Philip Bloom

I have been looking at Philip Bloom's work recently and found his website, which is brilliant.

It has tutorials, videos and all sorts to look at and get lost in. Some of his videos remind me of the project I did last year, Window On The World. Although his work really inspires and motivates me from a photographic/cinematic point of view, I did find some of his work slightly self-indulgent.

Below is a great advert for Green Peace highlighting climate change. I really liked how the text was incorporated into the subject and how it comes into focus like the human eye. Well edited, not overly long, great pace which matches the soundtrack and beautiful high def shots.

Greenpeace: Voices of change. Shot on Canon 5dmkII from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Check out his site here
Check out more of his DSLR films here
Also Check out the 'Magic Bus' short here

ADR - Automated Dialog Replacement

Just been researching ADR and found an interesting video behind the scenes of the ADR production of King Kong 18 weeks before its release. It shows some great insight into what ADR is all about which to tell the truth I have never thought a great deal about before.

Flash-Back

At first I didn't write anything with this post as I found it so difficult to explain the genius behind the video, but here goes nothing.

This is a June 1997 release on F Communications, Play It Again Sam [PIAS].

This video is aesthetically beautiful. The dialogue used for the video was hilarious along with the props, direction of shots, audience choice and actors chosen for the video.
The comedy interlaced with music was refreshing to see rather than seeing half naked women washing hummers or a rock band taking them selves far to seriously 'smashing up guitars.'

They use dialogue such as, "sorry I had a beer last night." as one of the band members smashes his guitar to smitheries too early in the set.

A masterful light hearted refreshing piece of film.




Flashback by Laurent Garnier
Directed by Quentin Dupieux

Photo Marathon Shots

Below in the first slideshow are the 12 photos which I took for the photo marathon. We had to take one shot for each theme and interpret however we liked but each shot had to be in order and relate to the theme. We weren't allowed to move onto the next theme until the previous one had been completed which was a right pain, but a definite fun challenge.

The themes in order were;
Autumn, activity, colour, water, repetition, musical, light, contrast, decay, self portrait, old, flash.



Below are the others I took which weren't chosen for the final 12 but still ok shots