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So it’s out now and we can crow about it… for those of you who missed a 1980’s mobile disco in Covent Garden, Spitalfields, Soho, Hoxton….the list goes on…
We were asked by The Field and Ubisoft to make a little film about the event, the game and …well you can get the idea here:
DATELINE: 7 Dec 2009
All-Star Lanes
Bloomsbury
Pukka films own answer to the Big Lebowski went head to head with yours truly, the work experience kid, AdL (doing a mighty fine King Pin impersonation in a rather natty bowling shirt) Kate and Naomi on monday night…
Yup, dissing my own trailer park roots and Dmitry’s Bed-Stuy attitude, Fergus showed an elegance of form, an innate aggression, and a flair every redneck I ever met would would envy as he annihilated what he mockingly referred to as skittles and opened a can of whoop-ass on our collective skins…
For those of you who don’t talk American, that is:
Fergus beat us all on our bowling night out on monday…not bad for a Brit…..
On this first really cold day of winter, the first of December, some of us here at Pukka Films were opening flap one of our Advent calendars, to the tune of 3 smarties, a chocolate reindeer and this…
Okay strictly speaking it wasn’t in an Advent calendar but… it was a treat for us just the same…….
So our friend James handed me his latest invention last night as our super secret shoot took an unexpected twist.
“What is it?”
“It’s part of an old tripod, that I grafted a mount on so we can put a Canon 5D onto your boom pole…”
“erm..why?”
“well, if we put the 14mm lens on it…”
James handed me the contraption which I put on my boom…and to the strains of “who let the dogs out” he held up the monitor for me to look at as i hoisted the camera: and franken-pole-cam was was born. I broke into a grin….
Hess asked us to support them in their live interactive town hall meeting. It was an opportunity for staff members to get an update from the head guys, to ask questions and to generally work though some issues important to their business.
All of which is great, except for one little issue; the town meeting hosts were in two different countries, and the audience, well, they were all over the world. Working with our friends at Iocom, we found ourselves visionmixing a live multi-camera shoot which was relayed via IPTV protocals to Chicago where our feed joined up with one from Hess’s Houston Headquarters. It was then bundled with a powerpoint presentation before being sent out to other locations around the globe.
It was during a sound check with Houston that it first dawned on me that our combined computing power and resources were far more powerful than the kit used during the moon landings and as I spoke face-to-face to the producer there, I just about managed to stop myself from saying those immortal words
“Houston, we have a problem….”
Thankfully we didn’t!
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