Christmas Film

I have written a Christmas film! It is very, very cheesy and aimed at kids really. Although, I think people of all ages will be able to enjoy it. I am hoping to shoot it after the PRP document hand in- I am too busy to do it now!!! Hopefully it will be edited before Christmas.

It is about a guy who works in a Christmas grotto as Santa, but has lost the spirit of Christmas (I told you it was cheesy!). I now just need to tweak the script a little, and then sort out pre-production stuff... locations etc. I am going to advertise for professional actors too.

I hope that I can go ahead with this, as it will be the first short film that I have made in the third year.

Will keep you posted ;)

PRP: Coming Along!

My PRP document is coming along (i think) nicely! I have so far written about 1600 words, and should get another 1500-2000 done tomorrow so that I can get a draft in. This should then give me enough time to rectify any problems with the document before hand in next Friday. Today, I have written up about the history of interaction within art, and have moved into the section about pieces/experiments that have happened in the past that have developed the field of relational art and film. I still have to do a little more research into online distribution and the technical aspects of it, which shouldn't be too much of a problem. I noticed that the first ever iTunes only movie release happened this week. It is called Purple Violets, and it's success will be a good indication of whether distributing feature length films online is working.

Simulated Client Project

Well, I have finished my simulated client project! It is a thirty second advert for insect repellant. The idea was to have the viewer as the insect, which in the eventual case was a fly. The insect is watching as a man is trying to kill kill it. It escalates from him using a bit of paper, to a magazine, a frying pan, a baseball bat, a flame thrower and then a chain saw! Eventually he uses the Raid can... "The Kinder Killer"!!!

I had to shoot this commercial twice. The first attempt was not good enough to make the final ad. The story was not really very consistent, and I wasn't 100% happy with the way that the shots had turned out. I am glad that I shot it early, as there was a learning curve that I had to go through to get to the final product. I had time to re-plan the commercial, and of course re-shoot.

This was also my first time working with apple Color. This is a great new piece of software included in final cut studio 2. It pretty much allows you to do anything with the colour in your projects. I wanted to make the ad look quite dark and grungy, and make it look more like it was shot on film than on HD.

You can watch the ad HERE.

Swarm of Angels

Found a project that is very relevant to my research project. A swarm of Angels is a social filmmaking project in where anyone can contribute to the production.

We are gathering 50,000 people in a giant new media experiment to be part of an exclusive community which funds and helps make this film. We want people to freely download, share and remix the feature film and all original media made for this project and have embraced the flexible digital-age copyright of Creative Commons toward this end.

A Swarm of Angels, 2007

http://aswarmofangels.com/