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I’m such a sucker for these kinds of short films. This one takes a slightly different look at New York City. No skylines, no subways, or any of the cliché landmarks. For some reason it makes the lives that are being filmed seem more real or human.
Check it out on Vimeo for HD or get some more information in an interview with the filmmaker. He put over 35,000 still images into this thing. Amazing.
Brilliantly done. The trailer “template” for pretty much every academy award winning movie, ever.
(via @rands)
Beautiful time-lapse videos filmed over 5 days and nights in Dubai. Philip talks more about the shoot in this article.
This short film is gorgeous. It follows Pete Billington, friend of filmmaker Landis Fields. The whole thing was shot on Canon SLR cameras: “The entire film was shot on 2 canon 7D’s (mostly at 60p for “slow-mo” flexibility later on while editing) and 1 Canon 5D at 30p which was conformed to a 24 frame timeline.” Crazy awesome.
(via Matt Gist)
This was pretty widely talked about last week, but worth posting for those that haven’t seen it yet. You may have seen my earlier link on Alex Roman and his incredibly realistic CGI work. This entire “film” isn’t real. It’s computer-generated. And incredibly stunning. I love the sound-design on it too.
If you’ve got a decent-sized screen, click-through to Vimeo and watch it in HD.
I love movie title design. I really want to design a movie opening sequence someday, but until then, I’ll stare at this gorgeous collection of movie titles compiled by designer Christian Annyas.
(via @scalenine)
I’ve long been interested in special effects, digital compositing, CGI, etc. There’s something really fun about knowing how things have been pulled off.
At the same time, the film industry is getting so good, that I’m starting to find myself disappointed when I learn that a fairly benign scene (a.k.a. not obviously an f/x scene) wasn’t actually shot on location. It feels like cheating.
That said, this reel is amazing. You have to watch it closely to catch everything, but wow. And there’s some good background info on Stargate over at the Vimeo page.
(via @philcoffman)
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Basically an extended commercial for spirits brand, Johnnie Walker, this short film, directed by Jamie Rafn and narrated by actor Robert Carlyle is so well executed, I couldn’t resist posting it. I would absolutely love to see a “Behind the Scenes” or “Making Of”. I keep watching it over and over trying to see how much is straight-forward filmmaking and how much is special effects trickery. Regardless, it seems to be shot in one single take. It’s beautiful.
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At first glance, I thought this was a cool video, but when I clicked through to Vimeo and watched it in HD, full-screen on my big monitor, it was simply mesmerizing.
What a unique view of fireworks. Ryan talks a bit about it on his blog.
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I don’t think this music video by Ross Ching was sanctioned by the band, but it’s excellent. As he says, he, “pulled out every time lapse, stop motion and live action camera trick [he] could think of.”
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Earlier this year, my friend Andrew Hyde and I worked on a video for the band, The Autumn Film. Before going further, check out the video. In this post, I’ll go over some of the behind the scenes: a making of, of sorts.
I’m super-excited to be able to post this video to my blog. I directed/edited it and, along with my buddy Andrew Hyde, shot the footage.
I’ll have a post later this week that goes into much more detail on how we made the video, but for now, just give it a watch and enjoy it.
The singer is Tifah from the band, The Autumn Film. The song is an old public-domain song that she rewrote and added a bridge to. We shot it in her living room with bandmate Dann Stockton recording sound.
Free Music
As they’ve been known to do, the band is giving this video away for free, along with an audio track of the song and two other brand new songs. You can download it (and 8 other songs of there’s) at theautumnfilm.com/share.
If you enjoy it, tell your friends. That’s the whole point.
(click through to Vimeo to see it in HD goodness)
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A while back I posted some frame-captures from the upcoming movie by director Spike Jonze. Now the first trailer is out.
It seems like they carried the distinct visual tone of the frame-captures throughout the film in a really effective way.
I’m also loving the titling and hope that’s carried through into the film titles.
Do we really have to wait for October 16th?
(via @willw)
Normally I’d post a video in the video section, but after watching Garrett Murray’s short film Forever’s Not So Long I thought it was so beautifully shot that it deserved to be recognized for the imagery. Click through to Vimeo to watch it in HD goodness.
Murray, who stars in and also produced the film, said it was shot, “on a Panasonic HVX-200a, with a Cinevate 35mm lens adapter… using the Nikon 50mm 1.8 and 28mm 2.8 primes.” The camera was set to 720p in 24p mode. Shawn Morrison wrote and directed it.
You have 13 minutes. Go watch it.
Photographer Jeremy Cowart posted these frames from his first-ever video shoot. He shot the video with his Canon 5D MK II—technically, a still-frame SLR camera that happens to shoot HD video.
I’ve heard good and bad (but mostly good) about the camera. But what I really think is fascinating—what I really think will change the game, is the fact that you no longer need a camera costing tens of thousands of dollars (or more) to shoot pro-quality video. You still need to understand filmmaking and you still need to be good at what you do. But the barrier to entry is constantly getting lower. It’ll be fun to watch what happens.
I think it says a lot about this show that I’ve only watched the first two seasons so far and I’m already lamenting that fact that its done.
(via Subtraction)
This was one of my favs as a child. I’m trying not to build up my expectations of the movie too much because I don’t want to be disappointed. That said, I’m still really excited to see where they took it.
An intense short film blending animation inside of live motion. Very well done and also available for download on the site.
I saw this a couple weeks ago, loved it, but had forgotten about it until it popped up again on Nick Onken’s blog today. It’s such a simple concept, beautifully executed by Carlos Lascano.
The music is Sigur Ros
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