Michelle Tofi

Here’s the teaser for my directorial debut, ‘Sacrifice’. I’m pretty pleased with it, though obviously I’m looking forward to having a more thorough cut available as an official ‘trailer’. Sit back, crank up your headphones to enjoy the soundtrack scored for us by the fantastic Dave Connolly and enjoy! 

Sacrifice - A Short Film about Hope →

                  

Students eh? What are we like, always on the lookout for something from someone else. Well, today there’s good reason. We’re right in the midst of pre-production for our latest short film, Sacrifice - and we need your help! Yes, for just £2 a month, this month, just one month (or less, we’re cheap like that!) you could help us hire the very best film equipment, period costumes and props a student budgeted film deserves to have.

Ala Rachel from Friends: “Here comes the science, concentrate”: we really do believe in our film. We’ve got a professional crew on board from Brasil flying over to help us shoot. We’ve got a really talented cast together who are amazingly working for just the bus fare to the set and a hot meal. We’ve secured a fantastic period church for the whole shoot, paid for from your donations so far and we are truly humbled for that. But you know what they say on the internet: Moar! Enhance!

We want our film to look amazing leet. Our story is sensitive and serious. Our script is original and fresh. We have the cast and crew to make something special, but we vitally need your meat cash injection to help lift us off the ground. We need set insurance to be able to hire specialist equipment, and we need specialist equipment to get the shots we’ve storyboarded. Help us out with a donation and I’ll send you the storyboards myself! We need financial help to get our film seen too. We don’t have a lot of favors we can call in, or a distribution team to get our short in cinemas. With your help, we can hold a screening at a top London cinema, or hell, we’ll take a small one, and we can (this bit’s important!) enter our film into the festivals we really think it belongs in. Prints and publicist packs and shipping fees and festival entry fees are too much for us to afford alone. Even a little small change goes a long way on a short film budget, and we’d be eternally grateful. Just think, once we’re mega producers in Hollywood we’ll owe you a solid. Yes, I will send you Angelina Jolie’s number. You have my word! Thanks for considering us in your weekly shopping budget this week guys - we love you! Remember, pass this link along [http://indiegogo.com/sacrificefilm] to all your friends and frenemies. Tell people who hate you that you really hate our film and hope it sucks. Hopefully we can get some vengeance support too!

Yours in sickness, health and student film-making, Michelle, Adam, Bruno and the cast and crew of Sacrifice

At the weekend, our flat got productive and made a film. Here it is, in all its unbridled glory. Yup, there is even an awesome cameo from yours truly!  We shot this on my Canon 550D/Rebel T2i in full HD and I have to say for something conceived as a bit of a mess around for a Sunday afternoon, the results look great. Enjoy!

So here’s what you’ve all been waiting for! The Betasaurus Exclusive look at Nintendo’s 3DS!

In this episode, Adam and Michelle deliver an exclusive scoop on the brand new Nintendo 3DS. We talk you through the expected features, the kind of games you might play, and when you can get your hands on one! In a feat of engineering bravado, Adam makes his own makeshift 3DS and get’s down with his bad self in a geddan tribute (ゲッダン for the win!). Featuring original music from Dave Connolly, this is one episode of TerrorByte you do not want to miss!

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In this episode Adam reviews the latest Martin Scorsese flick, ‘Shutter Island’, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley. We tell you whether the film is worth the ticket price, better off rented or only good for torrenting as we look at the plot, style and audience reaction! We also invite you, our lovely viewers, to get involved in working for us - always fancied yourself as a film reviewer? Now’s your chance! Visit http://facebook.com/betasaurus for more details!

I edited this lovely film. Sorry about the sound… Adam ate an industrial fan before filming began.