biennialFreerunner: First main scene tasks

Saturday 21 June 2008

First main scene tasks

Just to quickly confirm what was discussed at the really energetic and highly creative production meeting on Friday.

We are to concentrate this week on nailing the elements for the storyboard panels 12-16 for Friday.

Dave Bentick (aka chromaDave) is to composite the footage for these scenes together to make a clear action sequence. He is to use Dave Ball's concept model below to help composite the lads jumping through the window. (chromaDave don't worry about resizing the image, it's just a test).

Note: chromaDave can we arrange a meeting on Tues/Wed the work-in-progress, just so I can discuss the composition of the lads with you? Can you concentrate on getting the lads composited together within each type of shot (close up, medium, wide) and from each angle for that meeting? Also you left your monitor adapter in C431 last Friday.

Dave Ball & Shaun to concentrate on building basic models for all the assets we discussed, but concentrating upon the flat roof with windows and interior of room. If you get all those fleshed out before Friday, please then attempt the rest of the asset list.

Jenny Hope you're feeling better? Can you concentrate on the meteor sequence following the animatic (see post below) for Friday. The test you did a while back looks good and certainly is near what we need.

Matt you know what type of textures we are looking for so you know what you're doing. If you can stay a bit later after the next meeting then we can talk about the more graphic design based areas of the project.

The next production meeting is at 11:30 on Friday. Last week's ran to 2 hours and we were still going. It would be beneficial if everyone could keep a flexible afternoon in case things do go on. Would this be problematic? Feedback to me so I can gauge our time together.

I'd like to welcome Shaun to the team. He hit the ground running and came up with some great suggestions on Friday! Lovely stuff.

I won't be in work until Tuesday as I am in Edinburgh for a PhD meeting at Edinburgh College of Art. All summer Stas and I will be based in C431. That's it for now, I will have web access so I'll keep checking the blog.

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The Project

Traceur Tag
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.

Books by Dave Wood