Southwark Bear

Monday 30 January 2012

Saturday 3 December 2011

Girls and Boys Animatic

Here is the original line drawn version of Girls and Boys. Made as a timing experiment. It includes whole scenes I chucked out and a different ending, enjoy!

Friday 2 December 2011

Shooting People Film of the Month September 2011

Girls and Boys on Vimeo

Girls and Boys on Shooting People (2040 views on 3rd December 2011)

Check the stats on Mean Mr September! Shooting People Best in Show (2011)

Thursday 1 December 2011

A Woolton-born artist writes...

Before I move on to my next project I should sum up my last film.

I'm a bit stunned I hadn't added much since May... and didn't ever mention the fact that I was close to finishing my two-minute project. It went really well and I got some Festival action and some gob-smackin' publicity, which I'll list here largely because I can barely believe it myself.

I will only point out this is the only time in my entire life that family members have rung me to say well done (not including having two kids), so I have done good back home. I thought I'd say so what to this, but I'm actually really pleased.

Anyway, here are some of my clippings:-

Liverpool Echo!Yes!!
Londoner of the day! No idea how this happened,
Hendon & Finchley Press! (tricky PDF affair, jpg below)

After that, the deluge: Ham & High; Wood & Vale; Brent & Kilburn Times; Islington Gazette; Newham Recorder; Hornsey, Crouch End & Muswell Hill Journal; Barking & Dagenham Post; Bromley Times; Tottenham & Wood Green Journal; Stratford Recorder; and finally, Docklands & East London Advertiser

Saturday 26 November 2011

This blog is back!

Big changes at Southwark Bear's blog. Yay!

The last entries were mostly devoted to my attempts to grapple with computer games and the like, purely to cover my arse on the second year essay etc. I never became a gamer proper, but I ended up devoted to Bejewelled and Plants vs Zombies (and so did Kim) but that was that... think we'll call it a draw.

Onwards. From this entry on I'll be documenting the progress of my graduation (3 minute) film.

I'll put up other sketches, treatments, animatics etc in the next few weeks. The research is the lovely/time consuming bit as I write. I'll list the books/essays I'm wading through and give some back story too.

My last film did was really well received and I'll make an entry just to gloat later, but this one has to be stronger and distributed/exhibited far better, and I'll document that effort too.

Below: the two characters at the heart of my new film...

Sunday 29 May 2011

Mr Monkey aka “persons unknown”

I never believed there was any anonymity on the web, many have operated assuming it is a free realm without consequence, but this about knocks one of the last nails into the myth. Twitter has obliged and handed over the full details of a UK local councilor following a Californian court ruling. The Twitter account 'Mr Monkey' has apparently used Twitter to whistleblow news that South Tyneside Council would prefer out of the public realm. A local authority can't be libeled, but three councilors can, and they have used public money to chase their case across to California. Twitter complied, let's see if other rich folk get to force them to do the same. Shouldn't have to wait too long...