John Grierson

"The documentary idea, demands no more than that the affairs of our time shall be brought to our screen in  a fashion which strikes the imagination and makes observation a little richer than it was. at one level, the vision may be journalistic, at another, it may rise to poetry and drama. At another level again, it is an aesthetic quality may lie in the mere lucidity of its expression". Quote from introduction of Grierson on Documentary by Forsyth Hardy.
More on Grierson here  from the Grierson Trust. Among his many achievements, John Grierson established the National Film Board of Canada during World War II, and served as UNESCO's first Director of Mass Communications and Public Information in 1947. Throughout his long career, he was in some way responsible for the production of well over 1000 films and television programmes. There is an annual award given at the BFi each autumn during the London film festival.

blink productions

BLINK  good stable of directors of adverts and pop promo, you will recognise the work. good profiles of the directors with their history, and what they do. have a look.

unofficial Tin Tin title sequence

unofficial tintin title sequence by James Curran. HERE

slimjim studios

...Yesterday (24 Oct), Edgar Wright revealed that a Mr. Steven Spielberg saw the opening credits on the web, contacted the artist James Curran, invited him to last night's UK premiere and hired him to work on his next film. Whoa.

Curran, a London-based designer and animator, created the TINTIN credits on a lark and somehow they found their way back to Mr. Spielberg (JoBlo.com perhaps?). Curran created the video in just about a month's time with music from the original TV series. As a huge fan of the series, he incorporated elements from all 24 books, even if they weren't a big part of the movie.(text from joblo movie network)

New Jim Le fevre title sequence

Making of the "Holy Flying Circus" Title Sequence - A Rather Large Phonotrope . BBC Story

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music competition.

there is an opportunity to compose a piece of music for a feature film (if you are that way inclined).
see more details HERE
8 minutes idle is a contemporary feature film based in Bristol, and the music is for a 'student Party' ...

unspoken cinema

Unspoken Cinema, non narrative cinema explained quite well, I feel.
"I especially like the tree-leaves analogy. It's a matter of perspective scale. The unit is either the leaf or the tree, depending on what scale is considered. All the shots don't necessarily constitute a narrative point, we should be able to consider the film as a whole, and the blank spaces (slow long-takes, empty frames) as one of many leaves that build the overall shape of the tree we are looking at. We shouldn't expect a meaningful message or an action in every shot. The film is a flow and we experience the length of a film in its entirety, with its time dedicated to "movements without action" and its time dedicated to "events with narrative progression". And these movements are as important as the action in cinema."

Dan Harries ~ nice vlogs, good site - top stuff