Surrealistic 1-minute film

Pesie

Pesie

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Hi guys,

Just finished a surrealistic 1-minute film called 'Shopping Music'. It's about the 'other side' of that awful middle of the road-music you often hear in shopping malls. It's a contribution to a Dutch 1-minute Music-theme webcontest.

Shot with the DVX100 (PAL), edited with Vegas 6 and color correction with Magic Bullet Editors 2.

Read some background info and watch the movie at www.orphicfilm.nl/html/sm.html

Looking forward to read about your 'watching experience' !
 
the opening slow motion showed some strobing. I would of shot in 60i or 30p then converted to 24p at a slower rate. i liked it though.
 
that was great! The strobing wasn't too bad in my opinion, but of course it could have been smoothed out a bit with different shooting options. Great idea!
 
The strobing is due to slowing down 25P footage (I'm in PAL territory). The idea of doing slow-mo was born during editing, so no time back to do some 50i recording on location (BTW, I did not get permission to shoot at the mall, so it was a kind of run and gun filming on a crowded Saterday afternoon).
 
Strobing on the slo-mo got to me a little, but hey what can you do?

Oh, I know. TWIXTOR PRO!

Re:Vision is a great company. And that was an odd, yet interesting video.
 
I liked it. I am particularly enchanted by the guy at the end. That dude seemed messed up...and I want to know more about him.
 
What do you want me to ask him, when we get a chance to have a peek again during his continious dj-set in the shopping mall?
 
I say RIGHT ON. Well done. I really liked it. Especially for its simplicity. I was really engaged. The only two things I'd say for improvement are:

1) I wish you had avoided any zoom ins (in the first scenes outside). I liked the simplicity. The quiet. The colors and look were awesome...and I just felt the zoom ins detracted considerably from the quality otherwise. I mean, you don't have any camera movement in the whole thing...and I think that's cool...and I'd rather you just stuck with that convention rather than fill in with some shakey zooms. Just wish you had taken some long shot, mid shot and close ups of the initial walk into the hotel. Maybe cut these shots down a bit, so they're like jump cuts and faster--that will also help cover for the shakey zooms!

2) Small detail. Eliminate the sound effect when you jump in close to the blood spatter on the door. Again, I loved the simplicity. The absence of sound and dialogue and camera movement actually enhanced the experience for me. And this addition of a sound effect felt very out of place and forced. I'd stick with what is working for you. Try silence. It would be surreal. And let's face it--the film itself is surreal.

Other than that, I really liked it! Seriously.
 
Sean, blood spatter on the door? Zooms? Walk into the hotel? I think you're talking about another film.
 
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