biennialFreerunner: August Update

Thursday, 7 August 2008

August Update

Just thought I'd keep everyone informed of the progress so far considering there's been a hiatus in posting.

We are in the last stage of the project - post-production.

Dave Bentick is doing the job of 10 in keying out the High Definition footage to a very high standard.

Matt Frodsham is working on the end credits and is about to start the graphic design on the website and DVD.

Stas Krakiewicz is completing the digital sets and working on the digital camera shots we need.

Dave Wood is coordinating the final shots, working on the art direction of the overall video's aesthetic, designing the interactive archiving of the project on web and DVD, and other odd jobs.

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Upcoming Meetings

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Web team meeting - Saturday 9th August in FACT Bar at 2:00pm

Meeting between Dave Wood, Matt Frodsham & Alan Bridge of Creative Griffin

Dave Wood - Information Architecture and Art Direction
Matt Frodsham - Graphic Design
Alan Bridge - Website design and development

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Rough Editing of video meeting - in FACT Date and time TBC

Meeting between Dave Wood, Dave Bentick & Jo Millea

Jo can you confirm when you're free? Congratulations from the team on your recent marriage :-D

That's it for now.

Ciao

3 comments:

Aaron"AsSAuLt"=]8 August 2008 at 13:07
Congrats Miss Millae or should I say Mrs?
:D
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Matt Frodsham8 August 2008 at 15:34
Yeah where does that leave the name in the credits? haha
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jo12 August 2008 at 21:06
Hi and thanks for the congrats we had a great day, Im finally starting to return to reality after months of thinking of nothing else!! Dave Ive just emailed you actually so its a good job I checked here. Im free wed or fri this week or wed onwards next week, is this any good? Matt, its just Stans name thats changed to Millea (in the thanks) Im just a mrs now - crazy!!
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The Project

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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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