Human Beatbox

These are two videos from a Japanese TV program.
They created these two videos called "Human Beatbox" which basically, they gathered several people to record some short and random voices and movements and then put them together and edited it to become a short video which sounded like a beat box.
I think it is a very cool idea and the videos came out really cool too.

Short Film - Strangers

I found this video on youtube and I really liked it.
Although it's short but it created an anxious atmosphere through this 6 minutes and the music helped a lot too.

I know its not a one shot film but it helped me to understand that a short film needs to be easily understandable.
We need to be very clear about what we want to say from the film we make.

Pixilation Final Piece

Final version of my pixilation - "Illusion"

I got my inspiration from a stop motion video called "Copenhagen Sleepwalker" - http://hk.video.yahoo.com/video/video.html?id=83879
I think this video is amazing and the story is very interesting.

So I took this idea of "dreaming" and made my version of it.
The story is, in my dream, I became my friend and went Aldi's at night. Then I woke up in my dream and went to the kitchen but got hit by the saucepan lid. So I was scared and awaken by it and realised I have actually got my ring on where I wore it in my dream.

What was good:

• I really like the music. I think it works quite well with the video, makes the audience wonder what would happen next.
  
• the plot itself was quite good because what happened was not expected
• many people like the shoes walking scene, but I like the bench scene more. I think it worked really well. I was very pleased with the outcome effect of this scene
  

What was not good:

• The lighting. I have brighten up the photos using photoshop but the lighting outside wasn't good when it was dark. So I have to use the flash on a few shots, which I think seemed a little bit disconnected with other shots. I should have taken the photos at day time.
• I shouldn't included myself as a model too. Only the first part of the shots were taken by me, the rest was taken by my friend. I should have taken all the photos as I would know what angle and what effect I wanted, it would be all control by me.
• As I have said, because the photos were taken by my friend, we both didn't realised she took her finger in the photo too. It was a mistake to let her do the photographing.
  

If I'd do it again:

• will not include myself as a model.
• edit the photos more. probably more blurry or in a cartoon style
• try to play with other things more
  

My first attempt on Pixilation

This is an unfinished piece.
I got a lot to work on.
I got more photos now and this one is just too fast.

I watched several stop motion videos online and got some ideas.
The idea was I do some stupid movements on the street and found out I was only dreaming.

I will update this as soon as I've worked out a better piece.