Camera Rig

Wow I totally forgot I have a blog haha. Apparently people are still regularly visiting so I'll give a little update.

I've been working a TV production company as an editor the past 6 months and am now moving into camera work. I have also just bought myself a Cannon 5D MkII and a shoulder rig. I plan to use this for work in the future but for now I'll just practice and make shorts films or something.

The Case - [Test Film]

Just trying to keep exercising my creative skills...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zugKMcIbkzk

Saturday Morning (Acoustic Improvisation)

Yet another tear jerking cheesefest, enjoy :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_a4VGK13o

When Ginny Kissed Harry - Acoustic Cover

A little music video test I made over the weekend. I plan to do more like this but far better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4rKOtGjyWw

Inception - Time COMPLETE

I just finished my cover of 'time' from the Inception soundtrack. It has taken a week and a lot of work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cDYExzTUkU

Also I got my first electric guitar today, a Les Paul standard. You can listen to its first recording in the Inception track.

Inception - Time [re-composition in progress]

6 layers of Brass Instruments,
4 layers of Strings,
3 layers of Percussion,
1 Bass,
1 Synth,
1 Guitar,
And 1 piano
= INCEPTION

My desk shakes when I play this and I'm not even up to the loudest part yet XD

Into The Crypts

I was playing with some synthesisers today and came up with this creepy ambient tune. This is my first ambient song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxyMjvsANeY

Name This Song

I just recorded my first acoustic guitar piece and for some reason I got writers block. I can't think of a half decent name for the song so can someone think of something?

http://soundcloud.com/paulbeattie/name-this-song

First Piano Composition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihokHX83PE

Media Workstation

Over the past two weeks I've been putting together a good media setup for music and video editing. Now I can play and record music on keyboard using synths and virtual instruments. I can also plug in my guitar and use my computer to simulate an amplifier. I feel like a kid in a candy store :D

First TV show on air

I finished cutting my first hour long TV show yesterday and its going on air tomorrow at 12:30 on SBS if your in Australia.

Also I got my keyboard the other day, time to make some music.

Got a Piano Keyboard

I recently started learning piano on my crappy old keyboard from the nineties lol and found it pretty easy and fun so I bought a proper keyboard. I can plug this one into the computer and play synths and stuff so I hope to compose some ambient style music.

Here is the keyboard I bought, cost me $300 including a sustain pedal:

Epic Day

Most epic day of work starting at 9am and going till 11pm (no break). My jobs for the day included:

Lighting assistant
Production assistant
Guitarist :P
Editor
and to top it off for half the day I was a camera operator.

Here is the sort of stuff I was shooting: http://www.ave.com.au/page6/page6.html

Time to go to sleep and do it all again tomorrow. Actually I'm cutting a commercial which should be sick.

Got a job as an editor!

I just got a job as a full time editor! This is my first real job in the film and TV industry. The business I will be editing for cuts programs for a few channels here in Sydney.

You can look at what I'll be doing here: http://www.ave.com.au/

Unwanted Visitors - Round 1 Collab

Finally after like 3 months the collab of all the round 1 entries into the stickpage tournament has been released.

http://www.stickpage.com/unwantedvisitorsplay.shtml

Future Genesis - Directors Cut

I am now working on the extended version of my 3D animation 'Future Genesis'. I want to add about another minute and hopefully the story will make sense after that.

Here is a little lighting test I just did:

Here is a link to the normal version if you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90a2InrL1Y

Compilation 2010

After waiting way too long for my entries in the stickpage tournament to be uploaded I have decided to upload myself. Also there is my unfinished predator parody attached. Enjoy!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/558653

Happy New Year!

I know its a bit late but I've been busy and sick. I started animating the directors cut of my 'Future Genesis' in which the main robot does not day and we get a hectic chase scene :D

I'll be posting some screenshots soon.