Right..all done and dusted on the TG4/ Peace III documentary about stories from Leitrim’s Emigrants and Immigrants.
OK..so it took a good while longer than anticipated, we got there eventually. The first edit for a preview was completed within three weeks of finishing shooting. That was a story in itself though. The cut was due [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Sleeping Warrior Times’
Completion of the TG4 Homeland documentary
Posted by Sleeping Warrior on September 20th, 2011
The making of the Homeland TG4 documentary
Posted by Sleeping Warrior on March 10th, 2011
Phew…feels like ages. We’ve been head down for nearly the last two months making the Johnny Gogan Bandit Films documentary on stories from Leitrim emigrants and immigrants. The project has been funded by Peace III, TG4 as well as Leitrim Coco, the Northern Ireland Executive and more.
Working to a pretty tight deadline for [...]
The making of the Bond commercial
Posted by admin on August 3rd, 2010
Sometimes just when you think it can’t get any stranger..it does.
A couple of weeks ago we shot a commercial for Jewellery Ireland at Markree Castle. The theme of the ad involved James Bond and a very nice Aston Martin car, Riverdance, Anne Boleyn and brides. The logic being that the jewellers involved in the new [...]
The Caltragh Hoard
Posted by admin on July 5th, 2010
We’ve just finished the post production on a documentary made in Caltragh, Sligo that details the work of artist Tracy Walsh in a community art project. It was shot by Johnny Gogan over a three year period and brings together all the aspects and influences involved in the project. These range from trips for the [...]
Orchids
Posted by admin on June 26th, 2010
It seems that this is the year of the Orchid. It was only last week we were out filming at the Rosses point Golf Course interviewing Ross Collins the Course Superindent. He has done a major job in keeping the Orchid people happy by not only preserving the wild orchids on the course, but making [...]
JVC ProHD Gy-HD111e Globalmediapro batteries
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2010
Here’s a wee techie piece for fellow ProHD camera users and sufferers of low battery life
As you will know the battery life with standard batteries for these cameras can be brutally short. Even the JVC batteries wear out pretty quickly and you’re down to being stuck with 15-30 minutes shooting time. We bought a [...]
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No Comments »More TOCA Awards
Posted by admin on May 14th, 2010
So once more TurfNet and Sleeping Warrior Productions dominated the TOCA Awards. This time the presentation was in Tucson, Arizona. The award categories had changed a wee bit from last year but we still managed to get the best video series with TurfNet Goes to Ireland 2009. Well done to Jon Kiger and the TurfNet [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: ireland, leitrim, sleeping warrior, The Sleeping Warrior Times, TurfNet, video awards No Comments »Irish Poets TV / Filí na Gaeilge TV
Posted by admin on April 18th, 2010
Irish Poets TV / Filí na Gaeilge TV
Just to let everyone know that we have finished work on the Irish Poets TV/Filí na Gaeilge TV series and web site. The concept of the project was to shoot a series of videos on the poems included in the Leaving Cert Irish syllabus. We travelled the length [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Filí na gaeilge TV, Irish langauage, Irish poetry, Irish Poets TV, The Sleeping Warrior Times No Comments »More awards coverage
Posted by admin on July 23rd, 2009
Local Coverage of the TurfNet TV Toca Awards in the Leitrim Observer. How will we handle the fame eh?
www.leitrimobserver.ie
Stop Press: Awards for TurfNet Goes to Ireland 2008
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2009
Yep..it seems we’ve picked up major awards for the TurfNet series last year.
Well done to Jon Kiger and Peter McCormick who came up with the idea for the series.
Jon was at the ceremony in Puerto Rico to pick them up yesterday (May 14th). I hope he remembered to thank God, his Mum, the Guinness and [...]
