RedBlueGreen Productions

UK Based Video Production

Last updated 22nd December, 2009

Filmography

RBG Jane Austen: Space Avenger 2588 (Sci-Fi comedy) - December 2009

RBG Clips Tape (eight short clips) - December 2009

RBG Vignettes 02 (three short films) - April 2009

RBG Vignettes 01 (four short films) - March 2009

RBG News: The James Bond Special (short film) - August 2008

Whatever is Wrong With You (music video) - August 2008

RBG News #3 (short film) - August 2008

RBG News #2 (short film) - April 2008

RBG News #1 (short film) - February 2008

Happy Place (short film) - August 2007

She Opens Roses (music video) - May 2007

Firework Songs (short film) – March 2007

Hey Little Girl (music video) – March 2007

On The Origins of Toys (short film) – November 2006

The Messenger (vignette) – July 2006

Have You Seen This Woman (vignette) – July 2006

In development: nothing impending - vaguely thinking about some short films for 2010

Biography

Hi. I'm Ian-Paul Atkins, and I set up Red Blue Green Productions to indulge my love of visual storytelling. For years I'd been making videos in my head, while pursuing careers of (variously) computing, mature English Literature student, reviews journalist and writer. Finally I ended up working for Contender Entertainment as the content producer for their DVDs (including the not-bought-by-enough Invisible Man sets, the "I feel dirty having anything to do with this" Yu-Gi-Oh releases, and the first three years of UK TV series Spooks’ DVD releases). It was in interviewing all the people connected to Spooks that I began to realise that directing isn't something you only get to do if you're singled out by some sort of elite organisation at birth, and that - gasp - perhaps I could be allowed to do it too. I left Contender and started gaining practical experience in filming by working on video content for a number of websites. These included Lethal Lipstick, where I could indulge my love of the femme fatale character, Bond girls and those cheesy B movies that now keep Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme in crisps. Then in 2006 I finally bought myself a camera and started doing my own work: the fruits of which you can see here at Red Blue Green Productions. Together with some old friends and colleagues we've worked hard to make the most of limited resources, with the priority given to interesting visuals with a few surprises and shocks. 2007 wasn't the most productive of years, but did include the first outside commission (She Opens Roses), the first standalone "short" (Firework Songs) and even a shoot which not only took place entirely outside of London but seamlessly combined multiple locations, while making a point about the battle of the sexes (Happy Place). 2008 has – after a slow start – seen a number of productions, including three filmed concurrently in August. The year saw the debut of the Red Blue Green News comedies, of which there are now three normal episodes and a James Bond Special. A couple of virals have gone onto You Tube, and RBG entered the Marillion video competition for their "Whatever Is Wrong With You" single with a production that the band have highlighted as one of their favourites. In March, RBG also filmed on behalf of Becky Speed's website on a guns-and-girls piece called The Infiltrator, a video which will premiere when Becky’s site is re-launched. 2009 was a comparatively quiet year, with on one hand some very low scale guns-and-girls pieces, and on the other the most visually ambitious piece RBG has ever done: Jane Austen: Space Avenger 2588. Future projects at present are focused on two short film scripts. One is a femme-fatale actioner entitled (possibly) The Ocean's Daughter, and the other is a look at the life of 1960s TV comedians called Images in 625. Further news will be given here, as and when. All the best, Ian-Paul.

Links:

Red Blue Green on You Tube

Doctor Who themed-edits by Ian-Paul Atkins on You Tube

Contender Group

Lethal Lipstick

Contact and Commissions

Red Blue Green exists to make videos, and we're available for – and happy to consider – commissions. Please take the time to have a look through both this site and the YouTube site to see the sort of thing we’ve done in the past. But if you have a video project you would like us to undertake, then please contact us here. A quote can be easily provided, and we'll go from there if both parties are interested.