Coming very soon...

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Coldplay stole my idea!

Funny how my last post was about copyright and fair use



Quite a lot of correlation, right?

I'm going to blow off some steam for a bit, then I might bost something new and exciting.

-Matt


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Fair Use

It's been quite some time, and there are some more substantial updates coming up soon but I thought that this was quite appropriate to put up, especially considering recent developments concerning the censorship of the internet.

Protect IP will obviously cause a lot of trouble for people who use fair use to make content.

More stuff coming very soon.


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Motion Tracking

My, it's been quite some time!

I've been incredibly busy, but there should be some cool stuff up here soon.

Speaking of cool, I learned the basic principles of motion tracking today. Loads of fun, and might be pretty useful in future film making. However, at the moment I am stuck using the captured data in aftereffects, and if I want to make the lighting more realistic I need to take it into a 3D animation suite. I guess it's not totally neccessary, but it's something I'd like to be able to do.

Hopefully some more Hearse Pileup news too.


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Nice infographic depicting yet another way our right to free speech is being diluted

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New Hearse Pileup gig

HEARSE PILEUP PLAY THE MACBETH 16/11/11:

Hearse Pileup are Playing the Macbeth in Shoreditch , it's a great venue - come down and support us!

There will be more stuff on here soon - I've been super crazy busy recently. Stupidly so actually - I hardly get to sleep these days.

VERY exciting project coming up - a short documentary, looking forward to it.

Please come down to the gig if you can make it, we really need some people behind us!

Teaser for Upcoming Video of Alma Upholstering Cleo B's Retro Fiat 500

Recently The company I work for (Spritz Creative) put two of their previous clients in contact with each other, namely upcoming fashion footware designer Cleo B and leather experts Alma, as Cleo wanted to refurbish the interior of her Fiat 500 with leather. They have also decided to shoot a short promotional video for Alma documenting the job, which I will be shooting.

To do this we have acquired the following equipment:

A Canon 5D
A zoom lens (Borrowed from Vixx)
A remote shutter release(Also Borrowed)
A £20 home made shoulder mount (courtesy of instructables)
A tripod
A memory Card

The shoulder mount works surprisingly well for a bunch of PVC pipe, and has now been clad in leather courtesy of Alma - making it the most expensive looking £20 shoulder rig I've ever seen.

I also uploaded the most recent build of the Magic Lantern firmware to help make the DSLR work more suitably as a film camera. I highly recommend you check it out if you shoot dslr video and use a compatible camera.

Shooting time lapse for the first time has been incredibly fun! I'm very excited about the final edit.

Call back soon for the final product, the leather for Cleo's car was ordered today!

The music for the video is John Beltran's remix of 'Minor Swing' by Django Reindhart

In other news, the EP is almost mastered now, and I will also soon be shooting a short documentary about the studio we recorded at (Dropout Studios, Camberwell). And we're gonna be recording a new song!


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