Monday, May 26

SVM 1000

A demonstration of the first ever audio/visual mixer made by Pioneer, the SVM 1000, which is made for the DVJ 1000's. Sander
Kleinenberg demonstrates what a revolutionary machine this will be. Best start nagging the college to buy one soon..

EEEfect.

Here are some screen shots from the more radically edited sections of the visuals. Sharon said to experiment - so I did. It's a shame the whole thing is too large to post up as still images obviously do not have the same effect.





Look&Listen

Leeds' best (only) dedicated audio/visual club night, rocking a sideline in leftfield projections. I first went to one of their nights at the Faversham a while back in the year, and it provided a more conceptual outlook of VJing and it's possibilities. Below is video of the more recent Outdoor AV Night that i popped along to briefly.



I also came across more mobile and site specific styles of visual arts, with the onus more on creating work for the space rather than space for the work. This is something that I'd definitely like to experiment with in the future.

Decisions decisions

So after waiting for weeks and weeks to use the DVJ 1000's, it turns out they wont be available for use until May, which is a fair amount of time in terms of project capacity. I think it will be better to instead concentrate on producing visuals for a track as opposed to planning a whole set, which would probably be a slap-dash attempt with the time available. Also Jay's clubnight has had no responses in terms of a venue, so the chances of being able to perform a live set are looking slim. Fingers crossed it gets going next year though - it's definitely not a prospect to give up on.

Sunday, May 25

Burley Park

Screen shots from Burley Park train station when the last train was arriving. Tom wanted to start filming a character for a narrative throughout his video, so we dragged Nik along. From my point of view, it was again a chance to utilize movement of intense light that could be manipulated within the editing process.





Starters

So me and Tom went out late last night with a camera and tripod to start collecting some footage that could be used within our respective projects. Here are some screen shots..




I for one was very keen to try and have longer batches of film with intense lighting, so to have the effect in essence doubled through the water's reflection was a bonus.