MOD Films has been invited to partner with Goldsmiths College, London on R&D and support their MFA in Computational Studio Arts.
Wahey! Until Sanctuary is out the door and MOD Films gets more funding my capability to attend conferences is pretty much nought. So it was great to get a Fellowship to this one in May.
http://thequality.com/massive/weblog/
Massive: We Media Global Forum
I'm at BBC White City in a edit suite with Steve Parkinson doing the HD conform. That process locks the base visuals for the film. We've wangled a day as "training" to get the HD master onto hard drive along with the plates needed for VFX (341Gb). The pictures look beautiful on an HD monitor even though our master source material is not the 35mm film negative.
Got a rejection letter from the London Film and Video Development Agency today. No completion funds. Not enough information provided in this criteria I'm told.
a) We define artists' film and video as relating to artists working in the context of contemporary fine art moving image practice and producing work intended for exhibition in galleries, festivals, specialist venues and as site specific installations.
What a waste of time it is dealing with the establishment. I could have made a short for the amount of effort that goes into these funding proposals.
Of course, same evening I get a request from an Italian university
Dear Michela Ledwige,
Your name was provided as a strong and important reference in the framework of collaboration programs that see our University active in the fields of scientific visualization, digital art and movie production....
Can't win.... is this art or not? I don't care, I just want to complete the project as intended and move on.
This is going to make it so much harder to complete VFX and pretty much blows our chances of getting something to Cannes by April 5th. So disappointing but that's the game. Those who do, make stuff. Those who don't, sit on funding panels.
There you go. I feel better now. My moment of self-pity has passed. Tomorrow we're going to try and get a 3D scan of a nanobat! {:-)