Website: day one

My website design went from planning to practical yesterday after I spent the afternoon working with Martin Wood, a film maker friend who has been using online web design tool 'Wix'.
As soon as we began, new ideas flooded in and affected the overall number of pages and corresponding links.
It is likely that this entire site is just a big practice session, since it uses Flash coding, which is not compatible with Apple technology - and who doesn't use an iPhone these days?

Why 2k?

Had a word with Neil last night regarding cinema screen resolution...
HD it is then - the cinema projetor works at 2k with a 4k capability... Nothing less than blu-ray standard will do, sooo - Bring on the P2s!!!

Post party update

Animation awards went to... NO ONE!!!!

Oops!
Oh well, CCAD were runner up in an early award so it could have been worse.
Furious networking quite flat currently, gonna redouble my efforts and whip this!

RTS Awards tonight, best behaviour then...

Royal Television Society Yorkshire Student TV Awards 2010 tonight at the Reel Cinema in York - what a mouthful!!!
The event is being hosted by Shona Collins, a rising star on the interviewing and presenting scene for youth oriented TV. Judges include animators Barry and Avram Buchanan and film makers Paul Berriff, Nicola Addyman, Tim Dowd, Diane Myers and Glyn Middleton, also writer Lisa, journalist Mike Best and actor Keith Richardson.
I'll be networking fiercely tonight,stay tuned to see what happens!

Full Circle!

A year ago, the part time, first year TV And Film Production students were engaged in a project to remake a scene from Under Suspicion and were chasing local acting legend Bill Fellows for the lead role - previously castas Gene Hackman.
Although Bill was interested, scheduling conflicts prevented him from taking the role in our reconstruction.

One year on and both myself and Bill were finally in film project together: 'Flip for the Boro'.
Late last night, I emailed Bill a version of the finished product, time will tell if he thinks missing that role was akin to Tom Selleck passing on Indiana Jones!!!!

British Summertime ends, sun fails to rise...

One of my big plans for the Regent Redcar project is to capture some glorious emotive location shots, making the absolute most of the seafront setting.
I have scouted at high andow tide, sunset, full moon, clear sky, stormy seas; all that was left was sunrise.
The sun sets in just the wrong place for a prize-winning shot, so I was intrigued by where it might rise.
All week there have been fantastic sunrises visible from my journey to work, so I thought I'd make best use of the extra hour in bed by getting up an hour early and filming what I could.
I made it just before dawn but the overcast blocked any chance of seeing, let alone filming the sunrise.
I shot what I could - empty streets, British steel flaming off and a fishing boat launching; better than nothing 'till it started to rain.
I took the opportunity to capture a couple of shots of rain splashing outside the Regent but really all I got was wet.

Maybe I'll take another crack next week.

Maybe I don't even need the shot.

Script and storyboard today then, I'll linger longer on location later.

Big Wave Sunday

The local paper yesterday reported that the police had warned the public not to stand too near the promenade wall of Redcar seafront due to extremely high tides.
This seemed like a gift, as one thing I'd like to film for my Regent Redcar Cinema project is a high tide lashing the building...
After waiting over three hours, the tide was at it's highest but it was hardly dangerous - or in any way extraordinary in fact.

I did get some good footage at the
Sand dunes looking back over towards the cinema but the lightweight kit I was using was very unstable in the wind.

If nothing else, I have another bunch of camera set ups in mind for cutaways and mood shots...