Any Design or Art students interested in taking up a career in animation via TAFE should have a look at this show-reel from students at the Design Centre Enmore.
Paper Plains
Following on the Outpost theme here’s some work from Fintan Magee.
Outpost Project
If you haven’t been to see it yet you have until this Sunday to get out to Cockatoo Island and check out the biggest street art show in the Southern Hemisphere.
Outpost Project – Art from the Streets | TVC from Cockatoo Island on Vimeo.
Mental Health Break
This took
22 months
1,357 hours
30 people
2 ladders
1 still camera
288,000 jelly beans
to make.
Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton passed away on the 13th Sept leaving behind the legacy of an extraordinary creative practice. Not content to rest on his laurels as the founding father of the Pop Art movement, Hamilton remained an active force in the art world, continually investigating new ideas and approaches to art making.
Image courtesy of The Art Newspaper
A fascinating and revealing interview with Hamilton that gives relevant insight into his thinking and practice can be read here
NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photography Prize
NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photography Prize.
Call for entries for ‘NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photography Secondary Schools Competition’
The Parliamentary Photography Prize is now in its second year and for the first time is now open to secondary school students. If you are interested, go to
http://www.parliamentaryphotoprize.com.au/
Please read the conditions of entry, as this is the first time digital upload has been incorporated into the submission process.
Storyboard U2 Animation
A nice animated storyboard for U2’s ‘I’ll go crazy tonight’
Worth looking at for the development sketchup and sequencing.
Short Film based on U2 – I’ll Go Crazy if I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight from ann xiao on Vimeo.
The Making of Collision Course
A fascinating look behind the scenes into the making of the Collision Course. Super slow motion footage shot using high speed cameras @ 1500fps.
This is how you disappear
This submission for 2008 HSC by Anke Vermeulan was part of a body of work comprising photographic works, documentation and installation. I’m placing this here so any student in the current year who is considering a video submission can get a good idea of what goes into a successful work in this media area.
During term 1 of Yr 12 Anke had a clear idea of some of the components of her Body of Work and over the Xmas break scripted and filmed the first part of this work. It was to have been a music video clip that still required a green screen sequence. After some long discussions she decided to complete the green screen sequence and open out the concept to include multiple videos in the one edit. Over the next term she scripted and shot the main sequence of this work whilst refining the green screen/chroma keying, as both works now included this, and the second shoot was more complex, because of some reflectance problems which made the chroma keying quite tricky. However the work still needed more to pull it together. After prototyping the split screen sequences it was decided to include some home video footage, text and an appropriated sequence to introduce the whole work. I had mentioned the works of Andre Tarkovsky as a possible source and she settled on a small sequence from ‘The Mirror”. The scene was a slow dolly from a hallway to a room. The beauty of this was that it provided a workspace in which to place elements of her own work projected onto floor, ceiling, walls and into picture frames within the room. A nice idea that was a technical nightmare requiring extensive use of the motion capability of the software and long hours of editing for her and a steep leraning curve for me. By the end of term two the work was beginning to take shape but the sequencing and the pace of the work needed a lot of refining. The text transitions were still a little clumsy and it was decided to link each transition from a common letter within each word, slowly getting there. The soundtrack was only in skeleton form at this stage and required much more than. In term 3 Anke brought in a recorded dialogue which set the whole tone and made it so much easier to sequence an ambient score around it. Long hours scouring sound libraries and it was beginning to come together. The final touch was a transitional link using an 3 sec grab from a Fellini movie, that joined the opening to the body of the video. Syncing the soundtrack to the video was labourious and we were both beginning to fray at the edges by this time. In between all this came the development of a body of photographic work drawn directly from the documentation of the filming process and some other works. The roulette wheel that features in the film was constructed by her and included in the body of work.
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Premiere Elements Introduction
This is an introductory tutorial for Premiere Elements. Primarily for revision of procedures covered in class, use this to review creating projects, importing files, working with scene-lines and timelines, time-stretch, making selections, splitting the play head, applying effects etc.
Premiere Elements Introduction from Gary Poulton on Vimeo.