biennialFreerunner: Progress update

Friday, 25 April 2008

Progress update

I've talked to my line manager who is supportive of the idea and has advised me on who else to speak to with St Helens College.

Below is my progress so far:

Proposed idea to be video kids freerunning, filmed via bluescreen and composited into a 3D environment and made into a looped video??? for biennial deadline;

See post below…
Dave to get things sourced regarding blue screen and video (maybe Edge Hill collaboration);

Ongoing (FACT has been sourced as an initial facility to do some tests in)
Dave to draw up 3 design plans regarding students working on the level design;

Ongoing
Dave to discuss access, H&S/insurance etc for July access to facilities with college management

That's me done for the weekend. I see you also like Lamb! Small world.

2 comments:

jo25 April 2008 at 16:54
Dave, that is just fantastic! Sophie's right you do give your all when your working on something! The deadline can be the end of summer - aug, we just have to leave enough time to ensure its completed, is what we want etc so it may be an idea to say end of July or early aug so were not rushing. Saw Sophie today and she mentioned that FACT are having free blue screen days in May, that could be a possibility but the Edge Hill link could be much stronger. I absolutley love Lamb, I love Regina Spektor and Amelie also but I thought if I put that on my profile you'll think im a right copycat!! Have a good un!
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot25 April 2008 at 22:22
I saw that blue screen room. I'll make contact with FACT and see if it may be possible to use the facility as an experiment to capture some footage. Edge Hill or Barnsley may still be the best bet.
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The Project

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De La Salle School in collaboration with St Helens College

The theme for the schools project, Future, Fiction and Fantasy, seemed to instantly form a connection with our idea to produce a piece of work using Parkour and the virtual world as the concept. This film was a collaborative effort between De La Salle School and St Helens College and it was only through this collaboration that the desire to create a film based on the computer game genre was realised.

It was at the initial stages of the collaboration that contemporary artworks such as Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle proved influential along with the film Jump Britain and a variety of computer games such as Halo and Unreal, which helped us to establish the kinds of environment that could form the basis for the film.

Without a doubt the vehicle which supported this project’s creative growth and encouraged clear communication throughout was this blog, instigated by Dave Wood. This blog became a hub of activity which maintained consistency in content during the six month period. Ideas, thoughts, concerns, artistic references and discussions were posted daily, hourly and often by the minute in pursuit of our collective goal.

The most interesting element of the blog, from an educational perspective, was the innovative approach to formative assessment, providing rapid responses to creative problems in a contemporary manner aiding motivation and communication. Both De La Salle School and St Helens College are now exploring ways in which blogs can impact upon student’s development and bring assessment methods into the 21st Century.

This film explores a passion for an activity that in society can be considered as subversive or anti social and channels that enthusiasm into a creative medium. From a school’s point of view the boys were given an opportunity to express themselves in a language that is comfortable to them but in a safe environment, they worked with students witnessing the creative process in action but also what vocational links art can provide.

Finally, working on the School’s Project with the Biennial team has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to investigate contemporary approaches to schemes of work, work collaboratively between different institutions and the community and develop effective forms of communication, all of which have supported our personal development for the delivery of new initiatives such as the re-launch of the Secondary Curriculum and the introduction of the Creative and Media Diploma.

Joanne Millea

Whois biennialFreerunner?

biennialFreerunner Productions is the creative collective formed out of this Biennial project. It soon became apparent to Dave and Jo that the pooled talent, the excitement and the dedication of the students and graduates had naturally formed into a "Hot Group" of multi-disciplinary creatives. As such, the project Jo had brought to Dave had evolved beyond its original scope and remit. It was therefore only natural to give this multi-disciplinary team a collective identity. The biennialFreerunner blog had actually become biennialFreerunner Productions.

There are 6 core collective members and 1 associate member of this collective: co-founders Dave Wood and Jo Millea, Adam Hamilton, Matt Frodsham, Dave Bentick and Stas Krakiewicz. Jose Flores is based in Brighton and his opening scenes were produced remotely.

Already one member of this collective has gone onto make a music video for a band as a result of his experiences as part of this collective.

See www.biennialfreerunner.com for more information or email info@biennialfreerunner.com.

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