Suspect Productions
Suspect Productions was set-up in 2003, to provide Motive’s clients with a range of video production and presentation design services.
Creative digital video production
Suspect Productions services include:
- filming: interviews, events, speeches, launches, etc.
- digital video editing
- video-on-demand (video for the web)
- DVD authoring
- PowerPoint and presentation design
- motion graphics, titles and credits
- documentary production
Video for the web
Video is a great way to create a more compelling website. Web-video can be just about anything: a 30-second advertisement; short-form documentary; or online tutorial.
We can also reinvigorate your existing corporate videos and DVDs. We can shoot new material, add motion graphics and re-edit your messages for the web audience. (We also take care of all the technical details.)
Documentary production
Under cover of night, we also produce documentaries…
Works in progress
- Strike the Fuse: Take New Zealand’s leading percussion ensemble, add a dash of new circus for flavour, and you get…
- Bedwyr Williams: 24 Hours in Wellington. Documentation project for Enjoy Gallery / The One Day Sculpture Trust.
- WWTFZ? aka Sure to Rise: The Zombie–Horror of New Zealand.
Recent works
Get in touch
To request a quote for digital video production or presentation services, please contact Justine Flanagan.
Fumpston Works
Fumpston Works explores the concepts and processes behind the images of Rodney Fumpston, one of New Zealand’s leading printmakers.
Fumpston is well-known for his use of vibrant colour and technical virtuosity.
His work touches on issues of cultural identity and often explore the relationship between the artist as a Fijian-born New Zealander, and modes of representation that are central to Western image-making traditions.
Filmed at Fumpston’s Auckland studio to accompany the Sarjeant Gallery travelling exhibition Fumpston Prints: 1973-2003, the 9-minute documentary includes the printing of See, a study from the Memento series.
Fumpston Works DVD $20
Teachers’ Notes
The Fumpston Works Teacher’s Notes have been compiled by printmaker Rodney Fumpston with the assistance of Suspect Productions.
The notes include:
- A scene-by-scene description of the concepts behind key series, and the printmaking techniques demonstrated
- A glossary of printmaking terms, making reference to Fumpston’s prints
Download the Fumpston Works Teachers’ Notes
fumpston-teachersnotes.pdf (PDF 728KB)
Teacher’s Notes (Free)
PDF: A4/8 pages, full colour
Orders
Limited stocks of the Fumpston Works DVD are available to purchase from Parson’s (Auckland only) or from Suspect Productions.
To place your order, or for media enquiries please contact Justine Flanagan.
Nick Holmes’ Sky Guy: Sky Guy’s Day of Horrors
22 Dec 2005 Suspect Productions is proud to announce the release of Sky Guy‘s Day of Horrors, a stop-motion short from film-maker Nick Holmes.
“We first saw Day of Horrors as part of a review for the Bowerman School of Design”, explains creative director Andy Kirkwood. “Holmes has created truly memorable characters, there’s also sense of the ‘real’ New Zealand in the film which made it an ideal choice for the 2005 Suspect Commission.”
The story
When fire threatens a local farm franchise, a mysterious cowled figure swings into action. Aboard his trusty flying egg, Sky Guy braves the elements, saves the day and finds an unlikely sidekick.
After collecting his reward, our hero is on his way home when he hears screams and spies a body being dragged into the mānuka. Forced to investigate, it’s soon clear that Sky Guy’s day of horrors has only just begun…
Sky Guy DVD $20
Equal parts Bambi and Apocalypse Now, Sky Guy heralds the return of the Kiwi ‘good keen man’ (albeit riding a flying egg with goat in tow and sawn-off shotgun in place of the conventional .22).
The figure
To complement the DVD release, Suspect has worked with Holmes to create a collectable figure. Limited to an edition of 50 figures, Sky Guy was hand-sculpted, moulded, cast, painted and packaged in Wellington.
The figure is presented in a collector’s pack that includes:
- Sky Guy figure
- Sky Guys Day of Horrors (12 min.)
- Behind-the-scenes commentary with director Nick Holmes, sound designer Brett Johansen and composer Ryan Smith
- The Making of Sky Guy (figure) featurette (9 min.)
- Collectable card
“This is possibly the first indigenous New Zealand hero collectable figure,” explains producer and documentary-maker Justine Flanagan. “Sky Guy (like Holmes), is a man of action and few words.”
Sky Guy Collector’s Pack $80
(includes Sky Guy DVD)
Orders
The Sky Guy DVD and Sky Guy Collector’s Pack are available (while stocks last), only from Suspect Productions.
- Sky Guy’s Day of Horrors DVD: $20
- Sky Guy Collector’s Pack: $80
Prices quoted include GST and delivery within New Zealand. International postage POI.
To place your order, or for media enquiries contact Justine Flanagan.
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