St Albans Film Festival Select Kim Wilde B.E.F. Video

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I’m delighted to announce that the ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild‘ music video I directed and produced for B.E.F. featuring Kim Wilde has just been officially selected as part of the St Albans Film Festival.

The festival takes place 1st-4th May this year, in St Albans. Rumours that special guests will include the ghost of Stanley Kubrik are unconfirmed.

If you would like to know more about the festival, you can follow it on Twitter and Facebook.

BBC Music Video Festival Select B.E.F. Kim Wilde Video

Hot on the heels of its recent Davey Award win and SENE Film, music & Arts Festival screening at Rhode Island Comic Con, comes the news that ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’ – the video I Directed & Produced for B.E.F. featuring Kim Wilde, has been selected to be part of the BBC Music Video Festival 2013.

The festival, which happens entirely online, is the UK’s only dedicated music video festival, and gives equal credit to musicians and directors. This year’s selected videos include Róisín Murphy, Sigur Rós and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. You can watch all of the selected videos on the BBC Music Video Festival 2013 site.

You might also like to check out their Facebook page.

SENE Festival Screening at Rhode Island Comic Con

Hot on the heels of last week’s Davey Award announcement and just in time for Halloween, comes news that my B.E.F. Kim Wilde promo – ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’, will be screened by the SENE Film Music & Arts Festival, as part of their short film programme, at Rhode Island Comic Con. The screening takes place at 4pm, on Saturday November 2nd, at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Other headline attractions at the event include Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Nicholas Brendon, Nichelle Nichols, Gil Gerard, Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Danny Glover, Bill Dee Williams, Ernie Hudson, and…Marky Ramone!?

Full details of the event can be found here.

Creating Post Visual Effects for Paul D’s B.E.F. Kim Wilde Video – GUEST POST by MIKE QUINN

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Mike Quinn puppeteering on Thomas Dolby’s – ‘The Toadlickers’, Directed by Paul D.

A few years ago I worked with the Director, Paul D., on Thomas Dolby’s music video ‘The Toadlickers’, providing puppet sequences shot against green screen. This involved heavy compositing and tracking of multiple puppet characters, set elements and props, onto footage of Thomas, his band and burlesque dancers. All of the live action footage was shot in the UK, by Paul and his crew, with the Canon 5D Mark II, but as I was in Texas at the time, I had to match the lighting as best as possible on all of the assets I created, to ensure that everything looked seamless once graded.

One of the biggest issues was transferring large multi gigabyte files magically across the Atlantic to Paul so he could review and edit them. Amazingly, eventually, it all actually worked and you would never know that video was shot in two different continents.  So when Paul asked me if I could help with some post visual effects on a new music video he was Directing & Producing for B.E.F. featuring Kim Wilde, I thought it can’t be any harder than the last one and having updated my hardware and software, since then, I knew my new tools would be much more efficient. Continue reading “Creating Post Visual Effects for Paul D’s B.E.F. Kim Wilde Video – GUEST POST by MIKE QUINN”

Davey Award Win!

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I am pleased to announce that ‘Every Time I See You I Go Wild’ – the B.E.F. video that I directed and produced, featuring Kim Wilde, has just won a Davey Award!

I would like to thank the International Academy of the Visual Arts for this honour, everyone involved in the production…and, of course, the dark forces of evil…

This is my second Davey Award win, the first one being for the ‘Toadlickers’ video that I Directed and Produced for Thomas Dolby

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