Channel Flip ident from Dave Watson on Vimeo.
Following a rebrand, the guys at Channel Flip asked me to create a new animated ident. Here it is in action at the end of an episode of the excitingly popular David Mitchell’s Soapbox, which this week is in 3D! You’ll need to find some red/blue glasses, or make some out of some Quality Street wrappers.
We finished the trailer for New Light Stir a while ago, but needed to re-record the music as we didn’t get copyright clearance. We’re not planning to upload the full film online for a while as we’re submitting it to festivals who are way less likely to show your film if it’s already in the public domain. So this’ll have to do you for now.
Finally finished! And sent off to the first film festival on our hit list, Edinburgh.
The Trailer coming soon to a video hosting service near you…
I’ve uploaded some stills from the film to flickr to give y’all a peek at the way it’s looking. Enjoy!
I’m currently editing New Light Stir, a 30-ish-minute live action drama with the writer Mike Mallett, a tutor colleague from Trafford College. It’s looking pretty damn good. I’m declaring right now though that this is the last film I’ll make in standard definition DV. We shot it all on Sony PD170′s with the settings pushed as far towards ‘cinematic’ as we could – shallow depth of field, sharpness set to minimum, no gain etc . We ran a preview section of it back on a 40inch Sony Bravia and winced as it made mincemeat of our proudest shots. Still, it looks great on a CRT screen, and through a projector should be pretty good.
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My wonderful fiancee has just accepted her new job in London, which is ridiculously exciting stuff. Our time living in Manchester is rapidly drawing to a close, and yes, I’ll be very, very sad to say goodbyes. But it’s really not that far, and it’s time to step up and make new things happen.
And so, this, my new website (about time too). I need a new job in the big smoke, and a new online home on which to strut my stuff. After much consideration I decided WordPress is still where it’s at. I could start building a new site from scratch but that seems a bit daft these days.
More soon.
Over the summer I took on a freelance project for the college to update their promo videos (originally created by Mojofuel). This involved shooting new material and merging this with footage from the original Mojofuel tapes, creating titles and motion graphics, and plenty of soundtrack work to create 20 two-minute pieces that felt seamless and unified.
I’ll maybe post a best-of compilation up here soon.
This was my graduation film. I wrote the music in Fruityloops and made the visuals with Maya and After Effects. It won Best Student Film at FilMid Festival 2006, made it into the final ten in both the Music Video and Student Film categories at the British Animation Awards 2006, and screened at venues all over the country and internationally. I hope you like it.
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