Sun . Water . Earth . Entertainment

This is an exploration of the banding effect with some images layered on top.
Two layers containing exactly the same visuals but with a different image manipulation.

The base layer contains a heavy version of the banding/blur filter.
The top layer has a repeater - effect applied.
It overlaps the incoming signal with the previously displayed one. The result looks random and chaotic.

This method has a slight resemblence with nature. It is random with a certain consistancy in its look and behaviour.

The audio part is making use of some filters that help to underline the nature effect.

Experiment 1 - 3

Here are some experiments to approximate the parameters of chaos.

I tried to apply the same concept that defines the Chaos Theory:

1. it must be sensitive to initial conditions,

2. it must be topologically mixing, and

3. its periodic orbits must be dense.

Not sure if I am on the right track. The visuals have something boringly exciting, just like the earlier video narrations.

Love . Cat . Tomato . Duck

This is the video response to the dream 23/04/2010 Dream PR

After knowing about this dream I googled the four main elements that are occurring in the story and oops, i bumped into this weird lyrics that funny enough contains these 4 words: Love . Cat . Tomato . Duck

Enjoy watching!

48 hours screening

This is the final 48 hours contribution for 2010.
I am very happy with the result – BIG thanks to the actors!

Unfortunately we did not win anything, but to be honest, I thought the short might potentially be disqualified for not delivering the genre well enough... in the end it got screened in the Academy cinema and a lot of people watched it.

Here are some comments from the 48hours website.
Slightly puzzled responses really :)


Review by 590896825@facebookMichael Cannon Miller on April 22nd, 2010
Less of a time travel film and more of a tone poem. This film was done in an avant garde way where the director organized a series of visually interesting shots, poem recitations and invterviews. I don't believe there is a particular narrative that's discernible to the audience but some of the stop-motion effect shots look particularly cool and I believe there is a joke at the end about the circular nature of time travel. Something to look upon and think about.

Review by kizzlemizzlebizzle on April 24th, 2010
A serious piece where people talk about their interactions with, seemingly, the same person, intercut with poetry readings.

To be honest, I didn’t really get this film. Partly because I switched off about two thirds of the way through, but in their defence, I’m a bit of a cretan. I liked the opening sequence with the jump cuts of the girl giving flirtive glances to the camera. And I liked the stop-motion effect used during the poetry readings, gave a very surreal feel to them. Also I thought the acting was very good. Sorry I wasn’t paying attention.

Review by Lambshank on April 26th, 2010
Just didn't get this one. I was interested when the girl had a box of unrelated strange items and I wanted to learn more about that incident but it didn't go anywhere. Neat mirror effect.

2010/04/16-18 The V48 hours weekend

Another 48 hours competition is over - yeah!
This year i participated with keeping to the same premise (without script experiment) as for my studio work using some of the non professional actors i collected within the past 4 weeks.

In case you don't know how the 48h works:
Teams are given a particular genre, a character, a sentence and a prop and 48 hours to produce a 7min max movie.
http://www.v48hours.co.nz/2010/

Unfortunately i am not allowed to show the movie until the judges have selected the winner....i guess this will take another 2 weeks from now.

Nevertheless i can show you a video of sunday 7 pm, hand in time!
Watch this to understand the force of group dynamics :)

Sandringham, take two!

Two weeks ago i had a good filming session with Im and Silvia.
The edit for "Music 1" was done instantly.
"Silvia" and "Friends" needed some time to be finished, as the preparation for the V48hour competition was taking up some space.

"Friends" benefited the fact of going through the 48h competition and the blur experiments i did this week eg. "Love".

A new stylistic method that came up in "Romance" , the 48h short, is to use artistic dividers.
I have seen many artists applying that to their shorts or features (Inland Empire or Antichrist or Svankmajer's jabberwocky cat)
A comedy show from Germany "Bully Parade" uses this scheme effectively for their sketches.

In general i have learned that i can utilize the background noise in a good way as it intensifies an edit. Usually an editor looks out for "invisible cuts", but sometimes as it's a bit irritating using noisy changes wakes up the audience.

The silent portrait method from the first take is still in use for "Silvia" and "Romance"

I should have a consistent way of titling things.... probably i want to get rid of the chronological numbers and also i won't use the word "Portrait" in a portrait short.

Sandringham, take one!

After setting up a weekly booking agreement with the Sandringham Community Centre and getting some flyers and posters up in that area I was able to have the first introductory event for the acting class. The advertisement basically relied on people reading the flyers.

Most of the session got recorded on video.

There are 2 edits ready for public viewing, see attached Vimeo clips below for further info.
Some of the activity shots did not make it into an edit, but went straight to the video pool for potential edits in the future.

All video clips are being stored in a Vimeo channel: http://www.vimeo.com/channels/97534

Outcome:
The first session was good, though not at all what I expected it to be.
I almost ended up sitting on my own in an empty class room.

Positive: The person that joined was very open to the class and was patient with the class procedure.

Negative: The facility is on a noisy street and the light conditions are bad.

Solution: Could bring an extra light and a good microphone to the next class and also do more advertisement in person on the street to get the word out.

Workflow

The workflow for the project will be comprising several components:

- The living script, influenced by research work, coincidental events, the acting class content and the actors interactions and early stage edits.

- Chance might play a role helping to find new directions during the production

My work starts with researching acting techniques and setting up coincidental event logs to prepare the first acting class, which will represent the first stage of the living script.

The first group of actors is the elderly community of Sandringham and the location for the acting session is the Sandringham Community Centre.

Dates are tbc

Over the next 2 weeks I will be researching and writing up an acting lesson plan.

I am targeting the first weekend of April for the first acting class to happen.