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On Sunday 18th July 2010, I was at the Brighton Saddleworld Dressage NSW Young Rider Championships 2010.

There, I filmed some young riders in the Preliminary Horse 1C and 1D at Arena 1A and 1B, Sponsored by the McCarroll Group.

Below is a shortened sample of what I filmed.

On the day, I managed to film the following riders and their horse:

Preliminary Horse 1C

Preliminary Horse 1D

If you would like to purchase a DVD of your test, please email me at bernardlau@silverkottage.com.au or call me on 0413 593 838.

A DVD is $35.00 plus postage and handling (around $3 in NSW).
A digital copy of your test is also available at the same price.

I haven’t placed up original content in a long time, so here is one. It’s also my first ever timelapse film.

During May and June, Sydney takes Paris’ title of City of Lights. This is the Vivid Festival, a festival of lights, sound and art.

The light installation are projected onto iconic buildings on Macquarie St and then the Sydney Opera House.

Something I’ve learnt when doing this timelapse is that:

1. Timelapse takes long… if you invite friends along, make sure they have something to do, or else they’ll nag you to leave.
2. Shooting at night is hard to focus, even when you digital zoom.
3. Bring extra clothes and an mp3 or video player, it’s gonna be a looooong night.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my timelapse of Vivid Sydney. I might ad some additional shots of sundown as you could see, the first shot was really quick… I only got to the location at 4pm and the Sun was going down already…

More timelapses to come!

Another fan film has emerged on the internet and it’s also a reimagining of a fighting game that’s already been made.

This time, it’s Mortal Kombat. But unlike the Street Fighter fan films that I posted a few weeks ago, this is not a fight demo, but more of a prologue to a feature film.

Directed by Kevin Tancharoen and written by Oren Uziel, the rumour is that these two have approached Warner Bros with this short as a pitch for a reboot of the film that Paul W Anderson made int he 90s.

Check it out, starring Michael Jai White (played Spawn and also the guy that wanted The Joker dead or alive in TDK):

As you can see, the film has a more real world setting with references to Mortal Kombat characters. The style actually reminds me of Max Payne. And I’m guessing the reason for this is the influence of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films.

But don’t dispair, as Tancharoen has been quoted as saying his vision of Mortal Kombat will still have super natural elements, fatalities, and a universe where multiple worlds exist, similar to Harry Potter.

Will we see this film in 2013 as IMDB suggests? Only time will tell. But I’m sure hoping it does!

Outer World Ninja fued duking it out in the Mortal World? SWEEET!

It seems that whenever Patrick Boivin puts up a new vid on youtube, it’s going to be something sweet.

I think the first time I stumbled upon his youtube channel was when he had the Street Fighter game, which I blogged about a long while ago.

Over time, he’s come up with other cool stop motion clips, Iron Man vs Bruce Lee is a hit, but I thought Bumblebee vs General Lee was cooler.

Well, here is his latest creation and this time, it’s in CGI!

Iron Baby, pretty cool eh?!

Time and effort pays off and I reckon Patrick will go pretty far with his dedication and skill.

Yesterday, I would say was one of the smoothest Weddings I have filmed. It is a great testament to how well organised the bride and groom, Thao and John, planned their day. We were running a bit late in the morning, but as the day went by, things started to catch up and even in the reception, things were running ahead of schedule

There were many romantic and funny moments of the day and there were so many children around, it was cuteness overload. But words can only do so much, so here is Thao and John’s big day, a Same Day Edit shown on their night… again, I would say Santo is one crazy editor, putting footage in the edit that was only shot 30mins prior to being shown!

Did you like that?

Well, that’s not the only Wedding this month. Earlier in May, we shot Lillian and Andy’s Wedding. The ceremony was at the visually spectacular, McMahon’s Point and the reception was at the Shang Ri La. Again, we showed our footage at the reception to a crowd of over 30 tables! Enjoy.

Hhhmmm, seems like Same Day Edits are very popular! And it’s all because of excellent teamwork and an editor that can create an emotional story with the footage he is given. A lot of people can edit, but not many people can edit with meaning into it. I’m starting to not like the term Same Day Edit, or SDE… I think we have to find a nicer name for it so people won’t have to ask us to explain what it is, even though it’s obvious. Maybe something along the lines of “Instant recap” would be better?