10,000 views on 3 episodes of SAWPC

Well, I was planning to release the 4th episode of San Andreas Wildest Police Chases when I had reached 10,000 views together on all 3 episodes, but I've already broken that number, and have only just started to get footage for the 4th episode.

 

I have had a surge in views over the last week, so in the last 2 weeks, I've had like 3,500 views, which I really didn't expect.

 

Oh, well, at least its popular - especially the second episode!

Science Festival Edit

I'm working on the science festival edit, and Mark has chosen to let me be in sole charge of the whole edit, SO, I'll be making the trailer for next years festival, and a short film promoting the festival in general, PLUS editing the whole Katch gig footage, This is just what I wanted to do, and it speaks volumes that Mark has enough faith in me and my skills to leave me in sole charge, and represent Frozen Moon in this way.

 

Oh, and there's a possibility of working on a feature length film soon - just thought I'd tease you with a titbit of information, more to follow soon

San Andreas Wildest Police Videos Episode 4?

My 3 episodes of San Andreas Wildest Police Videos have now collectively been viewed 6,449 times, as of 15:14 on 3rd Apr, 2007.

 

Now, I have had some people asking for a fourth episode, and I'm considering it, I have footage I put to one side, and I'm sure I could make another one, but make it even better than all 3 put together.

 

I'm thinking of waiting until the 3 episodes have been viewed a total of 10,000 times, then releasing the 4th episode, which means I will have to start working on it now then... Well, after the current filming shoot I'm on.

Practice shoot for film festival final

I'm heading over to the William Aston hall tonight, where 'Katch' are setting up their equipment and making a sound check in preparation for tomorrow.

 

I'm going to be taking notes on which shots to get, where to stand so I don't get in the way of the band, and just do a general practice run for tomorrow, should be good

Wrexham Science Festival Day 7 Part 2

OK, so just after sending the last post off, I thought,'Hey, instead of talking about what I'm doing right now, I could have talked about Saturday!' so here it is...

 

Saturday was a good day, apart from the waiting around at the beginning, but then I guess its like that on any film shoot/event.

 

We started off by splitting into 2 teams, Mark and Julie filming some kind of stop-motion thing with kids, and me going off, and finding out where all the main attractions were. Turns out most of them were in the sports centre - even a Robot Wars exhibition! (which featured the real life bots called 'wheely big cheese' and some other name I cant remember now) but the point is... It was really busy.

 

For me, the highlight was filming the live birds that were on show, they were amazingly calm, and obviously used to being watched by loads of people. I got some really close detailed shots, and some golden shots of kids holding the birds while stroking them - golden they were!

 

Later on, there was a few other attractions such as a cholocatier, dino digs, and a live linkup to another building on the other side of the country, but the real fun came when we were on our way back to the main building.

 

On the way there, we saw that the birds that had previously been inside, had been taken outside, and were flying all around. at one point, I was aiming the camera at one of the birds, and it started to fly right towards me. I was thinking 'man, I wanna get this shot, its amazing!' but on the other hand, I was thinking 'man, I don't want to loose an eye' - the latter thought won out, and I ducked, just as the bird flew to the left of me, to a handler which was waiting there for it! If only I'd have known!

 

Anywhos, it was a very good day, and I got lots of good footage to use, but its not over yet, I still have tonight and tomorrow to film, and then on Wednesday, its the film festival!

Wrexham Science Festival Day 7

I'm sitting here, waiting for my fellow camera people to turn up, I came half an hour early, as its Easter, and the main uni building I study in closes early at Easter, so I went to the chippy, hoping to get a quick bite to eat before I start filming, but that was closed as well.

 

SO, in the end, I just went to the vending machine, got a bar of chocolate, and bought a bottle of water while in the middle of typing this. - Not very interesting in terms of filmmaking, but this is the Dairy of a Filmmaker - I think that's the first time I've ever used that excuse for a boring post on this blog!

Shortlist available on Scifilm website

The complete list of shortlisted films can now be found at http://www.scifilm.co.uk/films.html 

My film is called 'Spider' This also means I've had a chance to scope out the competition!

'Spider' Movie Trailer Gets Shortlisted!

I had a message from Frozen Moon last night informing me that the BBC had chosen my movie trailer as one of the final 10 shortlisted films to be screened at the Sci-film festival on 4th April.

 

I got the message at 9.47 pm last night, right before I crashed for the night, after filming the second night of the Wrexham Science Festival, which spans 7 days in a row.

 

Saturday is going to be very busy, with lots of people milling about, and lots of hands-on experiments, so I'll have to get some good kip on Friday night.

 

I'm amazed that my movie trailer has been shortlisted, and it WILL be shown at the final on Wednesday 4th April. I'm going to be filming the festival as well, as there's a local band named 'Katch' opening with a half-hour set, then plunging right into the films, should be a great night!

First day of Science festival done

Last night was the first night of the Wrexham Science Festival, and it went quite well.

 

Frozen Moon are filming all the festival, making a compilation of the whole event, and it will be put onto DVD.

 

I'm now preparing for tonight - the second night

First upload to Current TV accepted!

I uploaded my first Channel Ident to Current TV yesterday, and it's been accepted for showcasing on the website:



I hope it gets Greenlighted!

All Go for Wrexham Science Festival

Just been in a meeting with Frozen Moon, with regards to the science festival which starts tomorrow. We will be shooting a small section of as many talks and demonstrations as possible, then editing them together to make a short video of the event, which will be on the website, and could possibly be handed out on DVD as well.

 

So its all go for tomorrow - exciting!

Current TV

A new and exciting TV station, called Current, has started up in the UK, on Channel 229 on Sky, and at http://uk.current.com

 

It is effectively YouTube for TV, but without the crappy-shitty videos you often find on YouTube, this channel is made by the public, for the public, and at present has NO adverts, like the ones on ITV, CH4 etc... It's really a refreshing channel.

 

The programmes on show are in the form of 'pods' - viewer created videos, and 'VC2' pods  - all on shuffle, so you don't know whets coming next, and there's unlikely to be repeats one after another, I was watching Current yesterday, and saw a comedy sketch about Apple and Bill Gates, follows by a hard-hitting documentary about the gold mines in the poorest countries in the world, followed by an inspirational video about a street artist who draws around shadows, making street art.

 

I'm going to start off by making a promo spot for Current, then move up to making some VC2 pods

NEWI LAN 3

Went to a LAN Party on Saturday 10th, was pretty good, played CoD3, UT2004, GTA:VC multiplayer mod, RA2.

 

Must have been about 30-ish people there are one point, cant wait for the next one, oh, I hope we do a 48 hour event

Wrexham Science Festival

The Wrexham Science Festival is coming, and will span from Tuesday 27th March to Wednesday 4th April 2007, covering numerous talk, seminars, and experiments relating to the theme of science.

My part in all of this is that I am going to be part of one of the film crews filming this event, its going to be a busy week, with lots of events taking place at the same time, but that's what I like, lots of material to film. The filmed material will be edited down by Frozen Moon Productions (www.frozenmoon.co.uk) and will be shown on Propeller TV and BBC2W.

SAWPC videos are being viewed a lot

My San Andreas Wildest Police Videos, collectively, at 14:48 today, has had 2,692 views! that's just in the month or so since they've been uploaded!

 

I guess YouTube viewers have good taste!

Wrexham Science Festival

I'm hopefully going to be working in partnership with Frozen Moon Productions to film all 8 days of the Wrexham Science Festival.

There's going to be events every day, so there will need to be a few film crews active on those days.

I'll take some pictures to capture the atmosphere, and the footage will be edited down, and will be shown on Propeller TV, and on BBC2W - yet another chance to get my work shown by the media

BBC Vox Pops

BBC Vox Pops still available:

I know this is a new post about an old topic, but I thought I'd just remind people who are maybe new to this Blog that the Vox Pops films my team made are still online on the BBC website here: BBC Vox Pops
It can also be found by typing my name into the BBC search box.

Drama on the train home last night

Last night on the train home from uni, I was falling asleep when I suddenly woke up to see 3 people running down the train, through into another carriage, and then the train suddenly grinding to a halt. You can image what was going through my mind, seeing as how I had been researching acts of terrorism for my next film.

 

The next thing I hear is that 'this woman needs to get off the train' and to 'call 999'.

 

After a few minutes of random chaos, the train driver runs to the back of the train as the train going the other way on the line also grinds to a halt right next to the train I'm on. I'm thinking 'WTF!' by now.

 

The woman then jumps from the train I'm on to the other, the doors close, and we go on our way.

 

Turns out that this woman had a small child with her, and the child got off the train at the last stop we passed, but the woman didn't get off in time, so the doors closed and trapped the woman on the train, leaving the small child on their own at the station. She got on the train going back to the station, but I hope the child is ok. Anything could have happened to him/her in the 5-7 mins following the train doors closing.

 

Hope they were reunited, and all is well. There really should be some sort check to make sure that everyone who wants to get off the train can do so in time.

New BBC2 Idents

BBC Two has refreshed its on-screen identity with 14 new idents based on seven new themes, along with a new logo and colour palette which will work across linear and broadband.

For the new idents, which will be on air from Sunday 18 February 2007, the figure 2 has become a "window on the world", a portal through which the world is seen differently.

The seven different scenarios reflect the range and diversity of content on the channel.

In each ident the camera pulls back to reveal that you are looking at the world in an unexpected way - through the figure 2.

Viewers can also create their own versions - citizen idents - of the new BBC Two look by downloading the 2 template from the channel website - bbc.co.uk/bbctwo.

The template will be available from 28 February, when the transition to the new look website is complete, and the best ones will be posted on the site.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

This video is really quite good!