A couple of weekends ago, I shot a series of short clips for comedy duo, Alfie’s Birds. I’m currently editing the footage, and shall share the webisodes once they’re online. Check out more about Alfie’s Birds at their website.
Tetris Cops
An Indian, A Chinaman, and a White Guy walked into a bar…
and created ICW Productions.
I studied Film at Vic with Rajeev Misra, Chris Tse, and Andy James (the aforementioned ICW). They joined with Chad Moffitt and Paul Johanson to make the comedy web series, Tetris Cops.
Tetris Cops: solving crime, 8 bits at a time.
I was the sound recordist on a couple of the episodes. The web series will be released soon. Check out the website: tetriscops.com
And, on the website, not only can you see cast and crew profiles and the episodes (once they’re released), YOU CAN PLAY TETRIS!!!!
PLAY. THE. GAME!
WATCH. THE. EPISODES!
TETRIS. COPS.
Russell Square Timelapse
Today I used my work iPad to try the iMotion HD app. I set my the iPad up on my bag, pointed it, and shot for about 10 minutes. The resulting video is now online.
It is somewhat grainy. iMotion said you could upload it directly to Facebook; it didn’t like that, and hasn’t worked. You can share the photos through your Apple Cloud, but not the video itself unless you pay for the app. I exported the photos, and then edited them on FCE.
There’s no audio. So I’ve made the video downloadable. Feel free to add music or sounds to it. Actually, I actively encourage it.
Please to enjoy.
Filmmaking opps
I attended the Guerilla Filmmakers Producers Masterclass about a month ago (the blog post about it is still in my drafts section). There, I met some wonderful filmmakers. One of whom I got on so well with, we decided to collaborate in future.
That filmmaker, Kira, asked me to be third camera for filming a choral gig last weekend. It was the Pink Singers concert at St Johns, Smith Square. I was shooting with Kira and her film partner, Andrew. Boy, did I miss shooting and then handing over the footage to other people to edit. [Also, no matter if you have two 32GB CF cards, one 8GB CF card, and two fully charged batteries, the 7D will still overheat by the last song of a 2+ hour gig, and will tell you your card is full. (in actuality, I was 1/3rd full, but what are you gonna do?)]
I also got a boom pole (finally!) and a 32″ fleckie (reflector to non-kiwis). And a 50mm prime (two lenses!). I’m building up my film kit.
Silent Films to see
I was listening to The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith podcast for The Artist, with writer-director Michel Hazanavicius. By the way, totally subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or listen to it from the Blogger website. There are some amazing Q&As there, and Goldsmith is a great interviewer.
In response to an audience question, Hazanavicius lists the silent films that influenced him for The Artist, or that he recommended to cast and crew. They are:
Copper on IMDb, & IMDb tips
I am pleased to announce that Copper has an IMDb page. You can view it here.
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Russell Square
iPad’s are good for their versatility. I’m experimenting with their functionality with photos and video for a project I have coming up.
The Photoshop Express app seems reasonable for fixing up photos.
These photos are taken near my work, on the iPad. What do you think?
Heavily pixellated, non?
They’d be better for close-ups than landscapes, that’s for sure.
iAddicted
My work got me an iPad for filmmaking purposes. So I’m researching apps to suggest to students in the new academic year. Whaddya know? There’s a WordPress app.
Right, experiment done. Back to work.
Reading Scripts
One of the best things I took away from the Producing Masterclass last weekend is an outline of the 5 stages of producing films. I am at stage 1. I really appreciated getting a roadmap to advancing through to stage 5.
Some of the tips for stage 1 Producers were:
- Read 100 produced scripts
- Read 100 unproduced scripts
See what got made. See what didn’t get made (or what hasn’t been made yet). The aim is to get to the point where you’re bored reading scripts. Then the good ones will jump out at you (‘hmm … I’m at page 15 and I’m still reading and interested …’). Read the bad ones so you know or can work out what makes a bad script.
Copper Update
‘Copper’ was premiered on May 26 at the Memorial Theatre, Victoria University.
It loos like it was a fantastic evening. I was, unfortunately, unable to be there (being on the other side of the world and all).
Busy Times 