User:Pistolwhip66/Forbidden Film

Forbidden Film Studios is a film company that specialises in Dark and Dirty Films. It was started by Michael Carroll in mid 2008 originally as Snare Crusher Studios the changed names to become Forbidden Film in late 2008.

Video Products Released by Michael Carroll and Forbidden Film
[2004] Shitbox 3: A Whole Lotta Cabbage ( Yarram Court Productions)

[2006] {Name Unknown} [Claymation] (HIOGHo' Corp) [2006] Walker Sequence [Flash Animation] (HIOGHo' Corp)

[2007] High School Terrorist Takeover (Michael Carroll & Katie's Table)

[2008] Mizone Rapid Ad (Mizone Group)

[2008] Ultimate Man (Birdman Productions & Snare Crusher Studios)

[2008] The Lodge (Snare Crusher Studios & Birdman Productions)

[2009] TAC Graveyard Ad

[2009] At Aces Place

[2009] Cannibal Fever

[2010] Addiction

[2010] mX TV (1 Episode)

Pre-Snare Crusher Studios
The comedy short film "Shitbox 3: A Whole Lotta Cabbage" Written, Produced and Directed by all 4 members of Yarram Court Productions ( Dean, Adelle, Matt and Michael) filmed during the 2003/04 summer in Frankston, Australia was the start of Michael Carroll's Film Career. The film betrayed a group of heros who fought against evil that died and became a new character after each scene. The film was cut short due to money and time constraints with a message that one of the lesser characters had died of cancer.

Several years later in a year 2006 Michael Co-Founded HIOGHo' Corp with a group of guys wihtin his Media Class. HIOGHo' Corp began working on a short claymation. The claymation featured a character created by each member of HIOGHo' Corp. During the same class, Michael Worked on his own Flash animation of a walking battle tank called "The Walker Sequence" which was created under the name of HIOGHo'. After the Disbanding of HIOGHo' Corp at the end of 2006, Michael and Co-HIOGHo' Corp Founder Jayden Rua became Free agents and worked with Katie's Table to Make the Short Film "The High School Terrorist Takeover" Written by Michael Carroll.

In early 2008 Michael was working writing scripts and developing concepts for the films his wished to create in the upcoming year. Whilst doing this he was also working with another new group in his media Class for the advertisement of Mizone Rapid with a hint of orange. It was during the editing process of the "Mizone Rapid Ad" that he and the other editor Daniel Bird began sick of the treatment they were getting working with others.

Snare Crusher Studios
Michael teamed up with long time friend and passionate film maker Daniel Bird who each made there own separate film entities, Michael created Snare Crusher Studios and Daniel made Birdman Productions. The two of them began work on Daniel's concept "Ultimate Man" which they filmed before Michael departed to europe for a holiday in June 2008.

When Michael returned they were pressed for time to create a film and Michael offered up his horror film concept "The Lodge". Michael had already started Pre-production and collaborated with Daniel to create a short that was equally theirs however time was again a factor and they had to lower the bar to a horror film trailer. The Responsibilities were split, editing was Daniel's role and preproduction and story was Michael's. They filmed the entire thing in one day with themselves playing the major roles again in their films.

At the end of the Production of "The Lodge" trailer Daniel and Michael went their separate ways due to the fact the next year they needed to produce films entirely by themselves, so after 8 months of good teamwork their collation of Film Making ceased. They Kept their own Film Companies however Michael was impressed by how well his horror concept turned out and changed his company to Forbidden Film StudiosSee Below for More Details

Forbidden Film
After "The Lodge" Horror concept Michael finnaly found a way of putting his passion for film making and his curiosity toward the sinister nature of the human race. Michael realised that dark, dirty and confrontational films where his calling card and therefore changed the company's name to fit such film production. Many of Michael's Previous Films were then distributed via the Forbidden Film youtube channel[ http://www.youtube.com/user/Pistolwhip66]

He worked on several concepts at the end of 2008 using horror, post-apocalypse and confrontation as his themes, he came up with a concept for TV series, Several TAC drink driving ad ideas, started a script for a feature film and came up with the original idea behind the Cannibal Fever Series, the drug that creates the infected (zombies) "Deathanphetamines."

At the start of 2009 Michael decided to further his skills and contacts by going to Summer Film School at Melbourne University. this helped to develop his ideas further and meet many established members of the industry as well as befriending up and coming members such as Amy-Lee Shields of Noise TV and Noise Media Network. He also began putting significant backing into his own film production with Forbidden Film buying it's first Mac and editing programs in early Feb '09.

During Feburary and March Michael organised and filmed his TAC Graveyard Drink Driving Ad using the Noise Bar, and Frankston Cemetery as locations. The product was released to DVD which forbidden film distributed in late March. Forbidden Film then spent the next several months working entirely on the concept and on pre-production to the experimental zombie film "Cannibal Fever"

During Pre-production Michael was diagnosed with a medical condition that ensured he was in permanent pain, Michael continued his work on Cannibal Fever which he had an urge to get perfect. Whilst working on this Michael had to work on a completely separate project that he had no clue what to do, as he didn't have the budget or equipment to do any of his grand ideas he had to come up with something quickly. Michael started pre-production on on a Poker Film script called "King High."

Michael's health worsened with his kidney's being attacked by his immune system and his Siadic pain becoming unbearable. Michael Started filming Cannibal Fever in small increments as he desperately tried to organise the shooting of King High. Actors were hard to find during the year and Michael was forced to change the story to more of a documentary style. a week after filming his father(who started in the film) suffered cardiac arrest and Michael had to tend to his family and look after his father during his recovery. Michael Managed to piece together a video project for the footage he had and created "At Ace's House" a dedication to those who saved his father's life.

Michael then set his eyes back to filming the remaining parts of Cannibal Fever and had it fully edited by late September, some 4 weeks after the start of his father's health problem. He distributed Cannibal Fever via a limited edition box set and added all of his video projects from 2009 to Forbidden Film's youtube channel finding that several of his videos had to be deleted due to music infringements, as the music editors had not used original scores.

In October Michael had to take a break from any filming or production due to his health had got to the stage where he needed surgery. During his recovery period he came up with several new concepts which he is currently exploring and developing.

On the Drawing Board
Forbidden Film Released that it is currently working on a Concept bible for a television series called "The Epic Milkshake Quest" and that during the 2009/10 summer that it will be producing Cannibal Fever: Prey POV, Horror TV ads and a Silent zombie film still on the Cannibal Fever timeline that has yet to be named.