When you’re setting a film in a specific time & place it’s important to do as much research as you can. While the internet proves a valuable source of reference, nothing quite takes the place of going out into the field!
So with kind permission from the good people of Renaissance Antiques on Capel Street in Dublin, Stephen O’Connor set off armed with a camera to snap away at anything interesting that caught his eye. Here are just some of the snaps which he came back with:
Sorry there have been no ‘23 Degrees…’ posts for a while. Work commitments are crunching precious time once again, but work on the short film has been ongoing in spurts.
Here are some colour studies done by Stephen O’Connor. It’s amazing how colour can change the mood of a shot even though it’s the same object and angle.
Check out these studies of the Professor’s study:
As anyone who follows us on Twitter will know, Brown Bag Films now have a Facebook page! You can visit us at www.facebook.com/brownbagfilms.
We’ve all had a very busy summer here at the studio, so we were treated to a BBQ party at Kobra nightclub as an end-of-summer thank you. We were told that a mystery mode of transport would bring us from Smithfield square to the BBQ. Nobody had a clue what it would be until we found two Viking Splash bus/boats waiting for us in the square!
Brown Bag Films are currently in production on a high profile 3D animation project and are looking for some highly skilled people to become key members of the development process. Do you have what it takes to be Brown Bag’s next top Modeler? Are you a 3D Texture Master? Is Character Rigging your bag?
To find out more about these roles please email and submit your CV and application form to jobs@brownbagfilms.com.
We are accepting applications for the following:
Please note that every completed application form submitted will receive a response via email within 1-2weeks
Today Brown Bag Films celebrated our first Systems Admin Day. It’s a day where we all show our appreciation for all the work our Systems Administrator does throughout the year to ensure all IT related issues are dealt with efficiently and effectively. SysAdmin Day is in its 11th year and what better way to celebrate something, during working hours, than with cake! And what a cake it was, a specially made Sys Admin cake provided by none other than our very own resident Systems Administrator, Louise Nicholls.
Darren, Louise and Aidan,Brown Bag's IT Team
Thanks to the Irish Film Institute & the Polish Embassy in Dublin there will be a 5 day animation workshop for kids next week from July 20-24th. In this free workshop kids will learn about basic animation techniques, using music by the classical composer Fryderyk Chopin (in order to commemorate Chopin Year, 200 years since the birth of the famous composer). For the workshop, participants will be guided by expert animators and will be shown how different animation techniques work. They will also make a short film of their own, with a Chopin soundtrack.
To book a place or for more information, please contact:
Alicia McGivern, Irish Film Institute, tel (01)612 9466 amcgivern@irishfilm.ie
Nikola Sekowska, Polish Embassy in Dublin, tel (01)219 7430 dublin.culture@msz.gov.pl
I possibly did myself no favours by rattling on about surround sound and Toy Story 3 and whatnot in my last post, and that was me giving the simplified version. I admit it, I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to tech and alike.
Anyway, my new best friends at Dolby are back on the road to COOL with this video…don’t believe me, believe in Beardyman himself:
“The piece was produced by Think Espionage and Dolby and is super sick in the face. If you like it, that makes you really cool”
Kinda animation related (and would definitely be nominated for this) so stick your headphones on have a nerd-tastic weekend!
Oh and having been accused of being a geek on Brown Bag’s Twitter…. more »
Things have been pretty light on Pixar loving of late but that ain’t gonna last too long with the release of Toy Story 3. No doubt its going to be a masterpiece of style, technical wizardry, storytelling and everything else that they do all so well (its all guesswork until I see it but lets face it, Pixar don’t exactly do bad films…). So ye can all drool over the visuals but what caught my eye is that Pixar, along with Skywalker Sound and Dolby Laboratories, have developed a new 7.1 surround sound configuration for the film to be viewed in – unfortunately Dolby are essentially men-in-white-coats and lack the creative genius of Pixar so the best name they could come up with was well….Dolby Surround 7.1.
Nerds, put your specs on, things are gonna get wordy!! more »
The voices of your characters are hugely important, especially when you have to compress so much exposition into as little time as you have to tell the story! You want your audience to care about them and understand why other characters in the film would care about them too.
Myself & John Hurt Voice of Professor Orit
Brown Bag Films are to produce Doc McStuffins, a new 52 episode series for Disney that will be broadcast on US cable TV channel Disney Junior.
The Doc is in! Doc McStuffins
