Our mates Cassette Electrik are doing a little gig at Madame Jo-Jo’s tonight, and we’re projecting some pretty visuals next to them (not behind them, you fool). Here’s how they look.
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NoHo Where To Go
So we’re working in Gt Titchfield Street now, slap bang in the middle of London’s sandwich bar packed Noho area. We’re slowly exploring the lunch options which (compared to Notting Hill) are more varied and plentiful than google map mash-ups. And to document our progress we’ve put together a google map mash-up (ok it’s not technically a ‘mash-up’ but the gag wouldn’t have worked otherwise). It’s left open for anybody to add content to, so please let us know of any of your secret sandwich bars, greasy cafes with real grease, coffee bars that don’t have 5 million branches or just any other local knowledge that we really need to know and can be communicated through the medium of cartography.
Fangoria ’07 – The Movie
Ok, we’ve finally gone and done it, and finished the video of last year’s Fangoria. It’s all a bit swanky and shot in hi-def (I know, I can’t think of a reason why we did that either, other than ‘why not?’), so don’t get scared if it asks you to update your flash player just update the damn thing, welcome to the future. Click this shiny link to view it.
The Boob slipped strangely effortlessly into character, and did such an amazing job he get’s his own special cut, behold: The Boober real
Mass Hysteria
Hidden Value Guide
Design, animation and programming of a flash microsite that shows how you can add value to your house by installing energy saving measures.
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Digital UK Online Campaign
Here’s a banner campaign for we did for Digital UK. Letting people know their old beloved tellys from the 70s can be converted to digital. We did the motion graphics design and 3D animation direction.
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Unto Others – finished and in the wild
It’s been online for a few days now but for some reason I’ve only just got round to blogging about it. ‘Unto Others’ is our entry into BAFTA’s 60 seconds of fame competition, and it’s online and ready for you to give it a 5 star rating right now! Hurray!
Right now it’s just voting for fun, your votes will really count once BAFTA have chosen 5 finalists from each region, so check back after 28th of Jan and see who gets through.
Of course massive thanks to everyone involved, we never thought it would turn anything near as ‘pro’ as it did.
Thanks as well to Oli Freke of Cassette Electrik fame, for not only composing the theme music for us, but also putting a link on his band’s mySpace site and getting us loads of lovely votes.
And thanks also go to OhSkyLab, or Paul, or whatever he calls himself now-a-days for linking us up on Anglepoised.
So far the film’s going down really well and we’re getting loads of positive votes and comments, stay tuned and we’ll let you know if we get through to the next round.
I already asked you to go vote for it right?
Unto Others, in production
Oh fancy, we’re making a little film. When I say “we” I mean us, our mate Richard Johnson, a director called Chris Klockner, a couple of actors called Roy Carroll and Frank Fitzpatrick, and a crew of about 15 people willing to give up their free time to make it with us. And when I say “making” I mean we shot it during Sunday night/Monday morning in a car park in Kilburn. We’re going into edit it tonight, and once thats done then we have somebody doing CGI and grading and music for us… so it’s not done yet. But even so, we only came up with the idea 2 weeks ago in our kitchen.
Here’s the obligatory set of too many photos of the night.
The film is initially going to be entered into the BAFTA 60 Seconds of Fame competition which has a deadline of 4th January, so we’re rushing to get it all done, but it’s all on track so far. I won’t go into any real details about the plot, we’ll save that surprise for later.
As I’ve already said in a few emails, thanks to all involved and all that jazz.
Unto Others
This is a short film we originally made for the BAFTA/Orange 60 Seconds of Fame competition. The brief was to make a 60 second film with the theme of ‘Unite’. We produced, wrote, and funded the film along with another friend of ours, we also did the visual effects and animation.
- Mudfest Film Festival, Mudgee, NSW – Official Selection
- Short Shorts Film Festival, Tokyo – Official Selection
- Foursight Film Festival, Utah – Official Selection
We Made a Snorri Cam!
We’re shooting a short film of this year’s Fangoria show, and we thought we’d have a bash at building a Snorri Cam rig from bits we have lying about. We slug a tool belt on the Boob, whacked a couple of legs from a tripod in the pockets, tied a length of webbing around his back to each leg, screwed a camera on the top with a wide angle lens… and that was it, it works and everything.
ok, “what’s a Snorri Cam?”, well it’s when you rig a camera to the actors body so it appears to float in front of them, pointing back at the actor. Some say it was invented by Icelandic photographers/film makers, the Snorri Brothers (you see what they did there with the name?). It was used a lot in Requiem for a Dream which is of course an awesome film.
Here’s some more shorts of our rig in action. Stay tuned for the final film.