CATS

2010-01-17T16:34:00.000-08:00

CATS - 2009

My families pet cats being curious.

I have filmed local wildlife, my families pet Goldfish, and small frogs at a museum, but never our pet cats, until now.

The black cat is named 'Sid' and the other is named 'Kitty'. During the video, they didn't do much; they were pretty tired and was mostly interested in the camera (and getting some food.)

For those wondering, for some reason the cats prefer to sleep in cardboard boxes rather than proper cat beds, we have bought them cat beds many times before but they rarely ever go in them, they like cardboard boxes instead.

I hope you enjoy.

Credits:

Filmed, edited and music composed by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filmed using a SONY HDR-SR5E camera.

THE WATER BIRDS SERIES

2008-12-13T17:31:00.000-08:00

"THE WATER BIRDS - 2007"

A short movie, filmed at a local country park, it features a few verities of birds.
This is my first film to be made with no script, storyboard or any pre-production, it was filmed and edited within 3 hours, it was more of a experiment to see if I can film, edit and create a film different from my usual action and comedy films from back in my college days.
With this film, I wanted a more calm, relaxing feel and style to it, a kind of dream like state to turn something so normal and natural into something more emotional.
The music is from the 'Titanic' movie, not sure what track but the composer is James Horner.

Credits:

Directed, filmed and edited by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filmed using a JVC GR-DF470EK camera.

"THE WATER BIRDS: BATS - 2008"

A short movie, filmed in both normal colour and night vision, filmed at the same location as the last two water bird films.

Original intended to be a film about insects and bugs, 'THE WATER BIRDS: DAY TO NIGHT' was just accidental, I originally wanted this film to be about insects but it later turned into another 'THE WATER BIRDS' film.

I did begin with filming whatever insects I could see, but there was so very few, after a while of searching, I began to film some ducks that was near a group of small baby dragonfly (I think) then on to swans and other birds, the difference with this and the fist water birds was that I got a lot more closer to them than usual.

When it began to get dark, me and my friend decided to stay and wait until it was night to film some bats, the difference from this and the 'THE WATER BIRDS: BATS' is that they were still waking up, as opposed to returning to the trees and resting because it was almost sunrise, they also seemed to fly closer to the ground and closer to us.

This is also my first movie to have its own music, created by me, I wanted a more calm, relaxing and dream like feel to the first half of the film, with the day time and the birds, and to suddenly change it to a more darker and mysterious feel with the night time and the bats.

I hope you enjoy.

Credits:

Directed, filmed, edited and music composed by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filming was also assisted by Aaron Allen

Filmed using a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

"THE WATER BIRDS: DAY TO NIGHT - 2008"

A short movie, filmed in both normal colour and night vision, filmed at the same location as the last two water bird films.

Original intended to be a film about insects and bugs, 'THE WATER BIRDS: DAY TO NIGHT' was just accidental, I originally wanted this film to be about insects but it later turned into another 'THE WATER BIRDS' film.

I did begin with filming whatever insects I could see, but there was so very few, after a while of searching, I began to film some ducks that was near a group of small baby dragonfly (I think) then on to swans and other birds, the difference with this and the fist water birds was that I got a lot more closer to them than usual.

When it began to get dark, me and my friend decided to stay and wait until it was night to film some bats, the difference from this and the 'THE WATER BIRDS: BATS' is that they were still waking up, as opposed to returning to the trees and resting because it was almost sunrise, they also seemed to fly closer to the ground and closer to us.

This is also my first movie to have its own music, created by me, I wanted a more calm, relaxing and dream like feel to the first half of the film, with the day time and the birds, and to suddenly change it to a more darker and mysterious feel with the night time and the bats.

I hope you enjoy.

Credits:

Directed, filmed, edited and music composed by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filming was also assisted by Aaron Allen

Filmed using a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

"THE WATER BIRDS: DAY TO NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHS - 2008"

I took a few photographs whilst me and my friend were filming 'THE WATER BIRDS: DAY TO NIGHT.'

I never really took that many because we were filming and we wanted the best shots for the short film, anyway, I hope you enjoy what few photographs were taken.

Photographed using a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

"THE WATER BIRDS COMPILATION - 2008"

All three of the water birds short films made into one compilation, I think they work well together, the compilation transit from morning, through day, through night and back to morning again, I never noticed filmed them in a type of order that could work as one. I am overly happy with the ending result.

As usual I like to turn something that may not seem special or majestic, to some people, into something more cinematic and emotional, using my style of editing, camera work and carefully chosen and placed music, whether it by my own or somebody else's, that matches the style and theme I am aiming to achieve, I hope you enjoy watching this as I did making it.

The music is from "THE X-FILES" SEASON 7 - EPISODE 11 "CLOSURE"

Credits:

Directed, filmed and edited by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filming was also assisted by Aaron Allen.

Filmed using a JVC GR-DF470EK camera and a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

"THE WATER BIRDS WINTER - 2009"

This is a special water birds film, I though to myself, if it ever snowed, I might do another, this should have been done and uploaded about a month ago or something, but due to not getting home in time, I missed my chance, but on new years eve, of all days, it began snowing again, so I instantly went out, filmed and started editing, which took some time, I think I shot the most footage for this more than I did with the other water birds film.

I added my own music, I made with a music creator editor thing, I did originally and still want to add the 'Ice dance' theme from 'Edward Scissorhands' but I don't know, I just wanted everything in the film to be created by me, and not used something that already exists, but it does go well with it.

Though this might be the last water birds film, I can't really be sure, there might be another, one day, maybe film at another location or something, but if I get a better camera, maybe a HD one or something, I would do another.

The location the water birds films were shot at is the Blackleach country park, in Walkden, Manchester, so now you know, that's if you didn't already know, anybody who has never been there should go, its actually a nice place, maybe you might see me?

Thanks for watching and hope you liked my water birds films.

Credits:

Directed, filmed, edited and music composed by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filmed using a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

"THE WATER BIRDS: HD WINTER - 2009"

I said in my last water birds video information, that if I were to get am HD camera, I would do another one, well I did, but I didnt think I would have a HD camera so soon.

I did get the camera about one month before filming this video and decided not to do another one so early, but with the weird weather thats been happening I though about doing another winter edition of Water Birds, mainly because that the picture quality wasnt so good on the last winter special (even on the original file) it has something to do with the fact it was filmed with a standard definition, Mini-DV camcorder, the colour of the snow and other things around it bleed into each other, but thats all over now, I now have a HD camcorder.

This video is like The Water Birds: Winter except it was filmed and available to watch in HD, edited in a new editing programme and some new music has been created for it, I hope you enjoy.

Credits:

Directed, filmed, edited and music composed by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filmed using a SONY HDR-SR5E camera.

GOLDFISH

2008-12-13T17:26:00.001-08:00

"GOLDFISH - 2008"

Edited in the same style as 'THE WATER BIRDS' film, I decided to create a film based on something different, this time my family's pet goldfish.

I think the best thing about this film is the red light that are in the tank as a night light, it created a great visual style, much better than just filming a fish tank with normal day light or just plain white lights.

I originally intended to film the footage for this film weeks earlier, but never found the time to do it, so a few days before filming what is now the final result, our oldest fish died (I think it might have been Swim Bladder) I wanted to film that most of all because of how long we had that fish, but I guess this film is in memory to that old Goldfish, and all the other Goldfish we have had.

I hope you enjoy.

Credits:

Directed, filmed, edited and music composed by Shaun Thomas Millington.

Filmed using a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

"GOLDFISH PHOTOGRAPHS - 2008"

Some photographs I took whilst filming my 'GOLDFISH' film.Sorry about the low quality, but I can't get a large size file to upload, something to do with YouTube's uploaded.Photographed using a SONY DCR-TRV33 camera.

THE BIRD

2008-12-13T17:18:00.000-08:00

"THE BIRD 2007"

Filmed and edited over one yearago 'THE BIRD' is a type of documentary about a young bird that myfamily found and nursed until it was ready to fly back into thewilderness.This film was originally just something I did, I neverreally intended it to be posted online, but I thought, why not.Filmedover the course of about two weeks, this film is my first real animalmovie, it also gave me the idea to film the first 'THE WATER BIRDS'film, both have the same style, but with 'THE BIRD' having longer cutsthan the other 'THE WATER BIRDS' films and completely different moodstylesThis is also my first movie I made since I left college, therewas a long gap of over one year since I did any films, so it was goodto finally make one again.The music on this video is not the originaltrack, the original music was 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police and'Don't You (Forget About Me)' by Simple Minds, but due to copyright andso on, I had to change it, but I created a more simple melody to gowith the video.

CREDITS:

Directed, filmed, edited and music composed byShaun Thomas Millington.Filmed using a JVC GR-DF470EK camera.

MAJESTIC MOVIES ANIMAL FILMS

CATS

THE WATER BIRDS SERIES

GOLDFISH

THE BIRD