biennialFreerunner: Some more concept images

Monday, 9 June 2008

Some more concept images

Can everyone who wants access to my blog please send me an email at froj2002@hotmail.com. Because I now have so much copyright material and pictures of the lads on it I've made it private so I'll have to invite anyone who wants to look from now on. I got an e-mail the other day (sorted now) because I hadn't credited one of the research images on my blog so I need to cover myself.

These images are from gettyimages.com, it's a stock photo/video/music site which states I'm allowed to use the low res images for comping/concept. I grabbed a load of similar photos of interior and exteriors that may be of use to anyone modeling and texturing (while I remember, some cool free grunge/texture sites:

http://urbandirty.com/
http://www.cgtextures.com/

Anyway, onto the images. I think these are more effective in most areas than the first lot but as references for atmosphere and mood I think the first ones are more successful. In any case, one thing Dave and I both noticed was a lot of the images of post apocalyptic scenes were very desaturated which adds to the bleak mood, and as an added bonus it makes things much much easier to comp together in photoshop and I assume any other software as you don't have to worry so much about colour sitting together, just the light and dark tones really.

-Matt

2 comments:

Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot9 June 2008 at 18:51
Hi Matt,

dave@bazaar.me.uk

Good bit of IPR thinking there :-)
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jo9 June 2008 at 21:20
I know all I do is say wow that looks amazing but Matt it really is fantastic. You are completely on our wavelength!
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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.

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