biennialFreerunner: Final post-production deadline to launch

Thursday 11 September 2008

Final post-production deadline to launch

Hi all,

I've met with Adam and Dave this week and from discussing what needs to be completed in time for launch I propose this as the final deadline schedule:

18th September - all 3D digital sets to be completed - [art direction & Photoshopping = Dave Wood]
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Then sets handed to Dave Bentick for completion of digital shots and rendering out of final rendered comps.
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30th September - completion of all rendered scene comps including all digital effect shots, end credits and 3D animations [Dave Bentick, Jose Flores, Matt Frodsham et al]
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Then all final rendered scenes supplied to Adam to edit, colour correct and score.
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13th October - Finished video signed off.
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Wrap party where we all (well at least me) can get blitzed before sending the DVD file off for duplication (if time is too short to get these back for the launch we can produce a freebie launch version in-house as a taster and sell the proper DVD through the website).
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17th October BBC Blast deadline
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29th October - Launch event in FACT (unconfirmed) [screening, Q+A, website launch, MySpace launch, FaceBook launch, DVD launch, book preview] [after launch BLITZ party I ]
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30th October - Liverpool Biennial launch at the Blackie. Private view. [after PV BLITZ party II]
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31st October - hangover/exhaustion/nervous breakdown/gibbering plus satisfaction of a job well done.

3 comments:

Matt Frodsham17 September 2008 at 22:01
Bit of a catch 22 in regards to scoring/finalising the credits isn't there? Any news on this yet?
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Dave Wood is Scouse-Scot18 September 2008 at 19:20
Hi Matt, glad you're back as, you're right, this needs finalising. Adam is back on board and hopefully knows someone to score the vid (or he may do it if all else fails). We've done a rough cut of the vid and the current credits are nearly as long as the vid itself. When you're in next week lets sit down and sign off the final credits. Let me know when you're in.

We now have the FACT venue sorted so are you up for designing an invite and DVD disc label? Go on, you know you want to! '-)

I saw Dave today and he's made up with the business card you've designed for him. I'm seeing Jo tomorrow to plan the last stages so we will sort out the copy for the invite. I'm bushed Photoshopping the digital sets but it's all coming together now. When you're back in college I'll sit down with you to discuss writing the project up. I think that's all for now. Back to Photoshopping now.

PS I forgot you were in Spain, somehow I lost a week somewhere. Serves me right. Hope you had a relaxing time.
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Matt Frodsham18 September 2008 at 22:47
Well once everythings locked down in the credits we can just time remap the comp as a whole, and shave a few seconds off each section cutting a minute or so off probably without sacrificing too much legibility. Shouldn't have hired so many bloody people! ha

Yeah holiday was good thanks. back in college on tuesday, we'll have a chat about the invites and label then just get the copy sorted and everything should design itself anyway, got enough stuff to work with by now.

Ordered my business cards earlier this week so should be arriving next week, sending dave his finalised card tomorrow so he can order his well before the event too.
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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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