We’ve recently designed Trestle Arts Base’s new brochure for the the first half of 2012:
Have a flick through – they’ve got some really interesting stuff coming up!
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We’ve recently designed Trestle Arts Base’s new brochure for the the first half of 2012:
I recently met Shaun Clark and Kim Noce of Mew Lab – they create some really lovely animation, with a beautifully quirky and handcrafted feel to it – right up our street! We hope to work with them in the near future, though in what form as yet remains to be seen. Here is their showreel:
Showreel 2011 from Mew Lab on Vimeo.
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This is the finished promotional film we did for Trestle Unmasked/Blindeye Theatre’s production The Man With The Luggage. We’ve received some really great feedback from this.
The Man with the Luggage – Promotional Trailer from Trestle Theatre on Vimeo.
We’ve just received some exciting news regarding this promo – however as nothing is finalised yet we can’t say what, so as ever, watch this space!
The Trestle Unmasked/Blindeye Theatre Production The Man With The Luggage toured from September to December and VIDEOfeet are very proud to have been a part of it!
As well as producing the promotional film for the production we also created the sound design for the play. From collaging the original music composed by Ben Glasstone to create haunting dreamscapes to creating the sound of trees creaking in the wind but – crucially – with no sound of the wind in the leaves (extrapolating from a sample of a creaking door), it also presented the exciting opportunity for me (along with Olly, the director and leading man Nick) to visit Oscar™ winner Jim Broadbent, no less, in his North London home to record a monologue for the play! Needless to say Mr Broadbent was as charming and welcoming to his home as you could possibly hope, offering us hot drinks (gratefully declined, natch) and a large chunk of his time with not even the slightest hint of any imposition.
Last year we made a website for Tora Young, a fantastic London based Make-up artist.
She wanted a site that is simple, clean and elegant to give prominence to her portfolio with as little distraction as possible.
We’re really pleased with the overall results.
Click here to check it out.
As with all the sites we have built over the last couple of years we used WordPress – it’s so satisfying to hand over a site to a client giving them full control over the content – empowering them to be their own web administrator and taking control of their marketing at first hand.
We’ve got a couple of other new sites that will be going live over the next couple of months, including a ‘flagship’ site for Trestle Arts Base that is going to be massive, so watch this space!
I saw some tidy ‘Wildstyle’ Graf at the start of the Alban Way while riding in today, so I stopped and took some pics.
Nuff ’spect, etc.
Altered Beast – Moonlight by Disperse Records
I made this a while back and have been meaning to post it somewhere for ages. Finally this seems like the perfect opportunity for some reason.
It’s a dusty RZAish beat banged out in a day for a bit of fun. Reclaimed from an old northern soul tune I heard out in the car, with teh missus, listening to Paul O’Grady on Radio 2. Rock & Roll.
A new post for all of our reader!
Sorry it’s been so long, reader. Nonetheless, I must press on and get down to business.
We’ve finally gotten ourselves in the theatre to start work in earnest on our GFtA-funded project LOOM/THADOWS LOOM. Had a great day last Friday, learnt a lot about what we can do (and probably more importantly, what we CAN’T do…) and generally had a really productive time. And, for that matter, a lot of fun. One of the things that really struck me was how, when we were working in the space, there was no thought given at all to this being work or tiring in any way shape or form, but when we got home…whew…suddenly we all just collapsed as one…
So, without further ado and in no particular order, here are a whole bunch of nice pictures from the day:
It’s Matt and Jim!
Mmm, smoke machine. Mmm projector. One of the things we found is that the projector we bought is fantastic.
How did a stripy shirted shaven ape get in the theatre? And where is it going with that cardboard?
And what the hell is wrong with his feet! Put that down!
Just to point out to our (possibly imaginary) reader – we made all the projection material. It’s all us and none of it is stuff from 2001 that we just using for test purposes.
And the image being projected here is something that Jim got on his visit to the Hubble space telescope. He used the ‘Space telescope to Canon EF mount’ adaptor that he got off Amazon.
Just smoke and lights…
You can’t tell, but in this picture I’m using a wicked bit of freeware called ‘ppooll’ (www.ppooll.klingt.org) to remix Madonna into something completely unrecognisable. I’ll post that up here as soon as I can whop it onto Soundcloud.
We’re past the first stage of applying for an Arts Council Escalator Grant! The idea of getting money to make art seems pretty incredible to us. But it is looking more and more like an actual reality!
Escalator have accepted our proposal so it looks like we’ll get it, but you can’t take anything for granted in the current (economic/political/social) climate. So wish us luck!
Massive thanks to the lovely people of Trestle for putting us forward for this and huge thanks to Kate at The Junction for accepting our initial proposal!
I can’t put in any more exclamation marks to show how great this is. Yes I can! (!!!!!!!)
After a lot of work Matt has finally finished the poster for Trestle Unmasked and Increpacion Danza’s theatre production of ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’. We’re really pleased with it and we think they are too.
Initial inspiration for the feel of the poster came from the work of the artist Mark Ryden (www.markryden.com) – the difficulty lay mainly in doing something with a similar feel, but within our own style and not derivative of his work. It took time to get there but we definitely feel we have achieved this goal.
Here are some of the production images from the poster design. This one is Matt’s compositional sketch for the poster:
This is the original pencil drawing of the central figure in the poster:
This is the original sketch that Matt did of the ‘ugly boy’ in the play. This was not used in the final poster but a variation on this has been used for the flipside of the flyer.
The next step on our work for ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’ is a series of promo films for the show. At the moment we’re working on a short (20 second) teaser promo, the next step will be some interviews with the director, Emily Gray, and this will be followed by a full promo before the tour commences in March.