Testing Stages

First of some horrible news, the UK Film Council has been axed. You can read about it properly here, but please also sign the petition, as the UK Film Council is an important part of the UK film industry and I think worth saving. And don't forget to join the facebook group.

Onto me now! I've been playing around with my new camera. I've got a Canon 550D and the lens I have is the Sigma 18-200mm. I'm not a photography expert, but I've found the lens to be really great and it really does produce some really stunning shots.

I'm aiming to do one test video per week as a way for me to get to grips with the camera as well as trying to get to grips with Final Cut Studio as well. I've used Final Cut Pro before as this is what we edit on at university. However, we've not used the other applications such as Color or Motion before, so I've trying to play around with these as well.

Here's a few quick non specific test videos I did though.


"A little something I shot on my new Canon EOS 550D. Was playing around and experimenting, just shooting things in and around my garden.

The sound design is all mine as well. At the forefront there are two pieces of music, both by Max Richter, which I worked together and are playing together at the same time, as well as all the other little details."
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"Some test footage I did of my cats, shot on my Canon 550D with a Sigma 18-200mm lens. The second shot I slowed down in post, however, I did also film it at 50fps so it should still be smooth. Obviously need to do some further tests with slow motion.

It was shot at 720p so should be in HD but for some reason has just been uploaded in SD. More tests needed."

Since I've was busy with my camera and writing scripts last month, I didn't finish any of my music tracks I've been working on, however, I do have this soundtrack mix which I created a while ago instead.

Machines by Aaron Buckley

I've two more mixes like this and am currently working on another one.

I've also uploaded parts 4 and 5 of the Gang Show which I worked on.


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You can view all parts that have currently been uploaded here.

A New Wave

I've recently bought a Canon EOS 550D, which shoots video in full 1080p HD. I'm still waiting for my lens to arrive, but when it does I'm going to start shooting some stuff, and join the new wave of DSLR filmmakers.

In other news, I've managed to upload the first three parts of the Gang Show that I shot over Easter. There's plenty more parts to come as it's a two and a half hour show, but I can only upload one part per week on Vimeo as the files take up most of my 500MB weekly upload capacity and I can only upload one HD video per week as well.

Here are the first three parts though:


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You will be able to find the rest of the videos here as they get uploaded.

On to music now and I've been coming up with a few tunes here and there and playing around with different sounds on Logic Express. I've come up with quite a few, but my aim is to finish one a month, so here is the first.

Running by aaronbuckley

I could probably do a lot more to the piece, however, I'm happy with it and see it as finished. I was going for a Run Lola Run feel with it, which I'm happy I achieved when I played it for a group of friends and one of them compared it to Run Lola Run. It might not be the best electronic piece ever, but I'm more of a film music person myself, and in terms of that I feel I've succeeded.