In Rainbows 

In Rainbows
What can I say about this album that hasn’t been said already? Possibly sweet fa but I will give my two cents. I LOVE this album and is already my favourite Radiohead record since Kid A. It has elements of all of their previous work yet still feels progressive and personally feels a lot more accessible than Thom Yorke’s solo effort The Eraser.

Above is a wallpaper I downloaded from Kitsune Noir. Bobby has done some excellent wallpapers representing all of Radiohead’s albums in anticipation of In Rainbows. You can start with Pablo Honey and work your way through the others (The Bends wallpaper is my fav).

Finally a bunch of free MP3’s for you all to check out. I quite dig By The Fireside’s more subdued sounds:

 
 
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Monday, October 15 2007
 
Design, Music General
 

Colour Grading with the HV20 

Drive - Before
Drive - After
Following a few requests, I’ve decided to show some ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots from my recent HV20 camera tests with some colour grading . There was nothing fancy involved - just playing with the basic colour correction tools in any video editing application - brightness and contrast, colour curves, colour correctors and levels. Much like you would do with photography. The trick of course is getting the balance right for the type of scene you are shooting. Once you do, save your settings as presets to use for future projects. And sorry to those who thought the camera tests were straight out of the camera. Go have a look at the colour grading video on the 4 disc set of Fellowship of the Ring or the raw footage of nearly every music video shot in the past ten years. Even their original footage looked nothing like the final end product. Welcome to the 21st century! That said, the camera still gives you a great image to work that you can only enhance in post.

Walk - Before
Walk - After

One thing I completely forgot about but am dying to try is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended’s ability to import video and adjust it in there. Of course you can use After Effects but personally being more familiar with Photoshop, this should yield interesting results.

 
 
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Tuesday, October 9 2007
 
Filmmaking
 

Daytime camera test 


More pointless test footage, this time during the day. Figured out how to do proper slow-motion too without fancy plugins. Always a handy thing to know. High-res version here (24.8MB, .wmv).

 
 
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Sunday, October 7 2007
 
Filmmaking
 
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