The science of the goal, program of TV to celebrate world-wide of soccer Sundays, from the 16 of May to the 6 of June. Discovery Channel celebrates the arrival of one of the waited for sport spectacles with the presentation of four programs dedicated to soccer.

The original production the Science of the Goal will show, on the 16 of May, through graphical animation and interviews, some of the innovations that science and the technology have contributed to this sport, contributing to the improvement of the performance of the players in field and to the bearing of a goal. Sunday, 23 of May, another local production, titled the Generals of Soccer will be presented.

Soccer is the most popular sport of the world, but it is also a business that as much moves trillions of dollars, inverted in training and preparation of future stars, like in scientific researches and technological. In one hour of duration, this program shows some of the technological innovations that play an outstanding role in the evolution of this sport. From the design of new boots that allow the players to run more express and to shoot with more precision and forces, to the modifications undergone by the prescribed balls to make the life of the forwards much more difficult.
The program also shows the new technology that is had been developing in England to improve not only the performance of the players, but also the technical aspect of the game, ensure communications between the trainers and the sportsmen.
The production interviews to stars like the Brazilian player Roberto Carlos, to Latin American technicians and sport commentators and sport and biomechanic medicine specialists, besides to use computerized images and animation in 3D, to show some of the most outstanding plays of the history of soccer and to illustrate the laws of the physics that hide behind these.

Given that this camera has now been superceeded by the HV40 we where curious as to what these new campact HDV 1080i cameras can achieve in low light situations. So we decided to try out the camera under the 2009 Xmas lights on the crossing at Regent and Oxford Street.

We were  also keen to be amongst the first music videos to feature the new redesigned Oxford Street crossing based on crossings used in Tokyo - see BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7997569.stm

Picture Source: New Civil Engineer

The big challenge was to shoot the sequence for the opening verse during a 30 second pause in the traffic emerging from four directions when the lights are phased to allow people to walk safely across the junction diagonally.

You can view the video in a new window by clicking on the thumbnail image above.

Here are some production details:

Camera: Canon HV30 with Wide Angle Converter WD-H43 0.7x

Format: HDV 25P and Edited on FCP 6

Grip: Velbon CX540 Tripod (acting as counter balance for tracking shoots)

Audio Feed: Ipod & Sennheiser ew100 Radio Mic Transmitter

Artist: Marc Ambiance featuring Artist: Angie A

Song Title: Dreaming of You

Record Label: Technophobia/ Producer: L & C Anderson

Crew: Camera/DP: Richard Muhammad, Playback/Sound: Clayton Anderson, Pre-Production: Derrion Adams and Lloyd Rainford, Runner, Shadid Omar and our driver Steve.

For more details about this video contact Vevene on 0203 093 7328 or email office@rvsrealtime.co.uk

Cinematographer Style Volume 2

Recent pics from a shoot with the Red Camera supplied by Blue Tuna.

L: Simon Phillips gives direction to Dominic Burns in the short film “Ten Year Itch” R: Richard Muhammad - waiting for Red to reboot!! B: Red on the floor with unique Handle Grips created from using two Magic Arms! somehow hire company did not get instructions we were going to shoot some scenes handheld.

Kit List:

Red Camera Kit & standard accessories

7” LCD Monitor & EVF

Ronford EVF Mount

6 x Red Brick Batteries and 2 x Chargers

3 x 16GB CF Media

4 x 8GB CF Media

2 x 320GB Red Raid Drive

Ronford Handheld Kit ( 2 x Magic Arms!!! - see pics above)

Set of  Zeiss Super Speeds T1.3 (18, 25, 35, 50 & 85mm)

Zeiss 135mm T2.1

Arri FF4 Follow Focus

O’Connor 2060 Head, tall & short legs, hi-hat

Clip-on Matte Box with 80mm lense adapter, inc 1 x PV stage & 1 x 4×4 stage

MB19 Matte Box – 3 Stage (2 x PV stage, 1 x 4×4 stage), BP6 19mm Bridgeplate & 12” Dovetail

Formatt Hot Mirror Filter PV

Full ND Filters 0.3, 0.6, 0.9 PV

ND S/E Grad Filters 0.3, 0.6, 0.9 PV

17” HD LCD Monitor & Stand, inc 12v lead acid battery kit & BNC cables

SR3 Raincover

Magliner / Trolley

Apple Mac Book Pro & DIT Kit

Redbyte Decimator HD-SDI/PAL Downcoverter (this is powered by 12v 4 pin XLR)

12v D-Tap – 4 pin XLR cable

2 x 4×4 Kinoflos inc 3200 & 5600 tubes + spares

Dedo Light 4-head kit, inc dichroic filters

Egripment Focus Flatbed Dolly + Straight Alloy Track

Set of wedges

Richard Muhammad

call 07802 785 277

Created by Publicis, the TV ad will air today on 6th July and feature a train passenger and decorator who are distracted from what is happening around them because they are engrossed in creating finger puppets using their Hula Hoops.

The TV ads will act as the launch pad for the “Golden Hoop Film Awards”, which aims to encourage consumers to take inspiration from the TV ad and produce their own finger puppet films using Hula Hoops.

Source: Marketing Week | Author: Camille Alarcon | Published: 06 July 2009 11:15

Freelance news and current affairs cameramen and women are invited to submit entries for this year’s Rory Peck Awards, the only competition of its kind in the world.

Sponsored by Sony Professional, the event is the main fundraiser for The Rory Peck Trust, which provides practical support to freelance news-gatherers and their families in times of need, and promotes their welfare and safety.

The Rory Peck Awards are a joint effort by the international newsgathering industry and are produced with support from Aljazeera English, AP Television News, BBC News and Current Affairs, Autoscript Ltd, BSkyB, CBC, CNN, Channel 4, Eurovision, GlobeCast, Google, ITN, ITV News, NBC News, Reuters TV, SIS Live and Sky News. The Awards generate wide media coverage. They are named in honour of Rory Peck, a leading freelance cameraman who was killed in cross-fire while covering the October coup outside Moscow’s television centre in 1993.

The awards are:

• The Sony Professional Impact Award
For freelance news footage which raises humanitarian issues and has had an impact internationally or contributed to a change in perception or policy.
• The Rory Peck Award for News
For freelance coverage of on-the-day news, where the focus is on the immediacy of the story
• The Rory Peck Award for Features.
For freelance news features: in-depth pieces which look beyond the immediacy of a new story

The Martin Adler Prize sponsored by Atex
A special prize for a freelancer who has told, or played a vital part in telling a significant news story and the recipient could be a cameraperson or the person upon whom they depend in the field – their fixer, driver or local freelance reporter. It is given at the discretion of the Trustees of The Rory Peck Trust.

Closing date for entries is September 4 2009.

For further information contact: awards@rorypecktrust.org or visit www.rorypecktrust.org

European actress Birgit Ludwig will be playing the lead actress role in the film Absolute by Londonmark Films.

She is a very talented actress and has starred in number of roles including L’Ete Indien by Alain Raoust and Don’t Touch The Axe by Jacques Rivette and many more. To view the trailer and see more details about the film please click on the link below.

http://www.londonmarkfilms.com/

By Carol Younghusband / Wall of Angels

Synopsis:
Alzheimer’s Disease is a degenerative and terminal disease for which there is no known cure – and ALBERT has it.

He’s in the last stages when all human behaviour becomes automatic, and the use of language has been lost altogether.

Occasionally patients receive and return emotional signals long after the loss of verbal language and Albert’s story builds towards one such moment.

His wife Josie is aware that time is running out for him and for them, and as her daily visits progress so her vulnerability, hurt and desperation becomes more apparent.

What she does and says to him appears to have no impact; but as voyeurs into his mind we see that it triggers a merging desperation in his memory.

We understand that Albert is everything to Josie; but what is Josie to Albert?

We finally bear witness to the painful intensity which is their love as their parallel lives merge for just 10 glorious seconds.

Please help us to raise funds for this ‘WALL OF ANGELS’ production by clicking on the link below or the image above.

What makes Ten Glorious Seconds - Short Film different:

Alzheimer’s now afflicts more than 30 million people worldwide, and this beautiful film – Ten Glorious Seconds – will underscore and raise awareness of this deadly disease.

After a film festival run we will be distributing the film free of charge to enormous audiences worldwide over the internet. We see the film, a love story, as something that will generate audiences in millions. Many are uncomfortable discussing Alzheimer’s but more of us want and need to talk about it.

So Ten Glorious Seconds will be distributed for free everywhere - via forums and blogs and every social network we can think of. And we will invite all our supporters to forward the finished film out to audiences who they think will also be interested.

The film is a professional production and our low budget reflects that we and the others giving their time to the project for expenses and facilities houses are doing us generous deals.

We have invited Sir Terry Pratchett one of the UK’s best-selling authors onboard as enabling Executive Producer. In 2007 Terry announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and has been filming a programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC – we are currently awaiting his decision to come onboard with our project too.

In addition, we have a seasoned director onboard - Simon Pitts – who has 11 years experience as a BBC staff producer and director of radio and television; and I am a published and credited scriptwriter. Our crew are all BBC and other experienced broadcast professionals.

Ten Glorious Seconds is a project of passion and professionalism and we believe it to be timely and extremely worthwhile.

Alzheimer’s Society in the UK works tirelessly to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia and we would ask you to take the time to look at their site (see link above) and also at charity foundations in your own countries.

IndieGoGo URL: http://www.indiegogo.com/TenGloriousSeconds

The aim of the internship is to offer training in video production to applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds - a group recognised as being under-represented in media (as provided for under Section 37 of the Race Relations Act 1976).

The one year internship offers a bursary of £12,000 together with formal training in shooting and editing documentary, a dedicated mentor and hands-on experience in all aspects of documentary and current affairs production for broadcast, video for the web production and multimedia on-line projects. This is an internship and we cannot guarantee that this will lead to employment.

While no previous formal training is required, applicants will be selected for short-list interviews based on the following criteria:

Possessing the right to work in the UK, ideally you will have had some basic paid or unpaid work experience in video production and need the financial support to progress in your career. You will have a passion for making current affairs and documentary and be able to show commitment to a career in media.

Please click here to apply using reference number AK308.
http://www.gmgplc.co.uk/ScottTrust/Bursaries/GuardianFilmsinternship/
tabid/368/Default.aspx

For further enquiries please email: scott.trust@guardian.co.uk.

Enter into Comedyfest now before end of June…

Please check link below for more details…

http://www.propellertv.co.uk/NewsArticle.aspx?newsId=83