Extra Terrestrial Cattle Mutilation

More fun with motion -

Going Through The Motions...

Just started playing around with Motion on the Macs at work, it seems like a really good program! Here's a little alien I made, more to come soon...

Supersonic Loops

Here are some of the videos I took to the Supersonic interview, as ideas for visuals that could be projected whilst a band plays. I didn't get the job, but I still kinda like these loops, especially the Melt Banana one.

Melt Banana Loop from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

Swans Loop from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

Inside The Monkey's Studio

More stop motion coming soon...

Calvin Chimp

What if primates had their own pretentious perfume adverts...?

Calvin Chimp from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

Show Reel DVD

Here's the DVD design for my showreel -

Showreel - First Edit

Here's the first rough edit of my showreel. It will most likely be changed around a bit before I've settled on the final version.

Showreel from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

PRP Artefact 6 - Terrifying Telepathy

Here's my sixth (and probably final) PRP artefact, a short film entitled Terrifying Telepathy.

PRP Artefact 6 - Terrifying Telepathy from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

Once again, after watching if you could fill out this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YZ3SZRY that'd be grand. Cheers!

PRP 5 - Pork Peril (Speech & Silence)

Here's my fifth PRP artefact, a short film entitled 'Pork Peril' shown in two different styles.



If after watching the film, you could fill out this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LFQBVFR it would be a great help. Thanks very much!

The Unexpected Feast

A short film, made for my own personal amusement, and born out of a fairly stupid gag that occured when ordering pizza a few months ago. Enjoy. =)

PRP Artefact 4 - 'The Laughing'

Here's my fourth artefact, a short scene from 'The Shining' with added sound effects.

PRP Artefact 4 - 'The Laughing' from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

If you've seen the film 'The Shining' before, then taking this survey - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FMCTPCX would help me greatly.
Don't worry if you've never seen 'The Shining' before, there's a seperate survey here - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FMZNQGN that's designed specially for you!
Enjoy =)

PRP Ideas

I've got two more ideas lined up for my PRP artefacts, one that continues in a similiar vein to the earlier videos, and one that explores the extent of sound's abilities in film from a slightly different angle.

The wondrous 20p and the evil penny (definitely a working title, haha!) –
A guy goes for a stroll and encounters two coins on the floor. The first is accompanied by pleasant, triumphant music whilst the second is soundtracked by an ominous, menacing theme. This video and it’s questionnaire will be designed to observe the soundtrack’s ability to create character, which is quite similair to my third artefact, 'Dog Whispers', but it has the advantage of starring two inanimate objects. In 'Dog Whispers', the music for each dog and their different voices are a large part of their character, but the dialogue itself is also a big factor. Here, I think it will be easier to see the effects of the audio itself without any extraneous factors to confuse matters.

The Laugh Track idea –
This idea is to take a scene from a film that is either very melancholy, harrowing, or disturbing, but definitely not funny at all, and add canned laughter to it. I was thinking maybe the scene from ‘The Shining’ wherein Jack Nicholson first confronts his wife, wielding an axe. The aim of this is to discover whether or not the laughter of others actually influences us to laugh, and whether it’s possible to recreate this effect in film. I would definitely think that the laughter of those around us has a strong influence, but this may be more of a social effect than a physical one, and so I think it'd be interesting to see exactly how canned laughter, detached from any kind of physical presence, affects us.

The Brain Centre At Whipple's

Just found another awesome episode of the Twilight Zone after investigating the story behind a Melvins song title... check it out!

The Disc

Here's a picture of the final disc, big thanks to Tom Pearson for helping me out with this one!



All of which means the DVD is now totally finished and ready to go!

The Final Edit

And here it is, the final edit! Enjoy! =D

The Heavy Sounds - Viking Advert from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

DVDs!

The final edit is done and dusted, and an HD version is uploading to Vimeo as I type this. In the mean time, here's an example of the DVD cover the final disc will be housed in -

Third Edit

Ok, so quite a lot has changed here from the first edit. The music is now totally different, some of it still sounds pretty rough and needs ironing out but I think this is pretty much what the film will look and sound like. The intro voiceover has been completely changed too, as the original files were all too muddy, but this one is a lot clearer.

Second Edit

Client Project - Second Edit from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

The second edit of my client project, a good two minutes have been shaved off! I'm not sure if this one is a bit too short though, some of the shots seem to fade out as soon as they come in. There's no music on it yet either, but this will obviously be changed for the final edit. The voiceover is also going to undergo some drastic changes.
I just realised as well that you can hear someone chuckling right at the end of the final shot too, which I'll have to get rid of in the final edit!

First Rough Edit

Here's the first rough edit of the client project -

Client Project - First Rough Edit from Kez Whelan on Vimeo.

This is still quite rough, the levels need a lot of work and I'm expecting the voiceovers to change around quite a lot before the final edit is finished. The music will almost definitely change too, the song at the moment is something me and my flatmate recorded a little while ago for fun, and is really only used here so I could get an idea of how the footage would appear with a soundtrack, and also so I could try editing it to a beat.
I'm gonna get a shorter edit done this weekend, and change around the shots of the viking going through the woods. At the moment it's a bit too long, and the shots where he slows down kinda break up the flow a bit. Some of them also look a bit odd too, like the shot of him sat in the tree and the shot of him pulling out his sword moments before he pulls it out again. Work to be done!

First Edit

So, the filming went really well, I got over an hour of footage so there's no shortage of shots that I can use. Plus it's all in glorious HD! I've just finished the first rough edit, without sound, but there's still a lot of work to be done to it. The basic structure of the film is all in place, now I'm just going to experiment with the different shots I have and refine the film before adding the soundtrack.