Bringing you the best in independant film making

http://www.listingslab-productions.eu/services/creative-services/film-ma...

http://vimeo.com/stever 's first effort with xtranormal

Xtranormal Review

This is a cool and very easy to use tool. Unfortunately, if you want to download your video for offline use it is (or was) cumbersome. When I did it, I needed to publish the video to YouTube, then download from YouTube, and then delete it from YouTube, as it wasn't content I wanted available to the general public. But the ease of use is incredible. Of course you offset some level of flexibility for that ease of use. The first professional project I completed with this tool, was a customer service training mini-elearning module. I used the Xtranormal characters for the exchange, rather than filming real people. Users seemed to respond well. But I suspect, like anything the over use of this or any tool... can be overkill.

There's a myth about there only 7 human stories, retold since the beginning of time. Each new story is merely a combination of 7 basic elements.

I've never seen a list, so I thought I'd create one.

1. Money and greed
2. Royalty
3. Running away to join the circus
4. war
5. Families broken and reunited
6. Marriage, birth, kids and death
7. Epiphany

linetravelingcircus.com for stories form Will, Andy and Shane about episode 1, season 2.

My new toy was delivered the other day and I've spent a happy couple of days messing around with it. I bought an ATC3K Action Camera off t'interweb. Perfect for capturing those special high adrenaline danger death sport moments. And it was only a hundred quid.

It records 640x480 footage at 30 frames per second onto an 4GB SD card. That means up to about 2 hours of recording time. With no need for moving parts or an LCD screen, power consumption is kept to a bare minimum, so you probably could record for 2 hours on one set of double A (AA) batteries. It's waterproof too, and fairly hardy.

My second test of mounting it on the handlebars of my bike and cycling down to Les Praz yesterday showed some real promise. The footage is a bit shaky because of the vibration of the bike, and I've speeded it up a bit to make it a bit more interesting. But here's the full ride from my house in Le Tour to the Paradis Des Praz along the lovely Balcon Sud river path. It's not an extreme ride by any measure. I wasn't wearing any protection at all, just booting it an having fun.

Le Tour To Les Praz on the bike 175% speed from Listingslab Productions on Vimeo.

I'm going to pull the best bits of the footage out, and put them all together with some more information, perhaps mixing in some of the time lapse I did the other day to create a kind of tourist information film which will end up on youtube. While it's in production, the test renders will go onto vimeo.

Available as an iPhone download!

I've always played computer games, and I like those video walk throughs that help and old git like me get past tough levels on console games.

So I pointed my trusty HD camera at the screen and played the start of the Science Centre Exterior Level of the game.

Turns out it's probably not that interesting to watch, but maybe I could try the same technique with some other game sequences

Playing 007, Quantum Of Solace on the Wii from Listingslab Productions on Vimeo.

Asian Supermarket Box from Listingslab Productions on Vimeo.

Some of my favourite food comes from South East Asia, especially in the summer. It could be because the time I mispent in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and India was always very hot, so when it’s hot in Europe I suddenly feel like eating noodles, chillies and stir fried green vegetables.

There’s only one place in within a hundred km from where I live where you can buy the right ingredients. That would be the Angkor Store in Bonneville. It caters mostly to the region’s few and far between Asian restaurants.

I loved the way the packing was done. Such a sustainable method. I’d bought a box o’ stuff, and the lovely lady (whose mum and dad run the shop) packed it up so expertly. As she was running my jars through the till she asked me if I knew what my jar of Pickled Gouramy Fish was for. It was obviously the most disgusting thing in the world to her, but her dad explained to me that it’s OK with vegetables, but I’d probably hate it. In fact he didn’t even want me to buy it. But I bought it anyway. Along with all this other great stuff. And all this for EUR 40!

http://drupal.org/node/524328
http://www.vimeo.com/5663018

A film by Tom Oswald circa 1999 whilst working at KPE London.

voltspictures.com

Downhill head to head mountain bike race in a Slalom This video was shot with a kodak DSLR that shoots 720 to an SD card the camera cost $150 at the time. It is a great camera for helmet cam, or for putting in harms way like in the path of an oncoming tire. I am now using a Cannon Hv30

Two aliens try to take over the same planet.

A short 3d animated film, produced by Ben Harper and Sean Mullen in our 3rd year at the Irish School of Animation.

COPYRIGHT Ben Harper Sean Mullen © 2008
seanmullenartwork.blogspot.com
benmation.blogspot.com