Openreel
We had our first Openreel last night. Sarah and I have been planning this for months and we finally managed to get it up and running. Openreel is essentially an open projection night where film makers...
View ArticleVideo mashup
This is a really cool video mashup of Prince, The Kinks and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. The guy behind it is called CCC and has quite a few mashups on his blog here –...
View ArticleLovebytes
So, me and Chelle went up to Sheffield yesterday to visit Lovebytes. It was an early start for me as the train left at 06:20 with Chelle joining it at Bristol but from the stuff we saw it was...
View ArticleIt’s big and it’s a screen
For Wimbledon fortnight, a big screen has been erected in the City Centre and Openreel were asked to provide some footage to show on it during the quiet periods when the tennis wasn’t on. So Sarah and...
View ArticleMotionPlymouth launch
MotionPlymouth launched today at the Big Screen and as Openreel is one of the official partners I went along. MotionPlymouth is a two-day festival which aims to illuminate the city, showing off giant...
View Articlev-Idol
I recently did a series of workshops for iDAT with some summer schools shooting videos using mobile phones. Based on Googleidol, the kids picked tracks and then “mimed” a video. You can see the results...
View ArticlePirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006
I’ve just come across this courtesy of Chris at Pixelsumo. It’s a film made to look like a side-scrolling beat ‘em up video game. You can watch it by visiting Selectparks The file is quite large but it...
View ArticleEfford Moves
I’ve just done another v-mob workshop. This one was with Sue Smith as part of the Effordmoves project. Along with Steve and Kate, I provided the technical expertise to help the children shoot their...
View ArticleRespect Festival….again
Along with Jamie, Steve, Becky and Justin, I did another v-mob workshop today which was the second one as part of the Respect Festival. We were tucked away up on a balcony in the Guildhall but despite...
View ArticleMotionPlymouth Champagne reception
It was the MotionPlymouth Gala last night with movie star glamour as the dress code which I think we carried off really well. It was a fitting end to a great 2 days which unfortunately I didn’t get to...
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