Info

The Key – a film by Kim Noce & Shaun Clark

Completion/Premiere Date 17 March  2014

Outline (Word Count:) 

Sometimes things that are lost should not be found

Synopsis (1)

When the residents awake to find the key missing to the Town gate frustration soon sets in. Only this key is happy to be lost and keen to show some things should not be found.

Technical Information

• Original Title: “The key”
• Format 16:9 FHA 25fps  Colour DCP
• HDTV 1080 25fps Colour
• 16:9 25fps  FHA Colour
• Sound Stereo TV Mix
• Duration 8 minutes
• Language English (no subtitles)
• Genres&  Category: Animation/ Drama/ Fiction
• Production Year  NOVEMBER 2013
• Country of Production UK

Technique
Watercolour
Rotoscope
Pencil
Collage

The film is  hand made pencil and water-colour  hand painted rotoscoped photocopies, filmed frame by frame under the rostrum camera and composited in After Effects

Programs Used After Effects, Photoshop

Main Credits Only

Directors
Kim Noce & Shaun ClarK

Producers
Kim Noce
Shaun Clark

Screenwriter
Tom Hill

Original Idea 
Shaun Clark
Kim Noce

Choreographer
Laura Horn

Music by
Alex Harwood

Editor
Benjamin Gerstein

Sound Designer
David Pringle

Animators & Compositors
Kim Noce
 & Shaun Clark

Voices Artist
Narrator – Paul Mundell
James – Dylan Cousins
Mother and Dancer – Ellie Mitra

Actors
James – Dylan Cousins
Dad – John Priestley
Mum – Sarah Priestley
Child –  Lowenna Priestley
Commuter – Megan Campbell
Commuter – Alex Chalk
Commuter – Richard  Llewellyn
Mother & Commuter  -Maya Dodwell
Dancer – Judith Wright