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.

2nd Place!!!

Hi all,
If you've been following my blog you'll see that I entered in an animation competition which ran over a three month period. I put in a lot of hard work and won second place which is much better than I expected. The prize was $300 which I spent way to quickly :P

The animations that were entered into the competition should have been put up on the stickpage.com frontpage by now but there seems to be some delay. I'll make sure to post when it does turn up.

Also, I was working on a parody of the predator movies when I started this blog in march this year but have had several interruptions and have lost interest, I plan to attach the unfinished cartoon with my next animation whatever that is so look out for that.

"Future Genesis" - RELEASED

Hi all,
I have finally released my animation "future genesis". Lol, because I had to cut so much out in order to finish it in time the title no longer makes any sense and doesn't relate the the animation at all. I do plan to add another minute of footage over the holidays in order to redeem my lack of story. For now though, enjoy the film :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90a2InrL1Y

In two weeks I will be screening this in a cinema along with other student films which is cool.