Child of the Planet

Rhythm and observation . Or research and juxtaposition??? This is a chance to put into praise stuff I've been learning at film school. I went down to the Bondi kite fest, to shoot some 'observational' footage, and cut it up into two videos. One focus's on the kite professionals who cordoned off a section of beach, and filled the air with an amazing variety of land tethered flying machines. The second video is all about the amateurs. those folks who filled the grassy area behind the beach and throwing caution and canvas into the air. Decided after extracting a series of short narratives (peoples kite flying adventures) to try interleaving a lot of the action. Bondi Wind Festival 09: The Pro's

The Light walk is part of the Vivid winter festival, and a series of 'light sculpture instillation's' were placed around Circular Quay. Great stuff though I feel that if this festival is organized again, it needs more moving light displays as I found the pieces a bit more dynamic. As did other spectators who were ohhhhing and ahhhhhing just like crowds do at a fireworks display. Also be nice if there was more playing around with shadow and reflection. I thought I'd get a bit of experience using RAW with After Effects. Also haven't done any night shooting before, so I spent a couple of nights down at Sydney's Vivid light Walk capturing raw stills for time lapse. Vivid festival Light walk time-lapse: Sydney 09 I took these on my Ricoh GX100 using interval shooting and saving as DNG. Most of the frames were one second exposures, taken every ten seconds. The poor old GX was pushing pretty hard to get the DNG's saved in time t...