biennialFreerunner: Website meeting notes

Saturday 9 August 2008

Website meeting notes

Matt, Alan and I met today to discuss the website that we are designing to support and market the completed video.

Timeline for completion will be an end of August deadline.

We have decided upon a 5-zone site, split into the following:

Main zone - viewable web version of video with surrounding content linking to other zoned content areas. Up until the actual unveiling of the video we will only tease the viewer.
Project zone - this area will set the video into it's project context (Jo I'll discuss the content for this area with you as this area should focus on you and the lads)
Extras zone - this zone will have additional support material that didn't go into the main video e.g. footage of the lads freerunning, an interactive walkaround of the final scene, concept illustrations, storyboard, animatic, pre-viz tests, narrative tests, etc.
Team zone - this is the area for the St Helens team to shine. A mix of bios, promotion and links to work they did on the project
Archive zone - this is a more academic zone where the project is recorded as academic research. The project blog (after editing of IPR material) will be made public and available through the website. This section will also have content added to aid marketing of the video.

2 main points for consideration we discussed that needs researching are:

Code to detect users connection speed to load relevant video page
Option in Flash to toggle video to full screen mode

Visually the site will reflect the graphic design decisions Matt has so ably designed so far. Matt will re-use and re-purpose the intro credits background, blog logo and visuals into a design for the website and plans to have some visuals on the blog for next Tuesday. The 5-part tonal colouring of the video will be subtly reflected within the website design with each zone taking a different tone. The blog logo will also be varied for each section using a different lad's image (Matt the archive section can duplicate the video page logo. Alan from Creative Griffin will build the site at the end of August. I will be responsible for the art direction of the website, and the information architecture and content.

From the website design I will then re-purpose it to build a DVD master ready for the launch.

I think I've covered everything but Matt and Alan will let me know if I've forgotten anything?

2 comments:

Matt Frodsham10 August 2008 at 14:46
Seems all there to me in regards to the site.

Whens the panic date for scoring? Have you still got someone in mind? Just remembered I've got an old friend who's a sound tech (and as far as I'm aware owes me one), he worked on some adverts etc. during his course, doesn't really help with the music unless he knows anyone but he might be a help with regards to mixing sfx.

I'll start asking around for drum n bass DJ's too

I'm not sure of scoring protocol, is the sound created around/synced with a final edit, mixed down to one stereo track then rendered out with the edit again?
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot10 August 2008 at 18:50
The rough cut of the video should be ready to score in about 10 days. A version will be available with notes as to where and when the pace and punctuation needs to be. The musician will score a track which will then be added to the final edit. Adam can then do his magic using the track to do the final edits against.

Or that's the plan failing that it's me with a kazoo. So any musos you know would be good to sound out (pun intended) if they would be interested. If they are get us some demos to listen to.
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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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