Thursday's lab-- to refresh your memories, this post pertains to your second lab assignment:"re-editing genres." The examples I gave of "re-editing genres" in lab were re-editing The Shinning into a comedy or Black Christmas intoa holiday family film.
Wednesday's lab-- This will make a bit more sense after we have lab tomorrow and I explain in greater detail the nature of your second lab assignment.
Here's a great youtube link of a "re-edited" genre, however, the twist here is the genre is re-edited based on a particular style of a specific film director.
This clip involves a very popular Generation Y film entitled, A Goof Troop Movie with the re-edit done in the spirit of David Lynch. (For those of you who don't know who David Lynch is, his work is very artistic, disturbing, psychological etc. I am also going to show a clip of his film Eraserhead, in lab this week. )
So I do encourage mimicking specific directors within this project as well.
For all those Scorsese fans in the Thursday lab, why not try re-editing a Disney Classic, Hannah Montana, Dora the explorer etc. Scorsese style.
Many advanced visual effects were pretty obvious in Radioheads’ Street spirit video clip although it was released on 1996. From the first glance you would think these effects were accomplished using After Effects or similar post production suite. But I don’t think such programs were powerful to such degree back then. However, after some research using the director’s name “Jonathan Glaze” I found some interesting things regarding that particular video.
Final cut is the deepest
Improvised on the spot or months in the planning, a great promo can give a song life after the charts. Sam Delaney talks to directors about their favourite clips
I'd had this idea for ages that I'd seen in nature programmes, where they'd film an eagle flying at 1,200 frames per second then cut frames out to slow it down. It's a technique you see in every second ice-cream commercial nowadays but back then it was new.
(Jonathan Glazer on Radiohead's Street Spirit (1996))
Article by Sam Delaney The Guardia, Sat 24 Sep 2005 click here http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/sep/24/popandrock1
From Wikipedia
Street Spirit Music Video
Several scenes in the video are shot using different frame frequencies, thus making different subjects in the same scene move at different speeds. A special ultra-high speed camera, normally used to photograph high speed projectiles for scientific purposes, was used to create the extreme slow motion effects.
Personally, to recreate the effect where you see the lead singer moving in normal speed while others in the back ground move in a slower speed, I would theoretically utilize the following steps:
1- Two different subjects in two different positions on the same set within the same camera frame.
2- Two different subjects filmed doing two different routines
3- One and same Background with not moving fixtures
4- One fixed in position camera
5- Overlapping the two images in post production
6- Merging the two images at the centre point and adjusting the middle zone opacity to blend in or just cropping the converging edges of the two images to equal 50/50.
Time Warp
This is another interesting link that shows high speed cameras in action. I also wanted to note that in BBC's major documentary "Planet Earth" they used the same type of camera to capture High Def motion pictures.
Welcome to our lab blogspot! There will be an assignment based on blogging, but I do welcome you guys to blog about anything your hearts desire related to film, art, music etc. I wanted us to have a forum outside of our lab where we can discuss a variety of things. Now that you guys have entered the advanced level of production, you'll see how vital it is to interact with your peers and make friends (if you haven't already!)
Also, we all know as filmmakers, we are the toughest people to try and sit through a movie with, because we are constantly critiquing. Therefore I want our blog to also operate as a forum where you guys can praise or condemn a film you've seen to your heart's content, without the visual cues to be quiet from our non-filmmaking friends we are all so often use too!
I only have two rules for the blog:
1. Try to keep it film, art, music related. As much as I would love to know about your residual strike anger, or to watch Joaquin Phoenix's disastrous attempt at rap music some more ( I guess that could qualify), for the purpose of the blog let's keep it somewhat narrowly focused.
2. No drunk blogging! I have seen way too many posts in my day with the infamous drunk blogging; this is unsavoury because extra spaces and jumbled letters mess with my equilibrium.
I think that is everything—I really looking forward to meeting all of you, we are going to have a fun, productive, inspiring semester, I promise!
