motion|sound

WOLF AND PIG
We watched this short stop-motion movie during one of the first classes, and I keep coming back to it. I think we watched this before we attempted any real stop motion projects, so at the time I couldn’t grasp how hard it must have been to film, or how long it probably took. It seemed really simple, but now that I understand the time needed not only to film, but to edit (working one frame at a time) I’m even more impressed by the outcome. Aside from the technical aspect, I really enjoy how 2D space around the wolf and pig transform into the 3d space of the room it was filled in. I especially love the part when the sink becomes a swimming pool, and the photograph of the wolf swimming floats across the water.

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DEERHUNTER — FAMOUS LAST WORDS
This is a music video that Greig and I stumbled upon while brainstorming for stop-motion ideas. Like the wolf and pig video, I’m forever impressed at how much work must have gone into making this, but it really pays off. This video goes the extra mile and has the 2D photograph interacting with the 3D space (again, much like the Wolf and Pig), but in a more direct way. Whereas the wolf and pig photographs were laid on top of related 3D spaces, the 2D figure in the this music video is actually interacting with the normal 3D elements of the room.

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WESTERN SPAGHETTI
I’m a huge fan of PES! I love how they always use Bressant’s principles of not duplicating sound and visuals. What you see relates to the sound in some manner, but out of the context of the video, would have no actual relationship to the subject matter. If you were to watch a lot of their videos on mute (this one being an exception, I suppose), you would have no idea what was going on. In that way, the sounds and the visuals work together to send a message instead of competing for dominance. Another thing that amazed me and those I showed it to, was how perfectly registered everything was. Like Franci mentioned to us, it’s a real shame when registration issues take away from your video and all the hard work you’ve out into it. While filming the countdown, and even to some extent Project 1, a lot of the class still experienced shifting despite using tripods and tape. For some of was easier to fix than others (and certainly mine was quite hard) but that just made me wonder how PES was able to achieve such stability (or how long it took them to re-register everything if there was some shifting). Either way, this video is really sweet and I’d definitely like to do something this ambitious in the future…once i master the tripod, or get a team of minions to align everything in Photoshop for me ;D

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♥ MD