Well, unlike the illustration section, video is, if anything, too wide a category name.
These are videos created by myself for various reasons in various situations. Some were created as assignments at University, while others were jobs carried out while working within media companies.
Some of them are quite old... it has been a learning process. I cringe rewatching some of these.
Please enjoy.
Was asked by the unlimitedly talented Matthew James Borg to create the animation for the music video to his song “Road Trip”. Frame by frame, I slowly fell in love with these two.
(January 2020)
Always fun collaborating with an old classmate.
This is the final project for my thesis as the final part of my Masters in Fine Arts in Digital Arts at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Science at the University of Malta. Shout out to all the faculty, with a special mention to my tutor Prof. Vince Briffa.
It took this long to upload because it is slightly more complicated than just a video, and therefore, you can EXPERIENCE IT HERE.
I want to thank James for taking the time to make this possible.
I was exploring the perception of the speed of time, and therefore, obviously, filmed a one-take short film with six simultaneous cameras. You, the viewer, get to choose which camera to view at any point in time. You might miss important points, you might find some shots slow and boring, you might get confused about what’s happening, you can’t go back, or skip ahead, but that’s all part of the point.
Use the arrow keys to flip through cameras or the number keys (1-6) to jump to a specific camera…or watch it all the way through six times, it’s really up to you.
(March 2016)
I want to add a note to thank everyone who helped in this project, they’re all in the credits, they’re all awesome people, and I hope that they all look back on this intense day with fondness.
We were asked to create a short self-portrait video.
I found this an intriguing and strange concept. How could I show all I am in one short video? So I focused on my art.
Most of my art.
I know there are parts of this video which aren't perfect. One day I'll do back and fix them.
On the whole however I think it works, and shows quite a chunk of who I am artistically, while also including a bot of myself as a person.
All. Those. Frames!
(June 2015)
Multiplicity means a large number or variety.
Our video lecturer used it to mean a large number of the same person in one shot.
Here you will find a couple of examples of videos showing more than one iteration of the same person interacting with each other.
This was probably the first time I tried to create a video showing multiple versions of one person, and I tried to make them play music together... How else was I supposed to learn if not go for the hardest?
Its not perfect, and it's small, (we were filming in DV 4:3) but I think it works.
This was done in collaboration with Jjeannette m. Skowronek. Matthew Borg from Red Electrick provided the song "Who the Heck is REK" from their first album.
(January 2011)
This video was created as a University assignment.
The assignment stated simply multiple versions of one person. Having created similar videos before, I decided to give myself the challenge of making the different versions of me, interact with each other, even "pass" an object to each other.
And once again... music... of sorts.
(May 2015)
Fr Rob Galea had contacted me and asked if I was interested in creating a music video for his new single. He said he wanted something hand drawn and simple. He left it up to me.
This is what I came up with and although I'll be the first to admit that some of the artwork is not the best, it has proven to compliment the message of the song well.
Fr Rob has told me that in schools he visited in Australia, students have seen the video and re-created, in their own way, similar artworks as the one created in the video.
(March 2013)
While working at Media Centre we were asked to film a work shop being held by world famous story teller, Rachel Rose Reid. More than anything this was done for documentary purposes.
But whats the point of filming something fun and creative, if you're not allowed to then be creative and fun while putting it together.
(April 2014)
The idea is to make people watching go "wha? ... hold on! ... play it again"
The assignment read "The Camera Cannot Lie".
Now cuts in video can make a camera show many things. Special Effects can do even more. I took it upon myself to make sure that in this video, it was only the camera that was doing the lying.
And what better way to do that than a one shot video?
(March 2015)
Forming part of a band, we decided to try and record a cover of the song ‘Budapest” by George Ezra. The filming consisted of mostly static shots, allowing me to play while at as videographer. :) The beauty of a take like this is that editing is a matter of synchronising the nine video clips and then choosing the best shot for the moment. You do have to manage a perfect take of the song though.
This was filmed during a real take, meaning the audio was recorded with the footage. Helped by Mr Robert Cassar, I feel the video brought out the relaxed atmosphere present during our usual rehearsals.
When Funk Initiative asked me to create their music video, I leapt at the opportunity. I might have been over ambitious with the concept though. It sort of worked, in a cheap student-budget kind of way. It was fun to do, and it was a massive learning experience.
This was my first experimentation with large scale green screen. I'll be the first to admit that it did not go as smoothly as I had hoped.
The backgrounds are purposely left quite raw, and while I think it works in concept (we were not trying to make it look realistic) might have been better executed.
In fact, there is so much of this project I would change if I could redo it today.
The experience of planning and filming it was an amazing one and made me fall in love with the coordinating large groups of people and being all director-y. (Yes, I know it's not a word)
(May 2011)
Filmed a number of times with multiple cameras, the challenge in this video was organising the footage and choosing which shot to choose. The performances were perfect every time, so that was not a problem.
Filmed with Matt Urpani, (look him up, he's awesome) this is a simple video of amazing local talent. Sandrina (look her up, she's awesome) is covering London Grammer's "Hey Now" accompanied by Kris Spiteri (look him up, he's awesome).
The studio did a lot of the work in making this video look so warm and welcoming, but I like to think I had some impact.
(December 2016)
When creating a documentary, especially one which mostly involves people talking, the biggest challenge, and pleasure, is editing their sentences to continue a train of thought. One person seems to continue off another. Or one interviewee seems to answer the comment of the previous one.
It is difficult to make only people talking, an interesting video.
At least the subject matter was fun.
This project was created in collaboration with Jeannette M. Skowronek as part of our video credit at University. It is the last part of a documentary which explores what students from different faculties think about students other faculties.
This part deals with Communication students. We used to get a lot of stick from people for our course, but you all have to admit, we're quite awesome.
(June 2011)
At Media Centre, we did a lot of work for the archbishop's seminary in Malta. They come forward with a message or a theme, maybe a loose idea of what they had in mind and usually leave the creative side of things up to us.
We work well together.
The aim of this video is to explain and inform about a period of preparation and discernment called the propaedeutic period.
Yeah, I had never heard of it either. Shows the need for the video.
This was my first animation video, quite happy with the overall result, and so were the client. :)
We were asked to show that priests are not simply the individual in a robe we see behind the altar at mass.
We decided to show a young girl ask a priest questions like "you don't meet your family?" and "what else do you do?" like she was asking questions for some school homework.
While we do not hear the answers of the priest, we see a number of local priests answering the questions through shots from their lives.
I am aware that this only works in Malta were due to our small population, everyone knows most priests.
The filming of this production was directed by Maria Spiteri Peregin.
(May 2017)
Client says, we want it to look fun and sporty. We need to try to convince young people to choose this instead of sitting at home in wifi.
Whiz Team Adventure is an organisation which holds activities throughout the year for groups of youths to experience sports such as archery, scuba diving, canoeing and many others.
When the video was created, the organisation had not yet begun operating. There existed no footage of their activity.
We made it work.
(September 2015)
