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Photos & Words: James Williams

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DJ’s Harlow, Your Niece, Minimal Animal Sound System

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Words: James Williams

Photos: James Williams, Amy Ginty

DJ’s: Harlow, Meow, 46.XY

“On Wednesday July 7th we will be holding our first Kopparberg Klash party at The Old Blue Last, to celebrate you and the other 9 Film finalists. Your  films will be screened on both floors of the venue and everyone will be able to raise a toast with some complimentary Kopparberg cider.”

“Entry is first come first served, but all the finalists will be on a special guest list with a +1 to ensure they get in.”

Hoorah!

Let me just explain about the origin of the film in short – I run a small personal website and blog, ManyChefsBroth.co.uk, alongside everything else I do here as production manager at eBusiness Media. The aim of ManyChefsBroth.co.uk is to create a space for like minded artists interested in New Media. An output for artists producing creative work outside of their everyday jobs. As well as running the site I’ve been producing documentaries and short films for around 3 years.

Back in may my Girlfriend Amy Ginty and I took the Camera kit out to shoot a new short film for the website, I decided we would shoot ad lib, on the fly with a very simple concept and only one prop – a blue balloon tied to a ribbon.
I wanted to create a stark contrast between the bright, free, blue balloon and its surroundings, being a dark grimey alleyway. I wanted the balloon to be constrained and lead by Amy using the blue ribbon.

The idea would be that this Lonely girl would come across said blue balloon in the grimey alley and it would be her jovial companion.

With this simple idea we set about shooting, first of all with my Digital SLR (Nikon D50, full kit spec below). I utilized the idea of using my Digital SLR to capture frames just like a camcorder would, but at a much lower frame rate, something I had been experimenting with for the last 2 months. This would have two effects, first of all and most noticeable being the stutter and uncomfortable feeling of low frame rates. Second of all the fantastic sharpness, quality and shallow depth of field from the SLR’s large sensor size and long lens.

I also used my Video Camera and Depth of Field Adapter to shoot parts of the film. Using the single light of the alley and controlling shutter speed and aperture  I created a powerful, contrasting image while giving perfect focus on Amy and the Balloon.

Combining the two different types of footage presented two different feelings to the audience, I’ll let you watch the video for yourself to decide how you feel when watching the differently samples footage. Leave your feelings about the video in the comments section below.

I originally entered the film competition after stumbling across the advertisement for the Kobbarberg Klash Film competition while reading an article on Vice Magazine’s website.

In all honesty my initial idea was purely to get more exposure for ManyChefsBroth and to encourage more visitors to view the site as my video would be hosted on Kobbarberg’s website. I had forgotten all about the competition until the email this morning, RESULT!

Next step is to drum up some online support, through facebook, twitter and both this blog and blog.manychefsbroth.co.uk.

“The finalists’ videos will also be posted on the Facebook event wall on July 2nd, where you will be urged to have your friends vote for your entry by clicking “Like” underneath, in order to help us decide a winner which will be announced at the final Kopparberg Klash event on September 1st, 2010.”

So, I urge you to pop on over to the facebook page on July the 2nd and click ‘Like’ on my video! It’s entitled ‘Balloon Girl’. Thanks!
Heres the Facebook page

Kit Spec:

Nikon D50 D SLR
Sigma 70-300mm Lens
Pansonic HDC SD100
JAG35PRO DOF adapter
SIGMA 50mm lens
Sony Vegas Editing suit

http://www.viceland.com/wp/2010/06/suffer-for-your-art-this-weekend/

http://www.blog.manychefsbroth.co.uk

http://www.findkopparberg.com/

http://www.vbs.tv/

Heres the Video selected by the Judges

Summer Stop Motion #2 – Balloon Girl from James Williams on Vimeo.

We’ve been out seeing, creating and reporting – but with a new job in tow the shift on focus has changed a bit. None the less we’ll be updating the broth again this month and from here on after (Hooray!)

So heres a few things to expect in the two months – Dont forget to subscribe to our RSS feed to keep upto date with everything we’ll be posting.

• Photo Coverage of Audio Kink – 19th June

We were down for Audio Kink’s Monthly night @iBar, Bournemouth – not only to capture the action but to be part of it as our resident Fidget DJ 46.XY headlined. We snapped some corkers and they’ll be up within a week.

• Stop Motion Summer #3 – ‘Un-named’

Aye, we’ll shoot our third experimental stop motion film and trying a few new ideas out for size

• Coverage of Audio Kink as it hits Dusk till Dawn, Bourmemouth for the second time round

Audio Kink’s ripples have been spreading, May saw it take over upstairs of Dusk till dawn for the first time ever and it was BIG! So the they have been asked back for a second time round, we’ll be down there again but this time we’ll be armed with our camera to capture the night in HD glory!

• Documentary & Music video of a new band from Bournemouth

More info on this one to come very soon!

• Documentary on Human Suspension’

Many Chefs Broth was responsible for the fascinating and bloody documentary,  Shot and Directed by Reef Al-lahiq about the art of Human Suspension – We’ll have that up for all the world to see within the next two months.

Theres a few exciting things to look forward to and of course – more reason to check back to the broth!

One of BomoBeats latest and most exciting signings, Gemma Mewse made it down for the night so of course we had a little meet and greet!

Check out the Photos from the event.

Luke Dubyah @ BomoBeats, Dusk till Dawn - 12 June 2010

Gemma Mewse @ BomoBeats, Dusk till Dawn - 12 June 2010

46.XY @ BomoBeats, Dusk till Dawn - 12 June 2010

Chris Bailey @ BomoBeats, Dusk till Dawn - 12 June 2010

‘Balloon Girl’ was shot with a JAG35PRO Depth of Field adapter  attached to my HD-Cam and a D-SLR +70-300mm lens for the stop motion sections. Leave your comments and any ideas you might have about what the next Stop Motion feature will be in the comments section below.

Directed & Shot by James Williams
Balloon Girl: Amy Ginty
Music: John Foxx – Smokescreen from Tiny Colour Movies
Location: Bournemouth, UK

Kit: Panasonic HDC-SD100, JAG35PRO DOF Adapater, NIKON D50 DSLR, 70-300mm.

Stills:

iBar played host to another quality Audio Kink night, fuelled by the best  in Dirty Electro & Fidget. Resident DJ’s Harlow & Meow didn’t fail to keep the venue on its toes, smashing out some serious grimey electro bizniz until dawn break!

This Months Special guest was none other than Record label, BomoBeats owner, Fire Radio 107.6FM & Slinky.FM legend Luke Dubyah. Dubyah’s renowned for keeping punters throwing shapes till the wee hours and this night was no exception. Check out the full gallery for more flicks.

Links

Luke Dubyah’s Fan Page

Harlow’s Fan Page on Facebook

Meow’s Group Page on Facebook

Full Event Photo Gallery

Any how – do you ever get an idea that makes you think “That might just work?” and feel the urge to try it there and then? On the walk home from work I was thinking about shooting with DOF adapters and the many frustrating little issues with doing so – like the Horizontal and Vertical flip expected though the optics, the tricky cumbersome payload without propper rail/rod support system’s, the lack of Auto Focus (although not a big problem for many, as this allows for much greater creative control) and issues with vibrating /rotating focusing screens. Shooting with DOF adapters is not the answer to achieving ‘great looking cinematic shots’ but what it does do is open up plenty of creative possibilities.

With this in mind i was deterred from going out and shooting with my Camera and DOF adapter, with the very limited time i had before i ran out of light i needed to shoot what i had in mind in super time. I would also require to have full and speedy control over aperture, ISO and shutter speed. Of course, my film camera has these controllable options but not quite like a DSLR.

This lead me to the possibility of stop motion, it would allow shallow DOF (the kind of stylisation I had in mind) and I would be able to set up quickly and shoot instantly. The main issues being 1.My D50 is limited to shooting at about 4 frames per second in JPEG mode, this is a country mile away from the standardised 25 fps usually used in film and 2. Camera motion is exaggerated when using the 70-300mm lens. You’ll notice (2) in the first jerky shot of the glass of Orange juice.

This is a first attempt at stop motion in an outside environment. This summer i’ll be making 4 stop motion shorts. This being the first, which is purely for experience and experimenting.

Check out the video below, dont forget to watch it in HD!

Camera/Editing: James Williams

Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto – Playing the Piano

Full Gallery: http://photos.manychefsbroth.co.uk/#9

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Lee Nazari

Photography: James Williams – Contact@ManyChefsBroth.co.uk

Facebook Fan Pages:

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Harlow - http://www.facebook.com/harlowuk

Lee Nazari – http://www.facebook.com/lee.nazari

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Full Gallery: http://photos.manychefsbroth.co.uk/#9

Photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robotdog/sets/72157623977911468/

Naturally if you have played any of the MGS games (MGS on the PSX notably for this garment) and love them as much as we do you will find it pretty damn hard not to fall in love with this awesome long jacket worn famously by Liquid Snake

As soon as the garment arrived we set on down to Lulworth, Dorset to take some sick photos of Tim in the jacket. Pleased with the shoot Tim added the photos to AbbyShot’s facebook group. Not long after that AbbyShot checked the photos out and emailed Tim and Myself in order to use the photos for their site, of course we were happy to oblige.

The images on AbbyShot.com

Photographer – James Williams

Model – Timothy Ward

Links:

Full Photo shoot: http://photos.manychefsbroth.co.uk/#8

Abby Shot Clothiers Website/Shop: http://www.abbyshot.com/

About Metal Gear Solid on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid