biennialFreerunner: New compositor to join the team

Monday, 2 June 2008

New compositor to join the team

Hi all,

Just to let everyone know that following discussions last week with
Adam I have sourced another member to our team to concentrate on the CG
compositing. This will take pressure off of Adam.

The new team member is Dave Bentick, a recent graduate from BA(Hons)
Digital Arts and a graduate from the first graduating cohort from my
own FD.

Dave has a good eye for detail, and to show his talents off here's a
piece of 1st year work he did on my FD. The theme is quite apt:

The video is available here in higher quality.

I've invited him to read this blog to get him up to speed and I am meeting him next Monday. I will use Dave to do the compositing tests from the blue screen work.

Adam can I pick up the footage this week?

Jenny & Dave can you provide me with some footage of a level shot from roughly the same angles that are in Matt's photos. It can be of any level you've built and say about 10-15 secs for each angle.

Any problems with this email me. Can I pick them up by Friday at the latest?

Matt
Good to see where your ideas are going. I'm assessing right now so I'll feedback in more detail later when I can. In the meantime play with the post-apocalyptic tone more. The research you've done so far is good. The more that you immerse yourself in the imagery the more the type decisions will become easier. I'll feedback in more detail later.

Cheers

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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