http://damienpierce.blogsome.com Master of media production Blog Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:12:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month I decided to create a new blog (fresh air, fresh content). http://rollcamera.blogsome.com Why? It’s as much about going through the process of creating a blog again as it is about a change in how I percieve the dynamics of what blogs should be about. An ancilliary benefit ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/10/17/new-blog-location/ With day three shooting completed, the crew hit the bar for drinks. The Northcote Social Club intimates Wenders(Buena Vista), feels like all the bars of Fitzroy rolled into one, and has barman that offer insight and opinion into overheard conversation as naturally as if it were their living room. Which ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/09/19/old-man-time-day-three/ … http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/09/19/old-man-time-day-two/ Day One, Scene One. The team is an unknown force: the only thing to do is get on top of the schedule and push through. From the beginning, this was a tough location to shoot. No budget had existed for art direction or set dressing and audiences have seen so ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/09/19/old-man-time-day-one/ what Ive learnt in the course so far: where I’m going from here, both in course and beyond …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… well being its a turn of phrase that is off the curriculum, particularly at end of semester as the overload peaks and the synapses reach critical mass. The entry above the dotted lines here ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/06/17/prologue-for-media-contexts/ The Lev Manovich softCinema model is database dependant. That is, it relies on constructing the narrative from a series of clips(maybe thousands of clips) stored on a server hard disc drive. The obvious downside of this is the cost of bandwidth for both the producer and the audience. Should ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/06/17/soft-cinema-in-context-7/ http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/06/16/31/ I’ll link a series of audio bites this in as soon as I can figure how the hell I can upload it the server. Servers! seems like a poorly chosen word to me… Still, I know in theory it should work from remote sites, so, given my obstinate determination ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/06/16/audio-clip-from-kate-woods-asda-concference/ Australian Screen Directors Association mini-conference, June 11, Storey Hall, RMIT. This was packaged as The Essential Workshop for Directors and this conference delivered beyond its brief. Shoni has a post that covers the conference content in detail, so I think I’ll focus on the aspects that had most impact on me. Nina Landis, ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/06/16/asda-capturing-performance/ H.264 is a codec that improves the viability of video on the web, and has immediate application advantages for broadcast, cable, and videoconferencing. It’s also known as MPEG 4 path 10. The implication for new media content is obvious- suddenly our productions have a more affordable distribution and marketing capability. http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/05/more_h264_demon.html this site ... http://damienpierce.blogsome.com/2005/06/15/ultra-compression-for-video%e2%80%a6-a-new-codec-from-apple/