Hi Fangsters,
wow, a great response to a viewing to a small audience of nascent film-makers, most encouraging, and the "industry professional" (a cinematographer) was particularly positive, suggesting I try using a wide-angle lens which I whipped out and bought the next day. Just a cheapy for my wee mini dv camcorder, and he was right.
Here are some frames.




He also suggested I put a bit of perspex in front of the camera (so it doesn't get smashed into while trying to do "close passes" with the cars), good plan.
I've figured out how to help Gonz get better traction when he's off-road, found some tyres that literally slip on over his slicks, but tight enough to stay on. Just for the action scenes, whip 'em off for his close ups.

Later, Vincent Fango

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Hi Fangsters,
and welcome to the Show.

Ah...so much Fanging Fun!

The princpals at FangoCorp (I) have just finished an industry course (MetroTV Sydney) in "producing for film and Television", learning about the business, the lingo etc.

Excellent it was too, though more focused on film/doco than TV series.

Some great feedback from a part showing at the Metroscreen (film school) open day. The audience laughed during, and applauded after, a necessarily truncated screening (they hadn't even seen the denouement!).

It was great to see and hear people reacting (positively) to Fango Fables. Broadcasting on TVS was like singing into the dark, though seeing it myself on free to air was a helpful prism to objective viewing.

Have produced a promo DVD of The Fangsters, including eight full episodes and a couple of animations. Quite pleased with the results using iDVD.

I've been tidying up the episodes a bit, including the laborious task of changing the advertising signs on Mt Fangorama (frame by frame photoshop documents), some great results, so much effort for details missed by most, but it's the detail that I love, that the Show rewards closer inspection.

They are mostly visible for less than a second, I am particularly happy to have put back the "Dunlop Bridge", which was brutally painted over a few years ago.

Here are some of those.









I've begun working in Final Cut a bit, great for colour grading, and finessing the audio tracks, but still working mostly in iMovie, so simple.

A few production shots.
The shed set during the "Pandoras' Gearbox" shoot (Big Pete stop motion scenes) on the dining room table using the Imac as a (through the camera) monitor. I actually filmed all the stop motion in live action, then just cut out all the frames in between during editing, very simple.



Monitoring the slot car mounted spycam during "understeer" shoot.



Big Pete getting into the swing of the McPhillamy road test.



Gonzalez and McPhillamy fanging about the foothills of Mt Fangorama



I'm even toying with the idea of bringing a swag of my already well developed (but unproduced) scripts together into a larger/ longer work.

In the meantime, one has the flag up the pole, the kite in the heavens, the irons in the fire(s), the art on the sleeve etc.
By crikey I might even knock out a few quick episodes for the fangin' fun of it.
Later, Vince.

Hi Fangsters,
well Fango Fables has finished it's first series on TVS Channel 31, our "off broadway" toe in the waters of the world of broadcast television.
It was fang flamin' tastic!
The picture and sound quality was absolutely fine, using the cheapest DV camera on the market, and Imovie on my antique G3 Imac.
I've posted them on YouTube for broader consumption, and now we're gettin' ready for some serious Fangin' fun.
I'm currently engaged in putting together the FangoFables precision driving team, developing a number of much more ambitious screenplays, and nurturing up (building) the other members of the Fango cast.

Here's me and my co-conspirator Tim (left), co-writer, puppeteer and the voice of McPhillamy.



The latest screenplay has EIGHT characters, (wow, I can see it now) and is basically Leggos' back story (see "Wheel Nut")

where you will learn to differentiate between a couple of species of gum tree (can't wait?), whether ghosts eat spaghetti (huh?), and how a whole bunch of visual clichés can be brought together in an entirely new way to distract, amuse and inform without troubling the viewer with having to think.

Our most popular film (on YouTube at least) by a long way is Understeer.



Fang on, Vincent Fango



Oh yeah, Brocky was a pretty competent artist, apparently he once did a talk on the similarities between motor racing and art (the racing line, co-ordinating intellect and reflexes, concentration and relaxation perhaps?) I would love to read that, and here's a couple of his artworks, curiously both of possums, a brush tailed possum and a portrait of the esteemed aboriginal artist (his artwork adorned a Qantas 747) Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.

Hi Fangsters, a few more images from the fango fables archives.

We at Fango corp. are working at warp speed to get our episodes ready for the world premiere of Fango Fables via Warptv on TVS channel 31 Sydney, on Sunday 10th Dec at 3pm, Rpts. Wed 11pm and Thurs 2pm.

Are we excited?

Fangin' oath!

Hi Fangsters, I'm Vincent Fango, and welcome to Fango Fables.

Fango?

Well, it goes something like this.

FANG.

To drive one's car at a very great speed

[from Juan Manuel FANGIO,

Argentinian racing car driver,

five times world champion].

MACQUARIE DICTIONARY

They're a small community of toy racing cars, who live at Mount Fangorama,

and they love nothing better than to, you guessed it, fang about.

Later, Vincent