February 2012
27 posts
Frustrating 2 Days
Been working on my live brief for a client these past two days, as we agreed the start of March as a deadline date. It was 80% done, with just small niggling jobs that needed tweaking on the video. These niggling jobs have turned into larger jobs than I expected, but I’m glad I’ve rationed enough time to manage to sort them out. Timing on the video has been the worst to sort out, as my...
Soup Meeting
Went down to Soup today over dinner to discuss the Dennis & Lois brief. I only expected the meeting to last about half an hour, but that quickly turned in to 2 hours!
I knew that Mat & Mark had 80 hours worth of audio and footage of Dennis & Lois, but I hadn’t realised they’d been collecting it over a period of 6 years & so the subject is something they’re close...
The best way I can describe... →
…what my nmp brief is is by using this quite classic example. Here the makers, Josh Raskin & Jerry Levitan, have taken the dialogue from a John Lennon interview & visually interpreted it. The illustrations within this are wonderful - I’ve posted about this before, so I won’t say too much about it again. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a lovely little watch!
NMP research →
Video: Previously posted up some Badly Drawn Boy album covers by Andy Votel, which really inspired me for the video I’m going to make. They’re incredibly detailed, the style would really suit D&L’s stories & reflect their numerous, quirky possessions. Another style I’d really like to try is the use of toys to depict the narrative, something along the lines of the...
NMP Brief
I’ve recently been doing a brief for Soup - as Soup is a collective I’ve become to want to work with when I finish uni, I decided to ask them if I could do a brief for/with them for my nmp. They’ve been collecting footage from a couple called Dennis & Lois, documenting their stories about how they know almost every band in punk/rock & the ties that they have through this...
Unusual club website →
Some nmp research here; having talked to Mat from Soup about my nmp, he mentioned that they wanted to fuse New York with Manchester for this brief. I mentioned this to Tash the other day & she suggested looking at some iconic New York clubs & I’ve come across this one called Arlene’s Grocery. Put up the website because it’s rather unusual for a club website -...
In response to my previous post... →
After Tash kindly provided me with the Badly Drawn Boy album artist’s name, Andy Votel, I’ve stumbled upon an online print shop selling his prints…and what beautiful prints they are! I’m a lover of really bold simple images, so these prints are right up my street. Some prints however still show the versatility in his work; one shows a comic book look & others show some...
What Do I Want To Be?
I’ve already done two of these, so here’s my final 3. These range from achievable, to an absolute dream job.
Doodledomotion: I’ve been looking at this company quite recently & keep an eye on them on Facebook for updates. They specialise in motion (as the name suggests!) creating animation or creative motion pieces for TV. Having looked at their portfolio of work (&...
Fantasy Job
There’s two people that I think are actually living my fantasy job & that’s these guys:
For me, that would be my fantasy job - being in a band. Just being able to stand in front of all those people, hearing them sing the words that you’ve written. Guy Garvey probably has the slight upper hand in fantasy job status, considering he’s wrote a song which has joined the...
