive Producer Jett Dunlap will be in attendance to present the trailer and talk about the film.

What is it that they did? Last night at the O-Bar in Hollywood starting at 8 pm, a real buzz started to arise. People from all over the world were coming to see a trailer for a film that had not even been made. What right did these young filmmakers have to make a film backwards, and why by 9:30 were over a hundred people fixated on a 200 inch projection screen to watch a 2 min trailer, which many had already seen? My name is Jett Dunlap and I am an Executive Producer on this film. I saw this same little teaser trailer in October. My girlfriend had gotten home late and asked me to look at a preview to a film. She tells the story better, but needless to say I was not excited to see another "help me make my movie" pitch, though I watched it anyway to humor her. Then I saw IT. IT is something I looked for in movies, in women, and in products I represented. IT is the indescribable quality which separates greatness from oblivion that we too rarely see. This little glimpse, presented through the eyes of James Boyle and Azhur Saleem, hooked me. I ...

James, Paul and I are heading off to LA this week to promote The Marionette Unit and help secure funding for the short film. We're aiming to meet a lot of industry people who could be interested in helping on the film. It'll also be the first time in almost a year that we'll all be in the same room together, as myself and James are in London and Paul is in Vancouver. The long-distance writing has created its own set of challenges, but we've managed to soldier through with emails and late night/early morning video chats. Now to have the chance to talk across a table is going to be great. It'll give us the much-needed time to nail down the feature script. It's exciting and pretty nerve-wracking at the same time as we're going to be road-testing the trailer with a lot of people who do this purely for a living! Keep up with all the news as it happens either on this blog. Hopefully there'll be some pretty good news coming out of the next two weeks here!

Well what a day it's been. After two screenings over the weekend which went down a storm, the trailer went live online this morning, 7am GMT for the rest of the world to see. And what a response we had! Within minutes our site crashed, due to the surge of unexpected demand. 10,000 hits in less than 15 minutes, including 300 downloads of the iPhone version of the trailer. As of end of day Monday GMT we stand at 37694 hits and 517 unique visitors. Thank you!! What an amazing response and we can't thank everyone enough for their huge interest - so much of a response that the site crashed again later in the afternoon! Whereas some would find this frustrating, James and I felt that this was testament on the strength of our idea and the huge support we get from everyone who has an interest in our work. The site is up now and running smoothly with a few tweaks so feel free to pass on the website link to as many people you know. The more fans we have for the project will make it all the more easier to gain funding and make this film a reality. Finally I would ...

Hey everyone, After such a great shoot, Azhur and James wanted to share with you some exclusive behind the scenes photos. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did taking them. Till next time, happy filmmaking. [gallery link="file" columns="4"]

Hello everyone, Today is the day we shoot the trailer for The Marionette Unit. Its going to be amazing. Azhur and James are very excited about putting it all together and then showing you. Come back soon to the blog and the website for more information and an exclusive first showing of the trailer! In the meantime, follow the shoot as it happens on our Twitter page http://www.twitter.com/funsizestudios Till next time, happy filmmaking!

To help with the funding and raise more awareness for the film we're going to be shooting a small teaser trailer in the next few weeks. It will be a 20-30 second ident that will demonstrate the visual style we're going to be using for the film. Featuring some great visual effects, it will be a simple yet very effective trailer and should be stunningly atmospheric. We've started location scouting which proved a little harder than originally planned. The spot requires a shot from the top of a building with a view of the London skyline, including St Paul's, Tower 42 and the Gherkin Tower. The tricky part is finding a suitable roof that will give us permission to film, but also is the perfect distance away from the landmarks we want - but also keeping in mind that we need an actor in the frame too. Too far away and the actor will be too large in frame in relation to the buildings, and too close to the landmarks would mean that the buildings would dwarf the actor. What makes it harder is trying to figure out what building to use, whilst walking along the street and looking up and trying ...