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That'll do nicely!
We have our second assignment. "Create a 10 second movie." At first this sounds ridiculously easy, but a little thought makes you realise it is actually quite tricky. To compile anything with meaning into 10 seconds is not particularly simple. The onvious answer is just to go with some comedy, as 10 seconds is rather a long time for a good slapstick gag.
The problem, and this is actually something I am not too pleased about, is that according to the criterion reference grid for the assignment, we appear to be being graded more on our usage of audio than we are on the imagery in the movie. In fact, we can not get a first-class grade unless we use audio from multiple sources, and synchronise it to the on-screen action. Now, whilst this is far from an impossible task, I actually find it somewhat limiting. I mean, in a 10 second movie, it may be desirable to have little or even NO soundtrack! A lack of sound can tell as much of a story as the sound itself can.
Anyway, having thought about it, an idea suddenly popped into my mind. In our first Creative Technologies lecture, John showed us the video of "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years." If ever anything was crying out for subversion, it is something like that. So, my plan is to make "Lee takes a photo of himself every second for 10 seconds." I have already thought of two or three ways to introduce a little more humour inside the 10 pictures, but have yet to decide on the final storyboard.
All I need to do is somehow come up with my own piano piece, so that I can upload it anywhere. Either that, or discover what the original piano piece used in the movie is, and somehow obtain the permission to use that. This would obviously be ideal, as it would be instantly recognisable to anyone who saw the original movie, but all I really need to do is have something that sounds a little bit like it. As long as I capture the feel, then hopefully it will carry across and remind people. Let's face it, the entire lecture theatre will have seen the original, and it is them who will be seeing my finished movie.
Filming should be straightforward, and I am lucky enough that I won't have to struggle to borrow one of the University provided cameras. Filming this idea should literally take no more than 10 seconds, possibly a minute or so if I do multiple takes. It is how I fill in the gaps between the pictures that will ultimately take up all the time, and will ultimately determine my final grade, I believe.
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That'll do nicely!
We have our second assignment. "Create a 10 second movie." At first this sounds ridiculously easy, but a little thought makes you realise it is actually quite tricky. To compile anything with meaning into 10 seconds is not particularly simple. The onvious answer is just to go with some comedy, as 10 seconds is rather a long time for a good slapstick gag.
The problem, and this is actually something I am not too pleased about, is that according to the criterion reference grid for the assignment, we appear to be being graded more on our usage of audio than we are on the imagery in the movie. In fact, we can not get a first-class grade unless we use audio from multiple sources, and synchronise it to the on-screen action. Now, whilst this is far from an impossible task, I actually find it somewhat limiting. I mean, in a 10 second movie, it may be desirable to have little or even NO soundtrack! A lack of sound can tell as much of a story as the sound itself can.
Anyway, having thought about it, an idea suddenly popped into my mind. In our first Creative Technologies lecture, John showed us the video of "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years." If ever anything was crying out for subversion, it is something like that. So, my plan is to make "Lee takes a photo of himself every second for 10 seconds." I have already thought of two or three ways to introduce a little more humour inside the 10 pictures, but have yet to decide on the final storyboard.
All I need to do is somehow come up with my own piano piece, so that I can upload it anywhere. Either that, or discover what the original piano piece used in the movie is, and somehow obtain the permission to use that. This would obviously be ideal, as it would be instantly recognisable to anyone who saw the original movie, but all I really need to do is have something that sounds a little bit like it. As long as I capture the feel, then hopefully it will carry across and remind people. Let's face it, the entire lecture theatre will have seen the original, and it is them who will be seeing my finished movie.
Filming should be straightforward, and I am lucky enough that I won't have to struggle to borrow one of the University provided cameras. Filming this idea should literally take no more than 10 seconds, possibly a minute or so if I do multiple takes. It is how I fill in the gaps between the pictures that will ultimately take up all the time, and will ultimately determine my final grade, I believe.
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