Animation | Character Animation | Film and Video | Showreel
Final Major Project (Level 3)
This was my Final Major Project for my Interactive Media college course which ended 24th June.
It was joint winner of Yale College's Media Awards '09 for "Best ND Film" with another film called "Iris" voted for by students.
"Only In Dreams" was an idea I came up with to pitch to my classmates and it was voted as one of the projects that would be produced. I worked on it in a team of 5 people. I wrote the script and animated all of the animated sequences as well as editing the finished product. Steve Owen was my director and co-editor, Lara Edwards was my producer, Gareth "West" Crosbie was my camera operator/DOP, Alex "Dex" Huxley worked on sound and my sister, Emily Roberts did production stills. Karen Bird, my tutor and Executive Producer helped with finalising the script among many other details, to which I owe her and the creators of this film everything.
All of my animation was created in Adobe Flash CS4 with a Wacom Tablet. Each shot lasts about 3 seconds on average and took 3-4 hours to animate, lineart and colour each one, including in-betweens.
I'd also like to thank my very talented actors...
Joshua Bartley as "Arthur"
Elizabeth Nield as "Lilly"
and Katherine Evers-Swindell as "Miss Williams" and the voice of "Anaya".
Music...
"Only In Dreams" by Weezer
"Breakfast After Ten" by Blue October
Thanks for watching, enjoy!
Video Work (Level 3)
An adaptation of an interrogation scene between Hecuba and Talthybius in the Trojan Women play by Euripedes. Adapted for screen and filmed by myself, Alex Huxley, Jamie MacDonald, Oliver Cavender, Chris Edwards and Dale Wharton.
Wonderful actors are thanks to Josh Bartley (Talthybius) and Lissy Thomas (Hecuba).
Our task was to take a pretty dire script and make it interesting by modernizing the dialogue and setting it like a 1950s film noir, inspired by Sin City. Then we were split into groups to make our own script, film and edit of the play independent from tutors. This edit was done by myself in a group of six taking turns in Final Cut Pro.
My role involved script writing, art direction/hair/make-up/wardrobe, lighting and editing. Sound FX are edited by myself using default sounds in Soundtrack Pro.
Enjoy!
An adaptation of the end of the Trojan Women play by Euripedes, adapted by Karen Bird and filmed by my video group at college.
Our task was to take a pretty dire script and make it interesting by modernizing the dialogue and setting it like a 1950s film noir, inspired by Sin City. Then we were split into groups to make our own edit of the group's footage and film our own cutaways. This edit was done by myself in a group of six taking turns in Final Cut Pro.
My role involved hair, make-up, wardrobe, lighting and editing. Music is from the 'Sin City' official soundtrack.
Enjoy!
A scene in the style of a soap opera written and filmed as a piece of multimedia for a college performing arts production, 'What If?'.
Written, Directed and Editing by myself in a group of six.
Please excuse the lack of ambient sound or music, it was lost due to technical difficulties.
Enjoy!
Working for Clients
This is one of the digital stories produced on a Rural Storytelling workshop in Brymbo, Wrexham. My sister and I (students from Yale College, Wrexham) edited the script, sized the images and created the video for Dorothy Moran.
I worked with a small team of people from Yale College to record a two hour performance from the Brymbo Male Voice Choir and the Castleford Male Voice Choir on the 30th May 2009. This is the Brymbo Choir's performance of "I Dreamed A Dream". I worked as one of the three camera operators and edited together this video with our footage and the stills taken by Tony Pugh.