For the first time here at fernbyfilms.com, we present the full length feature from Director Rodney Twelftree, Thrash Bus.

Thrash Bus was made on a whim, as Rodney, Warwick, Andrew Newman and Nick Abbott went down to the Twelftree farm to thrash an old Mitsubishi Colt around a paddock. The ends result is a semi-documentary, semi-insane adventure, of their time. Later, upon return visits, more footage was filmed and Thrash Bus became a reality.

From the archives of Fernby Films, we are proud to present the original trailer for Thrash Bus, the first major feature directed by Rodney Twelftree. The full feature will be uploaded to the website soon, so keep an eye out for that over the next few weeks!

For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has delved into the vault to bring you the complete archives of Fernby Films. In this installment, we present the original short film, The Editing Process.

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For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has been granted exclusive access into the vaults of Fernby Films. In 2001, director Warwick Twelftree edited together a film montage in honour of their overseas friend, Annabel Green. Using Fernby Films alumni Lochy Cupit, and founder Rodney Twelftree as cameramen, Hello Annabel was a tribute to the effect her presence had upon her friends in Adelaide.

Here, we present the complete Hello Annabel, in a 6 part series. Director Warwick Twelftree has written special comments for the film, and we present them here also.

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Technically Hello Annabel is a film all about experiments! Bad camera angles, light and dark, bad sound, good sound, clip to short, clip too long, rogue frame etc..

From a watchability perspective and professionalism point of view, this film scores a very low 0/10. Anybody who dared pull this movie off the shelf when visiting a mate and accidently yelled “Hey, What’s this about” usually followed by an overwhelming response of “AWESOME, I havn’t seen that film for ages, it is Soooooo good” will more than likely regret the decision and wish that there was some way that they could re-gain the lost 50 minutes of their life.

From a memoir perspective and for capturing the moment much like a moving photo album, this production is priceless! For anyone who knew Annabel or any of the related people in the movie, if your eyes are not glassy at the end of the movie, there is something wrong with you.

For a movie made on a cardboard box and a Fridge compressor, this movie is a wonderful achievement that will go down in history.

For me it is stacked on the shelf with Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings but viewed more often.

Bravo Fernby Films, Bravo.

For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has been granted exclusive access into the vaults of Fernby Films. In 2001, director Warwick Twelftree edited together a film montage in honour of their overseas friend, Annabel Green. Using Fernby Films alumni Lochy Cupit, and founder Rodney Twelftree as cameramen, Hello Annabel was a tribute to the effect her presence had upon her friends in Adelaide.

Here, we present the complete Hello Annabel, in a 6 part series. Director Warwick Twelftree has written special comments for the film, and we present them here also.

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Technically “Hello Annabel” is a film all about experiments! Bad camera angles, light and dark, bad sound, good sound, clip to short, clip too long, rogue frame etc..

From a watchability perspective and professionalism point of view, this film scores a very low 0/10. Anybody who dared pull this movie off the shelf when visiting a mate and accidently yelled “Hey, What’s this about” usually followed by an overwhelming response of “AWESOME, I havn’t seen that film for ages, it is Soooooo good” will more than likely regret the decision and wish that there was some way that they could re-gain the lost 50 minutes of their life.

For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has been granted exclusive access into the vaults of Fernby Films. In 2001, director Warwick Twelftree edited together a film montage in honour of their overseas friend, Annabel Green. Using Fernby Films alumni Lochy Cupit, and founder Rodney Twelftree as cameramen, Hello Annabel was a tribute to the effect her presence had upon her friends in Adelaide.

Here, we present the complete Hello Annabel, in a 6 part series. Director Warwick Twelftree has written special comments for the film, and we present them here also.

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Hello Annabel visits person after person, place after place and memory after memory. Mixed with a fantastic selection of music reminiscent of that era, the movie continues to move without a dull moment. Well, at least not for anyone in the film who know both the places and the people anyway.

Interviewees from the movie who we still keep in contact with have changed so much and those who have been forgotten about are “as they always were” etched in our memories and in VHS forever.

Hello Annabel also features a cameo from the first “thrash bus” car (Mitsubishi colt) which features in both “Thrash bus” and “Thrash bus 2, clone of the thrash bus” movies which would later be produced by Fernby films.

Brenton Ragless who can now be found on commercial television presenting the weather and Len Firth pop up in a scene from “life FM”, again, ice broken by “the Joke”. These 2 fellas were  kind enough to let the Fernby films film crew into their studio at a ridiculously early time of the morning to allow them to prove to Annabel that we would go to any length to fill the movie with Cameo’s of cool people and ultimately show her how much she was missed.

For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has been granted exclusive access into the vaults of Fernby Films. In 2001, director Warwick Twelftree edited together a film montage in honour of their overseas friend, Annabel Green. Using Fernby Films alumni Lochy Cupit, and founder Rodney Twelftree as cameramen, Hello Annabel was a tribute to the effect her presence had upon her friends in Adelaide.

Here, we present the complete Hello Annabel, in a 6 part series. Director Warwick Twelftree has written special comments for the film, and we present them here also.

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Upon watching this film more than 4 years after the last viewing and close to 8 years after original filming, I am filled with an overwhelming feeling of achievement mixed with fond memories of the people and places once inhabited by Annabel and everyone associated with the film. In particular the birth of “The Joke” which was a brain child of Nick Parnell used to break the ice of the beginning of the interview which subsequently has become a very well known end of joke fit for any occasion. We hear the end of the joke “Then the guy said to the guy with the pot-plant, the head is square” followed by everyone laughing. “the Joke” is hammered for the remainder of the film and also impregnated in the lives of all involved forever. “The joke” can be used in any occasion but usually most effective when standing in a group of friends at a BBQ when conversation lulls.

Perhaps the greatest relationship with “The Joke” and this film is the inability of one of the actors to continually not “get” the joke to a point where it consumes him and he is brought to his knees asking God why he is the only one who just does not get it.

For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has been granted exclusive access into the vaults of Fernby Films. In 2001, director Warwick Twelftree edited together a film montage in honour of their overseas friend, Annabel Green. Using Fernby Films alumni Lochy Cupit, and founder Rodney Twelftree as cameramen, Hello Annabel was a tribute to the effect her presence had upon her friends in Adelaide.

Here, we present the complete Hello Annabel, in a 6 part series. Director Warwick Twelftree has written special comments for the film, and we present them here also.

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Filmed using a cardboard box and a Fridge compressor, “Hello Annabel” was edited in a house which no longer exists on a computer, no more powerful than a casio calculator and it is here that this film begins. Sitting in front of the editing suite, the interviewer takes the time to share with us the “in Jokes” that are strewn all throughout the film.

The films premise is simple, Annabel has gone back to the UK after spending a huge quantity of time here in our great land of Oz leaving behind a rather large group of friends who miss her dearly. By running around and interviewing all the people that Annabel knows even people whom are not part of the social group usually associated with “Fernby films” film crew, Fernby films collates in a nutshell the life which Annabel once had, bad jokes and all!

We begin at the“The Pad”, A well known bachelor destination where Fernby films HQ once was.

We are taken for a tour of the stomping grounds where we are introduced to the other founder of Fernby Films who for some reason is able to see Annabel through the camera. This is something which we see again and again throughout the film where everyone except the interviewer is able to do. (this begins to frustrate him somewhat as the movie progresses)

Another point to note is the wide range of different coloured Floral shirts worn by the interviewer which I can tell you were later on confiscated by the fashion police in an attempt to bring the interviewer into line with the rest of the general public regarding acceptable “social fashion” (a few years after the completion of filming of “Hello Annabel”)

For the first time, fernbyfilms.com has been granted exclusive access into the vaults of Fernby Films. In 2001, director Warwick Twelftree edited together a film montage in honour of their overseas friend, Annabel Green. Using Fernby Films alumni Lochy Cupit, and founder Rodney Twelftree as cameramen, Hello Annabel was a tribute to the effect her presence had upon her friends in Adelaide.

Here, we present the complete Hello Annabel, in a 6 part series. Director Warwick Twelftree has written special comments for the film, and we present them here also.

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Dubbed “best picture” and “Peoples choice” are words which will more than likely never appear in the same review when the review is based around the movie Hello Annabel. If they do, it will more than likely be a result of someone trying to explain in detail, the level of non-professionalism this production oozes.

I often wonder when watching films like Star Wars or Lord Of The Rings where the directors of these famous productions got their first big break. How did these people turn their love for film making into a profession whereby they are able to spend gazillions of moolah of someone else’s money into something that they “hope” will actually get some money back once released.

I can only assume (never a wise or safe thing to do) that the famous directors of the aforementioned films started out in their back shed using second hand film on a home made video camera fabricated out of a cardboard box and a fridge compressor. Creatively they weave their magic, which will one day make them famous, and from nothing build a cobbled-together compilation of moving pictures in which people will look at whilst also looking at the cardboard box and fridge compressor, and only boggle in wonder and amazement at how on earth someone could indeed create something of worth out of a cardboard box and a fridge compressor.

Hello Annabel is the first creation to be produced by the Fernby Films production team. This film is for Fernby and his brother the beginning of something beautiful. The start of an amazing adventure which will see cars moving in strange directions, people getting married, Youth camps advertised and televised and many many more productions not to mention the latest success: bullies getting their own back.

Yes folks, Hello Annabel was the first ever Fernby Films production.

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