43 posts tagged “video”

This is a video I took yesterday when we all woke up to find our city smothered in red dust.

Rhythm and observation .
Or research and juxtaposition???
This is a chance to put into practise stuff I've been learning at film school.

I went down to the Bondi kite fest, to shoot some 'observational' footage, and cut it up into two videos.
One focus's on the kite professionals who cordoned off a section of beach, and filled the air with an amazing variety of land tethered flying machines.

The second video is all about the amateurs. those folks who filled the grassy area behind the beach and throwing caution and canvas into the air.

Decided after extracting a series of short narratives (peoples kite flying adventures) to try interleaving a lot of the action.

Lots of storms and rainbows in this one.

Better viewing if you hit the HD button.
Will post it's companion when I can get it uploaded.

I thought I'd get a bit of experience using RAW with After Effects. Also haven't done any night shooting before, so I spent a couple of nights down at Sydney's Vivid light Walk capturing raw stills for time lapse.

I took these on my Ricoh GX100 using interval shooting and saving as DNG. Most of the frames were one second exposures, taken every ten seconds. The poor old GX was pushing pretty hard to get the DNG's saved in time to trigger a new exposure.
I pulled the frames into After Effects using the RAW loader.
Really nice having so much control over the individual frames, but processing the files maxed out the PC, big time.

The Light walk is part of the Vivid winter festival, and a series of 'light sculpture instillation's' were placed around Circular Quay.
Great stuff though I feel that if this festival is organized again, it needs more moving light displays as I found the pieces a bit more dynamic.
As did other spectators who were ohhhhing and ahhhhhing just like crowds do at a fireworks display.
Also be nice if there was more playing around with shadow and reflection.

 

• Bread and Tulips (really sweet Italian movie with Bruno Ganz who was in Wings of Desire.)
• Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (Chinese period piece bout a guy who woes a girl who owns a fireworks factory.)
• The Birds (I’d never seen it before.)

Libraries tend to have a more interesting collection of titles then the local video shop.

This weeks rentals….

• Lord o the rings, the second one (my mate has gone to Africa and I’m babysitting her DVD collection. She has LOTR one and three.)

• Red Dwarf III (Brit sit com)

• Desperate Teenage Love Dolls (underground cult type thing that was a little TOO Cheap.)

• Spirited Away (if you haven’t seen it, you have missed out big time.)

• Proof (Ozzie movie from the early nineties, where Agent Smith express’s more then one emotion.)

• Dead Man. (Jim J. art house flick)

This is a stream of consciousness vid featuring Syn city.

Last week the Pope visited Syn city.
So much racket and inconvenience, just so a few Catholics can have a party.
The choppers were buzzing around till ten o’clock Saturday night.
The noise from the racecourse where the gig was being staged on the other side of the hill from my place, flooded the area for miles around.

Nice little demonstration of power and influence by the Catholics.
A huge area of the city was held captive for a week.
When I walked down to the racecourse on Saturday afternoon, I found roads closed off and fences erected.
Imagine how unlikely it would be, for the Scientologists or Buddhists to get permission and support of the government, if they wanted to stage this sort of an event.

Reminded me of the American ‘Spring Breck’ where hoards of teenagers take over a town, party hard, and then bugger off leaving the locals with the bill.

Dig was one of my favourite local groups.
Recently they played at the Darling Harbour Jazz and Blues festival in Sydney.
This is a video of them performing Dreamtime.
I remember this song being a lot more 'pumped' ;-)

The ‘all encompassingly’ christened Australian Film Television and Radio School had their Open day on Saturday.
I went down and had a stickybeak.
This is ‘the’ school for anything audio-visual in Oz.
They recently decamped from the creative wasteland of Sydney’s ‘bible belt,’ and moved the whole shebang down into the middle of Syn city.

This school has government funding so they have the best of everything.
The building was built by a bank at no cost to the tax payer. WEIRD! I wonder how many souls are required to burn in hell to repay that curtesy???
The facilities are bloody amazing! Latest gear, full wardrobe and props departments, offices for student productions to camp in, industry standard Post and CGI.

I had discounted this school as in the past they have only taken students from the industry, who wish to hone or add to their skills.
Next year the school starts something new called a foundation diploma, which covers everything from story development to video games, and is available to anyone who has the chops to be accepted (subject to a portfolio submitting process.)

So now I have two options.
One school I need to prove to the facility that I’m good enough, and the other I can buy my way in.