Thundermaus: A General Summary

Thundermaus:

A General Summary

 

On Friday the 14th, in October of 2011, Thundermaus began as a short film specifically made for a 48hr film competition called Dv Mission.  At the time, this was Portsmouth's one and only 48hr Film Festival, perhaps the only one of its kind in Hampshire.

The film was created by a small group of film making friends, comprising of : Heidi Cooke, Becky Sadler, Eddy Mills, Robin Shroom, Tom Mayhead and Jayson Scott Adams,   

who called their team: The Adams Collective.

 

That year some 20 odd teams entered the competition and to avoid cheating, all DV mission entrants  were given the same brief:

Title - Thundermaus
Genre - Techno-Horror
Line of Dialogue - 'Let Them Eat Cake'

48hrs later : The Adams Collective returned with a sci-fi tale about Teddy Bears in space mining cake planetoids and being attacked by carnivorous Donut monsters who stowed away aboard their space craft:  The Thundermaus

This 2minute short  film was then given to the event organizers (along with the rest of the twenty odd other short films created) and screened to a crowded auditorium of some 300 people.

A Typical Audience at a Dv Mission 48hr Film Festival

The Teddybears in space film was well received and was nominated for 11 awards, winning the award for  'Inspired Special Effects' and subsequent demands made by the event organizers and fans to see more  Thundermaus adventures. 

 

As a result, from 2012 up to 2015, Thundermaus returned as a regular feature of the DV Mission Film festival. With old members leaving the show, new members soon joined, enabling the series to  return year after year with a new and improved adventure, based on the DV Mission brief, whilst introducing new characters, better quality film sets and props and winning more awards. 

In the Papers - The Adams Collective win another award for Thundermaus.

 

Technical assistant Miles Fletcher, 

with Director Jayson Scott Adams 
New crew : Team Thundermaus 2014 

Thundemaus props on display at a Comic Convention in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

With Dv Mission giving the series a platform, it allowed Thundermaus exposure to a huge audience gaining it further popularity, which also lead to a You Tube and FaceBook page, screenings at a Comic Convention at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and a Tv Interview on

 Thats Solent Tv. 

However in 2016, the Dv Mission Film Festival changed hands and The Adams Collective has long since disbanded, its rotation of members moving on to pursue interests elsewhere and the future of Thundermaus now seems uncertain. 

Series creator: Jayson Scott Adams    

Never the less, the remaining two members of the original team ( Heidi Cooke and Jayson Scott Adams )  still continue the series in their spare time and the latest episode proves to be the best yet, which will also serve to raise money (via crowd funding on the popular website Indy GoGo), with the hope of continuing the series for a few more years yet to come…