SOLUS: A great little 3 minute film

Here's a film made by a friend at college. I was lucky enough to get the chance to do the camera work for it too.

What's Happening?

Last Saturday night, some colleagues and I began the process of making a music video. This is a really exciting project that is independent of my college work. The initial shoot was of the band performing live, and we'll now move on to film them specificallyfor the video. Our company is Dog Biscuit Media (check out the logo!), and the band is called Death Trap City. They're exceptionally talented and you can check out their work here.

New Photos & A Beautiful Video.

I've updated my Fickr account with some new photos. You can see them by clicking here. Also, whilst you're here, check out this time lapse of Dubai that I came across. It's called Sky and it's stunning. I think I may use this as inspiration for my Graded Unit.


Sky from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

PROJECTIONS...

Just a quick update to add something that interests me. Thanks to Robert for pointing this out. I love these visuals, below is a copy of the projections as they looked on the night, and of the source footage. Very, very, lovely stuff:





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The Pyramid from BARTEK Videokidz on Vimeo.

RichTeaV Photography

Having just begun our photography module, we've been asked to investigate photographers and their styles to help inspire and inform us ahead of creating our own collection of photos. Whilst I'm not sure which photographers I'm keen on just yet, I know I like the use of depth of field and perspective. I also like the techniques of HDR and Tilt-shift. Put simply HDR is a collection of several photos of the same scene, taken at different exposures and later merged together to create a photo with greater dynamic range, hence high dynamic range (HDR).  Here's one of my first attempts:

Tilt-shift can be achieved in a variety of ways: You can use specialist equipment that appears to be a swivelling lens, you can make your own swivelling lens out of some household equipment, or you can have a go at mimicking the effect in photoshop. Either way the goal is to end up with a real life scene looking toy like, or miniature. Here's my attempt followed by a video version taken at Disney.

Better versions of my photos are available on my Flickr page.

RichTeaV Gets a Marketing Department

I recently discovered a great little company called Moo, They do all sorts of cool stuff, but best of all you can create a book of 90 stickers for £4.99. It’s pretty simple to do and a fun thing to have. Prepare to get stuck!

I also came across QR (Quick Response) codes, they’re a kind of 2 dimensional barcode that was created back in 1994. Apparently they’re very popular in Japan. QR codes can be used as a kind of hyperlink to connect to a website, or provide you with a message or contact details. QR code generators are available free to use on the Internet and it’s easy to make your own. Here’s one for this very blog:

The software to read this image apparently comes as standard on some phones but can be downloaded for free to a computer or smart phone.  QR App, for example, is available free for the Iphone. Simply open the app and point your camera at the code. Go on, give it a go!

It's Not All Work, Work, Work

My interest in all things AV goes beyond  work and there’s some incredibly good acts out there that use visuals and sound to amazing effect. Here’s someone I’m a great fan of:

Here’s someone I’m very excited about seeing live, just down the road, next weekend: