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adventures in moving image design

Ultrascope is a Brighton-based studio focused on the design of video installations and motion graphics. Ultrascope’s core activities are:
- generating motion graphics for installations, performances and broadcast
- video environment design, installation and operation

we’ve worked with: Bloomberg, JCB, Canal+, 2020 Cricket, MTV, Nike, BBC, Orbital, Keane, Nickelodeon, Edinburgh Hogmanay
co-collaborators: Drive, Lavish, Exceeda, Luke Losey, Blue Edge, Jes Benstock, Renegade Design, Corin Hardy, Skyline

Skanska’s Essex presentation

> a 2 minute introductory film for Skanska’s £2 billion school-building bid in Essex, in the style of Brennan, Finch and McLeod’s influential information aesthetics piece ‘Did You Know?’ Part of a presentation pieced together by Blue Edge

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The British Guide to Showing Off 2

> after live camera vision mixing for the 2009 Alternative Miss World event, Living Cinema asked me to create a 1 minute animated reconstruction of the court case between Miss World and the Alternative Miss World
for the upcoming feature length documentary “The British Guide to Showing Off”

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Bloomberg studio launch

> multi-screen sequence for the launch event of Bloomberg’s largest newsroom studio, complete with giant LED floor.

4 minutes long, on 4 screens, produced in only 2 weeks! The event was staged by Drive Productions; music by Stevie D, projected using Hippotizer

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Whitenight 09

> video mapping project onto the Unitarian church in Brighton with the Brighton Animators’ Network Group. I was technician and projectionist for the event, responsible for ensuring the 40+ animations created for the event ended up mapped correctly onto the Church.. which they did! You can see the results here. Sadly I was too busy with the Bloomberg job to get much further than building the lighting setup above, (although I did do a live mix onto the Church for a fashion show using Modul8 which was fun) but I am currently developing very detailed maps for a secret location in Brighton, using virtual mapping, live action and graphics to recreate local stories – all very exciting, watch this space

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When Romeo met Juliet

> live camera vision mix for BBC2 production “When Romeo met Juliet” I love vision mixing and this was a great challenge, working with a camera crew of 5 alongside my director pal Graham Strong , who I worked with in a similar role on the Edinburgh Hogmanay and Alternative Miss World shows. The performance from the kids was very impressive and powerful.

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Decale idents

> idents and stings for Canal+ subsidiary channel Decale. Working with my main man Xavier from Exceeda we pieced together 20 x 10 sec and 20 x 5 sec stings. Working with existing footage and soundtracks and a pre-defined split-screen style, we employed subtle editing and effects to sync image and sound

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