17 Blind Fists of the Invisible Tiger: A 60 Second Martial Arts Film
June 27th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
THE 17 BLIND FISTS OF THE INVISIBLE TIGER AND THE ANNIHILATING EAGLE CLAW POWER OF THE MYSTIC SHAOLIN VERSUS THE DEADLY CMYK SHADOW NINJAS, CHILDREN ON THE DRAGON TAIL MASTER. PART 2.
A SHORT FILM TO ANSWER THE BRIEF OF CREATING A SIXTY SECOND FILM THAT REPRESENTED THE MARTIAL ARTS GENRE AND THE WORD ‘CMYK’.
BY JOE MANIA, TOM BRUSHWOOD, OLIVIA TYTHERLEIGH AND YOURS TRULY.
WITH A BIG THANKS TO SERDAR FERIT & JOEL DEVENISH @ WRITETHISDOWN
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Forty seven first year Graphic Design students at Chelsea College of Art & Design were given the task of creating a sixty second film.
Each film had to be based on a randomly selected film genre and graphic design related word. The word had to appear in the title and the film had to express it’s title. The couplings came out looking like this:
Science Fiction / Brief
Musical / Layout
Western / Typeface
War Film / Lowercase
Film Noir / Pixel
Horror / RGB
Disaster Movie / Laptop
Martial Arts / CMYK
Road Movie / PDF
Romantic Comedy / Client
Action Blockbuster / Print
Each film also had to include three recurring props:
A Cat
An Egg
A Ladder
And three recurring lines of dialogue:
“How much for the little one?”
“See you next Wednesday”
“The most important thing in life is………”
The word ‘Chelsea’ also had to appear somewhere in each film.
Each and every aspect of the film’s production was then down to each group. They had to write, produce, design, build, storyboard, act, shoot, direct, digitise, edit, composite special effects and everything else! A highly demanding and restrictive project designed to teach every aspect aspect of film making.
…AND HERE IS US HEPCAT’S ACCEPTING OUR AWARD FOR BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP. BECAUSE US BOYS REALLY HELPED OUT ON OLIVE’S GEISHA GET UP….SORT OF….WELL NOT AT ALL….BUT IT LOOKS GREAT HUH?
Oscar Night
June 19th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
The infamous GDC1 Oscar night is fast approaching – so the past few night’s have been spent scouring the internets dirty drawers to find the perfect tux. Nearly all inspiration is coming from this cat below.
That last picture is a prize. I found these clips from an old TV clip of Elvis and Frank Sinatra performing together in 1960. Good stuff. First person to let me know what that interesting bow tie variant is on Elvis’ neck wins a pack of Monster Munch.
New Languages: Interactive Light Maze
May 9th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
To answer a recent brief of creating new languages through technology, Jean and I devised an Interactive Light Maze that changes it’s course randomly whilst the user is inside. The diagram of the maze is projected onto the floor whilst the smoke that fills the maze space creates ‘walls’ around the participant.
Below are some photos of the maze in the making:
Sooner Than Now
May 9th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Jean, Matt and I have spent several of the past weeks tucked away in dark rooms putting together a new online zine that covers the latest on-goings within art, design & culture.
The site has a bunch of lovely content including, interviews, artist features, reviews, exhibition and event listings, mixtapes and other such goodness. You can have a cheeky ganders at: http://www.soonerthannow.com
Add it to your RSS feed for a daily dose of awesome.
Cunning Stunts
April 20th, 2010 § 2 Comments
Last night I had my eyes and ears violated by Chris Cunningham at the Brighton dome. Luckily, my buddy Matt who attended with me, is far more able to put the evenings events into words than myself. Take a look.
Below are some clips from the show:
UPDATE 21/04/10: This clip cropped up on YouTube today, so I thought I’d put it with the rest…
Grinder Brand Sheet [Updated]
April 19th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
Have just given the original brand sheet a bit of a tarting up, which now also features the promotional handout material. All is ready for a’ printin’. After an eventful day of photographing the items placed on an A1 whiteboard, the photographs ended up being pretty dark and shadowy in places, plus the text was a bit hard to read on certain stuff. I decided to just recreate the physical layout digitally. Thanks to Sophia Ray for all the fun and work involved with creating all this!
