biennialFreerunner: biennialFreerunner logo sting mock ups *updated*

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

biennialFreerunner logo sting mock ups updated

The fire escape scene below looks really good, coming together nicely.
I think the screens above give a decent example of what I'm thinking, obviously the contrast will be stronger, and throughout the fbf animation there'll be a lot of personality showing through the process: hands, pencils, rubber, ruler, coffee popping into shot every now and then etc. If it turns out how I'm thinking then it should look really nice, and if not it will only have taken about an hour anyway. Should do though.

Anyway, exam tomorrow so I'm going to stop clogging up the blog and return at the weekend
-matt

*EDIT: just had a response from Jen at Biennial with an eps attatchment of the logo, bit late but I suppose I'd best withdraw my slating of their service ;)
I'll email back a thanks then send my animation tomorrow to run it past them (make it look like I used the eps she sent)

8 comments:

Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot16 July 2008 at 11:59
Hi Matt,

The craft of the idea looks spot on. How do you see the transitions between this, the LB animation and the trailer working? Any thoughts?
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Matt Frodsham16 July 2008 at 12:19
big explosions! :)

Just fade ins and outs to and from black. At the beginning of anything all the companies have their little logo animations dreamworks, pixar, disney, fox whatever and from what I've noticed there's no particularly clever transition between them all, just nice and simple, smoothly on and off. Any other thoughts?
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot16 July 2008 at 16:02
Nope, sounds like you've considered the way it will work. Top marks for rationalizing your decisions...

...oh and how big will the explosions be?

'-)
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Matt Frodsham16 July 2008 at 17:12
think of the biggest explosions your mind can fathom. Then multiply by 100
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot16 July 2008 at 18:23
Mmmm… I thought they'd be bigger.

:-P
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot16 July 2008 at 20:10
Just a thought on showing Liverpool Biennial your sting. Have you any webspace? It may be better to email the office a link to the movie rather than an original movie file itself.

Not that I'm suggesting that they will rip you off, but it is safer to protect your creation by not giving them a file they may use (even if it is low res). Alternatively, adding a watermark across the image will also prevent misuse of your hard work. What do you think?
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Matt Frodsham16 July 2008 at 21:05
no webspace as of yet, the plan was to get a site designed over the summer and sign up once it was done... then you went and buggered that plan up!

I'll watermark it just as a precaution.
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot16 July 2008 at 22:37
He he
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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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