Photonic

Travel - Vietnam

Some clips of scenes from Vietnam - sugar cane drinks stall, the Mekong river, passing boats, Saigon by night.

Forty Shades of Green

One of the first comments overseas visitors make on arriving in Ireland (once they leave the urban areas where their plane or boat pulled in) is 'it's so green!' Ireland is indeed 'forty shades of green' and letting your eye travel across a rural landscape you will see varieties of green from bright apple to dark olive on every side. This was the main theme I wanted to reflect in this collection, but I also wanted to include clips that refer to the importance agriculture still plays in Irish life as well more historical items and landmarks. I hope you'll both enjoy it and find what you are looking for here. I will keep adding to it so if you don't see what you want today, a 'cead mile failte' (Gaelic: 'a hundred thousand wlecomes') to come back and look again later!

Troubled Times

A series of clips based on themes of politics, current affairs, terrorism, war.

Human activity

Various clips of humans at work or play, using machines and so on.

Greenscreen People

Here's my collection of chroma key or greenscreen people, characters, figures and sprites. My idea is to have an eclectic collection of greenscreen figures, ranging from veryday ordinary ones like people watching TV or reading a book, to more unusual such as historical figures / types. Much of the inspiration has come from various projects I've undertaken myself, where I needed a couple of say, medieval figures to bring a composite scene of a castle or medieval street to life, or documentaries where I found it easier and cheaper to do a 'reconstruction' of a historical person than pay the full copyright fees to use an original portrait of that person. For example, I once needed an image of a famous architect for a documentary on architecture, but the copyright fees to use the original portrait from a 19th century painting proved beyond my budget. So instead I found a model who looked a bit like the person in question: a wardrobe and make-up person later and we had someone who could easily pass for our architect for a third of the price! All that remained was to composite them into a scene poring over designs, maps etc., So this collection comes from those origins and hopefully you'll find it as useful as I did. I'll be adding to it from time to time, to build the range of figures.

Sun & Moon atmospheric

This is a collection of clips about the Sun and Moon - either basic shots of either to be used as backgrounds or for compositing, as well as stand-alone shots to illustrate themes such as magic, mystery, ghost stories, narratives, or 'medieval' (eg my cathedral & moon clips), as well as astronomical phenomenon such as partial solar eclipses.

Sea & Maritime

A series of maritime-related clips. There are clips of rolling breakers, stormy beaches, gentle lapping surf, sunny sparkling seas, foggy atmospheric deserted beaches, even a scuttling crab in a rock pool. My aim with this collection is to provide you, the user, with a wide variety of sea and maritime-related clips to cover a wide range of needs. One of the reasons I added footage of foggy beaches is because so many clips I see online tend to be of sparkling summer beaches or tropical islands, and not everyone may want their action set in such a location! For example, my foggy beach clips might be useful in a drama or crime thriller, or a more traditional murder-mystery. One or two of them suggest the eastern US seaboard / 'Cabot Cove' to me.... need I say more? Apart from use as establishing shots, cutaways and so on, they could also have use for compositing as backgrounds.

Spool-to-Spool Tape

A series of clips with a vintage spool-to-spool tape player against greenscreen background, for use in compositing. Company logos and other identifying marks removed from the tape player for more generic look. This collection contains a wide variety of angles, sequences of use (eg FFWD, REC, PLAY and so on) to enable you find the right clip for your particular needs. Clip length averages 20 - 30 seconds to allow plenty of room for editing margins. Clips can used as short cutaways or even as longer pieces to 'plug gaps' in your project.

1960s Grundig

Animals

Well, the title says it all, really! A collection of clips of various animals. Enjoy!