December 12th, 2007
…”the take”, the space between things being shown, that invites the audience, reader, participant, to fill out the blanks. The other night I played throught the beginning of Fahrenheit on PC, and the cop is going to help an old lady, working on a diner, to get home.
The problem is, that she’s not wearing any out doors clothing and its freezing outside. The game makers obviuosly didn’t want to animate her putting on a coat just to get her out of the scene, but the fact is that such a minor detail can ruin the immersion into the story. One way around this would be to leave enough space for the audience to fill in the blank. Make her go towards the door, then cut and just “show” us the sound of the door being shut. Since it is probable that she put on the coat, we don’t have to react to the fact that she didn’t. You don’t have to show everything. Sometimes suggesting is quite enough, and you can leave the texturing and rendering to the user.
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July 19th, 2007
Just nu är ju en del av syftet med den här sidan att se om jag kan få till alla småsaker rätt på den utan att jag ska behöva göra en massa dubbelpubliceringar överallt. Idag lade jag till en liten lista med senaste händelserna i Filmkalendern. Listan hämtas direkt från Google calendar, vars xml-feed körs genom Feedburner som efter några inställningar kan göra en html(nåja, javascript)-kod via sin BuzzBoost-funktion och den koden har jag nu stylat lite och lagt till ute till höger på alla sidor (den kommer förmodligen flyttas på framöver). Det verkar funka precis som jag vill.
Jag har precis läst slut boken the Comedy Bible som var riktigt underhållande och vettig. Den vänder sig främst till stand-up-komiker, men hade även ett kapitel som behandlade sit-coms. Mer om boken finns att läsa på Judy Carter’s webbsida www.comedyworkshopS.com.
Jag har blivit klar med kortfilmsmanuset som ska spelas in i höst. Regissören ska nu ta vid och göra en directors draft av det hela med mig som bisittare. Bildmanus är påbörjat och listor med alla upptänkliga saker som måste lösas har börjat iordningsställas. Manuset slutade på 33 sidor och målet just nu är att filmen ska bli 30 minuter.
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April 22nd, 2007
Less time for editing than I thought this weekend. Spent time on theatre (student spex actually) and a role playing game, and spent a couple of hours cleaning up the work space (you can more or less see it soon).
I’ll say a few things about the student farse I saw. It was a cross breed between West Side Story and a western movie, with Maria, Billy - the kid, Jolly Jumper, Dolly Parton, Clint Eastwood, to mention a few of the characters. The plot was confusing at best, but it dawned on me pretty soon that this was a good thing, at least not a bad one. The show was absolutely inhibited in breaking the conventions in how a play should be performed. The actors constantly asked for dialog, the directer pointed out faults in the play while it was being performed, the set fell apart and was constantly repaired during the show. All this while the cast constantly delivered funny, or pretty funny, lines that was part of something not really resembling a good plot. This way of performing is all the more appropriate considering that Swedish student spex contains elements such as the audience demanding the actors to do scenes in other ways, and booing if a particular bad joke is told. I truly enjoyed the anarchistic nature of the show. I might ponder some more on the phenomenon further down the road.
The spex was fun, but as I said, I didn’t spend much time editing. And next week Thursday-Saturday I’ll be on The Dream Factory, organized byt the Swedish Film Institute. Need to work extra hard in the beginning of the week on my short to get it done anytime soon. There’s three plays I’ve got to edit after that. And I only got a couple of hours a day doing it. With a little bit of luck I’ll get some writing done on my recent script during the trip to Stockholm, though. The very first stages of pre-production is planned to begin in just a couple of weeks.
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April 20th, 2007
This is a post that says alot, without saying anything.
I’m in the middle of editing a short movie, some 10 minutes or so of interviews intertwined with shots from a stage play. I’m trying to use the facts that the sound and footage aren’t all that good all the time, and let the faults carry some of the story. This project is an attempt to tell the story through editing. If the result is any good I might publish it on YouTube, if not you’ll never here about it again.
We’re finally about to purchase After Effects. It will come to good use while we do digital effects on a film, in order for it to be truer to the original intentions. The film has already been sent to screening on Drömfabriken, without the special effects though.
On a completely different subject I stopped by the website for New York Minute Film Festival yesterday. I like the idea alot, and might do a one minute film later on just for the hell of it.
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April 18th, 2007
Saw a link to this article in the Telegraph posted at Thomas Crockers Avid blog, which I can recommend by the way.
The article deals with what is called open source movies. The concept is neat somehow, but I also wonder if you’re even talking movies when you take this to an extreme. The article only brushes at this area with mentioning “Imagine being able to download a version of a Hollywood movie which you could play around with - cutting scenes and creating alternative endings.” (Telegraph.co.uk, 10 april 2007) Bordering on semantics this is still relevant in the way we tell our story. The movie as a medium is framed in time and space, but the freecutting experience is not, not if the process of recutting is the salespitch for these movies. If the recutted version of the film was shown for friends and family, and maybe even saw it’s way to YouTube it would be a film indeed, but, probably, a pretty irrelevant one.
Regarding the process of making the film I welcome every new thought on the subject, and will follow the open source movement in filmmaking with interest. Hey, anything to get good stories told, right?
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