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New Light Stir finished
On 30, Mar 2010 | No Comments | In Blog, Films | By admin
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…
New Light Stir stills
On 07, Oct 2009 | No Comments | In Blog | By admin
I’ve uploaded some stills from the film to flickr to give y’all a peek at the way it’s looking. Enjoy!
New Light Stir
On 05, Oct 2009 | No Comments | In Blog, Films | By admin
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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The Next Chapter
On 04, Oct 2009 | No Comments | In Blog | By admin
My wonderful fiancee has just accepted her new job in London, which is very 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 London’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.
Trafford College Promo Videos
On 11, Jul 2009 | No Comments | In Blog, Films | By admin
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.
Dinosaur vox pops
On 11, Feb 2009 | No Comments | In Blog, Films | By admin
Dinosaur media agency hired me to edit two vox pop videos asking people what they thought about development in Manchester, specifically the Northern Quarter. These were presented to their clients at The Hub, a new apartment complex being constructed in the city cente
Watch the videos here.
080
On 05, Jun 2005 | No Comments | In Blog, Films, Soundtrack | By admin
080 was my graduation project . I developed the music in FL Studio while simultaneously devising the visuals with Maya. This enabled me to let the project evolve – a change of direction in the composition of the music would also affect the visual style and vice versa. The piece in a way became a reflection of the process that made it. 080 won Best Student Film at FilMid Festival 2006, was a finalist in both the Music Video and Student Film categories at the British Animation Awards 2006, and screened at over 40 venues internationally.