Sunday, December 4, 2011
Project 72 is a 3 day project with students at Papatoetoe High School
Here is the documentation video of our project in progress.
Showing posts with label Moving Image. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moving Image. Show all posts
Project 72 @ Papatoetoe High School
Bubble Video
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Bubble Video Introduction Animation
Bubble Video is located in Australia started by our good friend Casey!
Website under construction. Will be linked once it is up and running!
La Buena Vida Opening Animation - Season 2
Friday, January 8, 2010
La Buena Vida is back on Triangle Television and Stratos on Friday Nights!
Here is the Opening Animation we created for Season Two!
Keep an eye out, theres more to come!
Discover Padang
Sunday, August 16, 2009
I was extremely lucky to have the opportunity to go to Indonesia and film a few travel promotions. With a weeks notice before I'm due to fly out, and a bit of a panic attack with organising everything, my first destination was to Padang, West Sumatra for the annual travel fair. Being a Jaffa from Auckland with no knowledge of Indonesia at all, I was excited, rearing to go with absolutely no idea what to expect. Three flights later, my pal Andrew and I are in Padang, welcomed by a team of smiling faces, my first impression was wow! yes that's all I could come up with! leaving the crisp chill of the beginning winter months in New Zealand, to be exerted into the 33 degree heat of Indonesia was incredible. There is a unique sweet smell in the air of Indonesia, that I couldn't quite place at first. Andrew tells me its the the cloves they mix with their tobacco, who would of thought.
You don't have to look long to see a smile here, the traffic is chaotic, almost everybody owns a motorbike and, your not unlikely to see 3 or 4 people on one bike, but nobody seems to mind. I was quick to realise that Indonesia is a far more tolerable nation than New Zealand, when it comes to traffic. I was surprised why everybody wasn't in fits of road rage. There is a constant and strangely peaceful sound of horns beeping . They beep when they pass you, and stop if somebody pulls out, its just the way it works there.
We stayed at Pangeran beach hotel, just out of the city centre of Padang. The service is second to none. It sits right on the beach, with a gym, a pool that is great for a refreshing morning swim in the Indonesian heat. A fantastic restaurant and bar, serving delicious traditional and European food. With all the comforts of home and more as well as a warming buzz of culture I would definitely recommend Pangeran Beach Hotel to anybody. Our first night we spent exploring the streets of Padang and talking to the locals. At night when all the shops close, many little carts come out selling all sorts of delicious foods from satay chicken to martabak manis (a huge crumpet filled with chocolate and walnuts mmmm) I really couldn't believe how cheap it was. You can expect to spend $1.50 NZD on dinner, and find your self in some very interesting conversation with the locals.
Our first day we spent on Sekuai Island, just out of Padang, a beautiful Island with nothing but a small resort on it. Life there is like a never ending tea break where you could spend all day kayaking, snorkeling, reading or planting Coral. Its the perfect escape. (for my fellow twilight fans, its just like Isle Esme, and I'm sure you wouldn't have any trouble finding a Indonesian Edward Cullen either, there are plenty chivalrous boys there, it was really hard to get used to people opening doors and wanting to carry your stuff )
Culture is alive and breathing in Padang, with many different influences from Dutch colonialism, Minangkabau traditions and many more work together harmoniously, providing a tr
eat for any explorer. I found I could just stand in the middle of the markets with a camera all day, the people are so fascinating and I don't think they even realise it. Any good cook knows that the secret to life is butter. And the butter of Indonesia is the people, their hospitality, generosity and constant smiles are infectious. Life there really makes you reconsider how we live here. Therefore my approach to making a travel video for them was to capture the essence of Padang, the people, the day to day lives and culture, not make another fake and glossy video that shows only what we want to see. Padang has a tremendous 
amount to offer, only a short travel takes you to the white sands and clear waters of Sikuai island and Bukittinggi known for its shopping, to the vibrant atmosphere of the traditional markets, delicious foods,traditional weaving, performances, Minangkabau architecture and more. After leaving Padang I only left wanting to explore more of what Indonesia has to offer.
I would like to thank Allan for all your efforts in organising our trip, Pangeran Beach hotel and The Hills for hosting us, and to all the beautiful people I met while I was in Padang. Thank you for your incredible hospitality I cant wait to visit you soon.
Saya mengucapkan banyak terimakasih untuk uda Allan, untuk semua yang uda buat dan atur perjalanan kami, terimakasih juga untuk Hotel Pangeran Beach dan The Hills yang menampung kita dan tentunya para kru yang baik hati selama saya di Padang, terimakasih untuk kerahmah tamahan kalian untuk kami. Saya tidak dapat menunggu menggunjungi kalian segera.
For more information on travel to Indonesia, visit http://www.bali.co.nz/
La Buena Vida - The Good Life GOING LIVE!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Alphalayer is proud to announce that
La Buena Vida - The Good Life will be airing on
Triangle Television on
Friday 12th of June at
8pm
La Buena Vida is a show produced by Interview no.7 and we were lucky enough to make the Logo Animation for the series.
So tune in, and keep your eyes open!!
La Buena Vida - The Good Life
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Below is the Logo Animation we have created for Interview No.7.
Their new show La Buena Vida - The Good Life is due to air in New Zealand Triangle TV in May 2009!
Keep and eye out for it!
Logo Animation
Friday, April 3, 2009
We have recently had the opportunity to work with Interview No.7 on a new show called Buena La Vida translated to mean The Good Life. We have been designing an animation for their logo which we will be putting up on our site very soon.
The programme is due to go on air in May 2009 on Triangle Television, New Zealand.
We will give you the exact dates when we know!
Keep your eye out for it!
Guinness commercial
Friday, March 20, 2009
I was really lucky to have had the opportunity to work on the art department of the latest Guinness commercial. It was an awesome experience and I met a lot of awesomely nutty people. I worked with the fabulous people at Gyro constructivists for a day, making a rocket ship for the commercial. The theme of the commercial was ''creation'' well that's what we were guessing anyway. The rocket ship was made to look like a little boy made it from spare parts in his back yard. I've got to say that the rocket ship looked amazing! I only made an extremely small part of it, which took me ages! I'm not sure if it even made the final cut, I was such a little baby snail in comparison to these awesome prop makers who have at least 25 years + experience under their belts, and can whip up anything in a matter of two minuets. The workshop at gyro is very cool with a large wood work area, a metal room and resin room....mmmm candy!
For the rest of the time on the commercial I worked on the grass. It was a pretty huge and tedious job of two 8 by 4 metre pieces of ashtro turff hung from the ceiling and about twenty or so of us on either side cutting holes and threading longer pieces of grass through and gluing the back. The aim is that it would look like wild uncut grass.
Although this part of the job was a weee bit tedious, its amazing who you meet working in art departments, I even bumped into old buddies from art school and had a good old yarn whilst discussing our process to getting as much done in a day as we could. Mine was slice, thread a small patch, then glue, then thread another patch while waiting for the glue to dry on previous patch, then cut ends off glued patch and repeat, while having an awesome conversation with anybody, sometimes everybody, about anything really.
Its safe to say that we left everyday with multiple fingers bandaged from these "processes" of ours, but it was great!! I would highly recommend art department work if you can get any, it really makes you aware how many people are behind the scenes gutting their fingers on any film work. Also how pressing the time frames are to get your bit done on time, to get it to the next department and so on.
Interchange Band Promo DVD
Sunday, February 15, 2009
This is a Promo DVD the Alphalayer Team did for the band Interchange at a recent private function. The band played all night, but we extracted and mixed together several of their chosen songs.
Great exciting gig, we had fun.
Footage is just under 7 min long.
May take a while to load. (Due to making loading time and playback smoother, Video and Audio quality has been lowered)
Final Presentation
Monday, November 24, 2008
This work explores the space and interaction of viewers/participants.
When walked in front of the projections, the area of your shadow discovers unseen layers of the work.
More images will be posted up soon.
Colour Wall
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Color Wall is an experiment when a projection of the brick wall is projected onto the same brick wall. The wall resembles to be a plain white projection, but upon interaction when people walk into the projections, the wall reveals the colour layers of each brick underneath the plain whiteness.
Mobile Animation
Monday, September 8, 2008
Mobile Animation was an animation designed to be played on cellphones, and sent via the Vodafone network to other cellphones.
The animation explored the pathway it takes when travelling through the network to reach the other cellphone destination.
Upon completion of this animation, I sent it to several cellphones through the network and watched them play the animation through each cellphone.
Seeing The Invisible
In this project, I was exploring the idea of seeing the invisible along the subject line of Wireless Communication.
In the work, I had a running loop of a popular area filled with people continously walking by the camera.
The people and background was rendered into a specific sillouhetted color with the wireless lines running from each person representing the cellphone reception everyone carried.
When this footage was looked through a big sheet of specific red coloured gel, the colour of the footage changed, and the wireless signals also disappeared.
This investigated the invisible signals, and what surrounds us daily that we are not really aware of as we don't see it.
Live Feed Human Interaction
Saturday, September 6, 2008
In this experiment towards the end of year project, I am investigating the breaking down of an image through Human Interaction.
In the first image, it is a projection of a live feed of someone interacting with the projection
This is an overlay of the live feed over another footage to experiment with the manipulation and break down of the image through the interaction of the viewer.
Note the break down is only where the placement of the viewer is.
The idea of breaking down into pixels is only evident within the range of the body of where the viewer is.
Therefore the break down of the image is directly related and controlled by the viewer's interaction
The Cake Tin/ The Magic Box project
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Cake Tin is a visual and audio experiment towards my end of year installation Magic Box.
An explosion of staking tea cups, tea parties and presents of biscuits wrapped in butter wrapper. The Cake Tin explores the memory of my grandmothers cake tin that permanently lived on the bench, and was regularly filled with freshly baked goodness. The magic that it seemed to possess and contain, and the excitement of opening this little treasure chest.
'Chests especially small caskets, over which we may have more complete mastery, are objects that may be opened.' (Bachelard,Gaston, The Poetics Of Space, p 85)
With this explosion of thought, tiredness and sore feet from my new boots I came up with this.
Fragments Of Issabella/The Magic Box Project
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Fragments of Issabella is a visual experiment towards my end of year installation Magic Box
A work in procress that is bassed on preserving the memory of my Grandparents, two incredible people who really influenced me and my practice. Magic Box is a memento of them,but also pays tribute to the era that they came from, the era of the hand made, to make do and mend.
Shadow Interaction
Friday, August 22, 2008
A quick test with the same footage.
Experimenting with the interaction of the viewer's shadow upon the black and white footage.
