SPARKEFILMS HISTORY DESIGN
Copyright 2011 SPARKEFILMS
Postal Address: 8 Londy st,
Eagleby, QLD 4207
MILITARY ADVISING & TRAINING
As this is our full time job we are commited to bring history alive and accurately in any production and at any stage.
SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT
Our Military Advising team can help your production right from the script stage.
Having an understanding, not only about
military aspects but film structure, we can give you notes on your script.
It's a great way to give the military/history parts in your script a polished and realistic feel.

Some aspects we have helped script development:

Military dialogue.
Realistic Squad/Section commands.
Historic Notes.
Realistic Battle Notes.
We can then stage a "Boot Camp" for your actors. Our team are trained on many periods and know that today's military drill/combat tactics are not right, for example WW2 Kokoda or vise-versa.

Training your actors in the period your film is portraying is important and our job is to GET IT RIGHT. This assists the actors to have empathy for the era and helps your project have that authentic edge.

For smaller productions we can even reduce the training to a weekend or a day and just teach the bare requirments to the actors.
PRE-PRODUCTION: BOOTCAMP
PRODUCTION
Having a military advising team on-set, can greatly increase the look and feel of your production. At Sparkefilms History Design, we start with research.
Having a vast library consisting of over 2000 books, we dive deep into your subject matter to leave no stone unturned. We know that one photo, from one book, is not good enough to base the entire production design on. By no means are we 'one book specialists'. And if we don't exactly know....we'll go find out.

Once production has started our team can be there to make sure background extras behave in the right manner and historic aspects are true to the period.

When all is said and done, your production can have the authentic look that SparkeFilms History Design is known for - Australia's Number #1 military history film support.

Our team are ready to work on ANY production so Email Us now.
" Dear Ian,
Well what can we say? You and your boys were a hit with the public and media alike.
The impressive way that you and your team enthusiastically bring to life the colour, character and humour of the Aussie Digger is truly great to witness.

The constant interaction and platoon level training between the men and a good Sgt is great to see and experience.
The quality and accuracy of the gear and equipment is also truly impressive and it’s no wonder the film industry taps into this experience in the way that it does.

We will be absolutely delighted to have you and your team involved in any such undertaking in the future. It was wonderful to have you involved and the public reaction was awesome.

Many thanks,
Talan Miller
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Managing Director
Sabre Corporate Development
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ACTORS AS TRAINED FILM SOLDIERS
We now have a number of well trained, disciplined and professional actors who are trained "film soldiers" & can help put that air of authenticity in your production.

They have been cast in many productions such as the entire cast for the History Channel's productions of "The battle of Long Tan" & "For Valour", the 'core film soldiers' for "Beneath Hill 60", spent months on HBO's "The Pacific" & 2005's Miramax production "The Great Raid" as well as many, many others.

This is a great way to outfit historic re-creations in documentaries or help train main actors and extras in feature films. When you hire our Film Soldier team, you will be provided with
actual actors who are trained in military tactics, weapons and drill etc. and can be hired in any era and time period.

The 'soldiers' are used to wearing any uniform, walking the way the ANZAC's did, talking the way American Rangers did. They know it so well on one production we could portraying Redcoats and the next week be in Tobruk or Korea. Many have had military service and all are trained with weapons.