biennialFreerunner: story board

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

story board

Hi Dave,

Stan dropped off the lads storyboard today and Tom showed him your office so you should find it on your desk. It gives the essence of the story but maybe doesnt break down the moves as much as it should. I will meet with them tomorrow (thur) and clarify the order of moves so that may help you further on Friday. The props we will bring then will more than likely be the horse, crash mats, perhaps a table. We will give ropes a miss then if its not practical in the time slot. Thanks for sourcing the green cloth that makes life so much easier. I have emailed Lee but have had no reply so we could sort all the finance side of things out on monday. Thanks, byeeee....

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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot11 June 2008 at 22:56
Cheers for that. I'll pick it up tomorrow. The moves will be useful for our shot list. Tictac, as far as Dave has told me, will be impossible to capture as it is a curtain we are using. I'll consult with the team and draw up a shooting storyboard based on the lads idea. Let the lads know that we will have to refine and edit their concept into something we can shoot.
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot12 June 2008 at 10:52
Hi Jo, I've got the lads' storyboard. Tell them they've done a great job, it is in fact better than some storyboards I have seen from degree students!

The images and shots they've sourced will be really useful. Adam and me will parse the storyboard ideas further and draw up a storyboard. I hope to have at least one version live on the blog over the weekend. We'll then have a shooting storyboard ready for Monday. Adam has recruited a further member to the team for the day to help with the camerawork. I can't believe we now have so many talented students and graduates working on this. Hard to believe from that brief chat over coffee in Caffe Nero in April. That's showbiz '-)
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jo12 June 2008 at 10:58
I know Dave, thanks so much for bringing our imaginations to life! You have loads of talent in this college, we should try and have a spin off exhibition for Matt's images, stills etc. See you mon :)
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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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