Cat Noir (Miraculous ladybug) - Brace yourselves the cat cosplays are coming this 2016

A new Korean, Japanese, French show called "Miraculous Ladybug is silently but very quickly growing traction and hype; especially the character Cat Noir from the series who is the main protaganists teammate and secret lover. Cat Noir is a superhero who wears black, rubbery spandex with a golden bell just above his chest, an untied belt around his waist and is equipped with night vision, a staff and a power ring which enables him to transform as well as use his special attack "cataclysm" which turns his hand into a deadly weapon; destroying anything he touches however it limits his transfomation duration when used.

Enough about the technical stuff. I've been seeing a lot of posts about people wondering who this "sexy character" is and many are planning to cosplay him after immediate first glance. I found an awesome person cosplaying him at Birmingham comic con last month. Although she says she has yet to finish the cosplay I still think its a rather good cosplay of Cat Noir.

At the time I saw the Cat Noir cosplay in Birmingham I knew slightly about the show. I read a post from cristina vee confirming she'd the voice actress for the main character so I had to have a look at it then watched the trailer but that was all. After the convention I realized people began posting "who is this cool, sexy character" with a link to the intro of the show and it's gaining traction. I Just watched the first episode today and it's actually a pretty good show. Definitley going to watch some more to gain some creative ideas from it for 2016.

 

It's inevitable. Get ready lad and ladettes for the Cat Noir wave this 2016

Birmingham MCM Comic Con November 2015 - A chilled out con

So I decided to take a trip back to Birmingham for mcm comic con. While it isn't as big as it's london counterpart it's awesome for chilling out and overall is a lot less chaotic. The convention also only goes on for 2 days. My guess is because it doesn't bring in as much people as the major london one. I arrived to the convention an hour early on saturday after staying at a friends house who lives nearby, with my headphones on listening to my pre arranged music I was totally ready to film some cosplays.

The inside area was one huge hall. It actually worked pretty well and it was very simple to get where you wanted to without hassle. I'm beginning to prefer smaller cons like birmingham comic con as opposed to larger ones.
Why you say?
It's a lot less chaotic, stress free and feels like a place where you are meant to chill out and have fun.
For cosplay videography i prefer smaller cons because it gives you time to think and showcase cosplayers work a lot better rather than trying to fit everyone who you filmed in a video you can elongate the amount of time each cosplayer is shown in a video and thus have a more peaceful, fun time editing the video.

Overall I actually really enjoyed birmingham mcm last weekend. It was well organized, hassle free and had a really chilled out atmosphere. It was blood freezing up north though!

Anyways here's what I created from the weekend:

MCM Comic Con Expo London October 2015 - My longest ever cosplay music video Skrillex, Touhou wub wub

My plan for mcm comic con (October) was way too huge to comprehend and fully get done. I wanted to do a side video as well as a cosplay music video but that's another story. The rain which trolled nearly the whole of saturday and the unexpected rise of wall maria pretty much thrwarted my vision so i just made a cosplay vid.

What i did with this one though was slightly different. I saw a CMV a while back in which the cosplay videographer added theirself into the beginning of the video greeting friends. The videographer Lucy a.k.a "Twisted Manga" did it in a way that didn't annoy or distract the viewer though who wants to see cosplay and not the person who envisions a CMV trying to promote their face obsessivley. It was more of a natural intro which in turn got you ready for the inevitable cosplay which was showcased afterwards.

Here's hers: Skrillex - Rock N Roll Cosplay Video AACC 2015



Here's my take: Mcm comic con expo london october 2015 cosplay music video skrillex



I wanted to add many more friends in the intro but some scenes came out a bit funny plus I had to juggle showcase scenes. If you've seen me at a convention or no me I usually say at a convention "I don't have enough footage" when in fact I most likely do. I guess It's a way of programming myself to make sure I get more than enough footage for when I import everything into the editing suite.

As you can see I immitated a couple of scenes and angles which i liked from Twisted Mangas video. It's my longest ever cosplay video to date, yay! I think I made a decent vid amongst the music copyright issues for the second part of the video which led me to re edit and upload the vid. The second song was meant to be for gamescom next year but I had to find a song asap for the second half of the video due to the copyright issue which muted the original track once I uploaded it. The second track which you hear in the video had similar bpm to the original track i used so I got lucky, haha. I know for sure my end product could've been a lot better and im very analytical towards my vids but I'm glad I visibly see the faults in my video so that I can improved them for the next video. It's always a great learning curve. Note to self don't use don't use house music for cosplay music video's. There's a reason you don't hear them often in CMV's. Jokes aside I'll research a tracks policies before I get excited and use it.

MCM Comic Con London October 2015 - Wall Maria

Mcm expo comic con. The biggest pop culture event in the UK; especially the london mcm. This October's event in London was interesting to say the least. Fences were put around the venue to prevent people without tickets from entering the event as well as to stop loiterers. Luckily for me I managed to obtain a ticket last minute.

What I can say is that it did reduce loitering dramaticly but not people entering the site without a ticket. Towards midday and the afternoon ticketless people were free to venture around the area.

My main problem with mcm is that they don't give anyone attending notices on how the event will be set up at all. You usually find out through word of mouth a prior to the event day from people have went to the area of the site

I wonder how next years setup will be. One can only guess.

I'm back

Hey my people. I know i've dissapeard for a long time from this blog but you know how hard it is to keep up with everything as a whole however i really want to make this blog my future diary and plan to keep it updated from here on. Let's see if I do, haha.