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Stephen Scott's Showreel
Since I produced the third cover CD in 1997, I had pondered
over whether to include some of my own personal work, both
from my degree course, and from within myself.
I decided that for this 200th issue I should include something
or other, so I present to you these two Quicktime movies from
my degree course. One of them is my own work, while the other
I co-produced with another student.
I would have converted these two files into Replay format,
but for two reasons. The first was that I didnt have a copy of
!MovieFS at the time of creating the CD, so I had to leave them
as is. The second reason was that by converting to Replay
format, people with non CD drive Acorns could not run the files
on a PC or Macintosh if they had access to one. So I have left
them as Quicktimes.
I seem to recall both these movies working on a 1996 version of
MovieFS, so the latest version *must* be able to cope with them.
They will certainly work on Macs and PCs. Although the two
files are not filetyped, you should be able to drag them into
!ARMovie (if you own MovieFS as well) and play them straight
off the disc.
I must apologise for the quality of both movies. Subsequent
moving from computer to computer has meant compressing it
further and further, and I do not own the originals any more.
That said, you can still make out most of what is going on.
Another point worth noting is that parts of the soundtracks
in both movies have been chopped out in order to prevent
breach of copyright. I dont think leaving the movies with
bits of the Beatles or Mark Morrison would be very clever
would it?!
With that said, I'll describe the two movies;
LUST (LUST.MOV; 8mb AVI/Quicktime file)
Produced in mid 1996, this project marked the end of my
first year at university. The brief was to pick a deadly
sin, and make a minute long movie interpreting it in
sound and vision. This was my result. The visuals are a
bit strong in places, so dont be too offended!
Running time: 65 seconds. © Stephen Scott 1996
MACADMIN (MACMIN.MOV; 6mb AVI/Quicktime file)
Produced in early 1997, this project was produced with
a fellow student and all round decent bloke (although he
is a bit obsessed with motorbikes) Dave Karena. Our aim
was to express the misery of the computer network design
students had to use at university. It also ridicules the
operation of an Apple Mac. Be aware that colourful
language is used in the movie, so keep it away from young
children (yes, I know there is educational software on the
same CD, so dont flame me for it!)
BTW, this film stars me in it. Its my first attempt at
acting, and I think it should be my last, judging by the
look of it.
Running time: 60 seconds. © Stephen Scott/Dave Karena 1997
Both movies were produced on Apple Macs using Adobe Premiere 4,
but in the case of the Lust movie, all the typography was
produced using Artworks (and a load of fonts), and then screen
grabbed to a particular size. Exported as TIFF, they were then
imported into Premiere, along with other bits and pieces. Some
sounds were also taken from the Acorn - can you guess which
game it was?
I hope you enjoy the movies. Note that although these movies
can be freely distributed, they are not to be taken apart or
edited without our (Stephen Scott, Dave Karena) express
permission.
We can both be contacted on email at sa_scott@yahoo.com or
karena@pemail.net.
Stephen Scott
8th September, 1998