A short promotional film for Gateacre’s new school that is currently being built. The school will be open from September 2011 and the film is being used for marketing purposes. Evolve Productions approached the Hatch and Re-thunk to collaborate on the film.
The film was shot on a Sony HDV Z1 camera and edited in Final Cut Pro. The CGI and greenscreen footage was then comped in After Effects. The final edit was taken back into FCPro for final tweaking and then finally sent to Color for grading.
Here are a couple of films I did for a client called Trafalgar Apartments. I did the shoot in about four hours which wasn’t bad going since I took extra lights down to try and bring out some extra details in the apartments. Both films were shot on a Sony HDV Z1 and were edited in Final Cut Pro and graded in Color. I used a lightweight Ianaro Reporter Lighting Kit and a Vinten Pro 6 tripod.
Have been really busy with the BBC the last month working with Milky Tea on the production of a CBeebies’ pilot. We shot the pilot over two days in a converted barn down in Hemel Hempstead. It was a fab couple of days and I will post a bit later once we have got going on the project. In the meantime, here are a few shots from the shoot. It was a completely green screen shoot and was shot on DV Cam. Bit of a shame really as i was trying to convince the Beeb to shoot on HD progressive …. but the budget didn’t allow the extra cost for the pilot. Dave the camera man did a class job of filming and DOP’ing. Again, at a later date I will give a detailed breakdown of the shoot and how he lit the event.
I Am just in the process of updating the Blog with some of the most exciting projects I have worked on recently. We were asked by the lovely guys at Thoughtful to get involved with a very exciting project they were doing for the Liverpool Tate. The project involved using Smartcode technology and enabled the viewer to engage with rich media content using QR (Quick Response Codes). We were asked to film a short documentary about the Tate Liverpool’s summer exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today which was then edited down to a 1 minute film.
“The idea behind the campaign is the belief that a modern gallery can do more than just hang pictures on walls and throw open their doors. Audiences can be engaged with the artworks in new and exciting ways.” (Quoted from Thoughtful‘s blog)
Viewers could access the film by using a QR code reader which read the smartcode made up of colour chart swatches and streamed the Rich media content from an online server. I-phone users can download the Neo Reader application or smart phone users can go to www.i-nigma.mobi and download the smartcode reader. Click here to read Thoughtful‘s full Blog entry.
Another day another dollar…A change is as good as a rest… and all that pull-aver! Anyways, I have moved into a new studio space called the Elevator which is really cool and has a great vibe about the place. I know its a bit late to be making New Year Resolutions but I am going to take a leaf out of the Greyscalegorrila’s book and begin doing a daily/ weekish photo blog to experiment with photography techniques. I am going to try and be very playful and experimental with it and use both lo-tech and hi-tech equipment.
Anyways, here is a photo of my new space to start the photo blog off. I used the i-phone with Nick Campbell’s (GreyscaleGorilla) Shake it Photo app to get the white border!
P.S. Went arse over t*t over that bench (bottom left) on way out of the office after turning the lights off! Not a great start but thought I would share that with everyone!
Here are the Slides for a course I am teaching for Signal Films up in Cumbria. The course deals with the Basic Rules & Techniques in Photography. Although it deals with the static frame, it is definitely worth a look for any filmmakers as these are techniques that can be carried through to the moving image.
