Cauliflower Video Stills
Aug/100
Last week Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip put up some stills on their site from the Cauliflower video I directed, you can find them here.
These are stills I pulled from the 4K RED footage and colour corrected myself as if they were photos, inspired by Greg Williams who recently has been conducting his photoshoots with a RED camera, creating videos and making his stills photography from the RED footage. The RED shoots at a 4K resolution (off the top of my head I think it’s around 12 megapixels or something) and with the quality of lenses a frame taken out of RED video footage is as good as any image taken on a DSLR.
Here’s two frames from the video I created as still photos:
It’s worth noting that neither of these stills actually feature in the final edit of the video.
Leni Ward – Opening Doors
Jul/100
The new music video I directed for Leni Ward went live today:
Shot over two days in a garage and part of Sherwood Forest (huge thanks to Don at The Paintball Jungle).
Please check out the videos youtube page for full credits.
Contemplation
Jun/100
I’ve been sitting on a whole bunch of new portraits photographs featuring Lillybet I’ve been too busy to edit. I’m finally getting round to them and I’m really enjoying trying some new correction techniques in Photoshop.
I’ve been thinking a lot about photography and colour correction/manipulation trying to reason why I would edit something the way I do, rather than simply editing it to try new ideas out or because something looks cool and yes I’m still experimenting a lot especially with portraiture, but as with my film work I’d like there to be some overriding idea behind everything I do. Some of my work has to do with memory or capturing a particular feeling that evokes a memory (be it of mine or of the viewers) but I also like my films and images to be self contained, I want to take the audience into another world where the story or image has its own set of rules, look and feeling. That’s ideally what I want to achieve, that and a compelling story, characters and images. It doesn’t always work out like that but hey, I’m still developing here.
When I showed this to Lillybet she said it looked like she was in a dream and I’ve always favored the notion that watching a film should be like entering a dream world/state, which is why seeing a film in the cinema in a dark room, in silence, is such an important experience. In my opinion anyway. But my opinion happens to be right.
Music Videos
Jun/100
More recently enjoyed videos:
Feeding Fingers – “Fireflies Make Us Sick” – Dir: Steven Lapcevic
Delphic – This Momentary – Dir: Dave Ma
Filthy Dukes – This Rhythm
New Showreel
Jun/100
I updated my showreel on my site today, it now features clips from recently completed work.
Here it is:
James Sharpe – Showreel 2010 (Updated) from James Sharpe on Vimeo.
Long Portrait of a Girl re-graded!
Jun/100
Long Portrait of a Girl (re-graded!) from James Sharpe on Vimeo.
New colour correction/grade on a little video I made a while ago.
Colour Grading Yesterday
May/100
Sitting alone in an edit suite all day can drive you to take photos of the screen that make little sense without context.
This weeks editing was sponsored by miso soup – as I has some everyday.
Leni Ward in the Forest
May/100
Taken today while location scouting for a music video I’m directing for Leni Ward, shooting this Friday and Saturday.
The land is owned by the very generous Don at Paintball Jungle in Sherwood Forest, check out the site www.paintball-jungle.co.uk.
I highly recommend paintballing.
