After years of silence Absolutely Free Festival (AFF) is back. Same concept, but thanks to new technologies, new ways of getting the word out. So they asked me to save a tree and roll a tape, and that’s what I did.

I visited 4 of the bands playing at AFF at their home or an other location that feels natural to them. Armed with 2 cheap videocams and a gorillapod I shot the bands presenting an accoustic version of one of their tracks, edited it all and the result .. is this:

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Most of my work at my internship at Muziekodroom has been in preparation of Play Festival, a 2-day showcase festival featuring a great number of smaller bands amongst some better known names. During the festival my job was to help manage the photographers and capture some of the action on tape myself. After 3 days (including the on-invite-only opening night/PIL-awards) I ended up with +10 hours of footage. A hell of a job to edit, but I did it. The result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=risgbxERv98

Moby now shares a selection of his work online for use by “independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short”. When you go to the website you can create your own account following a few simple steps and just moments later you have access to a library with both released and unreleased works by Moby. And all this GRATIS.

But who can explain things better than the man himselve?

Great initiative, much appreciated, big up Moby!

From the website:
“ TOUR is creating a soundtrack for an imaginary road movie called E40. Following the European highway E40, with it’s 8000km one of the world’s longest highways, he creates songs for 12 cities in 8 countries on this highway. He travels from Calais in the north of France to Ridder near the Chinese border in Kazachstan.
Central thoughout the work will be man, on his way to a specific (travelling) or unspecific goal (wandering).
For each city, TOUR collaborates with a video artist and incorporates local folk elements into the music.”

Stijn Segers asked me to collaborate in this project and so, I just finished creating in- & outro and the Liège video for TOUR. I’m not posting the result here (yet?), since I’m leaving that for the premiere tonight at “Michaël Verheyden Invites” at the C-Mine in Genk (more info on Michaël’s website). I’ve seen the band playing and I must say it’s looking good (as well as the rest of the line-up for tonight). If you can’t make it tonight, keep an eye on www.tourbadour.com for new videos and updates.

On to the next one! (Which I expect to be some stop-motion that’s been laying around here for quite some time now …)

Stay tuned!

Update: Intro & Liège are now available at tourbadour.com and the E40-channel at Vimeo.

Finished these last week, due to bad weather the shoots had to be postponed a few times again and in the end the editing kinda got rushed. Starting this Wednesday you can watch for these at JIMtv, about 8 times a day.

Enjoy and feel free to leave a comment!

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Little video I made at the Circuit Big Bends first gig at muziekodroom, Hasselt (Belgium). Performance was quite nice! Check out their myspace here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM1A_taqDxs

Currently I’m doing my 3-month internship at muziekodroom.be, which is a local music venue, which organizes concerts, parties and their own ‘Play Festival‘. Also they have their own educational program and as of next year even their own study direction ‘Pop & Rock’.

On my first day already I got the responsibility over the Play Festival promo clips. Earlier an announcement was made through the Play Festival website to make an own version of the Stranglers - No More Heroes, which is also the tagline of the festival, since the festival and the “Play” concept in general seek to promote upcoming bands. So the winner, Floris Francis Arthur, was chosen and contacted to star in the clip.

After some brainstorming with colleague Stijn I was left to it and during the rest of the week I searched for locations to shoot and drew a storyboard. A day before the shoot it started snowing. Since we were on quite the tight schedule we had to shoot something anyway. So we went to ” ‘t Jazzkot” inside muziekodroom and started improvising. And this is the result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-OBAoJS1WI

I will be shooting more of these next week, so stay tuned!

Joby comes with the revolutionary, very reasonably priced, Gorillapod, which allows you take pictures in a way you could never before. You can mount this tripod (yes, it’s a tripod, in case you were wondering) to literally, almost anything. Hang it from a tree branch, a light pole, put it on some rocks or simply on the ground for great perspectives or neat close-ups, … the possibilities are endless. Hell, you can even mount it to your dog and view life through his/her eyes (- well, more from its back, actually).

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Below you can watch a video I made passed October for the Community Building module at school. In the end we had to come up with a new improved concept and prototype for Sanoma’s FitFixers website/community. More at the beginning of the module we we’re asked to do interviews in order to make a needs analysis, which we had to present in an “original” way. Most groups went for video interviews, others for slide shows and I even saw a word-document

In my eyes, the problem with a video-interview in this case is that people will probably not answer as honest when there’s a camera pointing at them while begin asked about their health, weight, diets, …

I felt like playing around with stop-motion before, but never got past the small experiments, and thus, I took my chance. FitFixers is part of Sanoma Magazines, and given the fact we still needed faces to present our needs, I grabbed a bunch of magazines. So after 2 days of ripping out pages and cutting-out hundreds of people and objects and one mad night of shooting (in my room, which explains the bad lighting) and editing, this is what I came up with:

For our first big school project previous school year around October - November 2006, we we’re asked to participate in a contest organized by the Belgian government at the time. With the introduction of electronic identity cards, the eID, our task was to think of an application for this card. Our task at school was to showcase our idea(s) using video. I partnered up with Jonas Van Herp and Johannes Govaerts for this one.

After some brainstorms we got to the idea of using eID cards for identification at home. Obvious was that it could be used as an house key, but we thought of other possibilities in the house and selected a few to present.

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