Love ‘em or hate ‘em the boys at Apple have a massive effect on the technology in our lives. Here’s a sneak peak of a documentary airing soon about their history
First of my photos from the Rhein Partie project have made their way to flickr
Take a look at this link for coverage of the Rhein Partie Project on German Television
Video from the banks of the Rhine or our current video creation. Design and Photoshop by Ross Ashon I contributed the After Effects, Cinema 4D and Onlyview work.
Having laid off the REALLY geeky stuff for the last few months (amidst fears i may have only be able to communicate in serial numbers) its about time i come back to the fold and start another seemingly insurmountable project of geeky nature.
Despite being a fully paid up card carrying geek, I’ve never learnt a proper programming language. Whilst there’s enough code swimming around in my head to satisfy the occasional dalliance with the After Effects expressions or install a few programs in Ubuntu, real proper programming as always been avoided like the plague. The plan (albeit a fairly ambitious one) over the next few weeks is to try and get a grasp on C++ with the express intent of making the most of Openframeworks. Its a brave step towards being able to create fully interactive video.
Look at the kind of projects its been used on already:
made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo.
After a difficult gig with a foreign crew (language barriers and all) let’s just remind you all about the basics. But i’m just joking….right?
The shortest distance between two points – a video cable. Let that not be forgotten, a clear route should always be left by all departments.
Video cables should ideally be routed on top of all others, over NOT through truss and without the use of tape. This will allow speedy removal when we start loading out mid-gig, immediately after our last cue.
Fibreoptics are orange for a reason. So that you, yes YOU lampys don’t mistake them for a raggy bit of 5-pin. In no circumstances should you stand on, pull, twist, touch, or even mention in conversation said cables. I can’t be held accountable for anyone who can’t heed these warnings.
Client notes: If you want to make changes to the content last minute then you’re going have to wait while we make the changes, render the file, upload to the servers and depending on the system, perform a final render again. This process is NEVER a matter of minutes. Therefore, get it right in the office or get over it.
Load times are as stated on the tin. When i say it will take 3 days to install and configure then thats what i mean. Its not acceptable to shave a day off and let us know by waiting for us to read it on the schedule. Incidentally, 9 crew days over 48 hours means 12 crew days over 76hrs. Don’t think that 3 days can still be manned by 9 crew days. THAT is what the extra thousand is on the bill.
Finally, video engineers are like customers. We all know that they’re not always right. But its easier for everyone if we pretend that’s the case.
But i’m just joking….right?
Got so bored with facebook you want to pull the batteries out
A bit out of Sync in terms of the chronology of my blog posts, but here’s some footage that was shot by our client, LG, of the New Years Eve Project.