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.
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.
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.
Half awake in a fake empire
Apr/100
Fake Empire – The National from Scott Cudmore on Vimeo.
This song is hauntingly beautiful and this video is a perfect visual compliment. I’ve been listening a lot to The National’s Boxer album a lot lately and I get such a variation of visuals and emotions from it, I find the album is a lot like a dark industrial dream world, a city of black skyscrapers viewed from the clouds as you fall in slow motion through a haze, pure white sunlight piercing through the dark clouds as you reach for a lovers hand to walk through the city.
Interesting Music Videos
Mar/100
I’ve been watching lots and lots of music videos lately mainly for research, I’d thought it would be interesting to start posting them up here for fun and for my own reference.
Here’s two I came across today:
Director: James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs
This is just genius. I love the amount of work that’s gone into this and the absolute chaos and seer barrage of stuff that’s flying about everywhere.
Director: Megaforce
Even though I can clearly see how the effects in this video have been done it’s still and really impressive and original video – I’d love to see all the planning, working out and tests done in preparation for the shooting.
David Gibb – The Oxfordshire Brigade
Oct/090
The new music video I directed for David Gibb is now up and available – Here’s the press release Dave sent to me earlier today:
‘Shot In The Dark’ For David Gibb’s Latest Music Video
The new music video for David Gibb’s latest single ‘The Oxfordshire Brigade is now available to watch.
Directed by James Sharpe (www.jamessharpe.co.uk) the video was shot on a field in the dark in roughly three hours after summoning a team of David Gibb fans – giving them the strict instructions to turn up with their very own torch, warm yet brightly coloured clothing and a sandwich (in case they got hungry).
The song is the touching and strangely magical tale of a boy and angel who fall in love and the time they spend together living in a small flat in Oxfordshire.
Playing a mix of pop, folk and soul, David Gibb has already received airplay on BBC Radio’s 1, 2 and 6, performed a live collaborative session for BBC Radio 1′s Huw Stephens with award winning hip hop producer Baby J, and supported the likes of Frank Turner, Sam Isaac and Jeremy Warmsley.
New Video: David Gibb – The English Retreat
Mar/090
David Gibb – The English Retreat from James Sharpe on Vimeo.
Mel Gibson’s Trailer
Oct/070
I uploaded this video to youchoob about a week ago. It’s the non-trailer I whacked together very quickly for Five Lamps Films, for the Mel Gibson’s music video.
It’s a non-trailer because there’s no real point in making trailers for short films/music videos, and because it features less than 2 seconds of actual footage from the video, and only a wee clip of the actual song. I thought it would be fun to make a trailer that had no real relation to the video, and it was fun.