Filed under: NC | Tags: Ali, Cocktail, Dresses, Fashion, Motasem, Napoleon Creative, Sabina, Sabina Ali
Here’s an interview with one of our clients, Motasem. Sabina and her team are going from strength to strength, which is so good to see!
http://www.ethicalweddings.com/supplier-case-studies/article/motasem-wear-again-wedding-dresses/
We filmed her back in Summer 07, you can see the clip we did here:
http://napoleoncreative.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/fashion-show-finished/
I started twittering ages ago on behalf of my dog, founder of Napoleon Creative. It basically said what he was up to, and I put it on my facebook page.
However the more I got into twitter, the more interesting it became to me, but I had quite a divided collection of people. I was following some people interested in new technology/social networking. Leon, however, was attracted a whole series of dog owners! Both threads were great, but I’ve now decided to separate the two.
So, to follow me:
To follow Leon the Pug:
Filed under: ConferenceXtra, Finished projects, Gallomanor, NC, Shoots | Tags: Blogging, CivicSurf, Corporate, Councillors, Democracy, E-Democracy, Local, Napoleon Creative, Norfolk, Video
Yesterday we filmed at the eVoice conference, held in Norwich. Was a very interesting day, lots of talk about how to make eDemocracy work.
The key event, of course, was the premiere of our latest project, the CivicSurf documentary. It’s a documentary following three local councillors as they set up and run blogs to communicate with their local constituents. This will be posted online shortly.
Moving politics into the internet world seems to have a lot of success, but also can be hard to implement. More thoughts later, as we have two projects to deliver today!
Filed under: News | Tags: Austin Mitchell, Licence, Napoleon Creative, Photography, Police, Public, Space, Terrorist
I cannot believe the outragous behaviour of the police, asking a photographer for an unnecessary licence and deleting his work! They had no right or justification to act the way that they did.
I have to say, we’ve filmed in London many times, always getting prior permission. The police that have stopped us can be a little terse to start with until we show them we’ve permission to film, which is quite a lengthy process. You have to fill in countless application forms which is further complicated in London by it being split into different Boroughs. So to film St Pauls, Covent Garden and the South Bank requires permission from three different agencies. Once you show the police your permissions, they’re pefectly happy and leave us be.
However, with entry level DSLRs now costing just £400, more and more people are carrying chunky looking cameras with big lens and taking picture for their own pleasure (I saw at least 5 people carrying these while at the Tate on Sunday, all looked like tourists or people photographing at their leisure rather than professionals). These guys aren’t going to know their rights or what permissions they need and the police shouldn’t be able to intimidate these people into deleting their photos! Austin Mitchell MP is calling for the police to be better educated about photographers’ rights, I hope something comes of it.
Filed under: Capgemini, IBM, NC, Shoots | Tags: Capgemini, Corporate, DVCPro, HD, IBM, Leeds, London, Napoleon Creative, Video
Last week was a busy one. We had 3 shooting days, then beginning the follow up editing.
We did two shoots for Capgemini, then one for IBM. The IBM one was a challenge because we were working on behalf of their creative agency Center Line in the States. We shot this trying to give as many options in the editing as possible in terms of shots duration, focus pulls, crash zooms etc. The interview itself went very well and I think the piece should look good. We shot it on DVCPro in HD, which really made a very luxurious location look fantastic.
Filed under: Reviews | Tags: Art, Cranach, Exhibition, London, Napoleon Creative, Royal Academy
I went to see the Cranach exhibition over the weekend. Great exhibition with some fantastic images and some line drawings that looked unbelievably modern considering they were over 500 years old.
One thing that struck me was that Cranach travelled at key points in his life, at one point visiting Vienna and then to the Netherlands. This can be achieved in a matter of hours today, but then would have taken, what, weeks by coach? And while in those places he saw the creative advancements of those particular schools of art, which had been developing in relative isolation. Their ideas about how art should develop influenced his own subsequent work.
Now, Cranach would be able to see artists’ work from all over the world at the click of a button. And also, rather than a physical geographical school of artists developing a style, we live in a world where there are so many boundaryless influences. I think the difficult in the modern world is being able to sift through this material and find what’s relevant or interesting to the individual. Of course, the ability to rate clips or photos and record their popularity in terms of views brings to the surface those that are outstanding in some way. But I wonder what he would have made of this process?
