Other Short Films

Phuket Breathing // Thailand by artisland





I really like the colours, and effectiveness of the soundtrack. I kind of reminds me of home.


Through the Middle by Clouded Vision



A really emotional film i reckon, the use no soundtracks or little of it, gives off a really personal effect. Giving the film a really good insight on what the place is about and how it was then and now.

The Well: Covering Capitol Hill by Chris Gregory



A documentary about how Photographers in Capitol Hill, Washington. Pretty insightful, it gets the point across about how much political photography has changed and how has technology and viewership have changed the media.

More Documentaries about Places

Watching more documentaries about cities is getting me really excited to start shooting. I reckon i would need to head to the city more and check out places worth shooting in different times of the day and different days as well.

Here another couple of documentaries that i really i like.

Grand Central Terminal NYC by Mike Kobal



I really like this one, because instead of just the city he chose just the train station. You tend to feel how it is to be in that place, the music used is excellent, really groovy and gave the whole film a different kind of flavour.

Unhinged: Surviving Joburg - Promo by Loveland Plant Hire



This on the other-hand is a completely different style, but i like it. I think it has a gritty feel to it. I think i could this kind of technique and expand it with the others to make a more complete kind of documentary.

CONCEPT FOR 2nd ASSIGNMENT

IVE BEEN THINKING IF NEW YORK CAN HAVE A MILLION DOCUMENTARIES, WHY CANT MELBOURNE?

Ive looking at a lot of just "mood collections" of different environments and New York usually pops up.. So i was planning to make one about Melbourne. Why not? right? Melbourne being a very colourful city is a perfect place for different sort of flavours!

Some Documentaries ive been looking at, more about the sights and sounds than usual Q&A bit of a documentary.

Reflection New York by Mood Collection


I really like this one, it gives you a really good idea about what New york's vibe. The different things that makes New York special, in terms of weird quirky little things that go unnoticed or really noticeable things. I like how they made the whole thing into a film.

THE BEAT OF NEW YORK by Tim Hahne



This one is more about how they used the guy drumming in the subway and used his music and created their own in the drummers beat. Creating a sort of "New York BEAT" which is a really cool idea. Its more about the music and people up close and personal shots. Still really cool.

Why cant i create something like this about Melbourne? I think Melbourne would be a great city to do this kind of thing. Better wait and see though. Hoping to get my new camera by middle of APRIL and then I'll be defintly doing stuff like these.

2nd assignment

Im thinking about doing a short film for my 2nd assignment. Ive been checking out short films on vimeo.


Love is like Life but Longer by Poppy De Villenueve




I really like the story and really nice enviroment audio. Seems very minimalist in script but i really like the concept, colours and acting.

Winters of my Life by Jonathan Burhop



I think this documentary was pretty good. Simple yet very emotional in tone. The colours and the minimal sound effects really expresses the story of his life.

Alone in Tokyo by Philip Bloom



What can i say, Philip Bloom is a pretty magnificent storyteller and Videographer. He has really good films known for his use of D-SLR camera's for film. This video really expresses life in Tokyo for me. The magnificence and yet you still have the homeless and the dirty. Classic Philip Bloom Time Lapse here as well. Awesome colours, awesome use of camera techniques.

3d crazy and going abstract

These videos i really liked, the composition and the 3d elements, are amazing. Hopefully someday i will be able to make something as awesome as this.

The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman

What is there to say, stunning and breathtaking 3d graphics. I havent seen any of this kind when it comes to detail and colours. Extraordinary if i were to describe it.



F L U X by Candas Sisman

an abstract red ball transforming into different forms.. Great use of lights composition and animation..

Short films that i like

There have been a few short films that have really struck me, in terms of quirkiness or just the sheer awesomeness of the script and cinematography. Here are some.

A Thousand Words by Ted Chung

I envy people with such great simple ideas, this is one of them. A really simple idea and made into i think a really goodo short film. A silent film at that.




Nuit Blanche by Spy Films

First time i saw this film my jaw dropped. Literally! Amazing 3d animation.. Just amazing.. I showed everyone in class and everyone agreed we will never be this good.

Some more live action video + Animation

Hershey's - 'Happiness Is...'

Pretty cool integration of video and illustration animation... the animation and video really goes well with the music.




Box Animation by Jordan Clarke

for a while now i have been a fan of Jordan Clarke's work. I like his Style when it comes to his films and short video's. This one is a little bit different with the integration of live video and 3d Animation. He creates these boxes that go with the music. Really fun video.

The Posthuman

I've been researching about what it is to be Post-human and the relationship between man and machine. I've read a few scholarly journals and chose a few good quotes from what i have read.

Wolf, Tom, “Mcluhan’s New World.” The Wilson Quarterly 28, No. 2 (2004) : 18-25.

Evolution used to be measured in units of at least100,000 years. But computer scientist DannyHillis wrote in Wired magazine that thanks to "telephony, computers,and CD-ROMs," today "evolution takes place in microseconds."

God was directing, in this very moment, the 20th century, the evolution of man into a noosphere – that was teilhard de Charding’s coinage, a noosphere – a unification of all nervous systems, all human souls through technology.

Teilhard de Charding died in 1955, when television had only recently come into widespread use and the microchip had not even been invented. Computers were huge machines, big as a suburban living room, that were not yet in assembly-line production. But he was already writing about “the extraordinary network of radio and television communication which already links us all in a sort of ‘etherised’ human consciousness and of “those astonishing electronic computers which enhance the ‘speed of thought’ and pave the way for a revolution in the spere of research.” This technology was creating a “nervous system for humanity,” he wrote, “a single, organized, unbroken membrane over the earth,” a “stupendous thinking machin.” “the age of civilization has ended, and that of one civilization” – he underlined “one civilization” – “is beginning.”

Hughes, James, Nick Bostrum, Jonathan Moreno, “Human vs Posthuman.” The Hastings Center Report 37, no. 5 (2007) : 4-7.

Having the opportunity to be come posthuman canbe good for us in much the same way that
it is good for an infant to have the op- portunityto matureinto an adult.

Hayles, Katherine N. “Refiguring the Posthuman.” Comparative Literature Studies 41, No. 3 (2004) : 311-316.

MarkPoster's"TheInformativeEmpire,"delivered as a keynote addressat the 2003 conference of the American Comparative Literature Association,coins the neologism"humachinet" to mark" an intimate mixing of human and machine that constitutes an interface outside the subject/Objectbinary.

Poster's and Satos arguments converge in implying that information technologies are powerfully affecting contemporary subject formations, moving them away from autonomous individuals and toward posthuman collectivities of humans and intelligent machines.

It is too soon to say where these en- gagements will end. Perhaps the only clear conclusions are that the future of humans will increasingly be entangled with intelligent machines, and that embodiments will still matter in some sense, however virtual or cyborgian they become.

Posthumans are likely to be as complex and diverse, as historically and culturally specific as humans have been. What- ever the future, we can be sure that it will not be simple.

Initial idea for Storyboard

My first idea for my animation video is using a real person rather than a illustration. Using a voice over of a second person describing the person in the frame.




























With the use of text animation on top of the video creating a 3d space within the frame.

Other inspirations

TODOR & PETRU

A video i found Vimeo, with the use of live action video and Animated Illustration.

I really like this one, pretty time consuming when illustration is concerned.



Macro Kingdom

Another Live action video + text animation.



Made by the same person as the last one, Live action video + text animation.




The Crisis of Credit Visualized by Jonathan Jarvis

This video is more text + image animation, no live action footage, but i really like how he got the information across. With the use of simple text and images he was able to get the message across really easily.

Initial idea for the 1 minute Animation video

Brief 1:

You are to create a short animation (1 minute duration) in response to the POST- HUMAN or your own theme. Your response may be personal, humorous, abstract, analytical, political but it must take a position on the theme – and be backed up with solid research.

My idea came from the opening sequence of the movie Stranger than Fiction done by MK12.



By the use of animated text and images combined with live action video. I intend to use similar techniques on my first assignment.

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