Noise by Nuria (2020)

Editing for a music video

I was asked to edit a friend's footage for a music video project

I matched cuts from different takes to achieve a feeling of layered motion which compliments the music

Performed by Nuria

Filmed by Jack Robert-Tissot

Edited by Lochie James

Glory Days - Intro, interstitials and sponsor advertisment for the talk show segment 'Glory Days' of the CMAS 4th World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships hosted in Hobart (2017)

VHS 80's stylised intro and an unsolicited advertisment for real event sponsor Najades Fins

I used After Effects to create a cheesy, 80's styled intro with goofy transitions and a gritty VHS aesthetic for the Championship's after-game broadcast

The championships were broadcast live on youtube to an international audience

Glory Days theme song by Nick Howe

Filmed by Jacked Robert-Tissot

Edited and produced by Lochie James

Dealing with dealing with loss [NSFW] (2017)

A violent dark comedy about Megan, whose ex creates a cult around their breakup and his own frustrations

Inspired by the harsh aesthetic of Darren Aronofsky's Pi I set out to complete an ambitious short film project that would test all my skills so far

I performed almost every production related to task, including writing, filming (mostly with a steadicam), lighting, directing, audio and creating a prosthetic, with music written by Nicke Howe and arranged by me

As goofy as it ends up being, I'm particularly proud of the performances of my friends and Megan in particular, as well as the overall aesthetic, and I'm glad I was able to complete something like this

Starring Megan Cao and Nick Howe

Filmed, edited and produced by Lochie James

Project Birdsong promotional video (2017)

Film to promote my ICT capstone project team's product, the project birdsong citizen science app

Our brief was to 'explain our project and attract investors' though, due to our app being for citizen science, we focused on recruiting volunteers instead of investors

Script written and read by Birdsong Team

Filmed, edited and produced by Lochie James

Dating Series - Surreal, humourous exploration of modern dating and loneliness through character driven creative writing (2017)

Short narrated character stories to explore norms and expectations with modern dating

Inspired by some short surreal poetry by Stanely Donwood

A series of works exploring the idiosyncrasies of modern dating through surreal situations and characters

Written by Lochie James

Performed by Nick Howe, Kelly Eijdenberg, Jack Robert-Tissot, Megan Cao, Lochie James, Lainey James

Honour - 48 hour film - Tasploitation 2017 entry

Trying to think of something nice to say at a friends wedding could be enough to send you over the edge

Filmed and edited over 48 hours, we were trying to carry the professionalism we'd learned from North into a much shorter pipeline

Starring Katie Robertson

Written by Michael Blake

Directed by Jack Robert-Tissot

Editing by Lochie James

Music by Nick Howe

North - Pitch Video for series funding (2016)

Pitch and teaser for a webseries about upward mobility and internet celebrity

Planned, filmed and produced over a 2 week period, 'North' was a concept pitch for a web series dealing with the internet as a tool for social mobility in otherwise stangant Australian suburbs

We utilised multiple locations, lighting setups and techniques to film and produce as professional a product as possible

Although ultimately unsuccessful in the Screen Tasmania grants program, we were commended by organisers for our professional aesthetic and pitch

Written and Directed by Michael Blake

Photographed by Jack Robert-Tissot

Sound and Editing by Lochie James

Music by Nick Howe

271ref:c12 - 48 hour film - Tasploitation 2016 entry

Relying on the strong performance of Tasmania's Simone Dobber, we attempted to tell a more contained story for the Tasploitation 48 hour competition this year

Horrific circumstances unfold through 'found footage' of a police interview

Having learned our lessons regarding shooting at multiple locations during the 2014 Tasploitation, we attempted to achieve a higher level of pollish for the short time frame by telling a more contained story, leaning into the genre trope of found-footage, and letting performance and narrative take a stronger role

Starring Simone Dobber

Written and Directed by Michael Blake

Photographed by Jack Robert-Tissot

Sound and Editing by Lochie James

The Stan Show with Sean Edward Whelan - Live at the Homestead (2015)

I was asked to record sound and visuals for a collaberation between Hobart musician The Stan Show and Hobart illustrator Sean Edward Whelan

Armed with just a few hours notice, two Nikon D7000's and a tascom stereo dictaphone I was able to capture a unique live performance in support of a friend and the 2015 small press zine fair

Performance by Tristan Barnes as "The Stan Show"

Art by Sean Edward Whelan

Filmed and edited by Lochie James

Eggs - a short film about life and cooking

Filmed and edited over a week and based on a short story by Hobart author Michael Blake, Eggs demands more of its audience just like it demanded more of me than any other project to date.

Inspired by Gus Van Sant's The Discipline of D.E. , a short film adaption of a William Burroughs story, I remembered a chapter from a novella my housemate had written about Sylvia Plath and making choices; it seemed perfect for the format, so I edited it and got him to read it into a mic, then set about filming my poor fiancé over a weekend using only my Nikon D7000 and a set of flimsy lights borrowed from the university

The final film is full of mistakes, but I'm still happy with the outcome; I think most importantly, it was a good story, and that comes through most of all.

Filmed and edited by Lochie James

Read by, and Based on the writings of Michael Blake

Starring Megan Cao

Featuring Hannah Warrick

Remote Control - 48 hours to make a horror film

48 hours, 3 hungover actors, 2 cameras, and a 10 minute script; this multi-shot, multi-location, sci-fi horror-thriller was way too ambitious for our boots, and way too much fun!

Remote Control was our entry into the 48hr Tasploitation film challenge. We were given 'sci-fi' as a genre, and so knowing nothing about special effects, decided to take an esoteric route, creating a short film about workshopping a horror film.

The film consists of three producers trying at a late stage re-write for a horror film, tasked with killing off a character, however their unlucky protagonist may not be so fictional...

Messy, shaky, and thrown together, Remote Control was both a nightmare and a laugh as we finished up filming at 3am on Sunday morning with the dedicated lead actor, Cam McKenzie, submerged in his bath, at least an hour after the hot-water had given out, leaving me to rise early with roughly 12 hours of (non-stop) editing to pull it all together.

Directed by Swchien (Steiger)

Filmed by Jack Robbert-Tissot and Lochie James

Written by Michael Blake

Edited By Lochie James

Staring
Cam McKenzie
Maeve MacGregor
Katie Robertson

Featuring Sarah Blackwood and Michael Blake

Scared of Boys - Music Video for Enola Fall (2013)

Hacking together approximately 80 cardboard and acrylic frames to create a unique visual effect in camera so the song lyrics appear in the lights of the scenes while time intensive led to a clip made for loose-change and favours.

As a member of Hobart band 'Enola Fall' at the time, I had a vested interest in spending as little money on a film clip as possible. To that end, I experimented for a few weeks using false apertures over my DSLR lenses to create textured-bokeh out of the lights in the scenes.

Eventually I arrived at printing a negative image of text from the song's lyrics (i.e. clear text, black background) on thin acrylic sheet, then making individual phrases into small slides that I could fasten to the front of my lens using an ad-hoc cardboard harness to hold them in place and stop any light leaking in the sides.

As long as the clear part of the slide (which the light goes through) was larger than the lenses' aperture, whatever shape the clear part was will become the shape of the bokeh in the image. However this did let much less light into the camera than normal, and due to shooting at night, some scenes are poorly lit and coloured.

Overall I still think it's a visually interesting and aesthetically unique film and I'd be able to improve on the process if I were to do it again.

Developed, filmed, and edited by Lochie James

Starring Joe Nuttal

Featuring the music of Enola Fall

With thanks to Dave Horsley and Lesley Halm