a whole month has gone by without a post

the fact that haven't posted anything in a month is an indication of what I'm going through at the moment with regards to the work. I have been doing work and i might post a few of the tests soon ( don't hold your breath, uploading to vimeo takes a while ).
I had a few indecisive moments with choosing the music and how that relates to images I've been filming. Oddly enough I've ended up going for a piece by an artist who broke a few moulds in the music field, John Cage who is most famous for his piece "4′33" which was four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. the intention is have the audience listen to the surrounding noises of the concert venue, the creaking of the seats, people coughing etc. so each performance is different.

for the film I've chosen a piece called "in a landscape"(1948) performed by Herbert Henck (John Cage : Early Piano Music) Its a lovely piece that plays for over twelve minutes so I've had to cut it down to around six minutes (apologies John & Herbert).
I've had to compromise quite a lot due to the short amount time I've had for the project and a few technical issues ( my old mac finds in hard working with the Canon5D mark 2 files ) and not having a newer version of after effects, which i needed to animate parts of the fauna i intended to shoot.

The piece also needed somekind of narrative to drive it, so i've included extracts from welsh poetry about the landscape. I had decided to record a voiceover of a male deep welsh voice to read out the poetry with the text integrated into the images but i didnt sound right and started to overide the music which is the main focus. I'd even found original recordings of Dylan Thomas to use but again it doesnt fit.

Its turned into a kind of extended title sequence but using poetry extracts instead, the type will hopefully be integrated into the footage.
lets hope it doesnt take forever to render 8-)

A Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt

The work below is a great example of the blend of animation and science, these images captured are not real but are interpretations of the scientists.
its a subtle use of blending stills and animation to create a fairly be livable film.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

CMS Website and rebrand project

In September 08 i started an interactive project, I decided to re brand and setup a new website for a friend who runs his own environmental study company. The new website can be found at http://www.huckbody.co.uk. I used the word press blog software along with the sandbox extension to create a new site that he could update easily and still keep some structural integrity ( Andy the director has pretty much changed everything since the launch in Dec 08, which is what it was all about, i do though need to go back to the site and clean it up a little).
I also rebranded the Logo and created a new company design style for huckbody environmental, giving his site a much stronger presence and professionalism.

Decision made

Well I've finally decided on the theme for the music piece, it will be entitled "The rhythm of life" and will be a motion graphics exploration into nature, the landscape and life.
I'm tempted to use music by Future sound of london called "life forms" which I listened to when i was at newport uni doing my Ba photography. I'm still listening to it and perhasp i will use several pieces. The idea stemmed from some of the work done on other projects, ie book project - explored the spiral, the motion design piece I played with inks and organic forms, interactive project sound and visuals. In design managment a guiness advert I showed was call the rhythm of life so i suppose it all ties together somehow.
ideas and short visual renders to follow.

This style is also what i'm aiming for, a cross between a documentary and music video, i wont be attempting 3d animation, its been too long to start learning now.