5.1 Surround Sound with Soundtrack Pro October 29, 2009
Posted by admin in : Audio, Future Cinema , comments closedThe application Soundtrack Pro version 2 & 3 which comes with Final Cut Pro allows you to assemble and mix surround sound for video and audio projects. You can find a useful tutorial on this here:
Surround Sound Mixing in Soundtrack Pro 2
Also check out the information on the Apple site.:
This is another useful article using the now discontinued Firewave card but this can be substituted for any other six channel audio card.
Here is a useful video on Soundtrack Pro:
Moth TV October 15, 2009
Posted by admin in : Future Cinema, New Technology , comments closedHere is Elliott’s video of the Moth TV guys visit he other day. Anyone else got any footage we can put up here?
http://www.vimeo.com/7060518
Moth TV October 11, 2009
Posted by admin in : Announcements, Future Cinema, Street Art, Uncategorized , comments closed http://www.vimeo.com/3923290We are pleased to announce that Moth TV will be coming in to talk about their work and run a workshop on Monday 12th October after all at 13.30. The workshop will go on until 8.00 in the evening so we are able to do projections outside. This is an essential session for all second years studying the Future Cinema unit and is also open to any interested first years.
“MOTH formed in November 2008 in the shadows of East London warehouses, flyovers and canal towpaths. Comprising digital artists Ed Firth and Shaun O’Connor, MOTH is united by a passion for experimental technology and for pushing the boundaries of traditional VJing. MOTH bridges the divide between video mixing and street art, generating site-specific video graffiti designed in response to the morphology, texture and ambience of the spaces and structures of the outside world.
In freeing projected visuals from the confined interior, the rectangular screen and the static projector, and introducing the dimensions of time and motion to street art, MOTH aims to develop a new discipline by exploring and exploiting the possibilities of roaming projection and the concept of psychogeography. Two wireless, wearable projection units connected to media tablets allow the artists to move freely around their environment, selecting and relaying pre-produced film and animation designed specifically for that arena.
MOTH’s approach is to explore a space, a structure or an area and respond to its shape, history, context and connotations through projected film and animation, treating the surfaces not just as a screen but as an element of a cinematic and theatrical installation. Recent commissions have revolved around exciting architecture and interesting, unloved fixtures of London’s urban landscape, from the Bow Flyover and Ladbroke Grove’s West Way to Heritage-Listed national treasures such as the Trellick Tower and the V&A Museum, and the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-On-Sea.”
http://www.vimeo.com/5622050Digital Media Production go to the Cinema October 6, 2009
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On Thursday 8th October we have taken over the Rex Cinema for the afternoon for a private screening of Inglorious Basterds. In addition Bob Cotton and Amanda Stephenson will be showing a number of important film clips to support the level 5 unit Future Cinema. A coach will take you there and will leave the University Bus stop at 10.30. Second years should be in at 9.30 for a briefing with Liam. We should be back at AUCB by around 5.00pm. All students from the course are invited, please come and join us ice cream and popcorn available.
This is a chance to experience a traditional cinema experience, the Rex Cinema opened in 1920 and has changed little since then, it is used for screenings during the Purbeck Film Festival which takes place this month.
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Studios. The film, set in German occupation of France during World War II”, tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietress, the other by a team of American soldiers called the “Basterds”.
Tarantino has said that despite its being a war film, Inglourious Basterds is a “Spaghetti Western” but with “World War II” iconography”. In addition to spaghetti westerns, the film also pays homage to the World War II “Euro War” macaroni combat sub-genre (itself heavily influenced by spaghetti-westerns).
Rage: the world’s first feature film to debut on mobile phones. October 3, 2009
Posted by admin in : Film, Future Cinema, Level 4 (fda) first year, Uncategorized , add a commentSally Potter’s star-studded ode to the fashion world, RAGE is the world’s first feature film to debut on mobile phones. This unique mobile premiere links directly with Sally Potter’s vision for the film, as RAGE tells the story of a New York fashion show through a series of intimate interviews, as if shot by a college student on his mobile phone over a seven-day period. RAGE, starring Jude Law, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Steve Buscemi and Lily Cole, breaks new ground not only for the way it was shot, but also the way it’s being distributed. RAGE had its premiere on mobile phone first and from this week Babelgum Film will release the first two instalments online. Download the free Babelgum Mobile app at the iTunes store now.
View the entire film in seven episodes, starting on September 21 on Babelgum Mobile, and starting on September 28 on babelgum.com.
http://www.babelgum.com/rage
uploaded by Phil Peel
Peter Greenaway on VJing September 21, 2009
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Born in Wales and educated in London, Peter Greenaway trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He now lives in Amsterdam.
He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his curatorial work and the making of exhibitions and installations.
He has made 12 feature films and some 50 short-films and documentaries, been regularly nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik and David Lang.
His first narrative feature film, The Draughtsman¹s Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as an original film maker, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover and The Pillow-book, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, and most recently by Nightwatching.
Here is a really interesting interview with Peter Greenaway where he talks about using VJing as a way of delivering narrative based content and the death of film
Here is a talk from Lovebytes 2005 wher he is talking about Cinema of the Future
and here is a performance he gave in Moscow.
