Taking place at the Majestic Cinema today, the Bridgnorth Animation Festival was held as a part of the Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival.
Caged was screened during the local animations segment which were also the animations up for nomination for the public vote award. Every animation shown was amazing so it wasn't clear who would win the most votes. it was also great to see some familiar faces too. This was the first time that Caged was shown on the big screen so it was just as special for me. In the end, I did not win the award which I lost out by 1 vote. Still, I'm very proud of coming in second place and it serves as a big motivation for me to do even better next time. (The animator who took 1st place was from Wolverhampton University which was awesome, a big win for our university).
I thought it was great that they gave animators the chance to speak to the audience before their film was shown. I have experienced this before last year at Shorts on Walls (where Sentry was screened) so I was expecting to talk to everyone with no hesitation, strenghtened by my enjoyment of doing presentations. To my surprise, I was still nervous! Perhaps the bigger audience was a factor in this but it felt like this was my first ever screening so it was both a brilliant experience and a little scary too. To be honest, I dont want that feeling to ever go away either when it comes to screening films at festivals.
This was also my first time in Bridgnorth which was quite a surprise with just how different the setting was even though it was next door to the city I live in. it felt a world a part but a great inspiration for ideas too.
Overall, I enjoyed the festival and look forward to going back next year. Hopefully I'll have something new to submit there.
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Friday, 10 December 2010
Shorts on Walls event
Yesterday was the shorts on walls animation event in Birmingham. I had submitted Sentry there which was shown too. Enjoyed the event, felt quite relaxed and quite easy to talk to people, its a shame not everyone turned up due to weather conditions (at a guess about 15-20 out of 60-70 turned up).
Really wanted to submit Beyond but due to submission deadlines arriving alot faster than I imagined I could only prepare a dvd for Sentry.
As for my main project, I'm dedicated the following days to completing all the pre-production work in preparation for next Friday's presentation and assessment. Looking forward to it and showing what I've done so far.
Really wanted to submit Beyond but due to submission deadlines arriving alot faster than I imagined I could only prepare a dvd for Sentry.
As for my main project, I'm dedicated the following days to completing all the pre-production work in preparation for next Friday's presentation and assessment. Looking forward to it and showing what I've done so far.
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Flip Festival - impressions
With Flip Festival over it's back to work but here's my thoughts on the festival.
Thursday - Birmingham: Millennium Point
A little disappointing in attendance as I imagined it to be busier than the main festival days at the Lighthouse. My film was shown too, although it had to be restarted when the projector switched off and the screen saver appeared. Quite a scary experience when only the sound effects could be heard. Luckily, the reaction at the end of the film made up for the mistakes made during the screening process so it was worth it.
Although, I hope they have a bigger screen next year for the launch party screenings as it was only a fraction of the size of the screen at the lighthouse (as the Thursday screenings were shown on a small lecture room sized screen).
Friday - Wolverhampton: Lighthouse
Definitely my favourite day of the festival and was the busiest of the three days. I was part of the volunteering staff for this day and Saturday so it meant I had something to do in between the waiting times. The screenings were great but my highlight was definitely the media molecule talk. It felt like a really fun studio to work in, in terms of the atmosphere and the way they worked. It was great to see the development of Sack boy too.
Back to the screenings, I was amazed by the amount of stop motion animations and how awesome they all were. My favourite of these was Savage Mountain and Lucky.
Saturday - Wolverhampton: Lighthouse
Another great day although very disappointed that Andy Gent never turned up for his talk (hope he's ok though). The international shorts were great, my favourite being Urs which combined 3D characters against beautiful 2D backgrounds.
The student screenings were cool too. Unfortunately, my uni didn't make the top 3 animations but the ones that won were exceptionally good so congratulations to them.
Thursday - Birmingham: Millennium Point
A little disappointing in attendance as I imagined it to be busier than the main festival days at the Lighthouse. My film was shown too, although it had to be restarted when the projector switched off and the screen saver appeared. Quite a scary experience when only the sound effects could be heard. Luckily, the reaction at the end of the film made up for the mistakes made during the screening process so it was worth it.
Although, I hope they have a bigger screen next year for the launch party screenings as it was only a fraction of the size of the screen at the lighthouse (as the Thursday screenings were shown on a small lecture room sized screen).
Friday - Wolverhampton: Lighthouse
Definitely my favourite day of the festival and was the busiest of the three days. I was part of the volunteering staff for this day and Saturday so it meant I had something to do in between the waiting times. The screenings were great but my highlight was definitely the media molecule talk. It felt like a really fun studio to work in, in terms of the atmosphere and the way they worked. It was great to see the development of Sack boy too.
Back to the screenings, I was amazed by the amount of stop motion animations and how awesome they all were. My favourite of these was Savage Mountain and Lucky.
Saturday - Wolverhampton: Lighthouse
Another great day although very disappointed that Andy Gent never turned up for his talk (hope he's ok though). The international shorts were great, my favourite being Urs which combined 3D characters against beautiful 2D backgrounds.
The student screenings were cool too. Unfortunately, my uni didn't make the top 3 animations but the ones that won were exceptionally good so congratulations to them.
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Flip Festival's west midlands animation screening
Stumbled across this today on google:
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/programme/thursday/animating-the-west-midlands/
It's the programme for the west midlands screening for the FLIP festivals launch party. My film will be shown right in the middle of the screening. Here's the synopsis on the programme:
Also noticed my lecturers (Sam Moore) animation is there too, 'An Eyeful of Sound'. Looking forward to seeing this as I have only seen the trailers/ previews until now. The Brothers Mcleod also have a showing there (who were at last years FLIP festival too). I feel really small now and out of place to have my film shown in this programme, well more nervous than anything.
('A fistful of pasta' sounds interesting :D)
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/programme/thursday/animating-the-west-midlands/
It's the programme for the west midlands screening for the FLIP festivals launch party. My film will be shown right in the middle of the screening. Here's the synopsis on the programme:
Sentry (Ravi Maheru) 02’ 00’’Doesn't seem like they edited anything in there as apparently some festivals create their own synopsis/ descriptions. Anyways, can't wait to go there. It will be interesting to see if it causes any reactions or feelings (preferably something close to laughter ).
An over confident space hero enters the scene to get his hands on a valuable gem stored inside a facility, guarded by various sentry bots. With his trusty blaster he begins his mission. A stop motion animation using nothing but cut-out card models.
Also noticed my lecturers (Sam Moore) animation is there too, 'An Eyeful of Sound'. Looking forward to seeing this as I have only seen the trailers/ previews until now. The Brothers Mcleod also have a showing there (who were at last years FLIP festival too). I feel really small now and out of place to have my film shown in this programme, well more nervous than anything.
('A fistful of pasta' sounds interesting :D)
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Sentry at Flip Festival
Sentry will be shown at Flip Festival next month at the launch party in Birmingham, millenium point.
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/
This is my first time having my work shown off infront of a large audience so its quite exciting and scary at the same time.
The launch party for animation is from 7pm - 10pm on November 4th. Having gone to previous Flip Festivals I have never been to the launch party so heres hoping its good.
A little gutted that my animation won't be entered into the student screening section although this is due to the fact I entered it as a private animation and didnt have it entered through the University. Oh well, maybe next year I can do so.
http://www.flipfestival.co.uk/
This is my first time having my work shown off infront of a large audience so its quite exciting and scary at the same time.
The launch party for animation is from 7pm - 10pm on November 4th. Having gone to previous Flip Festivals I have never been to the launch party so heres hoping its good.
A little gutted that my animation won't be entered into the student screening section although this is due to the fact I entered it as a private animation and didnt have it entered through the University. Oh well, maybe next year I can do so.
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