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Being one of our media sponsors, Channel 9 offered Willoughby Council air time to show an add for the Spring Festival.
I was given a few days to come up with the concept while the PR dept. wrote the script.

Here it is:

I’m pretty happy with it, considering I had to use old footage from previous years, some of which I didn’t shoot and was on lower quality HD cameras. And the fact that my laptop is getting pretty old now, I think it’s got arthritis or something!

Audio track was from http://www.abesaudio.com/ based in Victoria.

Hope to see it play on Channel 9 in the next week. Simple CSA.

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.