biennialFreerunner: Some concept images

Monday, 9 June 2008

Some concept images

Apologies I won't be able to attend today but I'll see you all on friday, what time?

Anyway...
Dave asked me to comp together some concept images that may be of use when storyboarding and planning the environment.

I need to retrace my steps and find the copyrights for the original images (just off google for now), some sit better with the photos than others (the longer shots) and in terms of physics and lighting are well off but the idea was just to try and create a few different moods.

Header version... (I forget which number we're on, 5?)

Dave mentioned the photo in the last one didn't scream parkour so this side on vault photo is more suited I reckon. Dave don't forget to check the 'customise' options on your blog and see what dimensions it needs, mine says it will downscale to 660 wide but the main one is wider.

The narrative sounds good, very exciting, sounds like dave and jenny are in for a challenge haha. I'm trying to find some stock comp images of indoor decayed environments to do some concepts that might be a bit more like the story but not having much joy for some reason, if anyone finds any either link me, post them here or upload them to the flickr account.

Cheers, matt

3 comments:

jo9 June 2008 at 14:11
those images are exactly what I had in mind, you have the atmosphere and the environment down to a tee!! Obviously I will check with the lads tomorrow though and feedback.
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot9 June 2008 at 15:03
Hi Matt,

Friday's meeting is at 11:30 in C431.

I'll be bringing a draft of our working storyboard.

Dave Bentick will bring his blue screen composition tests

Jenny and Dave Ball will bring paper-based roughs of the environment

Your concepts will be a good starting point for Jenny and Dave's ideas.

See you Friday.
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Matt Frodsham9 June 2008 at 15:12
roger that. found some great photos on gettyimages so I'm just comping a few more concepts together that look a lot better than the last lot.

There's a load of photos on the flickr account now that will be of use for dave and jenny when they start modelling and texturing ('ll repost that in the main blog when I put more images up incase they miss it).
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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.

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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.

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