Dodo Lantern referbishemnt 2010

Hello one and all! One event I help out with and participate in is the annual Lantern Festival every September at Ulverston, Cumbria. Here the video I shot last year with an ordinary point and shoot camera.



A quick note on the construction of these lanterns, they are produced by the cutting and taping willow withies into different shapes, then tissue paper is added with diluted PVA glue (half and half mix of PVA glue and water) Illumination comes from a candle installed in the main body of the Lantern (LED light is used in lanterns where narrow spaces where a candle would result in buning the lantern) Each year there are different theme for people to build lanterns (In 2009 it was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, This year was Circus of Dreams)

Last year I produced the Dodo featured in this video. I had originally wanted to have it with wings extended and looking back the top of the head wasn't very well illuminated by the candle installed in the belly of the lantern.

For this year I wanted to create the wings I originally planned for and add LED lighing into the Dodo for non-candle based illumination (much safer for indoor display)

Here we see the Dodo's wings half completed.


Side view.


Front right view. To be able to work a little easier I tempoarally added a side stand on the rear right of the lantern so I wouldn't have to keep propping the Dodo against tables and chairs.


Scale view, The Dodo is on a table but this gives you an idea of the size of my lantern.


Video of the referbishment of the Dodo, partly completed.

After a few more hours of manipulating the withies, liberal use of masking tape, instalation of LEDs and gluing up of tissue paper results in the final lantern!


Front three quarter view.


Side view


Rear view, I'm quite happy with the details on the wing tips for the feathers.


Close up of the head of the Dodo.


Front view to the left of the Dodo.


A video of the complete lantern. This shows there some of the LEDs are inside the Dodo.

I hope you have enjoyed this showcase, if you are in the North West of England it's something I would reccomend for anyone the participate in for next year!

And now for me acting like an idiot! Enjoy!



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A world of collaboration - my adventures

Sorry that My past posts have been rather sparse in their content. I'm hoping to become more proactive in blogging as allot is happening this year so I will be posting more than once a month LOL

Anyways, on with the post. Just as a side note, the end of 2008 was just crazy, from October onwards I have been all over the place not to mention the IWM student film festival fun. So in the past three months I have made plans for three feature length productions (writing, designing and acting as producer) The ball is going to start rolling come February on all three at the same time and I'm ready! But these three productions all stand on their own in their complexity and message.

With a residential Guerilla Film-making course up at Ambleside at the end of October has yield new collaborations with young people in the North West of England (they are like rooster teeth up here!) no longer can I sit on my ass thinking up cool ideas, I have to keep up now which is really great!

My own personal film project hasn't launched as I have a lack of confidence, yes... It's true. I have had to many ideas to try and keep up in the air is near impossible but with new collaboration comes a renewed desire to visit old notes, scribbles, scripts and even old tests from college. All these ideas for little things and being boiled and reduced down into a thick soup of greatness, pure flavor! no filler! don't think thats how it goes, who cares IT SOUNDS GOOD AS I TYPE xD



So 2009 is shaping up to be a good looking year with equal parts success and failures (I'm a pessimist when no one is looking)

Keep watching!

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A thousand Directions at once

Funny how things happen in my life, for months nothing interesting happens then I'm doing 50 jobs at once...

Ok, so I'm exaggerating a bit, but this month is going to be crazy. First of all I've been helping out on a Gurilla film-making course last month and this which has been a bit of a thrown in the deep end affair and a steep learning curve on education and motivation of other people *I'm just used to talking to myself xS* but it's been fun!

Next, I edited a video for the Imperial War Museum's Student Film Festival, which I got though! so on Tuesday the 18th I will be in London so that should be fun.

Plus I've my own projects that I'm working on so I want to keep those in the air. I've filmed a music video on Wednesday and now I'm editing that (looks good!) and I've two ideas floating in my brain with provisional outlines on paper. So I want to get those down quickly as the beginning of 09 I will be getting some work with a production company near where I am so that is going to be awesome!!!

I have also started the nasty habit if going though podcasts that have been in my iTunes for the past three years (once they were invented) so that is fun and distracting...

So yeah, the year two thousand and nine is really going to be MAD and fun!!!

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This mind

For 2 years now, I've been in limbo. Between the past and a new beginning, but always I have been lacking in one thing, the reason to carry on.

Many people will tell you that there are only a few stories in the world, these people are not story tellers. What makes us want to listen to stories again and again are those stories that are rooted in ourselves.

So I need to find that that is linking all of us. And the only way I can do that is to live life, and you can't get that siting at a desk you aren't going to get that.



Like a beach after a storm, the beach has been scoured smooth. So soon my ideas will be no longer disjointed and rough but a solid story. I hope is do this well...

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Writing...

So after allot of procrastinating and coffee making, I'm ready to get back into the world of film making!!! in other words... dirnking more coffee and sitting in front of my laptop *not watching the interweb* regurgitating my ideas into Word.

SOOooooooOOOoooOoOooooooo yeah...

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Nun's Story

An animated short, done in under 24 hours (from sound recording to final edit)

This animation was commissioned by the maker of We are the Strange Mike Belmont, who challenged me to make a short film featuring a monster and a nun in a neckbrace...

I'm planning to make more shorts in this sort of animation in the next few weeks, as well as planning my first feature length live action film.

Enjoy!

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Riot Police - Drawing

This could be one of my better photoshop works. Originally the picture was for a a short movie to be made over the next few weeks, the idea behind this drawing was to difficult to pull of in real life.

Originally drawn on a note card, this picture has got me going now and back to enjoying film making. And thats is dreaming...

Enjoy!

P.S. if you would like more drawings (whether for you're own blog or comic) then drop me an e-mail, or leave a comment...

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We Are The Strange-Trailer

From film-maker M dot Strange, come his first movie in Str8nime!!! The first first foreign film, from the country of M dot's mind. With it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, We are the Strange has a massive following on YouTube with over a million views of his videos.

Awe inspiring in it's visuals, and featuring Noise Inc. This shows anyone who wants to make films, that they can do it!

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Graffiti Name

Of to be an extra tomorrow, Did this name thing for a short film festival thing.

Enjoy the graffitiness...

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Jumping the Panda

A test of nerve and skill, to jump over such a rare creature. Will we achieve such a feat? keep watching...

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Apple Logo

Late on Sunday night, I start playing about with Photoshop and the apple logo. I had a play with lighting, chrome and various other things, which resulted in this nice picture.

P.S. I've done a video with this picture but I'm going to have to put this up in a few days as on YouTube, I'm about to upload my 100th video, and I want to make it a special video for my 100th, so yeah. This will be my 101st video, and it will be up in a few days...

::Edit::

Here's the video.



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New sound Equipment

On all of my previous, I was always hampered by poor sound quality (even with a Sennheiser microphone, I couldn't get the best sound always) But a few days ago, I received a new set of sound recording equipment, starting with a Rode Microphone, Boom Pole and Marantz PMD660 (from here)

Here's a video test with the new sound equipment as well as my good 'ol Sony HDR-FX1e high def camcorder.



Hoping to get to do some short films over the summer. I you want to get involved the drop me an e-mail @ thepeteradams(at)hotmail(dot)co(dot)uk

Enjoy...

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Paranoid Diffusion Overdrive

Video I did while I was sick last week. Was going for a Lynchian, Dream scape type expressionism of my inner turmoil, plus I wanted to have fun with stop motion...

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*BIG NEWS*

I going to be moving my video's from google video to YouTube, as I will be getting a greater audience and they look better. So over the next few days, I there are any missing videos, Don't worry as they will be up and running again very soon...

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Un-Named Short & Contest

The latest short film I'm working on, but. I can't come up with a good name. If you come up with a name, then you will get a credit in the final Short film...

Leave a comment or e-mail me direct...

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Fireworks Re-post

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Me having fun with Photo Booth

Some pictures taken with Apple's Photo Booth application. Some pictures taken while in Spain...

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Me and my iMac

I love my new iMac, but I don't think the feeling is mutual...
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Kalimba Hats

Adam & Vik...

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Borad in Spain (animation)

One of my favorite videos I made while in Spain. Enjoy...

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My Spainish Animations

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