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21/08/2009

Award-winning Kingston Film Becomes The Talk Of Twitter

It's the talk of social networking website Twitter, has had over 66,000 hits on YouTube and is spreading like wildfire on Facebook.
HP-Invent, a minute-long video by two graphic design students from Kingston University, was shot live, speeded up to synchronise with a dance soundtrack and features printers producing kaleidoscope-style graphics.
The film, by Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson, took about six weeks to make and was shot live on HS video cameras, then speeded up 9000%.
It was one of four projects from Kingston University to be highly commended at the recent D&AD Student Awards, placing the University in joint second place of all UK student entries.
The idea came about while Tom, 21, from Blandford Forum, Dorset and Matt, 22, from Shoreham-by-sea, West Sussex, were printing off research for another project.
Tom said: "We joked about how you could make the art of printing a beautiful thing, and the next minute we were driving around London emptying various Argos stores of their HP printers."
Tom and Matt choreographed, directed, filmed and edited the video at the moving image suite at Kingston University.
Tom continued: "We ended up using pretty much all the pieces of equipment they have in there, even if not as they were intended. The Senior Technician Kenny Evans justifiably winced when we were rigging up the expensive HD cameras on lighting rigs and shooting them up towards the ceiling to get the extra height."
Matt said: "Our brief was to present an idea which promotes the Hewlett Packard Workstation's ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive.
"So, in our film, the HP Workstation is the brain behind the operation, conducting a visual symphony in which the printers become the orchestra."
The pair paid special tribute to Mr Evans and graphic design and photography course director Rebecca Wright for all the support they had given them.
Matt added: "Rebecca was incredibly enthusiastic and motivating throughout our third year, and especially through this project."
Ms Wright praised Tom and Matt for their hard work and said all the Kingston students' work, especially the HP film, had caused "lots of excitement" at the D&AD awards ceremony. The video can be viewed at: www.vimeo.com/5437401.
(KMcA/GK)
VMI.TV Ltd

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