Roller Derby vid on the tube of you

Here's a link to a promo video made by Rachel Laurenson for the Richter City Roller Derby 2010 season.
We went last year and i helped her shoot some of the footage for the clip, it was a lot of fun! Definitely recommended.





If you are a Facebook user, you can also check out the events Facebook page for more info.

(not so) new P-Vans blogg

P-Vans

Thought it's worth mentioning that P-Vans has a dedicated blog page up now with a bunch of P-Vans related stuff... even though its been around for a few weeks now.

Stuff like gigs he is playing at, new music previews, mixes and the like. If you like forward thinking bass oriented electronic music, then its well worth checking out his page at http://pvans.moggey.co.nz.

It Returned to the Abyss

Robyn Slade and AT48 from It Returned to the Abyss.

Hi Readers,

I have uploaded a new version of It Returned to the Abyss, to replace the old one we put up on Google Video 4 years ago. Thanks to advances in high definition video for the internet, we can show you a version that looks a little nicer :-)

We made this movie from concept to completion in a weekend, as part of the 48hr furious filmmaking competition in 2006.

If this movie is a little slow to buffer and play on your computer you can watch a smaller, faster version on Exposure Room, here >>

Details:

• Year: 2006
• Duration: Approx 7.5 Minutes
• Genre/Style: Romance/Science fiction

Behind the scenes - 48hrs 2010, Team PuppyGuts

Hey guys,

So just as i type we are about to head off to check out the 48hrs heat that will be including this years short film from team Puppyguts, which i spent some time with during their shoot last weekend.

As with the shooting of short films for 48hrs every year, it was a lot of fun, extreme lol's abound. Here are some pictures from the shoot, more can be found on facebook here also.

Ok thats it for now, gotta get going to the screening!

UPDATE: Thought i should post a Youtube of the actual finished film too. Well done fellas!

Old School Attack!: Violent Man.

Hey guys,

It's been a while so i thought i'd do another Old School Attack post.

A few months ago i finally made use of a dvd recorder that i had for a while and used it to digitally record a bunch of old movies and things we made on videotape back in the day. When people still used things like analogue video camcorders, VCR's and things like that.

This totally awesome movie, Violent Man, was one of those things.

Basically i guess you could call it an Art film, created in a very bare bones, abstract, theatrical, satirical and self-mocking style. If there is any ideas or themes underlying the piece, it would be the nature of conflict* i suppose. Ridiculousness, pettiness, ignorance, and reality distortion to name a few. Ultimately though, it was a bit of fun to make and we were very impromptu with it - totally made it up as we went along, and it shows!

Also, i do recall us watching a lot of violent action films at that time featuring such fine action stars as Dolph Lundgren, Van Damme & Steven Seagal, so i think we were a little influenced by the story lines of a few of those films!

Shot on a Video 8 Camcorder and edited on a Panasonic "Postbox" Non-Linear editing system. Some of it was edited in-camera too!

If this movie is a little slow to buffer and play on your computer you can watch a smaller, faster version on ExposureRoom, here.

Details:

• Year: 1998
• Duration: Approx 12 Minutes
• Genre/Style: Experimental/Improv.

Be sure to check out some of the awesome music featured in this video:

Greatest Hits (Amazon Exclusive Version)

Mezzanine

* referring to "conflict" as the needless variety that damages relationships, not the conflict that serves to hold the universe in balance.

New Beanz blog

Hey guys,

Last week we set up a brand new blog that is dedicated to the "Finishing Beanz" diary. We figured it might be a better way to cater to those visitors who may have heard of our project and wanted to check it out, without getting confused by the other bits and pieces on this blog.
The design isn't entirely finished yet, still changing bits and pieces here and there but its good enough to go for now.
We think you should check it out, and maybe even let us know what you think? We even added little buttons at the bottom of each blog post so you can say if its "funny" or "interesting" or "cool".  I for one think every post is all three so it goes without saying. Anyway, you can check it here:

http://beanz.moggey.co.nz

Finishing Beanz: diary 09

Hey readers,

Its been a bit of a while so i thought i should write a bit of an update. Life's been a bit crazy over the last month or so, mostly due to things like work, moving house and worst of all being sick. But thankfully I'm feeling better now, but I'm sure that's the worst i have been sick in about 12 years from what i can remember. ugh.

We have been able to get a few things done on the film between the last post and now. Back in diary 08 we talked about the up-conversion of all the raw footage as well as adding in missing sound to the edit, this has all been completed. On top of that, we have tweaked a few sections in the edit also. All we need to do now before we can get people to look at it is to clean up some of the temp sound/levels mix in the final scene, sc25. So we are pretty close there.

So that's it for the moment. Reality has a funny way of getting in the way of projects such as this. So we hope to get back into getting some more Beanz stuff done once we have dealt to the real world! :)

Hope to post something again soon.