Sphercular Vision DVD

Here's the updated contents of the dvd

This is the contents for the first half of the dvd.
It's about 40 minutes long and very tightly edited to music.
The emphasis is on showing the best possible footage clearly without too many effects.
(This is pretty much just lifted from the old post so skip passed if you've read it)

Here's the official preview for the dvd: Including the name of the dvd and the all new spherculism logo, which have remained entirely secret until now

http://www.spherculism.net/dvd/index.html ~ flash movie at 200% size

http://www.spherculism.net/dvd/index_mov.html ~ embeded movie file

http://www.spherculism.net/dvd/sphercular_vision.swf ~ actual flash file

http://www.spherculism.net/dvd/sphercular_vision.mov ~ actual movie file

One of those should do ya

1) "Turn Yourself Around" >> Me on poi and 2diabolo, Oli (from brighton) on 2staff, Raf on 2diabolo in preston park in brighton. This is the first one i did and it's a bit sloppy but works well. It's really tightly edited to the music.

2) "Rays From the Sun" - Golden Valley >> This is all the day time footage from bristol JC. Lots of happy smiley people mucking about in the sun. Really fun. Introduced some nice little effects into the editing. This is the one that some of you have seen Wink Great footage of ros spinning clubs.

3) "The Essence" >> Me on poi, Jon on poi, Chris on poi and staff in preston park again, in the corner near Balfour road Smile This one has turned out soooo well, i really love it. It was hard to edit cos the track flows along without big 'events'. So for a while the editing was a bit wet. But it's turned out great. Lots of real tricky poi moves in their, some cool slow motion parts when the track slows down. this is the most badass poi video i have ever seen. Loads of wibbling, loads of tangles, lots of slo mo so you can see what's going on. Very cool video, has a great vibe about it. Very excited about this one.

4) Finished the uberPoi fire footage i have, the tracks called "Taking my time". With Rob Bluecat, Ronin, a little bit of eimhin, olive, molly and nyc
The sime effects on the fire look excellent, turned out really nice this one.

5) "You never mentioned that you hate it, or even that you are castrated......" A track i don't know the name of by a band called "The Scrub" in bristol>> Bristol juggling convention fire night. Loads of crazy spinners, staff, poi, devil sticks, all sorts of crazy antics. This one is cut really tight to the track and i'm very happy with it. It looks totally sick and is full of footage from the fire show, meg, laura, kev, ds adam, olive, phirenix, viv, oli, a litle bit of garth and so on. Awesome video.

6) Working on a fire piece from brighton with loads of mates from the level. Trying to use footage of Duff drumming but have to edit the music before i can edit the video. I suck at audio editing and am finding this one increadibly hard. Not sure how it will turn out. Got some cool footage to go in there tho, including great fire devil sticks from craig...

7) I have a track created by the awesome and increadible Kyle and Elliott from brisbane. It's 9 minutes long and the footage from uberOz is sick so this video is gonna be great. Will be making it very soon.

8.) A super psycadelic track about eating mushrooms "I sit upon a hill top, turn my face to the sky, the stars drip honey in my eye....." I call it "The Big Trip" >>I went to town on this one. You'll love it. Loads of psycadelic colours, all the trippiest poi and staff moves by Me, poi-Oli and Olive. This is currently the crown jewel of the dvd, it's really polished and excellent quality. With images fading in and moving about gently around. Great colours, i love this piece!!

9) A special video of everyones f***ups called Falafel. This track is excellent, it's a piss take of the ego side of the hiphop scene. The style of this piece is badass, nice and rough. I was particularly cruel when clipping the mistakes. I cut from just before the mistake to the frame before they get out of it. It's hilarious to watch, i really love this video. Just gotta tweak a few vids and it's done

******* Then section 2 is similar but a bit different ************

The focus here is more of a VJ feel (like DJ but with video)
Lots of effects.
Lots of eye candy.
Still you can see lots of what's going on.
I tended to keep longer clips of people so it's more freestyley
similar but different
Another 40 Mins
All music by bad:science

10) "Gotta live positive" ~ This is the full track from the trailer. I've edited a whole new piece to it. It's all of me spinning fire slitting into 2 of me and joining back together again.

11) "The Rhythm Rolls" ~ this is almost finished and is the footage that Mr Chutney and Poikid sent me. Looks really nice. Quite simple. Thinki'm going to put some footage MCP sent me in here too.

12) "I wanna Hear Consciousness Raise a Hand Up" ~ This one is completely bonkers. It's filmed pointing the camera up and i'm spinning poi. Loads of box planes and inversions, oddles of effects. I walk round the camera so looks like i'm spinning upside down and all sorts. Very cool vj video.

13) "Mr Politician" ~ Not a great deal of spinning in this video. Awesome grafitti from brighton tho. It's a mile long wall painted by some of the best graf artists in europe. Plus some funny images of tony blair. Might spice this one up ven more but it's looking very cool.

14) "Sweet Sativa" ~ This footage was all inside the main tent at bristol JC. Lots of crazy druken late nite shenanegans. Crazy colours. Pretty funny.

15) "Close your eyes" ~ A very sexual song. I filmed my glow diabolos and poi and layered it all up. This is a mental eye popping experience. Don't plan on learning any moves from this one, just sit back and enjoy.

16) "Take Me Down To the River" ~ This is me and Raf playing diabolo mainly. Filmed under the railway viaduct in brighton with a wide angle lens. Overlayed with some of the grafitti and contact juggling. Very happy with how this one turned out.

17) "Hide Tide" ~ This is the video i had of Eimhin from Ireland at uberpoi playing 1 diabolo. The footage is sooooooo nice. Blows my mind, truely inspirational. Added a little effect to this one like star trek "beam me up". Quite funny. Lovely film.

18.) "The Blink Of An Eye" ~ This is a really epic tune. The footage for this one is Drew (Glass) playing with many CJ balls at bristol JC with big blue sky backdrop. This video was the last one i did and it's an honour to be able to use the footage. Thanks drew. Mind blowingly talented man.

19) "It won't be long now..." ~ My favourite track with a lot of meaning to me. I made a very simple final piece of me spinning poi and diabolo on a beautiful beach in new zealand. It was a dream that i'd had for a long time and i did it. No techy stuff just me having a spin.

So there it is, just a few to finish off but it's almost entirely done.
Thanks for everyones love and support

matt

****** Here's the original first post *********
Interesting to see how the project has evolved over time...

Since the spherculism site is now over a year old i figure it's about time to document our progress in our first annual dvd.

I now have enough people interested in this project to finnally make it happen.

I know i've talked to musashii before about similar videos to this.

The format will go something like this...

Any sphercular member who wishes to do so can become a part of this project. No matter whether you are a total beginner or slightly more advanced.

The performers will all need to aquire video equipment and think hard about their piece. But they'll be loads of help and advice along the way.

Performances can be solo or in groups and we welcome as many toys as you can play with

Raw footage will be separated into 2 types:

1) Footage or you practicing what you've been learning since becoming spherculish and stuff you're trying to nail at the moment. There will be guidelines on how to maximise the visibility of your poi and body to show everyone precisely what you can do. This is your chance to share what you know with the whole community.

2) Your Piece should be set in an interesting environment, perhaps in the woods or a city center, with a beautiful sunset or maybe some badass graffiti. Your piece should have some sense of story, a begining, middle and end and should be an equal display of your technical ability and artistic prowess.

It will preferably be performered in time with that music, i.e listen to the track while your perform then send me a copy of the tunes to dub over the top.

If you wish you can edit your piece together, or if you prefer you can send in your footage for editors to work with.

Any experienced members can help out with the editing, we'll discuss this more nearer the time. Then i have some professional video production friends lined up who will be taking it to the next level.

Polishing off the graphic style will be me and Joe ~ a truly superb illustrator who will make this dvd the most badass you've ever seen.

Then of course i have a few cheeky little tricks up my sleeve, but you'll just have to wait for those.

The finished product will be delivered as a dvd and will be an example of the entire cross section of skills and styles in our little community.

After 6 months the profits will be shared out amongst everyone who is involved in the project.

So not only do you get to be in a beautifully crafted videowhich you can add to your portfolio but you also have the chance to earn a little money for your efforts.

This is all still open to debate and there ae many more details to come. Im just interested in getting an idea of how many poiple are willing to put their energy in to this project.

matt