When I saw the See Something. Feel Something. campaign from FOXTEL Australia I was a little suprised. Are they really serious?
There are showing people in front of a tv, whose feelings are diversifying between tension and joy. You don’t have to know the short film Evidence to get the impressions that all the people are looking like zombies! Is this really the impression they want to evoke?
“VideoDefunct is a Collaborative Research project by Seth Keen and Keith Deverell, with the aid of David Wolf at RMIT University Melbourne Australia. The project is an experimental work that focuses on producing a hybrid form of video blog. Currently as a work-in-progress, a number of prototypes are being developed in the open source blog publishing system WordPress. A key objective of the project is to explore the way video is presented within the structure of a blog from a ‘poetic’ perspective.”
One of the projects I saw at ARGOS:
“Artist Peter Horvath (CA, 1961) has experimented with photo montages for years, and in the domain of web technology he is essentially investigates how to enhance the qualities of his photo work beyond the two-dimensional context. In his current work he develops a web of fragmentary story lines, a framework of multi-coloured mosaics from which a ’spectator’ can draw his own history by navigating. According to Horvath the web reflects the ongoing process of making choices, through which we appropriate the world around us, and as such it is the ideal medium to investigate the notions of identity, subjectivity and consciousness.”
Recreating Movement is a computer program for analysing film sequences and has been developed within the diploma thesis by Martin Hilpoltsteiner.
The single frames of a pre-keyed film sequence are arranged one behind the other in a three-dimensional space. In this way a complex movement is being captured in its whole length and turned into graphic information.
“Dead Bird is an experiment in storytelling & editing.
The same story is presented 3 different ways with each edit revealing a little more about the characters personalities, through their relationship with the environment, each other and a dead bird.”
You can watch the shortfilm either in a split screen edit or two classical edits. You can learn a lot about spatial montage comparing the three edits. In my opinion the classical edits in this case are much more compelling. The split screen edit transfers a certain atmosphere but no dramatic development while the classical edits offer more suspense. The split screen shows you different view points at the same time, but in this case it’s not really leading somewhere.
On the first look arranging three YouTube videos next to each other seems pretty odd, but as I was exploring the You3b site I recognized the potential of it.
The combination of three thematically connected or contrasting videos can be quite interesting. (See Metanoise as an example). Changing the volume of the single clips even gives you more variations, therefore it almost feels like a live djing tool. If you guys find more interesting montages on the site, let me know.
This Spiegel-article reminded me of The Tracey Fragments, which I saw at the Berlinale film festival in february.
The feature film heavily uses multi frame views to illustrate the confused state mind of protagonist Tracey (played by the immaculte Ellen Page). It’s quite a usual coming of age story, the multi camera setup really adds a worthy level to the narration.
Until now, releases are affirmed for Canada, Taiwan and Portugal.
The HBO Voyeur Project is an Alternate Reality Game which gives you an inside look on different stories happening in different flats in NYC. There are two interesting facts about the project.
First it’s heavily using spatial montage to show connections between the different stories. There is an option on the website, which shows these connections by highlighting certain flats while dimming others. This technique gives some interesting new options for spatial storytelling.
Second interesting aspect is the marketing claim “Do you like to watch?”. For me it seems like HBO uses the Voyeur Project as an research tool to find out more about coverging media usage of it’s viewers. It’s not only the questions if you like to watch but where (or in which medium) you like to watch.
Get some backgrund information on the project’s blog “The story gets deeper”.
“The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of voyeurism.
See what people do when they think no one is Watching
is the tagline that they have used to describe the experience that starts in the streets of New York City, behind the countless windows that we pass everyday. It comes together in a silent film that will be projected on the side of a building, and extends to the HBO channel, HBO on Demand, and online at HBOVoyeur.com. There are also “artifacts” of the characters everywhere, pieces of story which have been sprinkled around the web and in the real world to heighten the experience for those who like to get involved. However it is experienced in whichever medium, the point of the HBO Voyeur Project is to get the viewer to confront the uncomfortable question: “Do You Like To Watch?”
Link via Bewegungsmelder.
Video helps to promote every product, even toilet seats! :-)
Even though the claim (”Clean is happy“) is quite stupid and the testimonials are way over the top (They try to make you believe that this toilet seat will change your life), the video Interface is well done.
Very slick concept for an agency site from german based Neteye.
The projects are floating around in an interactive 3d space, detailed case studies are presented as a showreel.