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Community Central TV

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:48:00 +0000

Since August 2007 I have been collaborating with a small company called SNS Productions to produce a series of programmes entitled ‘Community Central TV’ a series of magazine shows for a particular audience in the States.

I have been editing the series as and when I can with the helpful and generous woman of Shaquilla who has been a dream to work with. And the reason for my blogging this is that my programmes have finally hit youtube! Yay

Please visit www.youtube.com/communitycentraltv for the latest two programmes

Jobs

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:41:00 +0000

You gotta love em, those 8 hours a day things that puts food on your table, we both started new jobs on Tuesday just gone and how tiring are they! I can't say I've been so tired in all my life, must be the shock of 8.5 hours a day... ahem.

Collectormania

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:41:00 +0000

After hearing that the event, Collectormania, is coming to Milton Keynes, not far from us ya know, I thought we'd better give it a visit. And low and behold we arrived, to a fairly packed car park and even more so was the centre:mk was packed to the rim. Cue mad men, mad ladies and their children and mad fans scattered across the complex. Nice selection of shops but you won't catch me buying a £18 t-shirt with a crummy logo on it, oh no, but you might catch me trying to grab a deal for a DVD or a second-hand plushie, Elmo anyone? HAHA.

We had the pleasure of acquiring Eve Myles aka Gwen Cooper of TV's 'Torchwood' 's autograph, what a lovely lady who looked so happy to be doing such an event and also looked like she was bricking it! And saw John Barrowman himself not too far away, didn't even see many others, since there were hundreds of fans surrounding those of James Marsters (Spike from 'Buffy' and 'Torchwood's Captain John) and Kai Owen ('Torchwood's Rhys), did think about dropping in on Charles whatshisface - the voice of Roger Rabbit - to sign my DVD but alas, nevermind, we did have the pleasure of gracing the presense of Jennifer Linden (Barbara in the 1960s dalek movie 'Dr Who and the Daleks' starring Peter Cushing) and Darth Vader man himself, Dave Prowse.

A nice event, spoilt by the amounts of people, ah well, must be me, being an old fart.

The Schrodinger Effect

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:41:00 +0000

Blogging, haven't done this in awhile, summing my recent life activities in a mere few sentences that might be vaguely interesting to those who are interested in reading in the first place

*breathes*

Last night, Mrs Nagel and I headed up towards Leeds, Leeds Town Centre to be exact, well, Leeds Town Centre's city loop/ring road thing for about twenty minutes before settling in the train station's car park to ascend on Bar Cenessa to see Chris Hoyle, of The Projection Room fame, and his new film 'The Schrodinger Effect' starring Mr Hoyle himself and fellow Doctor Dave Hodson.

Having picked up Mr Chambers on our way, yes Mr Chambers will ALWAYS join us on these big WHO events, we walked the shops first and picked up a few bits and pieces before settling down in seats in the er... function room of the Bar Cenessa.

Greeted by the man himself, Chris Hoyle, and a glass of shampers, we were treated to a series of videos of Doctor Who-ness from BBC2's 1999 Doctor Who Night to the traielrs for Chris' fan film. After these, Mr Hoyle did a short introduction before we were treated with a bloody brilliant looking fan film that is as of yet the best Projection Room film since 'Gene Genius' (oh wait, that was their last one). The quality of the direction, executed by Hoyle himself, and the sets and props, namely the TARDIS exterior prop (mayde by Hoyle), and TARDIS interior set, brilliantly constructed by both Hoyle and Hodson. And the film was topped off with some brilliant CG/Visual Effects produced by the most northern of northern-based people, Graham Quince, of which we had the pleasure meeting him and his fantastic wife, Debbie.

Come the end and a round of applause, everyone sited their views and opinions with each other and Chris sent round a guest book for all to sign. And shortly afterwards a treat of a DVD was played with featurettes and brilliant behind the scenes of construction of sets and props, scripting and editing and visual effects was played with appropriate head shots of Chris, Dave and Graham... hmm... one even wearing the same T-shirt he's wearing that day..hmm.

With a fantastic few hours of entertainment we were treated with the possibility of watching the latest 'real' Doctor Who episode, The Sontaran Stragemn starring current Doctor Who, David Tennant and companion, Catherine Tate with returning companion, Freema Ageman as Martha. While on the big screen would have been brilliant, the technology wasn't permitting so we all sat around a little television screen to watch this latest episode, but Chris did connect the telly up to his big speakers (ooooh errr!). And with that, we said temporaral goodbyes in hopes of catching up later, and continued to find some swanky place to eat, well it wasn't swanky but we had a good eating and couldn't catch up with the man himself later but ah well and continued on our way home. A fantastic evening and we look forward to the next one... maybe our own even? Thanks Chris and company for a brill evening.

The only general comment we had about Chris' film was that it was awfully similar to our intended 'Time and the Doctors' what a shame we were two years late with our script, completely unaware of what Chris had envisionged. Ah well... we'll have to rethink 'Time and the Doctors' now. 'The Schrodinger Effect' was just proof that Chris Hoyle is the motherdaddy (I'm sure he'd like that) of British fan films, having produced them from as early as 1994, and proves that with a little effort you can produce something of brilliance that everyone will enjoy watching. The film was also an excellent show reel for Graham having produced all the visual effects. I think 50% of the film was a visual effect and 50% raw live footage, conceived between Graham and Chris.

But again, a fantastic show and one well worth remembering. Thanks Chris.

Doctor Who: Partners in Crime

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:54:00 +0000

Right, I thought I’ve better start a new series of review blog posts about the new series of Doctor Who starring David Tennant and … ahem… Catherine Tate.

Doctor Who S4EP1: Partners in Crime

Doctor Who returns with Partners in Crime featuring the return of Time Lord, David Tennant and Temp worker, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, last seen in the 2006 Christmas Special, ‘The Runaway Bride’. The Doctor is investigating Adipose and so is Donna. With a few near misses the two finally meet with a brilliant silent conversation through the windows of Miss Fosters’ office.

An interesting opening episode let down, unfortunately, by the writing, sorry RTD but this is on par with Series 1’s ‘Rose’ and Series 2’s ‘New Earth’ oh, and any other episode you’ve written really. Yes, it was a jolly romp to open the series, light hearted and interesting for the younger minority but it just wasn’t… right. It felt like a comic, which was good, but unfortunately the idea stretched the few pages of a comic and could have been so much better. Over used music, sorry Murray but when do we get to hear more new tracks of music, ah well, can’t complain, we got the same thing in Series 2. Because of the silliness of the episode and the pointlessness of the episode, I don’t think the Doctor did much ‘saving the day’ wise really, ultimately it would have ended this way, just a shame it didn’t “end another way”. But otherwise, Donna gets a fine entry into the TARDIS. I never liked Donna to begin with in the Christmas Special but unfortunately she is warming to me and it’d be interesting to see how she gets on. 3/5

Next time… Fires of Pompeii

The Curse of CT

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:45:00 +0000

Don't film with Chris! This is a warning for those who would like to film with Teenz Inc head man himself, Chris Thomson, if you HAVE to film something with him, make sure he isn't working that evening! By jove did we have a trouble getting in a few hours worth of filming in a much shorter space of time! Oh dear. But I can’t blame him, we didn’t get to him till mid-day so I’m not surprised we didn’t have much time. Ah well…

We spent half a day with Mr Teenz Inc himself again, filming in a local office location the final confrontational scenes of my villain, Sir Denton and Chris’ Doctor Who. By golly, did we have to rush that! Thank lord rassilon for two camcorders. Sammy made her acting debut as Sir Denton’s receptionist and how jove did she do well! Well done hun!

And I better to home up on my prop making skills, namely the electronics, next time buy a flashing LED, not a switch that you have to sit off camera and flick on and off yourself. Oh and yes, next time Nagel, spend more time on it, rather than the night before and it will look so much better. Sorry Chris mate! Lets hope the next prop is better. And if you’re wondering what the hell I’m on about, you’ll have to wait to watch Chris Thomson’s film ‘The Final Adventure’ when it premieres very, very soon…

The To-do List of Doom

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:00 +0000

After seeing the recent updates on the Big Finish website, I thought it’d be a good idea to do what Mr Briggs is doing and write up a To Do list – yes, one of those. I hate them too. But you have to make them, don’t you?

*looks over long, long, long list*

Pending completion:

Time and Again soundtrack – Ryan Thorson of Mendicant Productions asked me to do the soundtrack for his Doctor Who fan film ‘Time and Again’ – fantastic production values and a fantastic looking 2007 edit – let’s hope my sound design lives up to its visuals!
Chimera – yes, that age old Doctor Who fan film, filmed in 2003 and released on the web in 2004 is now heading its way onto DVD. If only a computer would stay stable enough for me to finish it eh?
Fix Computer – hmm, an old computer of mine with a bust partition and dynamic disk has been causing some grief for along time now – all the important stuff is on it! Oh dear! Hope to at least look at it again soon.
Flesh out new site – my new domain needs fleshing out since it only has the bare bones of what I want there, so far. So look forward to more portfolio stuff popping up there soon.
Write WHO – lots of script writing ahead.
Passport USA – Mr Maher tells me he will attempt to animate this monstrosity of a production, but that will be awkward given that he has just changed the script AGAIN after we completed the soundtrack for the first draft. *grumbles* Calling all Voice Artists! Calling all Voice Artists!
Pilot Bad Angel – sounds odd but we have devised a new animated sitcom which will see the light of day…one day – promise.

‘What is done?’ I hear you ask…

Well…

Well, the Doctor Who audio release schedule has been finalised as well as one or two scripts and one or two audios have actually started production but it’s a long way till we have another season or two ready for release.
Set confirmed – we have news that a special set has been confirmed for use in an upcoming fan film… script pending of course J
And I have just finished casting a new series of audios for…someone else.

More coming soon.

Wow... you know you've made it when...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:56:00 +0000

you appear on the front page and latest news bulletin of the Doctor Who Crossover Adventures website!

Hear our latest audio and christmas special of 2007 makes it debut as part of the canon of the Crossover Adventures website

Two Doctors, Two Companions and a Genie

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:16:00 +0000

No, not quite a new audio adventure (but now that I've mentioned it... *writes it down*) we joined up with Doctor #noidea poche Mr Chambers as we gave Birmingham a visit to see the panto 'Aladdin' starring none other than Captain Jack aka John Barrowman from TV's 'Doctor Who' and 'Torchwood'.

A fantastic production of which you can tell everyone enjoyed it, audience and performers. John was fantastic as ususal in his American kind of way. Lots of jokes, lots of fun, an apperance by the Daleks and even a few gay nods for John... oh dear.

So we did the usual fan thing and harrassed him at the stage door... or what looked like the stage door... and we realised he isn't as tall as he looks on Torchwood or Doctor Who. He's my height! I bet next Doctor Mr Chambers was pleased he could intimidate Captain Jack for once! Which means, other members of Torchwood must be very very tiny people... oh dear oh dear.

Mrs Nagel and Mr Chambers outside the Hippodrome Theatre

Mr Barrowman himself and Mr Nagel far far right.

EDIT: Here are some new pictures...

A picture of Sammy taking a picture...

RUN! Autons! No wait...

Where we parked...

Happy Birthday Mr Thomson

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:59:00 +0000

Yes, happy birthday little friend, it is your birthday.

Today we visited Mr Thomson on his 17th Birthday bringing you none other than a fantastic card made by Mrs Nagel, the Doctor Who Story Book 2007 and a dalek money box for all the coppers you find around the house.

Cue lots of exotic food, Chris' friends and family and a moment to play on the Wii... what an *interesting* experience, all be it demonstrated by Chris' little brother Adam.

And curse cats with muddy paws.

Happy Birthday Mr Thomson

Aron in Cambridge

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:25:00 +0000

Mr Toman gave us a visit this time up in merry ole Cambridge so what was the first thing we did?

yes, thats right Doctor Who fans, we went out and found the locations as used in the 1979 abandoned Tom Baker story 'Shada' AHA! And no, its not May Week... in June.

Mrs Nagel looking over the cam, in May Week... in June.

The back of Mr Toman's head as he snaps a little boat on the cam... in May Week... in June.

But then we had to say goodbye to Mr Toman as he returned to his real life down under, twas a pleasure to meet you Mr Toman and I hope we can return the visit to you one day... on our honeymoon or something... or any other excuse we can make to visit our cousins on the opposite side of the planet.

Aron in London

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:04:00 +0000

Yes, you read that right, our friend downunder Mr Toman of Crossover Adventures fame came to visit London on his dream trip to see our capital and see as many West End shows as feasibly possible. We joined Mr Toman for the day in London to see the sights, eat the food, and generally have a good time. We visited the Earl's Court TARDIS (after much searching - should have brought my TARDIS locator) and visited the shops, the cafes and soon found ourselves in the seats of Prince Edward Theatre on the West End (alittle way from Spamalot is playing with Peter Davison) and watched the marvellous production of Mary Poppins. A brilliant production, worth seeing again if it wasn't ending soon... ah well.

Twas a pleaseure to meet Mr Toman for the first time next to chatting on MSN or hearing each others voices for our audio productions. We look forward to seeing him again... oh wait we did...

Here are some snaps

Mrs Nagel outside the Earl's Court TARDIS

The TWO Doctors?

The DAM Doctor and Sammy

The Theatre

Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:59:00 +0000

Happy Belated New Year to all of you at home!

Christmas Specials...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:08:00 +0000

Yes, Christmas Specials, don't you love 'em.

Well, DAM Audios produced a Doctor Who christmas special entitled 'Bah!' written by DAM co-founder, Michael Maher and starring David Nagel, Sammy Nagel and guest starring Aron Toman from the Crossovers Adventures.

Click the picture to go to the download page.

As for the official Doctor Who Christmas Special, Voyage of the Damned, wasn't it good? right up till THE END! I think the almost destroying Buckingham Palace (wish he didn't warn Queenie) just ruined the whole special, the rest of it was fine, could have been better with the Host robots changing the ships' course and maybe Kylie Minoguie was underused a bit... but hey... can't complain, twas better than last year's... and the year's before that... Hmm. Grumpy old me. On the other hand, the other half liked it, and that's what is important.

A Very Belated Christmas to all of you at home!

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:06:00 +0000

Yes, it IS that time of year and I forgot all about mentioning it on the blog but why should I? You readers are already been celebrating it, no time for the internet or blogging... ah well.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Love,
Mr and Mrs Nagel

Living in just one mind...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:34:00 +0000

On and off since the beginning of the month, I have been working on the post production for a music video. Starring puppet stars, Charlene Boomerang and Scott Waterman on the Spencer Show. It's called 'Two Hearts' after Phil Collins' brilliant track (now ruined because of the time I've spent listening to this version) and featuring videos reminiscent of Kylie's Made in Heaven music video and others.

Enjoy this 3 minute stint of madness. It certainly satisfies my puppet fixation!

Sesametube

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:48:00 +0000

Over the past month or so I have been overwhelmed by the amount of videos and fun found at the following site.
A fantastic website with lots and lots of Sesame Street clips, new and old, each character is seperated into search sections of their own, so go click Elmo and find all the videos with Elmo in.

A highlight of mine is Cookie Monsters' new video for his classic 'C is for Cookie'

Happy Birthday Mrs Nagel

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:06:00 +0000

That's right! Mrs Nagel was 21 today! WHOA!

Last night we went to the Lyceum Theatre in London to see the Lion King on stage - a fantastic production and one Mrs Nagel loves the most! Brilliant costumes and superb composition made this a night to remember and we rounded the night off with a jacket potatoe and a chicken curry. Yummy.

Today, we had a slow start to my day off, you've gotta have the day off for your Mrs! And we went into town to get our hair cut and doesn't the Mrs look fabulous in her new hair - gorgeous! Mine on the other hand, just looks like old me, I look like a pineapple if I'm not careful. GEL PLEASE!

A quick trip to Queensgate and some dinner at a nice restaurant we haven't been too before and it was around Mrs' parents in time for tea and cake and then we got back and more tea and cake with the Mrs' in laws! EEEK! Lots of cake! *puke*

Happy Birthday Mrs Nagel and lets hope each birthday gets better and better!

Well done Mrs Nagel

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:13:00 +0000

Congratulations to Mrs Nagel on her continuing ability to gain top scores and high grades with her ongoing Book Keeping course supplied by the Home Learning College.

Well done honey - so proud.

Thank you Verity

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:50:00 +0000

It is with deepest regret that I must inform readers that the wonderful Verity Lambert has died at 71.

Verity Lambert was the first producer of 'Doctor Who' way back in 1963 and continues to be the first female producer at the BBC. Thank you for one of Britain's most popular of cultures, Verity, you will not be forgotten.

Verity died on November 22nd, the day before the 44th birthday of the airing of BBC's 'Doctor Who'. Thank you to Gallifreyone for the news.

Children in Need

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:24:00 +0000

Those of you in the UK will be aware of the annual Children in Need british appeal organised by the BBC. And those of you who are Dr Who fans like the Mrs and I you will be aware that 5th Doctor, Peter Davison, returned to make an appearance with current regeneration, 10th Doctor, David Tennant.

Click here for Time Crash - WATCH NOW!

A brilliant brief encounter of the two Doctors. Pleased this old fan boy and will definately please the new ones as well.

The perfect love letter to the 5th Doctor

But, please, please donate to Children in Need at www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Hmm...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:32:00 +0000

Two days its happened now, parked next door to the same car!

Freaky!

Welcome to...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:01:00 +0000

the Twilight Zone.

Another strange moment in time... the meeting of two cars, quick Pertwee run away from the Blinovitch Limitation Effect! ARGHHHHHHHH!

Also today... tyre went flat during the day HAD to change it because I was running stuff around for work, darn those little manufacturers standard jacks - they are pants! Hmm. Illegal spare... hmm...

Birthday? Oh no...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:39:00 +0000

Yes, you guessed, its my birthday, thank you to those who didn't send me a card, saved me opening them and having to litter my house with them, and many thanks to those who sent me something, it will have to sit around the house till I can be bothered to move it again.

My darling wife made me two gorgeous giant cookies, see pictures, and bought me a Judoon Scanner (see 'Smith and Jones') so I can whip and scan some Rutans - sorry! - Plasmovore's ass. And a dvd of 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space' if you aren't familiar with that film, I suggest you go google and buy it - fantastic, creepy, crap your pants film.

Here's me blowing out candles... on my brilliant daleks and me cake courtsey of Asda I believe.

Oh did I not mention? I'm 22 today.

It's a small world afterall...

noreply@blogger.com (damaudios) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:59:00 +0000

Hmm, it is a small world, a very small world, look who I bumped into...

old friend, Adam Chandler.