Ben Scott Arts - Art/design/video

Mogwai website

Website for the internationally reowned band Mogwai from Scotland.

I developed designs from Duncan Macdonald using various database elements and carefully constructed HTML and CSS code. For more detailed explanation click to read more for this article.

This site was meant to enable the band and managers to more effectively upload content to the web. It also required a migration of servers and content from another CMS.

The previous site had included:

• photos
• videos
• audio
• news messages.

We took these and developed a few more features to extend the site.

This site has been a success with over 50000 users in the first month of its release. Planning the server requirements and bandwidth was a learning experience and required myself to set up an account using Plesk on a Media Temple virtual server in USA.

This is probably the most ambitious site I have built to date and has subsequently been integrated as a working practise with sites like Schtum and Spacestudios redesign

Editing for cameraman

Editing of a showreel for Igor Van Ditz, Cameraman. This showreel was to advertise the camera work on more dramatic shoots as compared to another showreel we produced that was more for commercial events filming.

New Year Rabbbi Screensaver

Using the characters from previous screensaver animations produce a New Orleans flavoured animation. Needed to be set to Glen Miller's "In the Mood for Love" and had to include a big band.

By tackling the project in parts, using symbols in Flash, I could animate each arm, each head, each figure independently and give more attention to the whole animation. Tackling the animation by thinking of the movements needed to play a musical instrument was very interesting.

Flash Banner Ads

These were a few of the banner adverts I made for TotallyJewish.com

Grading short film for Peter Blach

Grading for a short film called “Squash”, Directed by Peter Blach. The film did well at the Leeds International Film Festival.

Schtum Flyer and webdesign

Flyer illustration and website advertising Schtum club night.

Newly designed website taking a static website and make it dynamic using Joomla CMS.

I was asked to creat an illustration with a retro style movie star, an art deco diva.

Retouching Photos

Over the past 5 years I have been involved with at least 2 centres where high quality scanning and printing were important to the users and so I have had to understand how to operate digital photographic kit to a high level of expertise.

Add to this an interest in learning as much as possible about this subject (retouching, colour enhancement, colour sync, masking) and you can see that I have considerable expertise in digital photographic workflows.

The recent developments in digital SLRs is also something I have been following closely and more professional tools like the Photoshop Camera RAW module are of particular interest to me at the moment.

Halkevi Outreach Video classes

Adaptation of 2 classes, LOCN basic camera skills and another in Final Cut Pro editing, into a 7 week class in Turkish Community Centre

This led onto a community learning class which was for family learning and filmmaking and included under 12s and their parents. This class was kindly assisted by Engin Muslu
who did a great job of relating the teaching in English to Turkish speakers
 and explaining to myself the importance of basic skills teaching.

Jun Mo Website

Website for a martial arts organisation with a difference. Space Studios were involved with this organisation and asked me to develop the site alongside staff from Jun Mo.

They already had a site that had problems with inconsistencies between page design and an easy interface for updating the site. The easiest way to give consistency was by creating a set of well designed header graphics which we have set to randomly become chosen.

I chose to train them using Mambo Content Management System. In the first stages it was important that I set up the relevant database structure to represent this diverse organisation, they offer an ongoing programme of dance, martial arts, costume making, music and singing workshops.

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Apple Mac Video Specialist support

Apple Macintosh technical support

HTML email campaigns

Creation of a styled email campaigns for 2 organisations. It was important to keep the text brief, relevant and to make emails stand out from other companies by using HTML to format the email.

As many HTML emails can get complaints for usability this became of major concern during this project. You can see the first email styled this way here

Interactive DVD for Islington Council Health Campaign.

A DVD to include more information than a VHS or website alone could provide whilst at the same time remaining accessible to the largest possible audience.

Coleman Projects Space Website

Website for small projects based art gallery. It was important that a content management system was put in place so that content could be more easily edited.

The site will supplement any other advertising yet will also need to act as an archive of past shows and as an administrative tool in relation to mailing lists.

www.colemanprojects.org.uk