Here it is! My Showreel which includes work from 2013/14. With me having a job already. it doesn't mean its not good to have one. Its nice to have a showreel that you are confident to show people. As this is my first ever showreel, it would be nice to have some feedback on it. I filled it with what I think is my strongest work. It includes work from uni projects, and work from outside of uni including a couple of shots from MTV events. I chose this track of Free Music Archive because I felt it had a nice balance to it. I have work from events all the way to short films so I feel I needed a balance there. A track that was too calm would have fitted very well with the event work and a track to hard wouldn't have fitted the short film. So again, here is my showreel. ENJOY!
Friday 23 May 2014
Wednesday 21 May 2014
MTV Reference
With PPP coming to a close, I thought it would be a nice touch to finish off my blog with a reference from MTV. Working with MTV/Club MTV this year has been a huge part of my life, spending 3-4 days a week away working with them along side uni projects. I have learnt an awful lot not just about how to make videos and take photos, but how to organise myself to make sure I am keeping everyone happy with them getting there work on time and making sure I make my own deadlines. Working with them truly has set me up for the 'BIG BAD WORLD' and since working for them I have not been at a stage where I haven't been looking forward to finishing University. Finding a Job where your true passions lie, is a blessing and I am very fortunate to have an opportunity to be working alongside one of the biggest companies in the world.
Rizzle Kicks
Once in a while, I love to be stood in front of a stage photographing live music. It is something that I thrive on and wish I had more work doing so. It is one of them things where I will be continuously taking pictures with my eye in the viewfinder and I will know when I have taken a good photo. This gig with the Rizzle Kicks I didn't want to waste any time looking back at photos I have just took. I gave myself a clean 16gb card and away trusting my experience up to now with my camera to chance settings with a quick glimpse of the shutter speed every time the lights changed dramatically. I gave myself 3 songs (which is the max you are allowed) to take photos and then I moved on to capture some video. These are just a selection of my favourites but I was happy with the whole final album I ended up with.
Pimp My Summer Ball Animation
I was given a little job by MTV to piece together some clips for promo for the big Pimp My Summer Ball event. Artists are requires to speak for 10-20 seconds about them coming to the event. These will them go online to really get people excited. At the start they wanted the Club MTV bumper which was created by someone in the design team at MTV. At the end they wanted the PMSB logo. When I first put it together it looked very flat and didn't flow very well. So I decided to take the Illustrator file and separate each part of the logo ands then into After Effects to create a little Animation. I used basic Key framing skills with a 3d camera. The result I am really happy with, taking me just over an hour and MTV were happy too. They paid me as well which was a bonus as I wasn't expecting to.
Saturday 17 May 2014
Summer Work
This summer we will be doing 3 Tours. The
first is the Summer Ball Tour, going around 13 different universities around
the UK, which leads us into the world tour starting mid July hitting around 14
countries through till September. Where there are gaps, we will be at a couple
of festivals, V Festival and Munity in the Park in Portsmouth. Summer is the
time I have been most looking forward to. It will be the first time I will be
filming such big events in the sunlight getting some nice contrasty natural light. Great for both photography and filming. Following on from the Summer, come
September, we will move onto the Fresher’s tour which will be the final tour of
2014.
Thursday 15 May 2014
Editing
Editing style, non repeating shot, want unique shots for almost every scene, even ones which repeat similar actions in theory.
U-1 goes to work. One time you see him walk away from his home. Next time foot just goes on the floor.
Next time it's a dark silhoutte walking down a tunnel. Next time there is not travelling it just transitions with sound straight to him being at work.
Same with end of scenes, some fade out, some have violent cuts, some music comes in before the video starts, and even one the character cuts the end of the scene.
Use of music in the edit, first song and the use of it between the two climatic and strong points of box being crushed and then door closing.
Second song, listless, sad, lyrics fitting with the theme, but also the lonely roaming video that compliments the mood entirely, extending the scene to beautifully compliment the audio.
U-1 goes to work. One time you see him walk away from his home. Next time foot just goes on the floor.
Next time it's a dark silhoutte walking down a tunnel. Next time there is not travelling it just transitions with sound straight to him being at work.
Same with end of scenes, some fade out, some have violent cuts, some music comes in before the video starts, and even one the character cuts the end of the scene.
Use of music in the edit, first song and the use of it between the two climatic and strong points of box being crushed and then door closing.
Second song, listless, sad, lyrics fitting with the theme, but also the lonely roaming video that compliments the mood entirely, extending the scene to beautifully compliment the audio.
Location shoot
Beauty of the location, brilliant diverse locations. Tunnels with silhouttes. Really creepy abandoned toys, children's shoes, toy pram.
Surplus yard, amazing looking metal scrap, rusted containers, parts off planes, amazing backdrop, dark in area, sky blocked out by tall plane pieces, makes it gloomy, can join as inbetween segments with anything because of lack of landmarks and orientation.
Making one location out of lots of separate little areas, both in the way we shoot it and also the way we edit it, having the character walk from right to left in one area and then right to left in a completely different area, but cutting the two together it can make it look like one continuous area that is jump cut.
Secondaries. Nice shots of other locations, pipes, industrial units, scrap, shipping yards, cranes moving. Areas of interest and intruige that both add to the establishment of the area, the intruige and can also act as video to cut away when you want to transition between one clip and another using audio but when the video would otherwise cut awkwardly.
Surplus yard, amazing looking metal scrap, rusted containers, parts off planes, amazing backdrop, dark in area, sky blocked out by tall plane pieces, makes it gloomy, can join as inbetween segments with anything because of lack of landmarks and orientation.
Making one location out of lots of separate little areas, both in the way we shoot it and also the way we edit it, having the character walk from right to left in one area and then right to left in a completely different area, but cutting the two together it can make it look like one continuous area that is jump cut.
Secondaries. Nice shots of other locations, pipes, industrial units, scrap, shipping yards, cranes moving. Areas of interest and intruige that both add to the establishment of the area, the intruige and can also act as video to cut away when you want to transition between one clip and another using audio but when the video would otherwise cut awkwardly.
Producing
In the pre-production phase of our project I took the job of being the producer and trying to get into contact with locations and actors for our pieces. To start with I got into contact with the a Leeds larp group Fools and Heroes who we wanted to use as actors in our first DCM brief, as their facebook group shows great costumes and weapons which the members are already versed in using.
After having some initial interest from the group and their leader, the contact fell off and with our shoot schedule fast approaching we had to make other arrangements. For the shoot I still go into contact with Shelly our dancer and organised all the food and taxis for the day to get us all there for the shoot.
For our short film I was trying to get into contact with junkyards from the start but was constantly getting turned down as soon as I phoned them up and mentioned I wanted to film, I never got more of a response regardless of how many junkyards I contacted.
After having some initial interest from the group and their leader, the contact fell off and with our shoot schedule fast approaching we had to make other arrangements. For the shoot I still go into contact with Shelly our dancer and organised all the food and taxis for the day to get us all there for the shoot.
For our short film I was trying to get into contact with junkyards from the start but was constantly getting turned down as soon as I phoned them up and mentioned I wanted to film, I never got more of a response regardless of how many junkyards I contacted.
File troubles
Because of working with raw our work flow was RAW files, to dngs, to tiffs. What were the alternatives? We didn't have Pro Res. Could we have synced sound and dngs in something else, another programs besides Premiere and found another file video with embedded audio to export it as. Because of working in college there were no real low file size options, only larger such as animation.
Also because of the sheer number of files to process, and the processing time it took, there was a difficulty in grading all the sequences the same and developing to the same luminosity.
Set shoot
The on set shoot was an opportunity for us finally to have a control area, and a controlled set, with a lot of kit to play with,
One of the shots I really wanted to have was a wide angle shot inside of the fridge, from closed to u-1 opening it and putting things in and closing again. The light spilling out of the fridge just takes u-1's face from darkness to illumination as he leans into the fridge.
Although we did not intentionally try to I feel a lot of the unique camera angles and shots in Breaking Bad are particularly relevent to how we tried to do our shots.
- a monitor which is especially useful when we are using magic lantern raw where we cannot preview clips back.
- We can frame all our shots on the monitor, and get the composition down
- we have a set of five lights to light our scene with.
- We have a boom mic in a closed room to get diegetic sound
- and we have cranes, glidecams, shoulder mounts, and tripods for us to make unique shots all in this one location to show our story to the best.
One of the shots I really wanted to have was a wide angle shot inside of the fridge, from closed to u-1 opening it and putting things in and closing again. The light spilling out of the fridge just takes u-1's face from darkness to illumination as he leans into the fridge.
Although we did not intentionally try to I feel a lot of the unique camera angles and shots in Breaking Bad are particularly relevent to how we tried to do our shots.
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