Joiner
This Joiner Photography i took in London when we went for our creative future's, it consists of 7 separate photos put together in Photoshop
Thursday 17 April 2014
Still Life
Still Life
Still
Life photography is photographing inanimate
subjects, when I was researching this I came across people like
Jonathan Knowles and Dennis Pedersen who are well known still life
photographers, doing this for beer companies like Guinness,
Smirnoff and Carling. All of there still life photos are amazing the way
they set them up, they have also done things like fruit, handbags, nail
varnish, make-up etc, whilst looking through there photos I came up with
the idea to use three banana's and have two of them lying down and
one of them stood up leaning against the other two, I would peal this
banana and make it look like it was chilling on the two banana's that was
lying down, giving the
impression
that the banana had arms and legs
Tuesday 15 April 2014
Music Video (Creep - Radiohead)
Group - Adam Houghton, Luke Robert Edward Webster and Beth Oliver
When we first started thinking about doing a music video we originally wanted it to be a happy and fun song so we went with Jack Johnson - Upside Down and we came up with the idea to film it at Chester Zoo being that the song is called upside down we could relate that to animals in the zoo monkeys etc, because we didn't have any money to go to the zoo, we emailed Chester Zoo to see if we could get in there for free, we explained in the email that we was in Glyndwr University and was doing a music video for one of our projects and could we film it there without having to pay to get in, after a day they replied saying no you you will have to pay to get in, you can film here by all means. so after a talk with my group we was split as I wanted to keep the song we was doing but the other two wanted to change it to Creep - Radiohead, which I didn't agree with I thought the song was too depressing, so in the end I had no choice but to go with the song choice they had chosen, when we started filming and moved onto the editing stage I thought it was pretty good and came together really well, check it out below
Click here to watch Creep - Radiohead
Creative Future's 2014
Barry Perves - (Filmaker)
- Animation wasn't on his radar when he first started
- Telling stories through art from a distance
- "Give the man a mask and he will tell you the truth" (Oscar Wild)
- Look at yourself from a different angle
- He has a relationship / developed a relationship with his puppets
- "The best tool is your hand" he has worked with computers and they are amazing but the best tool is still your hand
- Make it Interesting
- What is Art? - Consider all the elements within! Editing, Sound, Puppets, Props etc
- Doesn't matter if you have a really small budget it will make you bring out your creative side and as long as you have a good story it will always work
- Plume Film
- Worked on Ruppet before working on Plume
- Make everything in the film be there for a reason, if it doesn't need to be there get rid of it
- Worked on Wind and the Willows
- Worked Loosely on Lord of the Rings
- Passion, Process, Performance
Dave and Keith Williams (Music Video)
- Keith created the first visuals for the first music video that went on MTV which was "Video killed the radio star"
- Keith was on Skype to us in the lecture hall
How he started
- Worked in London as a script writer - 1978 worked with Russell Makay
- Also worked with Elton John
- He was classed as a freelance music video conceptualise
- 1983 - His American break with Billy Idol
- Then spent 5 years working in America
- The music player "Walkman" made by Sony which was a cassette player, it was a portable music player you could take with you wherever you wanted
Concepts
- Listen to the track for the first time and see what your first impressions are
- Sometimes doing the opposite of what the lyrics or the song is telling you can also be very effective and work even better (Counterpoint)
Story
America in 1982, then in 1983 he meets some producers who want to do music video in 3D, concepts for Michael Jackson's first album. Michael wanted it to be better than anything Steven Spielberg's movies did, which at the time was E.T
Keith pitched 2 concepts to Michael Jackson up at his house, Michael didn't like the ideas so his concepts/ideas wasn't used. But about 2 weeks later Keith heard they was starting the film the music video down the road, so Keith went along to have a look at what they had come up with and how it was all going, when Keith was there Michael Jackson came up to him between cuts and said to him "when did i last see you?" Keith said about 2 weeks ago at your house" Michael said "ok" and walked off to do another scene.
After another cut Michael looked over at Keith and called him over and said "you have ambition don't you?" Keith replied "yes i do" Michael said then "can i touch your forehead?" Keith said "yeah ok i guess".
So Michael put 2 fingers on his forehead for a couple of seconds and then walked off and Keith never saw him again.
Keith realised later on the Michael had done what E.T had done to do kid in the film E.T by Steven Spielberg.
Ideas/Communication
- Often ideas would come from anything
- Communication with the artist is key, you want to make sure they know what is happening and they are happy with the idea and concept, last thing you want is to start filming and they aren't happy with your idea and you end up arguing on location/set.
-When pitching ideas give them about 90% of the pitch/idea, they say to the artist "I'm not sure about this part what do you think?" because just makes them think and that they have contributed to the idea, because of this it will be easier to sell it too them.
Melissa Cross - (Life as a Media Photographer)
- Studied in HND Photography as a mature student and graduated in 2006
- Joined NWN Media
- Works currently for the leader newspaper
- 3 photographers there which have a weekly diary and if one of the photographer's is struggling on a job they would ring each other to help each other out.
- Works a lot with Schools, Funerals, Celebrities/VIP's, Call-out's, Grieving Families,
Features/Businesses and Sports
Sports consists of
- Climbing Wall
- Football (mainly Chester and Wrexham)
- Kids Football
- Cycling
- Cricket
- Swimming (Charity)
- Rugby
- Chester Marathon
- Animation wasn't on his radar when he first started
- Telling stories through art from a distance
- "Give the man a mask and he will tell you the truth" (Oscar Wild)
- Look at yourself from a different angle
- He has a relationship / developed a relationship with his puppets
- "The best tool is your hand" he has worked with computers and they are amazing but the best tool is still your hand
- Make it Interesting
- What is Art? - Consider all the elements within! Editing, Sound, Puppets, Props etc
- Doesn't matter if you have a really small budget it will make you bring out your creative side and as long as you have a good story it will always work
- Plume Film
- Worked on Ruppet before working on Plume
- Make everything in the film be there for a reason, if it doesn't need to be there get rid of it
- Worked on Wind and the Willows
- Worked Loosely on Lord of the Rings
- Passion, Process, Performance
Dave and Keith Williams (Music Video)
- Keith created the first visuals for the first music video that went on MTV which was "Video killed the radio star"
- Keith was on Skype to us in the lecture hall
How he started
- Worked in London as a script writer - 1978 worked with Russell Makay
- Also worked with Elton John
- He was classed as a freelance music video conceptualise
- 1983 - His American break with Billy Idol
- Then spent 5 years working in America
- The music player "Walkman" made by Sony which was a cassette player, it was a portable music player you could take with you wherever you wanted
Concepts
- Listen to the track for the first time and see what your first impressions are
- Sometimes doing the opposite of what the lyrics or the song is telling you can also be very effective and work even better (Counterpoint)
Story
America in 1982, then in 1983 he meets some producers who want to do music video in 3D, concepts for Michael Jackson's first album. Michael wanted it to be better than anything Steven Spielberg's movies did, which at the time was E.T
Keith pitched 2 concepts to Michael Jackson up at his house, Michael didn't like the ideas so his concepts/ideas wasn't used. But about 2 weeks later Keith heard they was starting the film the music video down the road, so Keith went along to have a look at what they had come up with and how it was all going, when Keith was there Michael Jackson came up to him between cuts and said to him "when did i last see you?" Keith said about 2 weeks ago at your house" Michael said "ok" and walked off to do another scene.
After another cut Michael looked over at Keith and called him over and said "you have ambition don't you?" Keith replied "yes i do" Michael said then "can i touch your forehead?" Keith said "yeah ok i guess".
So Michael put 2 fingers on his forehead for a couple of seconds and then walked off and Keith never saw him again.
Keith realised later on the Michael had done what E.T had done to do kid in the film E.T by Steven Spielberg.
Ideas/Communication
- Often ideas would come from anything
- Communication with the artist is key, you want to make sure they know what is happening and they are happy with the idea and concept, last thing you want is to start filming and they aren't happy with your idea and you end up arguing on location/set.
-When pitching ideas give them about 90% of the pitch/idea, they say to the artist "I'm not sure about this part what do you think?" because just makes them think and that they have contributed to the idea, because of this it will be easier to sell it too them.
Melissa Cross - (Life as a Media Photographer)
- Studied in HND Photography as a mature student and graduated in 2006
- Joined NWN Media
- Works currently for the leader newspaper
- 3 photographers there which have a weekly diary and if one of the photographer's is struggling on a job they would ring each other to help each other out.
- Works a lot with Schools, Funerals, Celebrities/VIP's, Call-out's, Grieving Families,
Features/Businesses and Sports
Sports consists of
- Climbing Wall
- Football (mainly Chester and Wrexham)
- Kids Football
- Cycling
- Cricket
- Swimming (Charity)
- Rugby
- Chester Marathon
Wednesday 19 March 2014
London Trip 2014
When we arrived in London after a four and half hour journey, we had to wait in reception for nearly and hour because they were really busy, which I didn't mind, after this we went up to our rooms I was sharing a room with 2 second year students which I liked because up until now I hadn't had a chance to talk to any of the second years.
We unpacked pretty much straight away and headed to find our first place we was visiting which was called Molinare which was a post production company which has worked on films like "Give it a year" and "Keith Lemon the film" on entering the building we waited in reception for a couple of minutes then a guy came out called Tom Rogers who is the sales executive for Molinare then we was led in a board room/meeting room to have a quick talk and a overview of what Molinare does etc.
Then after about 10 minutes we went for a tour around the facilities, first we went into a grading room/cinema room which is used to review and grade films and TV programs, it was a very impressive room with about 20 cinema style lounge chairs, a massive 21.9 ratio screen, up to 4k viewing etc. After this we went upstairs to an editing and cutting suite, where we had a chat with an editor there about a few show's and films he had worked on. Then we went to a sound suite where they do all the soundtracks, vocals etc for the films/TV Programs, we met a guy in there who had been working in there for years and is well known by directors and producers all over, we had a bit of a chat with him about the equipment used and software.
We then went back to the meeting room to view Molinare's show reels for films and TV shows and to ask any more questions.
That was the only visit we had today, so when we left we went for a look around london then headed back to the hotel to have food and went for a couple of drinks.
On Tuesday we headed to Rushes which is a post production company when we went into Rushes we was lead upstairs to a screening room where we was shown some of the companies show reels about the work they have done for the past couple of years and the people they have worked for. Also they talked about colour correction, storyboarding, programs and applications that they use, unfortunately we wasn't able to look around the facilities. we was able to ask about runners and any questions we had.
Later on that day we went to a company called Double Negative which is a visual effects company, on entering the building we met Alice who works as a recruiter there, we was led to a screening room/cinema room, they have worked on films like Iron Man, Harry Potter, Captain America and John Carter we was shown a couple of show reels and we talked about the structure of how they work through a production etc.
She also talked about the 2 sides of the table which are creative and technical
We unpacked pretty much straight away and headed to find our first place we was visiting which was called Molinare which was a post production company which has worked on films like "Give it a year" and "Keith Lemon the film" on entering the building we waited in reception for a couple of minutes then a guy came out called Tom Rogers who is the sales executive for Molinare then we was led in a board room/meeting room to have a quick talk and a overview of what Molinare does etc.
Then after about 10 minutes we went for a tour around the facilities, first we went into a grading room/cinema room which is used to review and grade films and TV programs, it was a very impressive room with about 20 cinema style lounge chairs, a massive 21.9 ratio screen, up to 4k viewing etc. After this we went upstairs to an editing and cutting suite, where we had a chat with an editor there about a few show's and films he had worked on. Then we went to a sound suite where they do all the soundtracks, vocals etc for the films/TV Programs, we met a guy in there who had been working in there for years and is well known by directors and producers all over, we had a bit of a chat with him about the equipment used and software.
We then went back to the meeting room to view Molinare's show reels for films and TV shows and to ask any more questions.
That was the only visit we had today, so when we left we went for a look around london then headed back to the hotel to have food and went for a couple of drinks.
On Tuesday we headed to Rushes which is a post production company when we went into Rushes we was lead upstairs to a screening room where we was shown some of the companies show reels about the work they have done for the past couple of years and the people they have worked for. Also they talked about colour correction, storyboarding, programs and applications that they use, unfortunately we wasn't able to look around the facilities. we was able to ask about runners and any questions we had.
Later on that day we went to a company called Double Negative which is a visual effects company, on entering the building we met Alice who works as a recruiter there, we was led to a screening room/cinema room, they have worked on films like Iron Man, Harry Potter, Captain America and John Carter we was shown a couple of show reels and we talked about the structure of how they work through a production etc.
She also talked about the 2 sides of the table which are creative and technical
Creative / Technical
Concepts Effects
Environments Software
Modelling
We got to ask any questions but we didn't get to look around the facilities unfortunately.
On Wednesday we went to The Moving Picture Company which is also a visual effects company which has been around since the 1970's and is owned by Technicolor specialising in visual effects, They have offices and studio's in Vancouver, LA, Montreal, New York, Mexico, Amsterdam, Bangalore and London. The structure of how this company works is different because they work in departments so for example all artists will work together it doesn't matter about how high up or ability levels they are all part of a team and they work as such. We went to one of their screening rooms/cinema rooms where we met 3 people who work there who shown us a couple of show reels about the work they had done, Like prometheus and many more, we got to ask any questions but didn't get to have a look around.
After Lunch we went to Blink ink which is also a visual effects company (2D) but within the Blink Company there are lots of different departments like Blink (Film), BlinkArt (Photography), BlinkInk (2D films) and White Lodge (Fashion Film). There was only 9 of us visiting this company so we got to have a look around the facilities which was really good, its great to see the people in a real world situation doing work, after this we went to a room where we got to see how they made the John Lewis advert for Christmas 2013, which is really cool because when you watch the advert it looks animated but it isn't check out the making of video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKfFhUdXA5M.
Friday 28 February 2014
Influence Board's
Influence Board
When i was researching influence board's online, i found it hard to find anything about them, i had a pretty good idea how to go about doing them so i choose 6 people who inspire and influence me and my photography and film making.
I went with my favorite photographer and film maker of all Chase Jarvis who is worldwide known for his style and because of this he has worked for company doing advertising campaigns and more for the likes of Samsung, Apple, Nike, Starbucks, Nikon and Hassalblad, Also he was named as one of the few who are Hassalblad Master's in 2007
I also chose Cory Rich, Nevada Wier, Steven Spielberg, Karrah Kobus and Lauri Laukkanen
Chase Jarvis
Steven Spielberg
Corey Rich
Nevada Wier
Lauri Laukkanen
Karrah Kobus
Tuesday 18 February 2014
Typology
Typology
I like the idea of typology because to take one photo on it's own might not be enough to look at but when you take say nine of the same photos for example - the camera's to your left are all camera's but different make's, model's, shapes, sizes, color's and ages, but there is something about viewing them all together that gives you a sense that everything is different more so with the eye's below the different color's and tone's just really stands out and looks amazing
Here is my Typology below, I went with photographing the different studio lightings we had within our studio, I think it works well with the different shapes, sizes and colours
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