Archive for ‘January 2010’

Rob Here,

Just a quick note to say that there will be a screening of work from the BA (Hons) Film and Screen Media Design Course (My Course) and The Foundation Film & Video Course at the Courtyard Hereford on the 2nd of March at 11:00 AM. This is as part of the Borderlands festival- the largest film festival in the midlands.

I am hoping to show a couple of films from this year, including 'Pandora'

The image on the left is a clipping from the official Borderlands festivcal programme and features an image from the film 'Farises' Directed by David Jones a 3rd Year On The BA course.

I Look Forward To Seeing You There!

'Ello All. (Sorry Can't Shake The Pirate Thing Since I Changed My Facebook Language To Pirate, Which I Have Suprisingly Become Used To Very Quickly)

Just a quick update on the production of my other myth video 'Pandora'. I will be filming next week- predominantly tuesday. Hoping to complete all of the shots in the bedroom, city and 'school' then. Hoping to also complete the small stop motion elements aswell.

Also I have screened narcissus to various audiences, either on youtube or in class. The overall concensus is that the video is 'very good', most people have commented on its psychadelic style and said it was 'trippy'. I feel that the video works well, there we're a couple of clips I had issues with in post, namely the clock- which came out badly pixelated, the shot of him looking at his reflection- which strangely came out as a still frame when it moved before I exported it and the shot of his feet jumping into the water- which dissapeared everytime I rendered it... People also said that the music adds to the psychadelic style and so does the lack of sound effects.

Oh well glad to have it over.

Rob.

Hello All.

Just a little note to say that my 2 minute video retelling the Myth of Narcissus was completed over the Christmas break, It was filmed in one day and edited in about 3.

The film stars me playing narcissus and my sister as Ameinias, although we were never in a single shot together. I feel the silhouettes worked wll, especially becuase it was difficult to light the screen correctly causing some issues. The imges of fire were all filmed over christmas and I only managed to get a 20 second clip that I had to loop and felt that some blur effects would merge more of the colours.

The music in the video is from an instrumental track by a band called Nine Inch Nails off thier free album 'The Slip' I then reversed the track and increased the speed of it marginally to fit the length of the video giving amore distorted and obscure sound. I decided to leave out lots of sound effects as I felt that the music signifies the strange experience of fire reading and often the hallucinogenic drugs that the oracles were quite often using.

You can watch the video by cliking on 'My Videos' over there ------>

Enjoy. I will begin production of pandora within the week.

Rob.