During the film school professional filmmakers mentored six young filmmakers over two months while they created video content for the REcreative website. One of those professional filmmakers was NextShoot’s Managing Director, Dominic Sutherland who worked with Leila Hussein and Vilja Achte and in-house cameraman Ian Martin.

Together they created a video about Art Licks, a multi-platform resource that supports the emerging independent art scene in South and East London. It’s a website with weekly listings, a quarterly magazine, a walking tour and, come October, a three day festival with talks, exhibitions and events.

NextShoot has a lot of experience with art and fashion videos having created videos with artists Mark Wallinger, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Miranda Donovan and filmed for fashion retailers like Sass & Bide, Louis Vuitton and Rupert Sanderson.

Take a look at our art and fashion section for more interesting videos!

Of course, we’re all familiar with ‘slow-motion’, the effect of presenting an event slower than it’s perceived in the natural world, and nearly all of us have spent at least a few minutes enjoying random objects being blown up, slowly. For those of you who’ve missed out on the joy of this experience, have a look the latest video from The Slow Mo Guys, “Paint Exploding at 15,000 fps”. If paint is too dull for you, have a look at a car exploding in slow motion instead.

What you may not know is how this technique that we now take for granted came about. It all started with a small bet around a popular debate of the 1870’s – whether all four of a horse’s hooves are ever off the ground at the same time.

Puzzling over the conundrum was photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Contemporary photography wasn’t sophisticated enough to capture sharp footage of fast moving objects, so he had to figure out a way to increase shutter speed and to take a succession of pictures.

In 1878 Muybridge was finally ready. He used twelve stereoscopic cameras with their shutters connected to wires. The horse Sallie Gardener then broke these wires as it was ridden by, triggering the shutters, so that photographs were taken in succession at one thousandth of a second.

Run together at 24 fps, these photographs produced the effect of the horse in motion, or a film, paving the way for the slow-motion filming technique and proving that at points galloping horses really do have all four hoofs of the ground at the same time.

Since then, slow-motion has become a staple ingredient in film and television, especially in sport’s broadcasting and in action movies, such as the famous bullet-time sequence in ‘The Matrix’.

Viewing events in slow-motion – a hummingbird diving for a fish, a rugby player diving for the line – changes the way we see real time events. One can only wonder what Muybridge would make of a the Phantom Flex4K.

A dog’s life? What’s clear from this doggy-POV video captured on a Go-Pro is that if you’re Great Dane you get a lot of respect in the park …

Ever wondered where all your missing socks go? This clever (and slightly strange) video combines canny computer graphics and some very cute felines defending your sock draw from nocturnal ninja sock thieves (yes, really).

Owl films are certainly a niche, but quality lenses, good editing and some real talent in this parliament (that’s the collective noun for owls!) make this a surefire winner:

Welcome to my first post, in which I’m going to talk about myself. However feel free to tell me something about you in the comments.

Let’s start with the basics. I’m Sofie, I’m 20 years old and I’m from Belgium. Your mind probably wandered off to chocolate and beer right now. I don’t blame you.

I’m currently doing a BA Communication Management at Plantijn College. Basically they are turning me into an advertising guru. Objective, target group, strategy, … It’s interesting, but my real passion is film.

Thanks to my internship at NextShoot, I’m combining the best of both worlds. I gain an insight into the film production world and I get to make advertisements, alongside other films such as corporate, events, listings and many more. I encourage you to take at look at them and admire the quality and professionalism.

Now I get to the part that is most important to you. I will be posting regularly from now on.
I plan on entertaining you with the latest trends, creative inspiration and some “behind the scenes” footage.

I look forward to it!

Take a look at the final video here

Here is our interviewee Ted next to the incredible Rochester Story Telling machine at the Oxford Story Telling Museum, where he is Artist in Residence, and then here is the adorable Bing Bunny.

Ted Dewan and the Rochester Story Telling Machine

The adorable Bing Bunny