http://www.awtfilms.co.uk en-gb awtfilms.co.uk 2010-6-6T00:00:00Z awtfilms.co.uk http://www.awtfilms.co.uk/page11.htm#67162 Ever since Avatar came out the buzz word has been 3D. Cinema progresses technically and with progression come new experiences and new stories to tell to entertain the viewer.Lets put this into perspective. 1900 First there was the moving image. People worked out you could make little films though they were silent.1920s Then came the microphone. These silent films were suddenly obsolete. Why would you have no talking or sound effects on a film when in the real world footsteps make a sound and people have conversationsBut there was still something missing despite this wonderful sound the film was in black and white.But the world is colourful Objects all around us have colour pretty much nothing is pure black and white.1940s So along comes colour film. Another little tentative step towards the goal of making film as realistic as possible.1950s And then at around the same time as colour few are aware of this 3D came along So were nearly there in the effort for realism in the cinema.It shou... 2010-6-6T00:00:00Z http://www.awtfilms.co.uk/page11.htm#66603 The last series of the popular television show Ashes to Ashes about a detective who has mysteriously gone back to 1983 after being shot is a classic example of what happens when people run out of ideas they go abstract. The first two series were fine fun entertaining and had an element of mystery that the viewer was trying to work out throughout the series and then came to a satisfactory conclusion at the end when everything was made clear. The last and final series of the show however was so hard to understand so abstract that it even took a newspaper to write an article explaining to its readers what on earth had actually happened in the series and what on earth that ending had to do with... anythingWhy was the series so hard to understand Why was the storyline so abstract The writers had run out of ideas. In fact all the way through history you see abstraction appearing whenever the ideas dry up. When people have done everything there is to do they start doing things nobody had unti... 2010-5-31T00:00:00Z http://www.awtfilms.co.uk/page11.htm#59904 Every now and then somebody will say oh classical music is boring nobody listens to it anymore let alone writes it anymoreHello Did I hear that right Nobody listens to classical music anymore Nobody writes classical music anymoreIm sorry but I think who ever said that just didnt have their hearing aid in the right place when they last went to the cinema. Lord of the Rings Star wars every single Speilberg film Avatar you name it theyve got it. Its called classical music or as most would call it film music. But its plain and clear for everyone to hear they all use large orchestras and they all could be compared to works by Chopin and Beethoven. Composers like James Horner or John Williams are all classical music composers working with large orchestras writing themes and using the expression in classical music to follow a narrative on screen.What made me write this blog was walking past a poster on the tube. Star Wars projected in High Definition accompanied Live by the London Philharm... 2010-3-6T00:00:00Z http://www.awtfilms.co.uk/page11.htm#57857 Youve seen a lot of projectors around recently havent you Yes so have I. But people arent really exploiting projectors for what they can do in my opinion at least. Projectors and the surfaces they project onto have innumerable possibilities for new looks and incredible styles and I believe this is going to be a massive boom in the presentation of media and viewing solutions. Just recently I got a commission to do up the lighting at a shop called Whittawer in Oxford. It was looking pretty drab and no one came in because it looked closed. So I installed new lights put in a great window display etc etc but one little idea I had was to use a very innovative idea of mine to create a large digital window backdrop display using a very advanced fabric and an untapped technique of projection. Im not gonna give all my ideas away here but its a technique used in the film industry way back in the 193080s in film so right down my street here in film technology. This allowed Whittawer to show their... 2010-2-6T00:00:00Z http://www.awtfilms.co.uk/page11.htm#56350 I think many would agree that contemporary art holds little meaning other than to the artist and shows little skill. It is easy to compare a work by Damien Hirst to a work by the Renaissance painter Rafael. One shows little artistic or technical merit and the other shows incredible technical ability and a brilliant artistic mind.This could be because Damien Hirst was never taught nor interested in technical ability however perhaps he could quite possibly be the next Rafael if only he could actually paint anything. Its easy to see that all great artists are bubbling with ideas but with the advent of pop art it is not the patron who is in control of what he buys. More so it is the artist who is in control of what the patron should buy. Artists now make work for themselves and then try to sell it. Commissions are rare and it is artists who catch the eye and can sell their product who attract the wealthy patron. The result is art has become a fashion. Most contemporary art does not hold a... 2010-1-17T00:00:00Z