This is the latest music video from AudioBullys – a band I hadn’t heard of until this video – for their song, “One Man.” Now, if it’s a band I should know don’t hold that against me as I’m slowly being acclimated to bands I feel I’ve been missing out on the past couple of years. Anyway, this is super creative and inspiring so I decided I’d drop it into the blog for you to see. My favorite parts are when the stereotypical promo cards have video rolling in place of backgrounds. I collect those cards because they fascinate me so naturally I enjoyed that.
Video directed by Jonas & Francois. (Mad props fellas!)
Oh – and am I the only one bothered by the band’s inability to spell the plural form of “bully?” Kids these days.
- Ted
I had to do a project for my lighting and cinematography class, the task was to watch a film from before 1970 from the perspective of solely a cinematographer and write a paper over it. So I went to Blockbuster (I know I know.. lame) and searched for something worthwhile. I came across the John Ford directed The Quiet Man and settled on it because I’m a fan of John Wayne and I had seen segments of the movie before on television.
Anyway, I circumvented my OS’s feeble attempt to keep me from screen capturing with the DVD player open and got 8 frames that I think really sum up the move nicely. (Click here for the movie synopsis)
The first frame is John Wayne’s character Sean Thornton and Barry Fitzgerald’s character Michaleen Oge Flynn. The frame sums up both of their on screen persona’s nicely.
The second depicts the beginning of the rivalry between Thornton and Danaher who is Mary Kate’s (The lead actress and Wayne’s crush in the movie played by Maureen O’Hara) brother.
The third is of Mary Kate (Will your 1950s self please marry me?).
The fourth and fifth sums up Sean and Mary Kate’s relationship quite nicely. One second it’s great and passionate, the next it’s gone and confusing.
The sixth sums up Sean Thornton’s masculinity – he’s just struck his match on the crossbeam above his head in this frame and he is about to put Mary Kate in her place. This was my favorite scene in the movie.
The last two are of the gigantic boxing scene at the end which alone makes the movie worth watching.
Hope you enjoyed this! Let me know if I should do more “movies in 8 frames” (I’ll probably go into more detail in the future as well)
- Ted
Akira Kurosawa is a Japanese filmmaker who directed films in the 40s, 50s and 60s. The clips from above are from one of his more famous films, Rashomon. Kurosawa basically puts on a school for shot composition and texture throughout every scene I have watched of his so far. I love the way he uses the camera narratively and the overall look of his movies. His movie Seven Samurai is incredibly long, but definitely worth the watch if you are ever feeling like a black and white movie night.
As a random tidbit: George Lucas was influenced by Kurosawa. Something about Samurai swordsmen perhaps?
- Ted
I recently got to spend a week in Hawaii with seven of my friends and naturally I took my camera.
Although it was an absolute pain to separate my computer, camera and microphone into different containers to be screened before boarding the plane it turned out to be absolutely worth it. I ended up shooting about an hour and a half’s worth of footage which I then edited down to about fifteen minutes. Then I broke that down into a YouTube version which is what you see above.
I colored a lot of the clips you see above individually in post to give it a slight old-school feel. However, at one point I just started copying and pasting the same effect onto clips with similar subject matter because the difference was very minute and I have other stuff I have to work on.
Anyway, I found that with a gaussian soft edge border and some color correction into the blue/cyan area of the color wheel and a slight adjustment of the contrast with the proc amp tool (my favorite video correction tool in Final Cut) that you get a High Definition version of older film. Cool, huh?
- Ted
