a karaoke film.

i finished this a couple of days ago in time for the crit at college, the last few hours of editing were so stressful. basically its an answer to a 'karaoke' brief, to produce some moving text in synchronisation to our choice of 30 songs. I chose a song called o superman by a performance artist called laurie anderson, who, as im reliably informed by wikipedia, is married to a certain lou reed. i chose it because it was a slightly strange song with clear vocal/lyrical elements that i fancied working on. after reading a bit about anderson and the song i found that some parts of it are about communications systems in america such as the planes, phones, couriers etc so i thought id work on that theme for a visual interpretation of the song. [i hope this is evident to you, the audience] i partly chose the song because i thought it would present me with a bit of a challenge. that turned out to be the case. most of the difficulty i encountered was technical. i struggled with the stop motion section on the fridge and although id managed to get my hands on adobe after effects and premiere pro i couldnt for the life of me figure out how to work them. so i better learn how in time for the next film based project. if there was an ideal outcome of the film, it would all have been shot in one go as one running sequence, because the cuts in the scenes really annoy me. also some parts are shot at night, when the film is set at daytime. and i had plans for the film to go on another minute or so but i left it too late to film these. aside from all this i do quite like some elements and i think my original ideas have come through quite nicely.

then again we cant all be our own critics so let me know what you think


[sorry about the pop-ups, couldnt get the video onto youtube]

arty stuff. genesis

right, business time. actually im gonna go off on a tangent before i get there. this morning (5am to be precise) i got up and went with my brother to the nokia shop on regents street because we'd heard on xfm that if you buy their new touchscreen music phone for 250 quid you get a pair of benicassim tickets to boot. now these tickets are worth over 300 and i was gonna buy myself one pretty soon anyway so i figured if i bought the phone and tickets, sold the phone and one ticket i'd be quids in. so i did. sold the phone to my dad for a ton, and the other ticket to my brother. smiles all round. turns out the phones pretty sweet anyway [here comes the arty stuff] and as i was rooting around its applications etc i found this amazing short animation, which i had in fact seen before, but at this point in time where it relates to what i'm doing at college, it made me realise how amazing it really is. 'i met the walrus' is a series of visual interpretations of an excerpt from an interview between a young budding journalist and john lennon, which is a pretty interesting interview in itself but taken to whole new levels with Josh Raskin's visuals. watch it. and watch it in HIGH QUALITY. you know you love that youtube shit