The design team is in Scarborough:
LD: The sea is really big.
Set: And wide.
LD: And the noise is incredible. Even though we don’t have a sound designer on this team –
Set: – and we all hate sound effects –
LD: – some aspect of that low roar of the tide has to be present, even if it’s not through sound. If we’re thinking about projection, still, then some of these textures could be taken straight onto the stage: combined, mashed-up, presented as realistic or purely theatrical elements…
Set: An animated sea? Or just the impression of one? I suppose that gives us the possibilty of greater flexibility with the fluidity of the settings. Providing we have an artistic basis for that – it’s got to fit with the overall texture of the piece.
Ld: Of course. I love the grit of the seaside – it’s so British. The whole form of The Sea is one of pre-war British/English, blinkered-vision, civility-against-all-odds. What’s happening is ridiculous, but it seems perfectly normal inside that world, just another thing to cope with.
Set: The sheen of light on the wet sand is fantastic – something so completely unique to this location. If you’re thinking of strong, directional lighting –
Ld: – which I am –
Set: – then having a fairly reflective surface would let you create the same sort of sheen of light.
LD: And opens up possibilities for projection…
LD: Well, that’s given us plenty to think about.
I’ve made another short film: Commute.
Filmed entirely using my Sony Ericsson K700i cameraphone (hence the fuzz-0-vision), I shot this over several weeks of commuting – duh – into Leeds, a journey which usually involved a prolonged series of buses, trains and walking. It gave me something to do.
Commute is the second of three films that I originally planned to release before the summer, of which Landscape was the first. I finally got ’round to editing it together, just before my Mac died, as an exercise to familiarise myself with iMovie 5: now that Tranquility is back (and that’s a whole other story) I’ve redux‘d it into Final Cut, mainly for better control over the titles. Anyhew, there it is.
I once again turned to CC Mixter for a soundtrack, something a little more upbeat this time: Hit It by Jim Purbrick (which also uses samples from deutscheunschuld‘s track religion) weathered the long selection procedure to provide a suitable beat to cut to.
So Commute is also released under a non-commercial sampling plus Creative Commons licence. Mash away, play by the rules, and please drop me a line if you do.
Downloaderify: Commute.mov [8MB .mov - QuickTime required]
I’m off up to Edinburgh again this evening: we’re putting Crestfall into the Traverse for another short run.
If you’ve got some time to kill on Thursday, Friday or Saturday evening and you’ll be in the area, why not pop along for some “cutting edge” contemporary drama? It got a five-star review in the Scotsman (which was a bit of a shock, believe me) so we must have done something right.
You can book tickets online with no extra charge, and you’ll make the good ship Nutshell very happy indeed.
(I really should be using this space to publish some notes about my design – the sort of thing that only sometimes ends up in industry journals could be made very accessable here. Once I get back, I’ll do something with that.)
One of my phonecam images has been selected for exhibition at the Capture show in Sydney, Australia!
Raspberry Reflection:
As well as being displayed as the Week 7 image on Capture’s site (click on the } to switch pictures), Raspberry Reflection will be physically displayed at the blank_space gallery in Sydney and is up for the People’s Choice award along with nineteen others.
A few of us from moblogUK have been selected – Joe’s has wonderful colour, texture and an otherworldlyness to it; Beth’s is a stunning piece of nonchalant self-portraiture; but I think Rich deserves to bag the prize with his lovely shot.
[detour] Actually, it makes me think about the direction my phonecam work’s been taking over the last year: my ‘serious’ work never has people in it. Trees? Yes. Sculpture? You betcha. The sky? Yep. People? Nope.
The reason I like Rich’s Shopping Is Boring is because it’s a spontaneous random moment born from a very human sense of fun, and I think other people would react to it in the same way. My landscape stuff may be quite interesting, and it’s allowed me to concentrate on framing, exposure, etc, but it lacks any feedback from the subject – a two-way interaction, really.
Snapping people with a cameraphone – even with their knowledge and permission – comes with its own baggage. And it just doesn’t seem to be my ‘thing’: I phonecam instances of interest that either quickly occur or are suddenly noticed, and the interaction with a responsive person on the other side of the lens doesn’t enthuse me so much, really. Just a different sort of approach. [/detour]
The Capture exhibition runs from April 14th to the 24th, at the blank_space gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney. Unfortunately I can’t attend, but I’ll be watching the website for coverage and the announcement of the People’s Choice result. If you happen to be in the Australia area with some time to kill, why not check it out and let me know how it went – you could even moblog it!
I’m about to bus and train over to Leeds to watch Sean dance like a pixie. It’s all in a good cause, and the perfect opportunity for a moblogUK meet-up.
Hopefully the rain will stop, but it’s going to be a fun evening whatever the weather!
The Choreography Festival had its last night on Friday, and I used up two batteries (thanks, Nat!) and two memory cards worth of images:
I’ve put all the originals on a CD for Laura and Sean, along with my “best of” selection. I really enjoyed doing some proper photographising: time to start saving my pennies for a digicam of my own.
