Spike Morris' "Horrors" is shortlisted at Berlin MVA

Emerging Talent SPIKE MORRIS' eerie promo is nominated for BEST EXPERIMENTAL at the Berlin Music Video Awards. 

Spike says "We shot the Horrors promo on the oddly named FLIR Systems A8303SC MWIR. We were kindly supported by FLIR themselves who flew out an engineer for a prep day in London, as the camera was pretty much just a raw sensor designed for science laboratories; the camera can't record internally or be powered from any battery solution, continually auto-exposes, and requires a bulky windows laptop connected via ethernet to access the menus of the camera. It also cruelly recalibrates, abruptly losing picture without warning every 30 mins.

After what resembled more of a science lesson rather than a camera prep day, complete with textbooks on infrared light, Rudd (FLIR) and I learnt a lot from each others industries' demands and I went back to Thom & JP (in/out) with our limitations. It was hardly an ideal setup, but as with all filmmaking you're forced to adapt around the things you can't change, and in the end we worked out that a dolly & track in the coldest London studio we could find would suit us best.

Capturing light that you can't see with the human eye is obviously a really unusual way to shoot.. and great fun too. Inbetween takes the crew found it hard to resist putting different objects infront of the camera to see what they looked like, and I eventually got the hang of controlling the exposure using hairdryers, fans, water and air conditioning units.

Finally, the in/out guys are exactly the kind of directors I love to shoot with since they're such After Effects experts. A lot of the footage you offer them ends up remixed, distorted and taken even further, which I've always found really inspiring".

Thanks for that Spike!

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