private.bfloch.com - Archives for: 2009

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09/Oct/30 motion picture, vfx no comment		» Role of previz From VES Summit [1]: Paul Martin Smith (Editor) said previz is being overused, films are being greenlit on previz and then people are shooting the previz. Many mentioned the importance of that magic unplanned spark that happens on set and making sure we leave room for happy accidents and deviation from the plan when needed. Smith also expressed the importance of the creative storytelling process needing time. Cutting on set is not creative, it’s checking to see if basics work. The editor needs time to mentally process the footage. [1] VES Summit (fxguide.com) ..................................................
09/Oct/07 general, studies, short film, design no comment		» Meanwhile Part II I have so much to tell but unfortunately I barely find the time for it. Because a great period in my life, if not the best, happens to end. I’m currently working on my graduation. It will be a huge project with concepts, several corporate designs, programming, production, costumes, life sets and vfx heavy postproduction. All this could not be done without my study mate and graduation partner Frederic Classen. Right now we are designing a huge Sci-Fi world and a around a solid story. Of course we won’t be alone. Some friends help us with this project. If you feel like having some fun give me a mail. We can need help from every single talented creative mind out there. I will post more details in future. This post is rather a resume of my studies. I am so glad that I decided to study design. It was such a broad experience with areas I’d never imagined to get to know. And I’m glad that I didn’t have to master all of them but met people who have same enthusiasm and talent for these areas as I (hopefully tried to) have in mine. Fortunately it wasn’t all about work. Many people became my friends, few of them very close although the challenge of our jobs forced many of them to live apart all over Europe. But some of the joined a creative design group during the studies. senari will hopefully help to stay in touch and exchange. Also I’m excited about future job opportunities. I look forward to keep working as compositor. Also I will keep on going to punish the world with my short films. My latest short film “Berlin” in collaboration with Chris Bucanac is currently in its end stage of editing and will be hopefully premiered in November. So long! Maybe a Designer … Blazej Floch ..................................................
09/Sep/08 marketing no comment		» Motivation This one is from Ted Talks. Don’t read, watch. Thanks Philipp for sharing this one. ..................................................
09/Aug/24 general no comment		» Meanwhile.... As you may notice there was no real update for a while here. This normally means that I am quite busy with real-life. This months I worked on some incredible projects in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and the world famous metropolis Recklinghausen. Also we shot most parts of the short film “Berlin” and I am now preparing my graduation project. Stay tuned for more detailed information. ..................................................
09/Jun/25 private, general, animation no comment		» Shin Chan This is hilarious. I had to laugh out loud. This kid really looks like Shin! Knuffig. [1] Source ..................................................
09/Jun/18 short film, animation no comment		» Le Main des Maitres Found this featured on the sideeffects website [1]. Have a look on the official site as well [2]. Awesome work. [1] Featured story (sidefx.com) [2] Official Website (lamaindesmaitres.com) ..................................................
09/Jun/17 general no comment		» Apple vs. Sony Finally the media did a very good overview on marketing of both companies. Don’t get me wrong. Apple is fine: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary Still I prefer writing from vaio: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of ..................................................
09/Jun/08 general, music no comment		» Babies Looking for ideas to promote a song? It can be so easy. I bet by the time you already pushed the play button. The idea is brilliant. It’s centered around us stupid guys secondary brain a bit below the waist. And I even like the song! There is a response with guys doing this. Somehow I don’t like it that much. I mean not only the song. ..................................................
09/Jun/01 general, marketing no comment		» What do you do for living? This is hilarious. Unfortunately so true. ..................................................
09/May/24 short film no comment		» HANDMADE “Film shot in Brazil and post-produced in Barcelona makes use of unusual symbols to describe how one feels at the beginning and end of a relationship.”[1] Made in 2006/2007 by [2] (CISMA© All rights reserved) [1] handmade (handmademovie.com) [2] CISMA(cisma.com.br) ..................................................
09/May/21 studies, music 1 comment		» John Lurie Art Head over to John Lurie’s online art gallery [1] not only for his (hilarious, sometimes deeply emotional, sometimes entertaining) pieces but also for a great fake jazz song. John retired from showbiz and focused on art some years ago. What a loss for music and film. Look for him in his paintings. There is a good reason why trash includes art backwards. I don’t think John Lurie is part of that reason. But I don’t think that much. [1] John’Lurie’s Art (johnlurieart.com) ..................................................
09/May/10 projects, animation no comment		» Gtk+ Hackfest Animation I did some fun animations and lower thirds for interviews filmed during the GTK+ Hackfest 2008. My buddy Mirco “Macslow” Müller organizes the production. You can see it over at his blog [1] [1] Gtk+ branding (macslow.net) ..................................................
09/May/09 general, technology no comment		» New Laboratory May I introduce to you: labs.bfloch.com All geeky stuff will be there now! You can also use the new link on the navigation under private. ..................................................
09/Mar/11 marketing, animation no comment		» Sita sings the Blues Do you want to watch an animated feature film? How about you watch it at home? How about you watch it over the Internet? How about you watch it for free? How about you do all this legally? How about you pay a bit if you liked it? How is this possible? Independent Animation with creative commons licensing (1). Nina Paley wasn’t scared and it payed off! How about this would be the way all media worked? How about you pay the artists directly if you think they deserved it? Sounds like a vision? It could be reality and the majors are so scared of this business model they wet their pants. Artists: Share your work instead of hiding it. Audience: Pay artists directly. Majors: Stop throwing out money for stopping the wave How about you start here? How about watching this in HD? [2] (1) Post on Creative Commons [2] Projects Website (sitasingstheblues.com) ..................................................
09/Mar/09 studies, photography no comment		» Todd Hido If you haven’t checked this American photographer go to his website [1] or his agency [2] (for more photos). I love his way of creating photos, no additional lights, documentary, real, cool, true and sorrowful. [1] Todd Hido’s Website (toddhido.com) [2] Edge Reps, his agency (edgereps.com) ..................................................
09/Mar/03 general 1 comment		» HUMAN VALUES Do you want to see how your HUMAN VALUE looks like? [1] The graduation project of fellow designer David Pérez Cantó [2] will show you after a quick survey. I helped with the technical side of the site. Here is my current HUMAN VALUE [1] human-values.org [2] DPC Website (artbedingt.de) ..................................................
09/Jan/29 studies no comment		» japanese blue wall Nothing to be afraid of. Only a quick study of a great photograph [1]. Reminds me to practice more often. Excuse at least the sloppy calligraphy. [1] Letters in Kyoto #6 (flickr.com) ..................................................
09/Jan/25 motion picture, vfx, studies, projects, postproduction, technology no comment		» Projects in 2009 Let’s get our hands dirty. So what’s up? paris “paris” is finally getting finalized. Sorry for all who waited but I had some personal motivation to keep this thing quite for a while not only because I had lots of other things to do which is always a lame excuse. I will participate with “paris” in all possible short film festivals. Also I want to show it to some people who deserved this. Not to mention that I will go to paris to thank the staff once again and give them a copy of the final version. Don’t expect the final to be so much different from the version I might have showed you already. It simply was boosted in quality. But like a good wine I needed some time and confirmation on the way it was done. music clip I hope to do some music clips with some bands or musicians I admire for their talent and work. First of all there is a clip planned with my friends from “the babylon underground". I hope for the positive response on the location so we get started in February. Paris Part 2: The revenge of sad people! Don’t take the title serious. But I AM happy to announce that I will keep my concept entitled “cities” which resulted from the work of “paris". So there will be another city produced this year, I won’t tell you here now which because everything is still in preproduction state but look forward for more soon. Technical improvements in workflow I still doing postproduction next to producing. It’s the other part of me. I haven’t decided if it is the lower or higher part yet. Anyhow I finally want to have a good and stable “workflow for the poor man” established which enables to produce in good quality cheaply and fast but still allows parts of the project to go uncompressed or as little compressed as possible for vfx/post etc. I’m not sure if this will be a total uncompressed offline workflow or something like a hybrid between a little compression online codec like proRes, DNxHD, CanopusHQ, Cineform and how they all are called and an offline. This highly depends on the kind of project, how much vfx is involved and therefore on the cameras primary output. So far I will keep looking onto prosumer cameras like Sony-PMW EX1/EX2 etc. in combination with a 35mm adapter in favor of a cheaply available digital film camera, like the red for example, simply because it should be easier to handle in terms of workflows with limited hardware capacities. If for a reason our facility decides for a bigger workflow I will be keen to look into it but as far it goes now this doesn’t fit in my “poor man’s” concept which I want to keep in favor of technical negligibility which won’t make a better piece. Super8 Now it gets sentimental. We just talked about digital workflows and now we jump to super8. I still have great interest in this format. I haven’t had time to test roll the 7265 Plus-X reversal B/W stock but I surely will. Just the the planned concept of the project, the music clip, it was intended for didn’t fit for this medium anymore. Despite of the opinion of some purist I look for a digital workflow here as well. Although I love enthusiastic type of works like straighon8 [1] in a artistic approach to the medium I still want to use Super8 commercially or let’s say professionally in first place. I doubt this will end in a Super8 DI which really is possible (!) though. More to come as soon as I worked with the material. [1] straight on 8 festival (straight8.net) ..................................................