Author

About the Author /

Co-Founder & Managing Editor at Directors Notes, Rob's 20+ year obsession with short film has led him to develop a unique perspective on the medium. Driven by his curiosity and excitement for emerging filmmaking talent, he's motivated by sharing these exciting new voices with the world.

Live Action

Charlie Brooker – How To Report The News

Charlie Brooker shows us just how easy it is to make ‘News’. https://youtu.be/YtGSXMuWMR4

Read more

Art & Fashion

21:9

For all lovers of the cinema, the release of the “world’s first ultra-wide TV that perfectly matches the original 2.39:1 movie format used by

Read more

News

Exploding Update

The Beastie Boys have done many many good things in their time, but most recently they’ve made it in to my good books when their Oscilloscope

Read more

Music Video

Padam

You have to be pretty brave to make a music video which is just one static shot, but that’s exactly what Parisien design studio M/M decided to do with

Read more

Music Video

Dirty Laundry

I don’t think we need to go on about just how much we love The Take-Away Shows here at Directors Notes and since discovering it we’re always on the

Read more

Animation, Asides, Music Video

Tweak Bird

Having just discovered the music of Tweak Bird, I was ecstatic to discover they also make damn fine videos as well(well video at least!). It’s not often

Read more

Animation, Art & Fashion

Scintillation

Scintillation is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques.

Read more

Animation

Codehunters

I talked about animated style in my post on Pivot yesterday and it’s not often you find two such stylized pieces of animation in the space of 24 hours,

Read more

Animation

Pivot

Sometimes you can tell from the opening frames of a short film, just how much you’re going to love it! With Pivot, I knew the moment I saw it’s

Read more

News

The Extended Take

Just found this fantastic article from Mike Le at Geek Week highlighting the 20 Greatest Extended Takes in Movie History, complete with embedded Videos.

Read more

News

Viral Magic

Viral video seems to be one of the most popular methods of advertisement in recent years and hitting the internet with a bit of video trickery seems to be a

Read more

Animation, Music Video

NASA

Not content with turning out one of the most interesting Hip-Hop albums of ’09, N.A.S.A. also seem intent on releasing some of the most interesting

Read more