Produxion

Studio Daily have an excellent article about Pierre Michel’s process for creating the opening trailer for a French film festival, Polar dans la ville.

The whole 40 second sequence took three weeks to complete, and was created mostly in After Effects. What’s most interesting is the approach he took to dealing with high resolution images in a short timeframe.

Semiotics. I’d forgotten all about it. I remember it being part of my studies when I was at university, and no doubt I’ve been applying the theory throughout my work over the years, but I hadn’t ever given it a passing thought until recently. The subject had stayed dormant in my mind until it came up during a gathering of friends on Halloween. We’d had a trio of classic thriller movies playing silently in the background – Scream, American Werewolf in London and The Cat & The Canary – the kind of films which lend themselves well to the discussion of semiotics, since they’re loaded with clichés and visual signs.

We just completed work on a new little documentary titled “Raptors”. Corio Raptor Care and Rehabilitation is a centre specialising in the care and rehabilitation of birds of prey, or raptors. The center is run by Nick and Anji Henderson, who provided us with access to the birds they look after, and to talk about (…)