Tuesday 15 December 2009

Photos for treatment and creative development




Maybe some of the look of countryside where camp is

Friday 28 August 2009

Visual Effects Video

Nice Video About history of effects

Monday 6 July 2009

J.J Abrams's Mystery Box

J.J Abrams des a good talk on filmamkeing and his philosphy on it, a very good talk from director of Star Trek and one of the creators of lost.

From website called Ted that features Many brilliant talks on many subjects from people all around the world.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html

Wednesday 1 July 2009

New Post on James Brown and Me, Lance Acord

New post on cinematography, from the film lost intranslation which was filmed by Lance acord, i goto this pics from a good book called new cinematographer, it's in sheffield hallam library. and feature other cinematographer like John mathison who did gladiator and Darius Khondji who has done Seven.












Tuesday 23 June 2009

Late Post, More Photos

Hey I,ve been quite busy actually, but definitly wanted to get more photographers down that i have seen and this guy is pretty good, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, He does alot of aerial and natural life shots which i like, a very distictive style. here is a website that has some pretyy good photographs.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/efa_10_06/01_s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html&h=618&w=990&sz=428&tbnid=dw3fXaErCcABuM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3DYann%2BArthus-Bertrand&hl=en&usg=__0z9DyATLWvyb5LSMCwXdBhq2QuM=&ei=ukNBSsPrLIuZjAe1vbCcCQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image


This is Yanns site itself and is very good, he's recently done a movie called Home.






























Thursday 21 May 2009

Interesting Special effect short film some physics students did in Netherlands

Interesting to try some like this out on park hill flats around in a suburb somewhere, also made me think about fan content, pretty good stuff sometimes, adding a story or collection of bits that people enjoy, Transmedia story telling i think it called, Anyway thought someone could or should do a redux copy the film and add more effects or narrative to the piece.

By Tim Smit and Thibaut Niels




http://motionographer.com/2009/05/13/whats-in-the-box/

Story from motionographer

Music



Like this song from the band sigur ros

Sunday 10 May 2009







Robert Capa is another war photographer, who i think worked for life but landed on D-day with troops and took pictures, unfortunatly alot of them were lost in a development accident, but there about 10 left.
He used on the landing, 5o mm lenses that have definite focus, make things more blury in background and a Contax II, i also think some 50mm lenses have good aperture settings so you can get good footage in low or diffused lights settings





Friday 8 May 2009

Pics of actors






Some nice pics i like of the Academy Awards show, Leonard Mccombe, March 26, 1958.

The Image of the falling man

Any times a person makes a film he is creating an argument or that what i read from john burgers book, i might have to reread this chapter when i get home.

These are some pics from English photographer Larry Burrows, who went to vietnam and embedded with some us marines there, his photos are different from the films i have seen representing this war, Apocolypes now, platoon, Born on the fourth of july, Deer hunter, it seems more documentary and clear without filters or focus, a certain kinda of truth which is different from the films??? maybe this is where the difference between film and picture becomes interesting, as I learnt from the lecture series, and film tells a narrative but a picture doesn't explicably, we have to film in the before and afters, and even with subtle pictures, there can always be an argument the photographer is presenting with us, this is where "context" comes in handy












Kodachrome Example from wikipedia



Example of another Kodacrhome picture, of london 1935, i again like the colours that these pics have, something I have not seen much in the ,moving image world more research needed

Photos





These are some photos by Life Photographer Carl Mydans in 1940 in the Pacific ocean, i like the vividness of the photos, that are a stark contrast to what you see in 1940's era war photography, it seem like he might of used a Reversal film stock, Eastman kodachrome???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome

here some pics anyways



WorkBook Photos

I really want to put more photos in my workbook, but didn't want to lose quality and use up ink and paper, So i thought i create this blog to add pictures for you to see and one's I like.

this great archive by blog and life has a lot of photo you can skim through from some very interesting Photographers. I'll put on some that i like, and the link to the site

here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Lichtfaktor

Lickfactor, Always a good website for light photography

http://www.lichtfaktor.eu/blog/?page_id=4

this link give some tips on how to do it. and they have a great collection of vids and pics

I was looking on Motionographer and found an interesting quick post about a time lapse video a man made.
Done By Andrew Curtis

with interesting panning and photos maybe done on this camera the Nikon D80 which I'm not sure we have got at university, I have done some timelapse photography before and would really like to go at a moving image timelapse project.

Cinco De Mayo Carnival from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.



Driving Timelapse 2.0 from Andrew Curtis on Vimeo.

Links that i like!

http://motionographer.com/ Good Motion and animation stuff

http://drawn.ca/ Drawing and animation

http://www.designflavr.com/ Designs from the internet, Flash, photoshop illustrator etc

http://www.indymogul.com/ Nice website about Filmmaking

http://usoproject.blogspot.com/ Random sound blog i found that's pretty good

there be plenty more and hopefully feature links on here, to remind myself and anyone who comes on here.

Wednesday 6 May 2009

Hello

Hey this is my new blog, about things that i find, that i like that i want to keep, pictures, films, reviews, games, art, motion graphics etc, hopefully get some techniques and stuff in there. and i will see what i get in a years time see if i have anything interesting.

Alexander Unwin