A few days ago I was in the Balearic islands during the Mallorca Gay Chorus Festival. Apart from producing the concerts for the Pink Singers, I made the official film of the event, that you can see here. https://youtu.be/kSCRmiCl3yI I used Seenit, so that singers and audience could film using their smartphones. The turnout has been awesome: 44 people … Continue reading Crowd-filming a choir festival in Mallorca
Eating roses
For some time now I've been filming roses. Beautiful. Delicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4qMTWSsiuU This is "The Cuisine of Roses", a food festival in a town very near Barcelona that's well known for creating and growing new kinds of roses. I've been taking care of the communication of this event since it started, from the graphic design to the … Continue reading Eating roses
Dolphin killers
In Japan they kill 20,000 dolphins every year. A few months ago hundreds of people gathered in London to protest against this slaughter. And this is the film I made about it, "Red Cove": https://vimeo.com/118288081 The protest was organized by the Dolphin Project, led by Ric O'Barry. Thanks to this I learned about the documentaries "The Cove" and "Blackfish", … Continue reading Dolphin killers
Currupt FCPX libraries in Blu-ray
I went nuts when I couldn't recover my film projects. Thank goodness I still kept a copy in a hard drive. Archiving is a sensitive thing. And if you work in film it can be an expensive thing. So a long ago I chose optical media. DVDs, originally. Blu-rays, currently. When I am pretty sure I have finished … Continue reading Currupt FCPX libraries in Blu-ray
Have you Seenit?
https://vimeo.com/116293041 Collaborative video makes you powerful. Imagine deploying a film crew at the other side of the globe (or around it) and receiving in near real-time all the footage in your studio. That's what Seenit does and it's cool. I discovered them in the Pride in London last summer, they invited everybody to film their day. With … Continue reading Have you Seenit?
The Hobbit premiere: to be or not to be?
On Monday the world premiere of the last Hobbit movie took place in London. I was there... but I wasn't. Anyways, this is the resulting work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWH51RPxt0 It's a short video made using the Seenit platform. Thanks to their online studio, just two people with their smartphones could film and immediately upload the footage they got at Leicester Square. … Continue reading The Hobbit premiere: to be or not to be?
Shooting a contemporary bird
Filming a dance performance is fun. Specially if you haven't seen it beforehand and you don't know the movements. It's like shooting a bird (with your camera) performing an erratic flight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl6HstZtbeQ This is Nuno Fado, a gig from portuguese singer and dancer Nuno Silva that I filmed. Of course, before starting, you have to check the … Continue reading Shooting a contemporary bird
Good feedback
It's nice to have good feedback about your work. It raises your moral, rewards you for the hard work you've done and sets a challenge for your ego. It's the applause to the artists that work behind the screens/scenes. The video I made for the international campaign "Ara és l'hora", about Catalonia asking for a referendum, has over 100,000 views … Continue reading Good feedback
A thousand cameras at Mindshare’s Huddle
Last summer I learned about a smartphone app that allowed you to co-create video. I tried it to film as a contributor, and it made me immediately fall in love... I'll tell you the rest of the love story in the next post. Suffice it to say that I regularly work with Seenit now as a video … Continue reading A thousand cameras at Mindshare’s Huddle
Silent demonstrations
Last week a quiet demonstration took place in the Spanish embassy. A group of Catalans asked, yet again, to be allowed to vote in a referendum about the independence of Catalonia from Spain. I was meant to be a very quiet demonstration. Silent, in fact. A few posters, a voting ballot inside a cage... and a … Continue reading Silent demonstrations