Media World: Business Project #1 Shoot Day 1: Research

Using this blog as my online workings! I cant reveal too much at the moment, but Tipping Point Media is expanding to corporate video production looking at the high-end property market.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

.Fullscreen it, please.

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Credits:

CG

|Modelling - Texturing - Illumination - Rendering| Alex Roman

POST

|Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman

MUSIC

Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)

Sound Design by Alex Roman

Based on original scores by:

.Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
.Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)

Directed by Alex Roman

Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.



http://www.thirdseventh.com/

TruliaSnapshot Demo from Trulia.com on Vimeo.

Dream big with Trulia Snapshot and flip through the pages of our online glossy. Scroll through the most expensive homes in your neighborhood and browse photographs, all at your leisure. Press play, sit back and wait for your dream home to find you.

O (Omicron) / Making of from Romain Tardy (AntiVJ) on Vimeo.

Patterned by Nature from Sosolimited on Vimeo.

Grand Designs Series 7 Episode 1: Architect Richard Hawkes and his wife Sophie have plans for the good life in Kent. Their dream house is an ambitious eco project that will give Richard great scope to experiment. Music and sound design will be similar to that of Mollusc Music on GDs, Composer resposable for "The Sims" Jerry Martin

Chicago: movement & time from Renaud Duval on Vimeo.

Media World: Docs

Final Major Project: Primary Reseach

Sent an email to the Kent messenger today outlining that I am looking for subject matter/contributors for a potential documentary:

I am carrying out primary research for our final major project and I intend produce a short documentary focussed in on the Maidstone area. I wondered if you know of any stories or events I can follow up or any sources where I could obtain such information. The research stage is on-going with intention to shoot between September and November.

I also sent a similar email out to David Reilly, the press officer for UCA. Yesterday I also went to Street End Allotments.

Here I posted a note on the notice board here explaining Im looking to find people to be involved in a documentary. with 101 allotment owners there it seems a very interesting place! Watch this space.... The Film: Grown your Own

Final Major Project: The "connected" Documentary Genre

Documentaries by their nature are already connected, collaborative, participatory, and interactive, at least in some ways. However I am looking to produce a documentary project that engages viewers via interactive tools — from customising the experience depending on when and where it is accessed, to providing a “choose your own adventure” structure. This isn’t your typical documentary. I want to make the most of technology and the web and create a film that can constantly update itself with breaking information, movies that are built and shaped by users, and interactive narratives that let viewers chart their own path. This could call for a collaboration with different courses at UCA including: BA (Hons) Advertising & Brand Communication BA (Hons) Graphic Design: New Media BA (Hons) CG Arts & Animation Here are examples of the "Connected" Documentary I found online: 18 days in Egypt A Collaborative Documentary Project about the Egyptian Revolution. 18 Days in Egypt is a crowd-sourced interactive documentary that will feature thousands of videos, photos, e-mails and tweets created by participants and eye witnesses. The project’s goals are to provide tools for Egyptians to tell the story together–from their perspective– create a robust user experience and a living documentary that contributes to the dialogue around democracy in the 21st century. The Tillman Story "Creating a interactive version of the film The ending of the movie tends to engage people to act. The audience asked how to engage. That's why they decided to create an interactive edition of the feature film. The movie's based on a huge amount of archives with a lot of scribbling in the margins. Filmmaker tried to recreate this experience of margin annotation. The feature films plays in the center of the frame and is surrounded by a group of widgets. The widgets break down in four categories. Updates, outtakes, documents and forums Updates. Allows to show updated information about the subject Outtakes. Filmmaking is building a story and sheer away everything that does not fit in the story. In the end you have a lot of good material on "the cutting room floor". Especially for this film, some of the most incendiary information was not included in the final cut. Documents. The ability to visualize the 350 (and more) pages of document the film is based on. Forums. Live chats and annotations in the documents"

Emerging technologies like HTML5 and WebGL liberate film from the constraints of runtime—and there are storytelling opportunities that have yet to be explored or even imagined. Imagine how the web could supercharge documentary filmmaking, for instance. B-Roll that was once discarded can now find a useful half-life on the web. Virtual spaces can be created and explored on the web, leading to new understandings. Data can enrich a story and help untold stories emerge. Viewers can contribute time, money, and attention to help expand documentary projects. Subjects can be represented in more intimate ways than ever before. This working group will survey some of the possibilities in web-native documentary. Four projects will serve as case studies, and the participants will help the projects with practical advice to help get them off the ground.

Final Major Project: Ideas Generation

Another great doc for inspiration: Grizzly Man by filmmaker Werner Herzog

Werner… on self-improvement Werner… on truth Werner… on telling stories Werner …on dreaming Werner… on his films: on More4

Have come up with another documentary idea. Inspired by this documentary: Running to the Limits: Running: Loseley House The 5 time New York Marathon running owners of Loseley House, Sarah and Mike More-Moleneuex run and host a 10K race every November at the historic location and we could potentially gain access to the whole event and its build up... The house has often been in films and the house is used to film crews on location,

Loseley Park is becoming increasingly popular as a venue for corporate events and as a location favoured by film and television companies. Partly this is due to its excellent communication links and its proximity to London, but it is also due to the fact we recognise that such activities require a high degree of flexibility and commitment on our part. Something we are happy to provide.

The race is on 4th November 2012 in aid of Shooting Star Chase. here is a short video which has a very brief VOX POP with Sarah (the houses owner) at 1:31

Been busy with a project for the summer looking to start up a company this summer so I have been plugging away at a business plan since the last day of term! But I have been thinking about Final Major Project. I'd like to follow my passion of Documentary/factual and I'm trying at the moment just to get the ball rolling on some ideas. To start I will think big with no boundries. The next process will be to find the best, yet simple ideas and as Steve Jobs used to do, say no to the good ideas but yes to the one great idea...

- the Modern Novelist: Ben Galley is a self published novelist. He regularly vlogs and blogs and his website links to every social medium available. The father of Eugenics: a story of the man behind the theory of eugenics lived in my village and and freind of mine lives in his old house. I will be looking at finding more ideas and motivate ideas generation through going to libraries in Maidstone, visiting the Kent Messenger and other newspapers, going to universities, sports clubs, I will look into going to the local government building in Maidstone: perhaps they will know an inspirational character or historic moment in history.

Lots to look into but the research part is the best bit! BBC Four have been showing docs recently which have essentially been a montage of showreels and archive from the BBC looking into the UK tourist industry. I have found interesting films online aswell...

God Is the Bigger Elvis: Trailer

Media World: Sci-fi tag-lines Quiz

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