Archive for the ‘Video production’ Category

New Year, new start, new projects, new prices!

What a great year 2010 could be. We’re quite excited here at EESB, knowing the projects that are on the roadmap for the short and long-term. We’ve got video pieces coming up, and we’ve go animation pieces coming up.

We’re also working on a brand new set of CD and DVD prices which are set to blow you away.

We’ll keep you posted as and when this becomes available. In the meantime, keep well!

Is there much better in the world than motorcycles?
How about Ducati motorcycles? !w00t!

Our great chums at The Gyst came back to EESB once again, with some footage of Ducati’s new 2010 range of bikes [droooool!] to edit into a looping DVD for the International Bike Show at the NEC, and also to be played in some dealer outlets.

Included in the brief was the task of duplicating a number of USB pen-drives with promo material, press-packs and product info.

We hope that the discs and the edit have gone down a storm for all concerned. A big thumbsup to The Gyst for their Christmas card too; cheers guys!

…. I must get me one of them Multistrada 1100 machines, they look awesome…..

It’s not often that we get to work on full blown feature-length films, so when turns up, we are happy to take part and do whatever we can.

The 13th Day, according to it’s producer, began life a few years ago as an ambitious short film about the miracle of Fatima, telling a Christian story. After working its way around a bit, it picked up some oomph from the Catholic Church itself – and the project ballooned in to a full blown feature length film. This was premiered simultaneously in Portugal and the USA through the wonders of the internet.

As the project was nearing its first major close, the production company were needing various flavours of DVD copies.

Eight Eyed Sea Bass was tasked with converting the TV broadcast Digibeta tapes to a run of DVDs at the highest possible quality. Alongside that, there had been a version of the film with Portuguese subtitles, which again needing duplication. Not only that, EESB had to create a DVD master for the American market (with their NTSC television sets), and do a small run of this type of disc also.

Not wanting to let the client have problems anywhere along the line, we also used our magic EESB powers to get an American NTSC master tape of the film transported from UK to USA overnight, compared to the 2-4 days most couriers were stating.

We hope that the film is a success for them – it does sound like they’ve pumped the last few years of their lives into this project, so we can only wish that they get their due rewards.

Good luck guys!

The Screen West Midlands Digishorts are pretty well known around these parts, as they provide funding for a number of short films to be created by people in the West Midlands region.

This year was no exception, and you may have already heard about how we at EESB provided the 3D animation and visual effects work for the short film, Trolley.

Last night was the event at which the Digishorts were premiered at the historic Electric Cinema. This was an invite-only event for cast and crew members – so we were excited to be there!

There was a good range of films this year, with quite different plots and styles. However, our own anticipation was brewing not just because of wanting to see the finished version of Trolley, but because we would see it on the big screen!

It was well worth waiting for too! The audience were laughing and “oooh”ing at the visual effects, so it seems as though we did a good job.

Congrats of course must go to Anna Shelton for writing and directing the films, Rachel Carter for producing it, and of course, Phil Wood for his skills as director of photography.

We had a great time at the after party also, getting to have a good drink with and a chat to crew members. Paul put in 150% drinking effort to make up for Dom, who had to leave early to move his car to stop it from being locked in a car park overnight (he failed after an energetic sprint from one side of the city to the other!), and a good time was had by all.

Hope to see you all again soon.

The very exciting happenings for us, is that our 30s Reaction to Litter piece (for Birmingham City Council) is on at various cinemas around Birmingham for now three weeks!

It was going to be two weeks originally, but the Council were lucky enough to get an extra week on the house.

Ace. Just hope we get time to go and see our handywork.

Having been commissioned much earlier in the year by Birmingham City Council to revisit the Reaction to Litter job, the piece finally got wrapped up very recently, and has been transferred to film to show in the cinema.

But first, the Council had managed to get the BBC interested, so the piece featuerd on BBC 1 on a number of occasions today – including on the local news programme, Midlands Today.

We’re glad the piece has been so well received!

Currently we’re working on some visual effects and animation for a short film. The film is supported by Screen West Midlands, and is one of this year’s Digishorts.

We can’t really reveal anything about it yet as it’s not our place to do so, but we’re excited and pleased to be doing this, for sure.

I think we’re going to be pretty busy working on this for the coming weeks along with other work, so we may be a bit quiet for the time being….

Hope the World is seeming brighter for all of you.

No, we’re not calling anyone names…. read on, and we’ll explain.

Eight Eyed Sea Bass are very proud to announce the start of their grading work on a music video for the NYC artist Lisa Li-lund, for the dreamy yet haunting track ‘Bloodface’.

The video uses miniature sets and puppets, wonderfully crafted by Billie Achilleos and David Curtis-Ring.

This new piece sees EESB once again working alongside Birmingham’s very talented Ben Lister (Intercom // Night Time // Because I can) who Directed the shoot, with Zac Nicholson (The Boat That Rocked // This is England // Dead Mans Shoes) drafted in as Director of Photography using the awesome RED Camera accompanied by a stonking set of prime lenses from Cooke.

The video is turning out just lovely so far, even if we do say so ourselves.

We’ll be showing you the finished article when it’s all polished off, wrapped up and ready for release - if you don’t mind, that is!

Until then, keep well all.
More soon.

I’ll have the lightly slated popcorn please….

The piece of work previously created for Birmingham City Council by EESB in conjunction with @Warblefly Productions; Reaction To Litter, has been (re-?)commissioned, for Cinema.

Birmingham City Council have aksed us to re-work the piece into a thirty second ad, to run at a select number of Cinemas in the region in the near future.

More news to follow on this one.

Keep well all.