A Moment
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Add comment 16th June 2009 Simon
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Last Ride
I thought that seeing as though this is my blog, I should start putting up some of my work. Previously, I’ve left this sort of thing to my folio site, but now that I am back studying I have far less time on my hands to build static folio pages. So I thought I could start showcasing some stuff that I do both at work (Madman) and at uni (RMIT). Is that ok with you? In future, I may move posts of this nature to a secondary part of the blog, but for now, let’s get started…
Let’s kick off with a site that I did at Madman, that we launched this time last month. It was for the upcoming feature film, Last Ride, directed by Glendyn Ivin and starring Hugo Weaving and Tom Russell. The film is beautiful and is fairly sparse in terms of scenery and dialogue, so I think it’s appropriate that the website matches. The director Glendyn Ivin, was a pleasure to work with and actually had a big part in the way the site looked — the background images are photos he took during the period that they shot the film. He also came up with the great idea of having a KML file that you can import into Google Earth, which features words and images of locations that the main characters, Kev and Chook, travel through in the film. Glendyn also posted the following screenshots of the site on his blog, which is linked below.
Having not done a full Flash site in some time, it was a bit of a challenge getting back into the swing of things, but my friend and colleague Stuart was an invaluable resource and helped iron out a few bugs, especially to do with preloaders. It was also a challenge for the key-art designer Marcus, who had to miraculously fit the front page key art into a widescreen format for me. Anyway, I think it turned out alright and Flash was definitely the right format for the experience. To use Glendyn’s complement, ‘it doesn’t feel like a website’.
Add comment 24th March 2009 Simon
