Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Case Study: Alex Southam

Freelances for OB management

To begin with he trained as a lawyer but decided to go in a new direction and work in film as he found being a lawyer to be uninteresting.
he began making music videos in an attempt to learn the trade.

In 2012 he joined Agile Films and he undertook all of the tasks for his music videos whilst working for them, however he now hires put others as the budget allows.

He likes the format of music videos as you can try new techniques and have real artistic freedom he is less keen on commercials as they have much less artistic freedom involved.

He showcases his videos on Vimeo as opposed to youtube as he feels it has a "Higher status".

His first breakthrough video was tesselate by Alt-J which had a budget of £10,000.


The people in this video have all been superimposed onto the background as the budget didn't allow for them to actually film on location and most of the effects were added post filming via editing software.

Another of his videos was Chase&Status- Lost and not found which had a budget of £50,000
 
He filmed this video in three takes and he filmed it slightly faster than usual and slowed it down in editing which gives it a smooth almost slow motion effect.

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