Spring on building B.

Saturday, May 3 we continued filming for our documentary City Rooftops it was
 a beautiful spring day on top of  Building B and the whole Grown Down Town team came to pick weeds , expand the henhouse and  repland the grapes  .

 

replant grapes

                                                             

                                                         expand the henhouse

 

Chickens give in exchange for organic waste eggs and fertilizer for edible plants on the roof

Every day, four Kipster eggs

We learn from the best



Joris Osprins, sharing about A Single Life,
which was nominated for an Oscar



It's Puur Media's  policy to keep developing and learning . Every year we go to  workshops at IBC often thought by Oscar winners.

On Friday the 24th of April we attended the Cinema 4D  Benelux event. The most inspiring  workshop was given by Joris Oprins, from Job, Joris  Marieke. Their short animation, A Single Life, was  Academy Award nominee 87th Animation Short  Film Category Joris Oprins shared about how they find new ideas for their animations.

Joris Oprins

Oscar nominees use PC's 
Unlike most visual artist Job, Joris  Marieke. use PC's. It is good to see when people  choose tools that work the best for them and do't go with the flow of tradition , trends and



Job, Joris & Marieke waiting to hear if their
short film was nominated for an Oscar or not

In America, they spoke to animators at Pixar. The people there were very interested in how a three-person studio works.  We also notice that the big Hollywood production companies are interest in small teams like us.



Afterwards we had an opportunity to talk with Joris he shared that they were self-taught animators. He's been animating for some 12 years now and it has been six years that they've been working together as a studio. 

Filmmaker Benny Vink and Joris Osprins

H2 car as powerplant

On Wednesday the 22nd of April Puur Media was on the premises of the Delft University of Technology for the upcoming documentary H2. The professor had invited us to a house which is used for researching sustainability. This house is the start of the Green Village which is to be built on this location.

We  interviewed founder of future Green village and professor Ad van Wijk. 

Professor Ad van Wijk and filmmaker Benny Vink

 The beginning of the Green Village is this sustainable house

Ad van Wijk shared about different energy solutions based around hydrogen cars and how they differ from cars that run on fossil fuels and how they can complement electric cars which run on batteries.

 Moreover, he envisions a future where hydrogen cars play an important role in sustainable living.  He  envisions a future where hydrogen cars play an important role in sustainable living. Hydrogen cars could provide the required electricity  to replace the power plants.

Professor van Wijk filmed by Benny Vink

After the interview, we dropped by the Ecorunner team in the Dream Hall. Filmmaker Benny Vink briefly looked back with Jim Hoogmoed (Team Manager) and Stefan Leegwater (Chief Engineer) on last week's events. They had had a busy week measuring the the air resistance of the Ecorunner 5, as well as the unveiling of their car for sponsors and family. After testing  a few days, we found out that their vehicle has the least air resistance in the world. After getting some rest, they  are  busy preparing for the race. 

Below are some pictures.

Stefan Leegwater, Jim Hoogmoed and Benny Vink catching up.

The Dream Hall where the Ecorunner and other TU Delft projects are built

Tim Jonathan opening up the gate towards our location

Filmmaker Benny Vink, Ad van Wijk and host Tim Jonathan walking towards the house.

A brief interview with Tim Jonathan, the Construction Manager of  this project

Benny Vink, Tim Jonathan and Ad van Wijk talking about
what sustainable living could look like in the future

Benny Vink interviewing Ad van Wijk outside the house,
but inside the 'skin', making this space like a greenhouse

Professor Ad van Wijk and Filmmaker Benny Vink outside the house

Filmmaker Benny Vink and Ecorunner's Chief Engineer Stefan Leegwater

Eco Runner Team Delft in documentaire H 2.

Eco runner 5

H2 our documentary we follow a group of enthusiastic students of the Technical
University of Technology who participate in a competition against other universities.
With the aim of who has the most economical hydrogen vehicle designed and built.

In recent months they have been working on the design of the Eco Runner 5
calculation suggest that this could be  the best air resistance in the world.

To see if these calculation are correct the Eco Runner  was places 5 in a wind tunnel to measure the exact air resistance.

It's  was a fun and inspiring  day of film and the recordings are a beautiful addition to the movie H2

Control room next to the wind tunnel where all measurement data arrives

With smoke is very good to see how the air moves over the vehicle.

The smoke particles can remain behind on the vehicle and cause air resistance is therefore after the smoke test it is  thoroughly cleaned

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Filming @ hydrogen event for our docu "H2"

During our quest  in our documentary  "H2", a film about  tomorrow's transportation, we discovered that Hyundai is one of the first to put a hydrogen car on the market. To take inventory of the possibilities on driving on hydrogen at this stage, they followed up by organizing a  hydrogen event in Rotterdam. Because the H2 car was there, we drove down to Rotterdam to take it for a spin and film it for ourselves.

Luk Termeulen Manager Sales Operations; filmmaker before the test-ride

Luk Termeulen and Benny Vink after the test ride

Car as Power plant

One of the speakers was Professor Ad van Wijk  from The Green Village/Technical University Delft. He talked about  how Hydrogen cars can become our local power plants. We are going to visit Ad van Wijk to film more about this.

Professor Ad van Wijk on cars as Power Plants

Reinier van den Berg, a climate expert. He shared about the need of using different energy sources as the climate is feeling the impact of our current use of fossil fuels. He stated that in nature everything is solar powered and is created in  sustainable life cycles. He pointed out that if it's possible in nature, it's also possible in our societies.

Reinier van den Berg, Climate expert & filmmaker Benny Vink

Below more pictures of the event.

The fuel cell that turns hydrogen in electricity

Refilling Hydrogen cars is faster than recharging batteries in electronic cars.

Mike Belinfante spokesman Hyunda being interviewed by filmmaker Benny Vink

Filmmaker Benny Vink inside the Floating Pavillion

 Professor van Wijk's vision:

How hydrogen cars can be used as a power plant.

Interview for documentary CityRooftops with Philip van Traa

Philip van Traa

Since September 2014 Pure Media is following designer and plant specialist Philip van Traa for the documentary CityRooftops. On Wednesday the 11th of March we sat down for an interview Philip van Traa. Set in one of his favorite locations, Philip van Traa shared his story and his heart. But before doing so, some preparation was necessary.

Interview set-up

Benny and I arrived early to check out the location. As we brought all the gear up, a buzzing sound was very much present on the huge open floor where the interview would be. Benny wanted this interview to be one of the high points in the documentary - so everything should be of the highest quality, including the sound. If you remove this kind of buzz in post production, voices start to sound unnatural and 'tinny' - and that's not what Benny wanted. We found the machine that was causing the buzz was the air ventilation system for the toilets. Then we asked the people at the location if we could switch it off for the interview, and that wasn't a problem. After that we set up the camera, lights and microphones, getting them ready to go and invited Philip van Traa to sit on a chair and share.

Filmmaker Benny Vink and Philip van Traa

Philip van Traa shared how he got involved in this project and about his desire to simplify. Then, by applying various simple solutions to a garden rooftop in the city, seemingly small solutions could add up to a big impact on city life. 

In large cities, heat and smog are known problems. Smog comes from traffic and a lot of the traffic in the city is food related. So when food is grown on rooftops in the city, there's less food traffic and less smog. But there's also less smog because some of the plants are capable of retaining some of the emission. 

Besides food and smog, green city rooftops can help cities with water retention. When there's heavy downpour, flooding could be likely as the water management is more controlled. Coming back to the heat issue: green rooftops with some kind of water retention absorb the sun's heat better than plain rooftops. And that's how rooftop gardens, by reducing smog, retaining water and absorbing heat, can have more impact on a city's climate than one would expect at first sight.

-Rik

B.

Pure Media Crew trained by last years by Oscar winning crew.

At Pure Media training is very important. The why we every year IBC's film congress to learn from the best:

Robert D. Yeoman, Cinematographer:
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Roger Deakins cinematographer 
Skyfall 

Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey editors
Star Trek movies and now working on 
Star Wars: Episode VII

Every year we go to the IBC Big Screen Experience 

in Amsterdam where the training takes place.

The Grand Budapest Hotel crew 

@ IBC Big Screen Experience

Robert D. Yeoman, Cinematographer:

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Roger Deakins cinematographer for 

Skyfall @ the IBC Big Screen experience

Roger Deakins cinematographer for Skyfall 

Top Editors: Maryann Brandon, and Mary Jo Markey,

 gave a workshop at the Hilton in Amsterdam.