Images from new film

Currently in production

Cagoule are currently producing a commercial for a product called "SafeTray." Shot on the canon 7D at 60fps by DOP Mintuu Mantynen. The film features a waiter skillfully negotiating a hazardous and busy bar. Actor and dancer Malcolm Shields was choreographed by Abby Warrilow to overcome the challenges and obstacles such as drunken women and flailing arms. It was a tricky and technical shoot that required precision timing from the performers and camera dept.

Our favourite interactive videos

Why passively watch videos online when you can interact with them. Change the story line, play with colour, play with time!

here is a round up of some of our favourite interactive videos...

this ones a beauty...
http://soydeaire.labuat.com/

Award winning interactive commercial for Philips
http://www.cinema.philips.com/

from Spy Digital
http://www.amblingalp.com/

HBO short drama
http://www.hboimagine.com/#/the_affair/

remix sound and visuals on the fly..
http://www.coldwarkids.com/iveseenenough/

need a web cam for this one..
http://www.graveface.com/bmsr_darkbubbles/

this changes everything, to coin a phrase. amazing!

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Dance Base Residency 2010

Cagoule Productions were in residence at Dance Base, Edinburgh April 12th – 23rd 2010.

Abby worked on new choreography for a live show while also developing film and music to go with the piece. Cagoule worked with professional dancers Jenna Oxley, Lucy Boyes, Sophia McGregor and collaborated with composer Barney Strachan and cinematographer John Brown.

photography thanks to Maria Falconer

Concept art

Images created by Lewis for a music video treatment for the band "Performance."

check out our new 2010 reel...

On The Edge of Blade Runner ... 10 years on

After 10 years of pride of place on the Cagoule reel it has been decided that it is time to post it to the archives.

The documentary title sequence by Lewis Gourlay, was his first professional motion graphics job using Adobe After Effects for all the compositing.

" I think it was version 5 of AE, and there were no tracking tools back then, all the shots we comped were matted frame by frame. I was learning on the job, which is often the best way, I just happened to have some of the best materiel i've ever had to play with"

On the Edge of Blade Runner was produced in 2000 by Nobles Gate Ltd. (for Channel 4), was directed by Andrew Abbott and hosted/written by Mark Kermode.

It also marks 10 years as a professional motion designer for Lewis. happy anniversary!

Dance Base residency

Cagoule director and choreographer Abby Warrilow has been working with dancers Jenna Oxley, Lucy Boyles and Sophia McGregor for the past two weeks in residency at Dance Base, Edinburgh. The aim was to produce movement inspired by the darkeness of nature. The sections of film, dance and sound all come from the same ideas of disintegration, an eerie, haunting place with quirky characteristics.

Barney Strachen collaborated on the music and Lewis Gourlay and John Brown worked on the video.

On friday a showing was held to a large audience. The performance was part of something Abby hopes to take a lot further: to produce a live dance show and a dance film to parallel the live work, and of course to continue the collaborative process.

"catacomb" - A dance film from Cagoule on Vimeo.

Video projection created for live dance performance.

Directed by Abby Warrilow and Lewis Gourlay
DOP John Brown
Editor Lewis Gourlay

Merce @ Motherwell

Motherwell College commissioned Cagoule to make a dance film to showcase their current contemporary dance students. Choreographed by Abby Warrilow and directed by Abby and Lewis. Abby worked with the students for three months prior to the shoot to perfect the choreography. The film was an opportunity for Lewis to experiment with new creative lighting techniques and also test the canon 7D camera system in low and high contrast lighting conditions. Many thanks to experienced DOP Richard Steel, AC Aaron Boucher and 2nd AC Ryan Blackwood.

"Circline" - A Dance Film from Cagoule on Vimeo.

Music by Glass Candy