Tribute to Great British Poet Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell famously said of Poetry:

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people

He was a towering figure [Wiki entry], but I won't pretend to be the expert or anywhere near that on him.




Above, this is from London's Royal Albert Hall on June 11 1965 called "To Whom it May Concern.

Part of my sojourn as Artist in Residence at the South Bank Centre is to capture what I would call moments and this is a treasured one behind the scenes as family and friends gather.

A tribute show was planned for the evening and with 2 hours to go, Lucy McNab, one of the producers at the South Bank, somehow got me into the rehearsals.

Not that I didn't want to go, more what would I do, as well as not intrude, as everyone quietly prepared themselves for the evening's performance.

Sasha who features in the video, very kindly leaned over to me, said hello and then asked what I was doing.

A three minute garbled spiel followed, before she concluded: "lovely!"

I hope this is OK.

Emergence of the Super Screen - South Bank

At the inception of TV, the wise counsel of film decided they needed something that would differentiate them from the new pretender so they introduced panoramic screens.

That brought on the 16X9 format and in some cases 35mm went 70mm. Some star film makers hated it complaining how they'd filll the space. Others, particularly directors, who shot Westerns took to it well.

Today we are suffused with a cacophony of screen formats outside the cine complex and the pic you see above is that from the South Bank, which is often used to relay shows in the Festival Hall.

It's a great canvas and one I'm hoping to use, but not until I have thought through a project that would best use the dimensions

Barack Obama: 100 days (live event, London)

Barack Obama: 100 days (live event, London)

QT movie of live video projection at the Purcell Rooms, South Bank Centre (UK) to accompany the original live score of emerging talented composer and conductor Shirley Thompson and a classical ensemble.

This piece was nerve wrackingly put together with hours to spare after the White House's Pete Souza made available pics under creative commons.

Additional material from Obama campaign site.

It looks like Sound Slides but was cut in FCP using key frames to give it rostrum movement.

For more details on the making on this and other multimedia features go to viewmagazine.tv