mini blab

Last week I went to a talk called mini blab at deaf institution in Manchester  this is the first time I have ever bin to one of theses talks what I was expecting was a bunch of designers talking about them self like how they became a designer and were they came from all though it is interesting the best thing about this talk they were given a topic and the topic was “things iv seen” it was nice In a way because each designer described in there own way things they seen in there average life style some of there talks were quite funny one woman was talking about here hatred with brown bananas? But the one I enjoyed the most was a guy hew used to live in the peek districted and has a passion for hiking up and around mountains, now he lives in Manchester but still has a passion for the peek districted scene so he began to take picture of the Manchester land scape to get an sense of the peek district, example was a zoomed in shot of the ground it was a nice green textured almost looks like a over head birds eye shot of field like area with the higher and lower contours but as he began to zoom out, it was a photo of some sick with a bin next to it , but the thing he was trying to say well I hope he was trying to say that there is some thing nice to look at when you look hard enough

team work

I wont to dedicate this post to team work, working with the compotation brief we christened “mayo police” it was interesting and is very different in the way I work,  strait from the start of the project to the very end , at the start of the project when coming up with ideas is normally quite tricky and a bit of a challenge but working with  some one it becomes much easier. So when we had a bit of an idea and bounced it between us both adding more and more layers to become a good idea the best thing about are 2 man team is that we had a mix of different talent for instance jack has a good eye for creating a good narrative with in the story board and I consider my self as a good builder , so really we could be a little ambitious and we settled on creating a stop motion , as time when on and we got the build and the story board nailed and began to stop motioning it was nice in the way when we got to the point were we had to stop motion one at a time when one of use got tired the other carried and it on and vise versa  in a way the momentum stayed at a steady pace so we could work much longer  and the quality of the work was much better

I have definitely learned from this experience and using people that have different strengths in there field makes the over all out come more stronger 

chapman

When starting a new project I always try to stay away from stop motion I always say stop motion is a long and tedious process but more I try to get away from it I still end up doing it and enjoying it for example my sonic brief, pop up college promotion video and now my latest one mayo police, through out the process YES the process is long painful tedious tiring but the end thing is always rewording especially with mayo police, there was a lot of tricky shots and a lot of thing went wrong but we managed to plow thru it and I am quite happy with the finial out come, whiles doing it me and jack wonted some tips of stop motion experts so I emailed, rang and emailed again to the Chapmen Entertainment, unfortunately no reply but in the future if I don’t do a stop motion I still wouldn’t mind going to see them so I will keep trying, on the other hand jack try to communicate to a stop motion company in Manchester but unfortunately they didn’t reply nether, all though stop motion is a tricky field to work in I am definitely interested and would definitely do it again  

taking pics in poland

When we went to Poland last week it was running side by side with the project we are working on, which is a stop motion peace that is based around world war two so it has to look old and unconditioned street ,  a nice thing about the visit to Poland most of the buildings were exactly like the buildings we needed to refer to when making are street scene it was nice to get the feel of the building up close so when we began to create the set we can at least under stand the style of the buildings  im not saying the building in Poland were grimy it was the style of buildings were looking, some of the buildings we found had some nice architecture and all most look like buildings from what you see in world war two photos

After coming back to this blog a coup weeks after when we have created the set I don’t think we would of achieved it with out looking at the buildings up close, 

Poland studio visit

When we went to Poland last week we visited 2 studios , unfortunately they weren’t moving image studios, they were graphic influenced, despite of this the work they produced was quite creative and fun out of the 2 studios the one I preferred the most was the first one we went to which was called Mill studio it was a small studio with 4 members of staff , the work they produced was quite nice with in it was a mix of computer graphics and hands on photography, it seamed like they properly understood there audience for instance one of there projects was to create a small booklet for children to explain the operations they might face, the book they made was nice in its self but one of there original ideas they had was to use a form of paper that was easy to color in for the children to better under stand the booklet and the operation

Another nice thing that was nice and don’t really hear in other studio but I think this because there new in the industry, is that they were explaining problems they faced like creating contracts, creating things for friends, explaining on what to show in a job opportunity, and how to show it,

They other studio we went to was called Para Studio nice thing about this studio they created a nice stop motion peace and for there first attempted it was pretty good but the problem was when we was asking question about it there was a bit of a language barrier so it was hard to get answers, 

whitworth art gallery

A while back we visited a gallery in Manchester called whitworth art gallery the expedition that was shown at that time was an expedition called dark matters, shadow, technology

They was a wide range of interesting peace of work the first one I was drawn to was a interactive sculpture that was made up of hundreds of small wooden stakes that where cut at an angle and was attached to a camera, the camera was used as a motion detector and when an object was past in front of it the angled peace of wood arranged them selves to portray the object all most like a mirror, the reason why im attracted to this peace is im quite interested on how things work and how the mechanism works on the in side and this peace is so nice and elegant that the knowledge of the making of it might ruin the esthetics of it   

As we exited the gallery we walked through a room with a huge projection screen almost like a cinema screen it was projecting a snow camera which was a camera that projected thousands / millions of white dots, the white dots where attracted to the light like the lighter parts of the face lighter parts of you body and the white dots clotted to gather and revealed almost simple shaped silo wet of the person

tate

Last week when we visited Liverpool for the zee expedition we also visited Liverpool Tate gallery, it wasn’t really engaging as it is normally, I think we just mist an expedition or we when just before one but I did find some hidden gems that I found really interesting the first one I found was a moving sculpture it consisted of a bunch of tools like hammer’s, saws, screw drivers, motors and so on when you pressed the button they begin to interact with each other all most like a domino affect so when the motor starts up the saw starts to move side to side and raises the hammer and begins to tap the metal and the effects keep repeating. I like the mechanics of how thing work and in the past I have opened things up to see how they work but this peace is quite nice in the way its open and reveals the mechanism , its quite interesting in the way the each object relies on each other to make it move and also the irony of using the tool to create the sculpture, “unfortunately my memory card is not revealing any images but I will keep trying to find out the name of the peace ” another peace that I thought was interesting I know it has bin done a million times but I think it has a lot of potential it is a sculpture of a box with mirrors on the inside and holes so u can see in and it’s the illusion  of seeing infinity and I think that’s the reason of potential the depth of how far you can see and this could be quite nice in an video.  

ZEE

Yesterday me jack and tom had a trip to Liverpool to an expedition at FACT called abandon normal devices  which “ZEE” invented be Kurt Hentschlager was being shown

Before we when I knew quite a little apart from what was said on the internet like people experience but each one was different and I could get a clear reading on what it actually was. What I gather it was is a outer body experience, and you will feel like you are flouting

Before I went I was a bit of a non-believer and couldn’t get my head around how serial this thing will be my original thoughts where that there was going to be a puff of smoke and a bit of a light show

When we eventually arrived at Liverpool and got to fact, something a bit dodge happened the guy at the desk was trying to spook use out of it and told use about the bad side affects that could happen unfortunately this got to tom and jack. I was having non of it and wanted to go in so I eventually talked jack in to it.

When it was are time we went down this hall way and yet again this other member of staff what trying to talk us out of it using all these scar tactics at this point we couldn’t go back we then strolled in to this pre smoke room it “smelt like sawdust “

when ever one got to gather we then went in to the actual ZEE room “BLOODY HELL I WAS WRONG” I couldn’t see a thing it was just a thick sea of thick fog it was such a weird feeling then the lights kicked in colors hitting you left right and center it was all most like a kaleidoscope twirling around in your face

after a while I let go of the rope and walked to the center it was like swimming in open water. really strange

after 10 minuets of that I was  pretty baffled

when we left went for lunch visited the Tate gallery and came back to get tom involved

the next visit didn’t go to plan and probable scared tom. We went in like last and it was going well the kaleidoscope came back but 5 minutes in tom went missing and there was an uncomfortable scream it was like some one getting murdered. So me and jack decided to look for tom luckily tom was fine and was waiting out side he said he herd the scream and got out of there but apparently some one pasted out and decided to scream before he hit the floor    

kyle coop 1-10

this is one of my 10 important posts i know its not an expedition at a gallery or a museum, and it just a video on you tube but i found it really use full and it is a really good insight of artists point of view

as this is the first time i have created a title sequence i was not sure what to do and i found that kyle cooper kept cropping up i did some more investigation with in kyle cooper and he relates to my work in the way he has a healthy mix of digital work and hands on work he has done over 150 titles some of them are better then the film he is doing them for

what i had trouble on when i was creating my title sequence was adding text and finding away how to show them with in the video he begins to explain how he dose it, he sees the texts as a tool and should be well planed and intertwine it with the story of the film and not add the text after creating the title

another aspect that was interesting he was explaining is the hole trial and error and how that how good and accurate a computer is. it might not be the right way to go in stead experiment with other things to try get a similar and or  interesting look and this is quite similar in the way i work in some of my project especially this title sequence im working on now

redbull

Red Bull Music Academy World Tour: Amplifying local scenes beyond the beat from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

this is not any thing to do with my super 8 project but I’m quite fond of it and looks like my style of work I quite like the different styles they use and how they bring them to gather, and all so the time that they must of spent creating it, as I have looked into light drawing in the past I now know how long it takes

in the description of the video it says “World Tour going straight to the heart of today’s most crucial musical movements” and I think they achieved that by using different medias to simulate different music movements

when I was looking thru the red bull campaigns and advertisements I found a red bull animation were you have to animate around a red bull can unfortunately I didn’t have time to create a new animation so I used a structure of one of my old animations and changed it to reveal a red bull can, luckily it worked quite well all though I didn’t win I did get 590 hits so at least I know people did see it