Ollie Tristram

Features work I've made from late 2008 to the present.

For this artefact I moved on from musical genre as I felt artefacts 1 to 3 answered what I had set out to discover - how musical genre can affect the audience's perception of film.

I decided to look into Foley sound effects and how that can affect people watching film. Personally I think Foley is most notable during fight scenes, because the hit sounds are most exaggerated here than in real life and generally people recognise this.

The way I have gone about it is to find clips from different decades and survey people as to whether the older clips sound more or less realistic than the newer clips and whether realistic Foley sounds can help the audience become more involved with the film itself.

Here is the video:


Here is the survey:
Click here to take survey

With this artefact I wanted to use a film clip that was fairly neutral in emotion. The previous artefact was a fight scene so obviously the fast paced music worked better with it. In this clip I used a scene from Goodfellas but edited it to cut out the character pocketing a gun (as that would influence the audience's opinion of the character even without music) and also cut the scene before any conflict started. This gave me a neutral clip and allowed me to insert 4 different genres of music and survey people to find out how they felt the music affected the on-screen action.

One I had established my first artefact I went on to investigate how different genres of music affect the audience's perception of a film clip.

I chose this clip from Kill Bill with 3 different genres of music, all composed by myself in Apple Logic.



After watching the video I had arranged a survey to filled in with a few questions about the genres so I could gauge peoples' opinions.

Edited by Tom Pearson
Static Camera Jason Bickers
Mobile Camera Ollie Tristram

An animation into the DVD Menu for the work we are filming at university for BCS. The start animation will be displayed on a green screen where Brian, the presenter, will be introducing the DVD. As he finishes the menu will come into focus. This is not the final design.

A film created for BCS to use with one of their clients, Occam Networks. This was made as part of the DVD we are producing for our client module.

My first artefact for the PRP module of the course. I composed a piece of music to give to this car chase, which doesn't originally have one. The purpose was not necessarily for the music to fit with the film, but to show what the film could sound like had it had music originally. I then asked people their opinion on whether the soundtrack affected their perception of the film.



The outcome was that some people think it does improve the film, but then some people thought it worked better without... However, most people would've liked to have heard a more matching soundtrack with the film, which leads me onto Artefact 2...

We Are All Connected - Watch more Funny Videos

Fantastic use of a pitch-shifter such as Melodyne. I never thought to put recorded speech through one of those to make a melody.

I have visited the website www.visit4info.com as well as YouTube to have a look at a multitude of different ads that I can draw inspiration from for my Simulated Client Project on file-sharing.

Here are a few that caught my attention and why:

The reason I like an advert in this style is that not only is it shot professionally, but it surprises you. It adds humour to the situation by showing the audience something out of the ordinary and they can relate to what they would feel like being at a funeral and then having a rugby streaker ruin it. Even after the streaker is seen we still don't know what the advert is about, and when the text confirms its for rugby everything falls to place in the audience's heads.



This is a very effective message making the audience feel guilty for breaking the law. It's hard to watch due to having a dead child on screen the through the whole advert which really shocks the audience into remembering it. With this message it is very personal as it only focuses on 2 people. File-sharing affects industries so something so direct would be much harder to pull off.



From the Hong Kong government comes a direct message that puts the audience into the crime world itself. Seedy clubs and sleazy people are seen thanking the audience for their contributions. It's intended to make the audience feel seedy and sleazy themselves. I feel it works in a way, because it does remind you that you are doing something illegal, but still you know you're not as low as the criminals seen in the ad, therefore wouldn't stop you.



Here is an example of a pretty poor student-produced advert on anti-piracy. It uses the same repeated message of comparing stealing other things, like shoplifting, is the same as stealing media content. However one way I think the message is affective is that it says it affects individuals rather than big corporations.

Related links worth visiting:

http://www.mredkj.com/other/sharing.html - A list of pros and cons for music file-sharing.

http://l3rady.com/2008/11/29/top-tips-on-how-not-to-get-caught-file-sharing/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/file_sharing_gamer_fined/

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/15/how-logistep-catches-file-sharers/ - A short bit of info on how anti-piracy firm Logistep can catch you.

The History Of Special Effects In Movies - Watch more Funny Videos

No Matrix in there but nevertheless a nice little video.

Yesterday I was asked by BCS to film as video evidence, the world record of the tallest stack of poppadoms at the Curry Lounge restaurant in Nottingham.

Other press were there including ITV and Trent FM and the record was beaten, standing at 151cm tall.

As well as including a full length video of the attempt from start to finish that was sent off to ITV, I have also done a bite-size version that could be included on the Curry Lounge website:

Deadline: Cool Stop-Motion Post-It Art - Watch more Funny Videos

The things you can create with Post-It notes!

A creepy, short Teaser Trailer for my film. Be sure to look below for the 'Making of' and the film itself.

Whilst we were filming, my friend Andrew, who was cast in the original version of the film to play Martyn, documented the process using another handheld camera. Including interviews with the actors and a couple of outtakes, this is the edited 'Making of...' documentary - Narrated by Josh Parker.

My final version!

After a few drafts and a bit of tweaking here and there, I can present to you the final version of my 6 minute fictional film to be submitted on May 22.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the film so if you visit the YouTube page you can post a comment there.

Thanks, and enjoy! :)

An interview with Sam Baird of Whitehill Media about the IPTV World Forum and how his company is doing.

An Interview from the IPTV World Forum with BCS Account Manager Chrissie Walker giving her view on the days events with their client Broadband Forum.

This is an edit which is an package for SeaChange, another one BCS' clients. It follows a similar principle to the Broadband Forum one below.