Portfolio - Ben Winger https://benwinger.com My place for stuff and things Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:25:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://benwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ben-Winger-mini-logo-.png Portfolio - Ben Winger https://benwinger.com 32 32 Sponsor a Clowndoctor https://benwinger.com/portfolio/sponsor-a-clowndoctor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sponsor-a-clowndoctor https://benwinger.com/portfolio/sponsor-a-clowndoctor/#respond Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:49:00 +0000 https://benwinger.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=11319 Hello, it’s the Clowndoctors here and we would love you to sponsor one of us and help us to deliver joy and laughter to children in hospital, hospice care, and […]

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Hello, it’s the Clowndoctors here and we would love you to sponsor one of us and help us to deliver joy and laughter to children in hospital, hospice care, and schools for complex needs.

The children love our visits and we want to fit in as many as we can. Your support will help us deliver more smiles for a whole year!

Amazing!

We can’t wait to see who you will choose.
Thank You

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]]> https://benwinger.com/portfolio/down-by-the-sea/feed/ 0 The Last Forecast https://benwinger.com/portfolio/the-last-forecast/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-last-forecast https://benwinger.com/portfolio/the-last-forecast/#respond Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:31:00 +0000 https://benwinger.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=11302 https://youtu.be/xSZ0idylncw The Last Forecast by Bridie Gane.  A trailer by Ben Winger.  Filmed at Lyra’s Art Space.  

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The Last Forecast by Bridie Gane.  A trailer by Ben Winger.  Filmed at Lyra’s Art Space.  

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Our friends at Sprog Rock have made a music video for their fantastic song, The Sound of Shapes, to help celebrate Bookbug Week!

Video by Ben Winger: https://benwinger.com/

For more songs and rhymes, visit our Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library: scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes

Or download the Bookbug App:
Apple: apple.co/2T86WLM
Google Play: bit.ly/BookbugatGooglePlay

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]]> https://benwinger.com/portfolio/a-twist-of-fete-48-hour-film/feed/ 0 Find your kilt https://benwinger.com/portfolio/find-your-kilt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=find-your-kilt https://benwinger.com/portfolio/find-your-kilt/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:27:52 +0000 https://benwinger.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=11119 Project Preview A short promotional film for Hearts and Minds.  Helping to enlist fundraisers to do the Kilt Walk for charity.  I knew I wanted it to feel epic and […]

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Project Preview

A short promotional film for Hearts and Minds.  Helping to enlist fundraisers to do the Kilt Walk for charity.  I knew I wanted it to feel epic and that I’d need a kilt.  I didn’t really think about lugging all the equipment up a big hill dressed in shorts.  So, so cold.

Project Details

With the help of Mat Urey and his camera/flying skills we managed to get some amazing shots.  A lot of that was down to the majesty of nature but credit where credit is due for  Mat.  Quite an ad hoc shoot, utilising dramatic and interesting scenery as we found it.  Lots of falling over, praying for a break in the wind so we could use the drone, and a few odd looks from fellow walkers. 

A challenging shoot but no where near as challenging as The Kilt Walk. 

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]]> https://benwinger.com/portfolio/find-your-kilt/feed/ 0 The Kingfisher https://benwinger.com/portfolio/thekingfisher/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thekingfisher https://benwinger.com/portfolio/thekingfisher/#respond Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:51:32 +0000 https://qreatix-theme.jk-studio-dev.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=514 Development information I was lucky enough to be selected as one of Starcatchers’ latest recipients of their Play Space fund.  I’m working on a piece of interactive theatre for 3-5 […]

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Development information

I was lucky enough to be selected as one of Starcatchers’ latest recipients of their Play Space fund.  I’m working on a piece of interactive theatre for 3-5 year olds and their families, that explores the themes of Ownership, Isolation and Loneliness. 

I’ll be working with Fergus Dunnet and Gilchrist Muir.  Fergus is designing and building a giant Sou’wester for me and Gilchrist will be an outside eye for the development weeks. 

Updates to follow... For now enjoy a video of one the inspirations...

Starcatchers' Play Fund annoucement here

A sketched close up drawing of a fisherman with a beard in a Sou'wester hat
A fisherman in a boat wearing yellow oil skins and a Sou'wester hat. A fish has jumped out of the water and is talking to him
The Fish catches a crown on his first attempt at fishing.
The Fisherman is putting on a crown he has fished from the bottom of the sea. His fish friend looks on worried. Dark storm clouds gather overhead
The Kingfisher is claiming everything on the island for himself. The sea has taken one of his items and it is floating away.
The Kingfisher sits atop a throne of all the items and things he has claimed

During the development Gilchrist [Parky] and I worked on the story below and the images above.  It’s not finished yet… here is where we got to.  Currently there is too much in it for how interactive and playful I’d like the show to be but it’s a nice structure to work from. 

The Story so far...
SAME FISH, DIFFERENT DAY 

The Fisherman sits in his boat in the middle of the sea, his rod in the water.  He waits.  The boat has no oars and no sail.  This is where the Fisherman is and has always been. 

He catches the same and only fish he ever catches. 

The fish persuades him to let him have a go. 

The fish catches a crown. 

 

CORONATION FISHIN’

They fight over who’s crown it is.  The fisherman snatches it away and crowns himself The King Fisher (This is not overly mean, he just gets caught up in the excitement of it all.)

 

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU FISH FOR

Dark ominous sky. 

He makes the fish catch him more things.  A boot, a plastic bottle.  A rope. A telescope. He claims everything as his.

He looks through the telescope and spies land.  “LAND HO!”  He throws the rope around the fish and screams at him to swim hard.  “Swim as hard as you can little fish”

They reach land.  It is fascinating.  The fisherman has never even seen land let alone stood on it.  

 

MINE!

“Come on fish.  Let’s see what else is mine.” 

He pulls on the Fishes rope.  The fish struggles to stay in the water.  “I can’t breathe!”. 

“But you are mine!  You have to come”

“I am my own”.  Says the fish and it swims away.  

The fisherman empties the boat of all his things onto the shore.  Just as he is about to go and explore the island, he sees the sea taking his things away.  He runs down the shore in a panic and gathers up all his things. 

“These are mine!  You leave them alone Sea.  MINE.”

The sea is silent.  

“That’s what I thought.”

We see him traveling across the island claiming all things as his own, until eventually he has claimed everything.  

He sits, covered in all of his things.  “I AM THE KINGFISHER, AND ALL OF THIS IS MINE”.  The sea is getting louder and louder and we can see it start to annoy The Fisherman. 

 
TAKING THE SEA 

He storms down to the beach and yells to the sea.  “YOU ARE MINE SEA.  YOU ARE MINE.  SO BE QUIET!”

But the sea doesn’t listen.  It laps at his feet.   He goes to grab the sea, and tries to pull it up to his throne.  His crown falls off and tumbles into the water just as The Sea barrels over him and overpowers him.  

He’s thrashing around for his crown as the sea floods the whole island.  He’s covered in all of the things he has collected and is getting overwhelmed and struggling to stay afloat. 

The fish swims in, knocks the things off him and pulls him to safety.  The sea falls back and he falls empty handed into the boat, gasping but safe. 

 
FISHERMAN FRIENDS

Fish and Fisherman reunited. 

Does the Fisherman let the fish catch him? 

Has the rod gone missing?  Do they sing a song together?  

The Fisherman is sorry.  Does he makes the fish a crown?  

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