Slomo

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Jordan_S

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This short doc really took me by surprise. I knew nothing about it when I clicked. So finely crafted. A week later, I'm still thinking about it.

[video]http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002796999/slomo.html?smid=pl-share[/video]
 
I can't say Slomo isn't better; however, at least you've made something. Most viewers just talk about making a film.

There's nothing wrong with stealing ideas. I like how they slowly panned in unexpected directions with stills. It took a while to see they were in fact stills.
 
Jordan, thanks for sharing this!

Really one of the more inspirational short films I've seen in a while. (I'm biased, having spent my youth skateboarding)

A nice antidote to all the gear lust/pixel-peeping that has dominated this site in recent times.
 
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Scott. And I'm happy you mentioned what's really important. Sometimes I think I was a whole lot more creative with my first DV cam and Windows Movie Maker than I've been since then. Or maybe it was back in high school when I borrowed a neighbor's VHS camera and used two VCRs to edit.
 
Jordan_S said:
There's nothing wrong with stealing ideas.
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Well, it may be if you don't acknowledge your sources. In case anyone's thinking I got the ideas for mine from NYT, I'd like to point out my video was posted around six months before theirs, also has panned stills. I don't think they got their ideas from me, it's just great minds thinking alike.
 
I don't know if Miles said this or if it really was someone else but the quote is, "A good artist borrows. A great artist steals."

The point is that no one works in a vacuum in music, filmmaking, or in any other art form. A creator must be influenced by others. Of course he needs to build something new in order to be viable; however, ideas are built upon the work of others and the entire art form advances this way. A good artist's sources are easily discernible while a great artist has seemingly created something the world has never seen.

I don't know if an artist needs to acknowledge his sources but I think most do simply because they enjoy speaking and thinking about them.
 
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