So not even a week in and I’m already having to put a small hiatus on ‘TheBreakdownProject’.

I started this project to give myself work whilst looking for more internships/jobs/freelance work but after just a few days I’ve been given a great brief at my current internship which will involve my old digital design skills being dusted off and as much as I cant wait to get my teeth into the first edit of TheBreakdown, it will have to be put of until the weekend, but with that coming out and a band’s studio session being recorded on the coming monday, the ball should finally get rolling on this thing.

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So, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on tumblr but it’s time for an update and I cant see me fitting all of this into 140 characters so tumblr looks to be the best platform.

For the past month I’ve been working at an unpaid internship and now with just 2 weeks left I am close to being stuck, unemployed and with nothing to work on. So with this thought constantly playing on my mind I have begun working on something new.

For my final project at university I created a project interviewing creative companies called ‘The Breakdown Project’ and though the final product was nowhere near meeting the expectations I had, I did get quite a lot of good feedback for.

I am re-launching TheBreakdownProject, but as this is now something more free and open to do in my spare time, instead of a stressful project of hell with a deadline, I am upping my game a little.

The new Breakdown Project will feature a few more series as well as the original company interview series, all these still fitting under the concept of ‘The Breakdown’. This concept being that each video breaks down the information given by who or what that particular video is about.

So the series are as such.

• The Breakdown: Creators.

Interviews with creative companies and individuals

• The Breakdown: Acoustic

Acoustic one song performances by musicians with short interview

• The Breakdown: Cinema

I have been working with a small team of creatives to try and get some short film ideas of mine off the ground. Some range from 2-5 mins long but one at the moment is well into a full short feature and though won’t be around for months, will still be created under this channel.

• The Breakdown: Vlogs

Not daily, as my day to day life isnt nearly exciting enough to talk about, but each project I work on, be it through TheBreakdown, freelance or at an Internship I will talk about the thoughts of that day, some footage, the process and whatever else comes to mind. 

This information has all been put into the first introductory vlog which will be going up tomorrow but if anyone is interested in the project do let me know. Going to try to be a lot more active on here from now on due to this project depending heavily on online community so keep checking back and if you do have a youtube account, please, subscribe. Link below

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This is much better.

Compared to the posters which I recently wrote about, the official website which recently opened for Moonrise Kindgom features a map of the island of New Penzance, The Island which the film is set.

The story is based around two young lovers who run away and then the whole town boasting an array of different odd characters join the hunt to track them down.

As well as looking really nice catching the Anderson look and feel, the site works so well because it hints at some of the places which could or could not feature within the story such as Roman’s ruins and Fidelity Island. The main focus of the site though is to provide the viewer with content about the film such as character bios and scene videos.

Overall I think it’s a much more exciting piece of promotion compared to the posters and as most of the links are ‘coming soon’ it is a piece that I will be going back to and regularly checking for updates both before and after the films release.

As an addition to my last post, this site was my haven whilst wanting to create a phonotrope.I sat and refreshed everyday, waiting to see something which could spark something new into my own idea.

The site was set up by Jim le Fevre, who was the animator who created the Monty Python phonotrope. I had difficulty tracking down phonotropes online until I found this mans blog and even afterwards found that the reason is because there is very few phonotropes anyway.

As good as this site was for inspiration, it also contained the videos that turned me off the whole project entirely. As I scrolled through the videos I found tests and explanations (which have since been deleted) of how he had created a basic structure to follow. And as good as I feel I am at following instructions, I just couldnt do it.

This isnt to say I didnt try. I more than tried. For a straight month I came home from uni/work and got back to my desk with ridiculous amounts of cut out paper animations and paper discs piled up high, trying to get everything timed perfectly. But I just couldnt get it down.

The smart thing to do would of been to get help, speak to some of the guys in the workshop at uni and see if they could of helped with a better construction, got someone who was better at maths to of helped me work it all out. But again like I said in my previous post, in hindsight…IDIOT!

As always I look forward to anything released by Wes Anderson, and with his new film coming out this summer and after my dissertation on film marketing, things like poster releases have become just as important to me as the trailers.

The online posters for Moonrise Kingdom tick all the boxes when it comes down to the “Wes Anderson look”. His use of pastel colours, tinted stills and elegant fonts yet I cant help but be disappointed.

To try something new the posters are clickable. Each image that runs along the top and bottom of the posters can be clicked, and when done so then becomes the centre image which a quote from Im guessing either that scene or that particular character.

Though the idea is nice, I feel like he could of done something much more groundbreaking. I understand his films aren’t summer blockbusters or even aim to hit that market so he doesn’t have to go to the guerrilla extremes some films go, but for someone I have so much respect for as an artist it becomes irritating to see them, in my opinion, cop out.