Camaera ass on tues

I'm going to be a camera asst on Tues. 31st Aug. Its an evening shoot, and I'll be a runner for the evening. Good money though, I'll make in an evening the equivalent of a weeks wages at the local supermarket.

 

But I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I love this area of work, I might take some pics and post them here

Nine Inch Nails + Spider: Spiked film = Amazing movie!

I've been looking around the internet for good royalty free music to use in my upcoming film 'Spider: Spiked' and found a site with Nine Inch Nails music available to re-mix (all official).

 

So I was thinking 'hey - I'd love to have NIN music in my film' so I sent off an e-mail explaining what I'd like to do, and I got a reply - 'Can I use NIN music in one of my films please?' Answer: 'Yes'

 

And voila! Re-mixed music from a well-known band, all official, and totally legal! This is really a HUGE score for me, roll on editing...

Detonation Films

I don't usually do this, but, there's a website that I've only ever dreamt of... www.detonationfilms.com  - a site FULL of USEABLE SFX footage, explosions, smoke, falling debris etc...

 

I've been searching the net for ages looking for stuff like this, and now there is somewhere you can get it!

 

I don't usually plug sites that gain monetary value like this, but seeing as its the only site I know of that specialises in it, then I'm making an exception.

Ethan haas was right

www.ethanhaaswasright.com - go check it out.

 

Its linked to the 1-18-08 film, by JJ Abrahams, you need to complete 5 puzzles, to gain a password to be used on the website on 1st August 2007.

 

You need to do this, it might be the start of an ARG

1-18-08 - New Film by JJ Abrahams

So the buzz is hitting big time about JJ Abraham's new film, which doesn't officially have a name, it's only known as 'cloverfield' or '1-18-08'

 

Watch the trailer for it on apple trailers - http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/

 

This looks bloody amazing - and the theories going round about it are amazing - is it a 'Lost' film? - This has been thought of, as the sounds in the film coming from whatever is making the huge fuss sounds like 'Smokey' (the black smoke monster from Lost), or is it the gods battling with aliens? Just what the hell is going on?

 

One thing is for sure, I'm going to be keeping my eyes wide open for more on this topic!

A New Computer Network Called 'Internet'

There's a new technology emerging called 'Internet', which is booming, check out this article here: http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-1738-11981/science_technology/internet/clip6

I am very excited about this article, and I think this 'Internet' can really take off.

Alan Johnston Released

I'm very glad to hear that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist has been released in the early hours of July 4th, 2007.

This story brings home to me the fact that people like me, and others that I know, who like to go and get footage of events, news articles and such are not as free as they imagine.

The press and to a certain extent, amateur filmmakers should be allowed to report issues and stories without being in fear of their own lives being taken by those less than savoury elements in various societies.

I hope he recovers from his ordeal, and can return to what he loves doing again.

I, as a filmmaker often go out, and not look after my own safety when filming, so I can get 'that perfect shot', and this issue does make me think about issues around the press, and their freedom. I don't think that the press should be able to invade peoples privacy, but they should be able to report facts, and current events without being in fear of being taken hostage, being shot at, run down, or anything else.

OH well, back to dangling out of the back of a car at 40MPH, with another car in close pursuit.

My New Phone

I just went and bought a Sony Ericsson K750i phone.

Oh, and I got £32 off, about half price, whoopdydoo!

The main thing is that it has a 2.0MP Camera, MP3 player, and all those standard goodies you'd expect to find in a new phone, but I have to wait until I get home to charge her, and play with her buttons and stuff.

25th August is the Summer LAN!

On 25th August, I'm going to be going to the Summer LAN, organised by newics, the NEWI Computing Society, 40-odd people playing, 12 hours of solid gaming, sounds like my idea of fun!

God! I love working in this industry!

I've just been working at the Frozen Moon office, and we've had someone come in to demonstrate what they'd like on a DVD, He's been using a dog puppet, and it was really quite entertaining.

 

A welcome break from coding custom 404 'Page Not Found' pages, and making meta tags.

Update on things

So I'm sitting here, and just finished playing brainbattle on live messenger, and thinking, 'my god, I haven't updated my blog in a while' so here I am, updating this blog.

 

First things first - Websites, I have my 2 main websites up now, www.filmsbynick.com which is my main personal site,and www.video4bands.com which is the site of the project I'm currently working on with Frozen Moon Productions, we make music videos for unsigned bands, and established artists.

 

I have a band lined up for a video, and it seems that Mark from FM lined one up this morning as well.

 

I also need to finish filming 'Breaking Out' (which I'm seriously thinking about renaming to 'Spider' seeing as how the main character in 'Breaking Out' IS called 'Spider' so there's that issue as well.

 

I also need to get back out with a camera as well if I'm going to get those important 'everywhere's dead' shots, going to film them about 4AM in the morning, when everywheres empty, and asleep.

filmsbynick is now fully online!

Well I've been working on my new website, www.filmsbynick.com and I've finally finished the site, and its all looking good now.

 

go and see: www.filmsbynick.com

 

Moving Frozen Moon/Website Updates

We're moving the Frozen Moon office downstairs in the Innovation Centre, part of NEWI.

 

It's a bigger office, and I've already bagged a spot for my work. I'll throw up some pics when we've finished moving in.

 

On another note, the Videos4Bands site is up: www.myspace.com/videos4bands We make promotional videos for local unsigned bands, thus giving them more exposure.

 

And yet another note, I still need to update the www.myspace.com/frozenmoon site, there's not much on it at all, hasn't been since it was set up, but I'm inheriting the upkeep of that site as well as managing the videos 4 bands site.

 

I also need to update www.filmsbynick.com as well now. Its been a placeholder page for ages now, and I have the material to fill it out, I just need to set aside some time to actually do it. I've been editing video like there's no tomorrow, and probably will still be doing the same next week at the same frantic pace.

 

back to work...

New ASH Video

Ash have just made a new video for the song 'Polaris'

 

All real explosions, no CGI, and quite moving, I wont tell you any more, so I dont spoil it, link is below. Oh, and check out 30 Seconds To Mars new video for 'From Yesterday' very classy.

 

Polaris video link: http://walking-barefoot.com/news/2007/05/27/watch-the-polaris-video/

Katch gig now online

The Katch gig I have been working on has now made its way online, and has
been sent out into the world like a tiny little ship... Ok, enough of the
'off she goes' tearful release of your baby...

Maybe theres something in th aircon here, I dunno...

Back to topic. The Katch gig that was filmed in April 2007 has now been
finished in its full glory. We have a DVD of the whole gig, Individual
segments of the gig on youtube, and a version of the whole gig available to
download as a .mov file.

Oh, and the DVD artwork has been completed as well by the way.

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Shiny New MacBook Pro

I just had my shiny new MacBook Pro this morning, my, she's pretty. Shiny, too.

 

I've just finished installing FinalCut Pro HD, and I'm about to start playing with all her goodies!

Katch gig in the edit

I've been working over at Frozen Moon again, editing the half-hour Katch gig, filmed at the end of the Wrexham Science Festival. Its going to be a half-hour program, but also be chopped up into the individual songs, and its looking good

Explosive New Films

I've been experimenting with black and green screened explosions, courtesy of www.detonationfilms.com and have been having great fun. I've already made some drawing boards in uni explode, and my friend's head has exploded as well. You can check them out on my YouTube page: www.youtube.com/filmsbynick

 

Right, what's next to explode?

My New Website

I took the plunge, and now have a brand spanking new website. There's nothing on it yet, but there will be very soon!

 

its at www.filmsbynick.com

Robert Murat press attention

I saw on the news last night that Robert Murat seems to be almost declared guilty by the press regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

 

When I turned on the TV last night, the first thing I saw was loads of people milling around, with members of the press saying how 'suspiciously' Robert has been acting. Is it not possible that this guy actually WAS trying to help out the police, and why do people get accused of something totally out of character when they try to do the right thing.

 

I need to point out that I do not know this man at all, but there's no need to jump all over him, especially as there is no solid proof he had anything to do with the little girls disappearance. It really does annoy me that the press over there have jumped all over this poor guy because they have nothing new to report, Don't hang the guy on a suspicion people!

 

I hope that girl is found safe, and lets not all jump on the bandwagon against Robert. There's every possibility that he's done nothing wrong at all.  This is why I didn't want to be a journalist.