ICENI CONTACT REPLY

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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I researched into this production studio:
iceni Productions Ltd the studio long lane, fradley, lichfield WS13 8NX UK
I found a piece of work they had produced for Transpennine Express that I really liked and so decided to ask the common questions of how long it took to produce, and how many people worked on it? ... And i got a reply!

FRIDAY 10th APRIL 2009 19:22


Contact for Iceni Productions


'It's Well Good' QUESTION


Hello,

My name is Jenny Huddart and im a 2nd year Multimedia student.

I have just recently seen 'IT"S WELL GOOD' for the Transpennine Express Franchise. I was extremely impressed with the motion graphics and high standard of quality to the style of footage.

I would just like to know how long it took to produce? And how many people worked on it?

Thank you for your time


Jenny Huddart 2nd year BA(Hons) Stockport College, Manchester


REPLY:


Hi Jenny,

Thanks for your comments.

The TransPennine Express clip was created using live action footage of the trains, filmed on DigiBeta for a documentary film.

The project took 3 weeks to produce. One senior motion graphics designer worked on the clip. There was also some audio design an online edit and a grade for transmission in cinema in that time.

I hope this answers your questions.

Regards,

Andi Jepson
iceni®
01283 792 990

MONKEYPUZZLE - LONDON COMPANY

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Saturday, April 11, 2009

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I was researching storyboards to help bulk up my research for 'A New Way Of Looking' brief we had a while ago, my outcome for the brief was to produce a storyboard representing my ideas.
So I came across this London company called Monkey Puzzle who specialise in animatics, storyboards and press ads.
Below are some of the examples of style they work with.


All of these animatics, I have seen as adverts on the television, but have used live footage rather than the actual animation.
I plan to get in touch with the company and ask them if these are just test animations that they send off to their clients, then they process the idea of the animation into live footage. I will also ask how long it normally takes to produce these animations.
There is also a section on their website that offers anyone to work for them. Well not just anyone, you can download at least 1 out of 2 briefs to complete and send off to them, and they will get in touch if they like what they see! - I like how open they are to see other peoples work.

SUMCREATIVE

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009

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Sumcreative is the new name for 'Sumners' expanded graphics department located in Manchester.
The team led by Creative Director Paul Peppiate, specialises in visual effects, animation, design and compositing for both the broadcast and commercial markets.
They work on pre-production planning, design, storyboards and animatics right through to the most demanding and complex of HD Effects.
IMAGES: Top - Bottom: Sumners Logo/ Most Haunted Titles/ The Paranormal Channel Ident/ Dragon's Den Titles/ 3D Architecture Design/ The Big Town Plan Titles.
I have included all of these as I wanted to show a range of the designs that create nice atmospheres that they have produced in the past. I have contacted Paul Peppiate, explaining that I am a multimedia student and would like to know  how long it takes to produce a title for the different programs and how many of his team works on them at a time. I am now waiting for a reply to hopefully include him in my contacts.

PAUL MORRISON

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009

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On the 26th of March, me and my mum visited Manchester Art Gallery just down the road from piccadilly gardens.
All I was doing was just casually looking around and taking things in, I didn't go for a specific purpose, but one artist that I stumbled across was Paul Morrison who was born in Liverpool in 1966. I had never heard of him before, but all we did was walk into a section of the art gallery and a massive piece of his work covering the whole wall just hits you in the face, it was a fantastic feeling. Many of the paintings were in black and white and he uses really bold shapes to make up the flowery gardens etc. They depict quite an eerie feel to the paintings due to the sheer size of the flowers - this is especially evident in the 25 metre-long wall painting 'Parthenocarp' created exclusively for Manchester Art Gallery in 2009. It is the major feature of the galleries current exhibition of work by the contemporary British artist.
These two pictures represent 'Parthenocarp', I couldn't find a full version of the actual painting, and I got these images off the Manchester art gallery website. It really is absolutely massive, and I think that is what I like about it along with it's style also. I feel that the style of his paintings really draw me in, they make me want to go closer and look at the detail. They are very striking.
His influences for this style of painting comes from a range of mediums. Cartoons to paradigms from art history/of landscape predecessors, from durer via Monet to Lichtenstein, to create abstracted and enlarged visions of landscape.
He alters his images on the computer and projects them onto a surface, he then outlines each element in pencil and applies black paint....
He makes it seem so easy, and I think one day I would love to produce something similar, this work has inspired me.
The below picture shows the style that I think represents my own personal taste and style.
Also, in the Manchester Art Gallery shop I found a Lichtenstein book, I love his pieces of work, they all have such character and atmosphere. My passion for him started when I visited The Louvre gallery when I went traveling and saw a few of the originals there.

MimeArtist - Interaction Design

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009

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When I was looking at 'The Mill' website, I came across who had created it, a company called MimeArtist who specialise in interaction design, not just websites but other imaginative projects also.
The company was set up in November 07 - James Stone has over 10 years experience in digital design for web, creating sites for Channel 4, Lucky Voice, Soho House, DAVE, VW, Escape Studios - just to name a few! He has also recieved a yellow pencil from D&AD and also a BAFTA for a film he helped work on called Bodysong. The BAFTA was actually for the interaction design of the film.
He created an online version of Simon Pummell's film - It is a film representing mans life which is made up from stock footage - The site allows you to travel through each clip and find the story behind each one.
Below shows the trailer for the film.


I think this is the only one I was attracted to because of the film aspect to it, the majority of the rest of the projects involved website company design. Some of the websites I have looked at however were very well laid out and attractive, I liked FinalCut the most, which represents around 25 designers and editors, sometimes more who have worked on commercials and promos, and I did enjoy looking at them through the design of the website.
www.finalcut-edit.com

JIGSAW MEDIA

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009

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I have begun the process of getting in touch with a media company based in Cheadle Hulme.

The first time I came in contact with Justin, the man in charge, I was serving him a pint in the pub I used to work at! We got talking about what I was doing, I told him I was a multimedia student, and he seemed really enthusiastic and pleased he had met me which is when I discovered he worked in the filming industry. He offered me an invite to visit them and to either help and get involved with some of the projects they were working on, or to just sit back and take notes if I needed to.

I accidentally lost the telephone number i had gotten off him as it was on a small piece of paper, but as luck would have it i bumped into Justin again just by walking past him on the street, and so got the number and stored it in my phone.

I have the companies telephone number, and plan to ring them so I can go in to record some interviews and to just gather some more information about the actual company and just some background information about what they do as they don't have an up and running website at the moment.

Over the Easter break I plan to gather the information needed to understand more about Jigsaw Media as a company.

THE MILL

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2009

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A company that I have decided to research more into, is a company called 'The Mill'. It is a visual effects company and are based in 3 locations around the world. LA, New York and London. They have done a lot of commercial work including Honda, Sony, and a lot of television work including the special effects for Doctor Who.
The Mill has worked with well known directors such as Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry (Two of my favourite directors) and Ridley Scott. Two examples of films worked on by the Mill are Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. Basically in just this introduction of my report on this company, it is clear that they are highly respected and very well known for their high quality works in lots of different scenarios.
One of the most recent works i have seen on the television, is the campaign for T4 on the beach 2009 festival. They worked with the creative team at channel 4, they provided The Mill with original footage, and original cut, they spruced it up using bright and warm colours and odd little generics such as pixilating the artists etc. Their brief was to drive T4 viewers to their website to buy the tickets on sale for T4 on the beach 2009.

Another recent project done by 'The Mill' is the new ad for Guinness for a new 'Bring It To Life' campaign, they collaborated with AMV and Park Village to create the teaser. I am really drawn to this advert due to the texture of exploding waves of the ocean in the Guinness glass, playing on the fact of the swirling Guinness whenever it is poured - It is helped along by flicking between images of the spraying, exploding Guinness along with crashing noises etc.


This is a caption I have taken from the Mill's website:
'The film was put together using footage from a number of different sources including 35mm shot at 25fps and phantom footage shot at high speed. The Mill added some graphic ele
ments and some flashes so that the commercial was in keeping with the electric end line 'Bring It To Life'. The various types of footage were then graded in context in Baselight to look and feel like surging waves of Guiness.' - I'm thinking of getting in touch with them and asking how long it took, and how many people worked on this one project.








I found these images when I was looking at a showreel of The Mill's works, The only reason I was drawn to them is because I have just completed my own making of a jellyfish for a TV channel ident made in 3D. As soon as I saw this, I was extremely impressed by the model of the jellyfish - I may ask them about this instead of the Guinness add so that I could mention my own experience of building the same creature.

Overall I have seen quite a few of the showreels situated on their website www.the-mill.com showing the range of skills they provide for their clients, I am extremely impressed with the quality of work I have seen - their website was easy to follow. I also found who had created the Mill's website, and found out it was by a company called MimeArtist, by James Stone who is based in interaction design - i will research into his designs, and post my findings after this blog.
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