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RAGGIN ME TUMBLR TONIGHT LID!!!!!!!

Sooooooooo. Figured I wasn’t just going to sell you guys a breakcore video and then shut up shop. OH NO! I’ve created a full DVD complete with CD, packaging and booklet to boot!

I’ve posted some DPS attempts on her previously, but jib them raaaaa off, because I now hate them (too easy/no particular theme/done on the cheap/shit). So some new ones:

I’m pretty pleased with them, and they got a decent response from Lee today, as well. He made a few suggestions as too how to place the type, as (like the music) I’m glitching it up and breaking some rules with it positioning (as well as miss-matching conflicting styles).

He mention that I could create new parrelel sentences or phrases depending on how I postion my words. In the first examples case the ‘breakcore often questioned’ came about as I pure fluke, yet does sooooooo much good as I’m explaining in the booklet that breakcore is indeed often questioned.

Inspiration:

You’ll notice during the video and on these that I’m wearing a suit, and there’s a very good explination for this. Breakcore messes with the mind, and put audio samples in rather strange predicaments, thus I’m attempting to turn the bourgeois nature of the suit on its head by wearing one with my dreads affray, painting in a strange enviroment. (It’s a decent visual nonetheless)

Now, I’ve used some worn textures on my work countless times before (to the extent that I might have just adopted a ‘style’, yet the style of type is slightly new to me and I want to show you where my inspiration came from. 

The colouring, and regal typefaces (big carson and edwardian script) were inspired by the clothing brand ‘Luke 1977’.

Decent usage of red and white type, It sort of reminds me of the royal wedding design stuff (one of my other pages in actually a snipe at the some wedding’s design).

Onto other stuff, I forget the guy’s name who did these, but Tash linked it on her facebook wall a week or so back:

Notice the kind of ‘scrapbook’ feel to it? The dirt and the typewriter style type are awesome and I’m well keen to work more like this is in the future.

I hope you’re beginning to see the styles I’ve drawn influence from (I might post more random stuff up in the future).

Whilst I’m at it. Check All Saints out (I know they’re all the rage right now, hence why they should hire me)

http://www.allsaints.com/

It’s like Grunge came back, with deodorant.

2 years ago 

Here’s a screen dump from Adobe Premiere (which I have been using to create my video). It’s illustrates the lengthy process I have under gone to slice up the various film samples, and align them with the beats on in the audio. Before my NMP I’d never used any form of motion software, yet I’ve found this programme relatively easy to come to grips with. I’m putting this down to the fact that it has a similar interface to much of the music producing software I’ve used in the past. The alignment is almost complete, then I’m going to throw in a few more samples for good measure (Lee mentioned today it might be interesting to use some of my unused film and an alternative dialogue/vision thing that could run along side my main glitches and occasionally take dominance of the edit). I’ll play around with it. Messy with the speed and ocpacity of the samples is producing some awesome stuff, and I can’t wait for people to see it. If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t go all out and state the I’m a directing genius. I’m sure a seasoned videographer would consider what I’m doing to be pretty basic, but the fact of the matter is, is that my film is really fucking effective. 

Here’s a screen dump from Adobe Premiere (which I have been using to create my video).

It’s illustrates the lengthy process I have under gone to slice up the various film samples, and align them with the beats on in the audio.

Before my NMP I’d never used any form of motion software, yet I’ve found this programme relatively easy to come to grips with. I’m putting this down to the fact that it has a similar interface to much of the music producing software I’ve used in the past.

The alignment is almost complete, then I’m going to throw in a few more samples for good measure (Lee mentioned today it might be interesting to use some of my unused film and an alternative dialogue/vision thing that could run along side my main glitches and occasionally take dominance of the edit). I’ll play around with it.

Messy with the speed and ocpacity of the samples is producing some awesome stuff, and I can’t wait for people to see it.

If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t go all out and state the I’m a directing genius. I’m sure a seasoned videographer would consider what I’m doing to be pretty basic, but the fact of the matter is, is that my film is really fucking effective. 

2 years ago  View high resolution

Making The Music

I’ve made the soundtrack to my video myself, and as it’s been a rather lengthy process I figured it relevant to put part of the process up on here.


This is a screen-shot of the Ableton Live secession that I have been creating the ‘Breakcore Half’ of my vid. Ableton Live is one of many music producing platforms on the market that enables users to record and produce music of any variety.  

What makes Ableton Live special is that it contains features that allow the musician to play their music live in a performance atmosphere. This is extremely useful to electronic musicians and DJs, as much of their music is sample based unlike other musicians who just play traditional instruments (guitars, drums, pianos, etc).

In giving users the ability to adjust and change the sound of their computer based music in real-time Ableton is used by some of the most famous acts in the world. 

With this project, I’m layering audio samples taken from the destruction of my painting (video to come) with breakcore drums, whilst attempting to sync the video. This meant that render the audio separately from the video, drag the sample into ableton live and then cut up the audio file in order to create my samples. I also make sure to note down the exact positioning of the samples in the original mp3, so that I could sync it with the film in Adobe Premier. 

2 years ago 

Figured you’d actually enjoy watching this, as it’s pretty cute (no, seriously).

It show what you can do with a few audio samples, and a whole load of imagination. What’s awesome is that they’ve sync’d the video up with it as well.

I’m beginning to find out that video editing is a ball ache. 

2 years ago 

Chris Cunningham

I didn’t know which video of his to put up, so figured it best to throw a trailer for his DVD up instead.

Chris Cunningham is a British director, who specialises in the surreal. His works have taken him to the forefront of the music industry, working with the likes of Madonna and Bjork, winning award after award for his efforts. 

Cunningham is also famous for his music video for the likes of Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, whose so called ‘drill and bass’ songs helped reignite the fleeting Breakcore scene in the mid-1990s by bring this style to the mainstream’s attention.

As you can see from this video, his style of editing often involves series of fragmented clips aligned one after another in order to create a large piece. This has left much of his work with astonishing ‘glitched’ effects, which work wonders with the awesome CGI that now dominates his videos.

What Cunningham does best as a director [in my eyes] is his ability to create such powerful atmospheres and moods in limited amounts of time. After all, the average music video is only 3.5-4 minutes in length. 

2 years ago 

As with every project I’ve completely re-done everything with just a week to go. This includes re-writing the song for my video (did I mention you’re getting an original track). On Monday I travel down to Northwich in Cheshire to meet an old friend of mine Jason who’s insanely good on drums and agreed to record some for this project.

He sorted them out and I got some guitars record too. Vox, Synth and mixing getting done next week and it’s a wrap on the tuneage. I think when I next go down, I’ll record him doing his thing, as I reckon the more layers of film I throw into this vid, the better.

CHECK THE SIZE OF THAT DRUM KIT

2 years ago 

It’s bin a tiring day of rendering and editing. Here’s something I wanted to have thrown in by tomorrow’s seminar but we didn’t get time…

Having loads of fun fooling around with video cameras. I’m naff at filming, whereas my friend Antony has had quite a lot of experience in it. I showed him the some of my earlier, grimy attempts to record and explained that the careless blurred videos went down really well in seminars. I’m sure you’ll agree, the out of focus stuff really adds to the quirky feel to this snippet.

2 years ago 

Here’s a couple more double page spreads for my DVD booklet.

As previously stated, my idea for this booklet is to mismatch conflicting styles of design in order to create my editorial.

The point being that my style is now an embodiment of the music, breaking rules and leaving viewers feeling somewhat disgruntling and confused (unless, they get it).

I have been careful toyed with my composition to agitate the designs. For instance that skull is ever-so-slightly off center (its doing my head in just looking at it) and the garish 8-bit pink&green (which is actually reference to the title one of my favourite Venetian Snares songs) couldn’t be of more contrast to the sepia image on its opposing page. 

2 years ago 

May Day Riot. Berlin, 1999

Here’s an example of the power extreme electronic music can have. Atari Teenage Riot were one of the pioneers of heavy electronic music, and are extremely influencial to Breakcore. ATR have always been extremely political, fusing Anarcho-socialist themed lyrics with sped up Drum & Bass beats.

This video captures one of the most prolific moment’s in this genre’s history, as the band preformed onboard a float during the 1999 May Day parade in Berlin, Germany. Rioting broke out during the band’s performance, leading all four member to be arrest for inciting the violence. 

Atari Teenage Riot and their counter parts are often likened to the Punk Rock movements in the late 1970s. 

2 years ago 

ZOOM RIGHT IN IF THESE ARE COMING UP SMALL

Here’s a barrage of flyers and designs that my facebook’s inbox is full of thanks to the UK’s very own Breakcore scene.

The designs tend to follow the old Punk ‘do it yourself’ ethic (thus they’re wonderfully shit). I hope these flyers give incite to the type of dark sense of humor that goes with the scene. Profanity, satire and complete and utter randomism are all common place, and these raves are not for the light hearted. 

Obviously there’s not a lot of design genius here, but it is what it is. 

2 years ago 

RAGGIN ME TUMBLR TONIGHT LID!!!!!!!

Sooooooooo. Figured I wasn’t just going to sell you guys a breakcore video and then shut up shop. OH NO! I’ve created a full DVD complete with CD, packaging and booklet to boot!

I’ve posted some DPS attempts on her previously, but jib them raaaaa off, because I now hate them (too easy/no particular theme/done on the cheap/shit). So some new ones:

I’m pretty pleased with them, and they got a decent response from Lee today, as well. He made a few suggestions as too how to place the type, as (like the music) I’m glitching it up and breaking some rules with it positioning (as well as miss-matching conflicting styles).

He mention that I could create new parrelel sentences or phrases depending on how I postion my words. In the first examples case the ‘breakcore often questioned’ came about as I pure fluke, yet does sooooooo much good as I’m explaining in the booklet that breakcore is indeed often questioned.

Inspiration:

You’ll notice during the video and on these that I’m wearing a suit, and there’s a very good explination for this. Breakcore messes with the mind, and put audio samples in rather strange predicaments, thus I’m attempting to turn the bourgeois nature of the suit on its head by wearing one with my dreads affray, painting in a strange enviroment. (It’s a decent visual nonetheless)

Now, I’ve used some worn textures on my work countless times before (to the extent that I might have just adopted a ‘style’, yet the style of type is slightly new to me and I want to show you where my inspiration came from. 

The colouring, and regal typefaces (big carson and edwardian script) were inspired by the clothing brand ‘Luke 1977’.

Decent usage of red and white type, It sort of reminds me of the royal wedding design stuff (one of my other pages in actually a snipe at the some wedding’s design).

Onto other stuff, I forget the guy’s name who did these, but Tash linked it on her facebook wall a week or so back:

Notice the kind of ‘scrapbook’ feel to it? The dirt and the typewriter style type are awesome and I’m well keen to work more like this is in the future.

I hope you’re beginning to see the styles I’ve drawn influence from (I might post more random stuff up in the future).

Whilst I’m at it. Check All Saints out (I know they’re all the rage right now, hence why they should hire me)

http://www.allsaints.com/

It’s like Grunge came back, with deodorant.

Here’s a screen dump from Adobe Premiere (which I have been using to create my video). It’s illustrates the lengthy process I have under gone to slice up the various film samples, and align them with the beats on in the audio. Before my NMP I’d never used any form of motion software, yet I’ve found this programme relatively easy to come to grips with. I’m putting this down to the fact that it has a similar interface to much of the music producing software I’ve used in the past. The alignment is almost complete, then I’m going to throw in a few more samples for good measure (Lee mentioned today it might be interesting to use some of my unused film and an alternative dialogue/vision thing that could run along side my main glitches and occasionally take dominance of the edit). I’ll play around with it. Messy with the speed and ocpacity of the samples is producing some awesome stuff, and I can’t wait for people to see it. If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t go all out and state the I’m a directing genius. I’m sure a seasoned videographer would consider what I’m doing to be pretty basic, but the fact of the matter is, is that my film is really fucking effective. 

Here’s a screen dump from Adobe Premiere (which I have been using to create my video).

It’s illustrates the lengthy process I have under gone to slice up the various film samples, and align them with the beats on in the audio.

Before my NMP I’d never used any form of motion software, yet I’ve found this programme relatively easy to come to grips with. I’m putting this down to the fact that it has a similar interface to much of the music producing software I’ve used in the past.

The alignment is almost complete, then I’m going to throw in a few more samples for good measure (Lee mentioned today it might be interesting to use some of my unused film and an alternative dialogue/vision thing that could run along side my main glitches and occasionally take dominance of the edit). I’ll play around with it.

Messy with the speed and ocpacity of the samples is producing some awesome stuff, and I can’t wait for people to see it.

If I’m being honest, I wouldn’t go all out and state the I’m a directing genius. I’m sure a seasoned videographer would consider what I’m doing to be pretty basic, but the fact of the matter is, is that my film is really fucking effective. 

Making The Music

I’ve made the soundtrack to my video myself, and as it’s been a rather lengthy process I figured it relevant to put part of the process up on here.


This is a screen-shot of the Ableton Live secession that I have been creating the ‘Breakcore Half’ of my vid. Ableton Live is one of many music producing platforms on the market that enables users to record and produce music of any variety.  

What makes Ableton Live special is that it contains features that allow the musician to play their music live in a performance atmosphere. This is extremely useful to electronic musicians and DJs, as much of their music is sample based unlike other musicians who just play traditional instruments (guitars, drums, pianos, etc).

In giving users the ability to adjust and change the sound of their computer based music in real-time Ableton is used by some of the most famous acts in the world. 

With this project, I’m layering audio samples taken from the destruction of my painting (video to come) with breakcore drums, whilst attempting to sync the video. This meant that render the audio separately from the video, drag the sample into ableton live and then cut up the audio file in order to create my samples. I also make sure to note down the exact positioning of the samples in the original mp3, so that I could sync it with the film in Adobe Premier. 

Figured you’d actually enjoy watching this, as it’s pretty cute (no, seriously).

It show what you can do with a few audio samples, and a whole load of imagination. What’s awesome is that they’ve sync’d the video up with it as well.

I’m beginning to find out that video editing is a ball ache. 

Chris Cunningham

I didn’t know which video of his to put up, so figured it best to throw a trailer for his DVD up instead.

Chris Cunningham is a British director, who specialises in the surreal. His works have taken him to the forefront of the music industry, working with the likes of Madonna and Bjork, winning award after award for his efforts. 

Cunningham is also famous for his music video for the likes of Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, whose so called ‘drill and bass’ songs helped reignite the fleeting Breakcore scene in the mid-1990s by bring this style to the mainstream’s attention.

As you can see from this video, his style of editing often involves series of fragmented clips aligned one after another in order to create a large piece. This has left much of his work with astonishing ‘glitched’ effects, which work wonders with the awesome CGI that now dominates his videos.

What Cunningham does best as a director [in my eyes] is his ability to create such powerful atmospheres and moods in limited amounts of time. After all, the average music video is only 3.5-4 minutes in length. 

As with every project I’ve completely re-done everything with just a week to go. This includes re-writing the song for my video (did I mention you’re getting an original track). On Monday I travel down to Northwich in Cheshire to meet an old friend of mine Jason who’s insanely good on drums and agreed to record some for this project.

He sorted them out and I got some guitars record too. Vox, Synth and mixing getting done next week and it’s a wrap on the tuneage. I think when I next go down, I’ll record him doing his thing, as I reckon the more layers of film I throw into this vid, the better.

CHECK THE SIZE OF THAT DRUM KIT

It’s bin a tiring day of rendering and editing. Here’s something I wanted to have thrown in by tomorrow’s seminar but we didn’t get time…

Having loads of fun fooling around with video cameras. I’m naff at filming, whereas my friend Antony has had quite a lot of experience in it. I showed him the some of my earlier, grimy attempts to record and explained that the careless blurred videos went down really well in seminars. I’m sure you’ll agree, the out of focus stuff really adds to the quirky feel to this snippet.

Here’s a couple more double page spreads for my DVD booklet.

As previously stated, my idea for this booklet is to mismatch conflicting styles of design in order to create my editorial.

The point being that my style is now an embodiment of the music, breaking rules and leaving viewers feeling somewhat disgruntling and confused (unless, they get it).

I have been careful toyed with my composition to agitate the designs. For instance that skull is ever-so-slightly off center (its doing my head in just looking at it) and the garish 8-bit pink&green (which is actually reference to the title one of my favourite Venetian Snares songs) couldn’t be of more contrast to the sepia image on its opposing page. 

May Day Riot. Berlin, 1999

Here’s an example of the power extreme electronic music can have. Atari Teenage Riot were one of the pioneers of heavy electronic music, and are extremely influencial to Breakcore. ATR have always been extremely political, fusing Anarcho-socialist themed lyrics with sped up Drum & Bass beats.

This video captures one of the most prolific moment’s in this genre’s history, as the band preformed onboard a float during the 1999 May Day parade in Berlin, Germany. Rioting broke out during the band’s performance, leading all four member to be arrest for inciting the violence. 

Atari Teenage Riot and their counter parts are often likened to the Punk Rock movements in the late 1970s. 

ZOOM RIGHT IN IF THESE ARE COMING UP SMALL

Here’s a barrage of flyers and designs that my facebook’s inbox is full of thanks to the UK’s very own Breakcore scene.

The designs tend to follow the old Punk ‘do it yourself’ ethic (thus they’re wonderfully shit). I hope these flyers give incite to the type of dark sense of humor that goes with the scene. Profanity, satire and complete and utter randomism are all common place, and these raves are not for the light hearted. 

Obviously there’s not a lot of design genius here, but it is what it is. 

RAGGIN ME TUMBLR TONIGHT LID!!!!!!!
Making The Music

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