Stoke Your Fires

Stoke Your Fires Wednesday 2nd March

Stoke You Fires was a film festival at Stoke on Trent

The day started off pretty poorly with viewings of the award winners films...animation and live action. Most of the animation films I had already seen at BAF in November and a lot of the live action films weren't the best films I'd ever seen. There were only a couple that I really enjoyed. The thing that made the trip were the talks following this. The first talk was a panel of people from the media industry all of whom had experience in the animation industry of which all had interesting and useful knowledge and experiences to share. They also shared with us the different jobs that can be gained from the industry that I hadn't known about before..and had not been told by previous professionals at previous talks. And the second and last talk was brilliant too..it was a man that was part of the company that made and created the alien Paul from the film 'Paul'. He took us through all of the stages of the process just as Paul Franklin, the man that worked on Inception, had at BAF but even more detailed. It was different too because with Inception the talk was about buildings and explosions etc but with Paul it was about making a supposedly living creature. 

Despite the bad beginning the middle and end was brilliant. However it was nothing compared to BAF and even though it was a lot cheaper than BAF it couldn't compare to it by half!