Archive for September, 2009

Do any of you remember when we said this:

“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!”

Well, that time has arrived, and we are oh-so happy to show you the outcome of our grading work, on top of the hard graft put in by Ben, Zac, Billie, David and the rest of the crew of course.

The piece was shot in a mixture of 4K (4096 x 2304 pixels) and 2K (2048 x 1152 pixels) resolutions on the RED ONE.

EESB then used a mixture of REDcine, After Effects and Premiere Pro for the grading and visual effects. We kept a 16bit colour depth throughout our workflow with delivery as 2K resolution 10bit DPX files. We thought we’d put that in for the geeks out there…. you know who you are!

Here’s the complete piece, enjoy!

Lisa Li-Lund ‘Bloodface’ from ben Lister on Vimeo.

Inspired by traditional Greek folklore and mythology, this dark tale follows a jilted woman on her journey through love, betrayal, repentance and retribution.

Directed by Ben Lister
Produced by Victoria Emes
Set Design & Undead Puppets – David Curtis-Ring
Puppet Maker – Billie Achilleos assisted by Ashley Appaya
Scenic Painter – Andy Reid
DOP – Zac Nicholson
1st AC/Focus Puller – Benn Peacock
Gaffer – Chris Rhodes
Puppeteers – Jeremy Bidgood and Billie Achilleos
Runners – Tom Levigne, Oliver Nelson, Chole Sylvestre
antidote productions Ltd

Why not pop on over to http://www.vimeo.com/6404056 and leave a nice comment for Ben… we’re pretty sure that he and the rest of the crew would like that!

More soon, keep well all.