Is Nightcall replaceable?

So, at the beginning 2013 after a lovely Christmas break and getting a brand spanking new MacBook pro for work purposes. I went ahead and acquired logic pro which is a music production software exclusive to Mac OS. Fortunately when I did go make to University we had a sound module lined up to teach me a few of the basics of logic and some other areas of sound within and as a form of media arts. The module was broken up into 3 sections. We had Music for 1 week, Sonic Arts for 1 week and Foley for 1 week.

Music was obviously music production and we did some exercises that would help us learn logic. We firstly had an introduction and a basic tutorial on logic. Then we went out and recorded some sounds in different sound spaces and objects. Finally we came back and tried to make a musical piece from what we recorded.

Next we did Sonic Arts this was mainly about ambient music. We were given presentation on a wide range of sonic arts. We then made cheap contact microphones which we used to record sounds based on vibration of objects like tables, washing machines radiators etc. We then made ambient sound piece based on what we had recorded and some new logic pro tools.

On the 3^rd week we were taught foley, which is when have a video or film and you record external sounds based on what you see on-screen. You use a microphone to record the sounds directly into your video editing software of choice and sync it to fit what you see.

Finally on the last week we were tasked to make our own projects. We had the choice as to whether we wanted to do a music piece, a sonic arts piece or a foley piece. I opted to do a music piece as I felt most comfortable doing it seeing as did music at gcse but also because I wanted to get some practise with logic again. In the end I decided to remake the opening credit music from the movie Drive which original had the track Nightcall by Kavinsky. Due to the theme of the film and the style of the original track I made a track with an 80’s essence with a lot of synth sounds and a simple drumbeat. This is the result.

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VINYL.

So, while I was over at Gawyn’s house, beating him effortlessly at Fifa 13, a game that I haven’t planned in 4 years by the way. He was showing me his vinyl collection and he produced a pink Drive soundtrack vinyl, which I was in ore of. I figured why not make a short film documentary type thing to get some extra practise in before we start filming our full documentaries in a couple of weeks. This is the result of what we produced. Leave feedback on Vimeo or YouTube if you don’t have a wordpress account it would be appreciated. This was recorded on a Canon 550d (T2i) with a 50mm f/1.8 lens and I shot in 1280×720 @ 59.94 fps so I could get some smooth slow motion. I used an after effect plugin called twixtor to slow down some of the footage to ½ speed.

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VINYL. from Emil Nweje on Vimeo.

Flashback #3 – I went to the Olympics for free

So, on our final day of college we were all given free tickets to the London Olympics being held over summer. This was due to us doing crappy stop frame animations that I won’t do you the displeasure of sharing. The upside to the project is obviously getting the tickets and an all day travel card but also the opportunity to do some filming. I decided to take my 50mm f/1.8 lens, which in hindsight wasn’t the best idea. Even though with was brilliant at getting good night shots a lot of the shoots were out of focus. Also a lot of the footage was shot while we were walking around the Olympic park / village area which made it quite shaky which I tried to fix in post. Speaking if editing even though it’s a modern time and video, I wanted to create a retro feel. I did this by using an old school song and adding some purple vibrant but washed out colour grading as well as some film grain for good measure. A big feature is I synced the footage the soundtracks snare drum with jump cuts. I think it keeps the visuals interesting and flow better. I did this mainly for the memories.

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LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 from Emil Nweje on Vimeo.

Can you make me a Logo?

So, because I made my own logo and people of the Internet were intrigued by this they constantly asked me to make them intros. For the longest time I was reluctant because I’m lazy but I thought a good incentive for me would be money. I started charging people for a simple logo and a quick intro animation for £10. I think this little side project was successful. I was able to get some logo and graphics design practise as well as earn some quick cash.

I also made some speed arts of me working on the logos and intro which can be seen below. Message me on YouTube or Twitter if you want your own.

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Kitten CC’ed 2.

So, I made it. Literally woke and started making this. This video was really fun to make not only because of the stylish cinematography but also because I made the soundtrack using my limited logic pro 9 skills. I feel more proud of the video because all of it is my work. Originally I wanted this to have a mix of normal shots and slow motion shots but the shots I have aren’t the best and I would like to get better ones with a tripod maybe. I going home for Easter and I will be using my camera a lot during that time because I’m making a documentary, so I will squeeze in some cat time 😉 I will hopefully make a more developed version of the soundtrack for kitten cc’ed 3 once I learn a bit more about logic.

Just some general info about the video and equipment used for those who will ask. I used a Canon 550d (T2i) with a 50mm f/1.8 lens and I shot in both 1280×720 @ 59.94 fps and 1920×1080 @ 29.97 fps.

I hope you enjoyed leave feedback on either YouTube [http://youtu.be/pJJuDPv7E7M] or Vimeo [https://vimeo.com/60332748] because I know not many people will have WordPress accounts to leave feedback here.

Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed and part 3 after I do my documentary!

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KITTEN CC’ed 2 from Emil Nweje on Vimeo.