Author Archive for Matt

The Man with the Luggage

During the last while we have been designing and producing the poster and short animated promo for Trestle Unmasked’s upcoming production The Man with the Luggage.

Matt sorted the poster out and we all got together on the animated promo working on sound design, animation etc. in collaboration with The Man with the Luggage Director Oliver Jones of Blindeye Theatre.

We really like the initial bits we’ve created and are pleased to say that we will be working to produce the sound design for parts of the show itself.

anyhoo here’s the poster followed by a few process bits and then the animated short

Enjoy…

The poster itself.

Some circles.

Older version. Much darker and not in tune with the show really…

Our good friend Jack who stood in as ‘the man’. He wasn’t to happy about how many times we made him spin (it was quite early).

Another older test

Another-nother test…

Hand-made (digitally) ticket.

And finally – the new animated short promo.

The Man with the Luggage Animated Promo

How Long?!

Well, well reader, it has been so long… so very long and so much has happened.

Oh (possibly imaginary) reader, let me tell you…

As we said to all one of you in our last post, we have started work on our Arts Council/GFTA funded R&D project LOOM/THADOWS LOOM. We had a cracking time in that first session, where we basically played with fog, projectors, sound and lights all day in the wonderful Trestle theatre space.

We were like ugly sugar filled children playing with prohibited toys – it was great, and we learnt a lot (especially that none of us a particularly great with heights; which is fun when you have to climb the scope to change bits and pieces on the lighting rig).

As far as that session went we were only really looking at some technical issues and didn’t really delve into the concept of the piece.

Enter our wonderful lone performer Georgina Roberts and mentor Emily Gray.

With them we had a fantastic few days exploring narrative, characterisation and the tentative script/ story board we had produced. We even warmed up with them using Polish vocal resonance techniques, which, to a bunch tech-heads and firmly ‘desk’ based artists was.. frankly.. hilarious – but well worth it.

Anyway, I won’t say to much more – you will have to wait and see when we next post… which will literally be in about 30 minutes as I’m catching up. But that doesn’t bother you does it – certainly-possible reader.

Here’s a couple of very poor images from the workshops

Al & Jim warm up with Emily – note the wonderful balance of the VIDEOfeet team.

The wonderful Georgie warming – looking slightly more composed than Al and Jim, I have to say…

JIm acting as audience – what is he thinking?

Al recording Georgie… hopefully for some reason.

Speak soon reader… much sooner

We’ve moved!

Well well – here’s the ultimately interesting post telling you that we have moved! Yes, welcome to our new office at Trestle Arts Base – complete with lady lamp and a coffee table.
MARVEL! at the baldness of Jim! GASP! at Al’s cold, dead html eyes! and WET YOURSELF! in Bob’s general direction! YES.

For more info on what is on at Trestle Arts Base check out trestle.org.uk

Trestle Unmasked

We were asked to Rebrand Trestle Unmasked recently and this is what we came up with. It’s a combination of 2 designs one by Matt and one by Al melded together, and seems to work really well. Part of the brief was to try and embody the feel of trestle in the logo and I think, in the end, we got there…


Anyway – hope you like it

New (Old) Lamfrag Films

Finally we’ve put these old Lamfrag films up online in preparation for the new Lamfrag website. If you like dark, surreal, humour & elaborate sound design then you’ll like these. Anyway here’s Box a film that was finished back in 2008 and showed in a few festivals including The Cambridge Film Festival & London Short Film Festival.

More Lamfrag films on our Vimeo Page.

“The Polig” – Illustrations

Here are some of the illustrations I’m working on for Lamfrag’s next Short “The Polig”. They won’t be in the actual film but will be the key feature in the poster and DVD design. Hope you like them – more details coming soon…

Noise Basement (& Laundry) Grinds into Action

Well, well… it’s taken a while but we’ve blocked out the light, closed the doors & ventured down into the depths of our noise making basement (and laundry), and finally finished it.  Actually that’s a lie; we’ve still got a few things to plug in and will consume at least 12 cups of tea before its all functional (and frankly, the 3 legged monstrosity we’ve made out of random bits of wood we’re calling a table isn’t up to much – although its good to put my old autoharp on). It’s also a chance to give our recently acquired Novation A-station synth a whirl… looks like an interesting piece of kit – although it doesn’t have the lovelyness of a true analogue synth, it sure as hell has the potential to make some left field sounds. I’m interested in using it’s input capabilities to feed some rotten samples in from an Akai X7000 – true 80’s mess.  Hopefully we’ll have some stuff to show you soon.  Also looking forward to listening to the new Autechre Album “Oversteps” on vinyl down there – which you must buy.