The weekend is here, but let's have a calm evening! (:
A amazing documentary how music / media / photography industry has changed during the years from analog to digital.
Definetly worth watching and spending time looking throught.
Respected artists, photographers, musicians talk about how world digitalisation changed everything and made it much more simple for the young generation.
Archive for November 2012
Weekender #1
Morning Rise #1
Something to rise with in the morning.
A great story-telling music video by a great producer
Morgan Geist aka Storm Queen
Music video by Neil Dowling and Nils Clauss of CONTENTed Films
Man on a wire
I still don’t understand why, but this movie had such a charisma that I can’t explain.
Well crafted documentary that gets you in straight away. The movie itself takes places I various countries, but It doesn’t matter where it is the idea stays the same – to fulfill your dream, do it at any cost.
That what a wire walker Philippe Petit was trying to do, his passion for what he was doing led him to the story of his life – walk through a wire between World Trade Centre twin towers what was considered the “artistic crime” of the century.
What gives me the biggest impression, is that such a harmful trick was planned so carefully by a group of young people and their accomplices and how many people were supportive and wanted to help Philippe with his dream.
Second of all I really enjoyed the authentic camera work that was used. Amateur but so close to actions shots made this movie even more personal and made it feel even more realistic, at one point you could imagine yourself as a part of the crew. The opportunities to see the everyday life of these people and how this was planed is inspiring . Freedom, passion and living your dream with the cost of everything you have, that what makes this film so interesting. The director caught the viewer finding itself in place of the people who were in the film. People who are kind of a daredevil’s, who had the desire to feel free. The heights and the shivers that you could feel is watching this movie are priceless.
DARK SIDE OF THE LENS
One of the best things i have ever seen.
Dark Side Of The Lens
https://vimeo.com/14074949
Have a nice working week.
Owl
3D Mapping @ Kaunas, Insanitus Festival
3D projection is any method of mapping three-dimensional points to a two-dimensional plane. As most current methods for displaying graphical data are based on planar two-dimensional media, the use of this type of projection is widespread, especially in computer graphics, engineering and drafting.
This video projection was made in my hometown in art & music festival Insanitus.
We Will Riot!
An upcoming movie from a lithuanian director Romas Zebrauskas that is going to be launched on March 11. The filmmakers raised $10,129 on Kickstarter.com to shoot the first 10 minutes of the film in New York.
Luke is an up-and-coming DJ from an affluent New York family with a Lithuanian father and an African-American mother. When Luke hears from an estranged grandmother in Lithuania, he defies his parents and decides to visit this far-away country, flying straight to the capital city Vilnius. He falls in love with the city, a rebellious girl called Marta, and the local music scene - the beatmakers - promoted by an aggressive gay manager, Andy. Luke's grandma's connections get him a deal with the municipality to become the manager of a new nightclub, and he takes up the challenge... but the deal turns out to be poisoned, forcing Luke to rebel in ways he never imagined.
Trailer :
The Making Of :
Donate & Support the idea : http://wewillriot.com/
Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad, is one of the most popular series at this moment in the world. It has begun as a story about a chemistry teacher Walter White, a sloppy, push over, who was a bit disappointment in his present life (years ago he had won a Nobel Prize for chemistry research) and now he is teaching children in a high school and working in a car wash just to pay his bills. A handfull of interesting characters and quick turns of the plot makes the series even more interesting. At the first episode Mr.White meets his former student Jessy Pinkman (one of the main characters throught the whole series )
If you watch the series further, you would see, how both of the characters change and develope. Of course the storyline is undeniably important, but i pay attention to motion of characters. For example Walter White, from a grumpy and self-pity dad, at one point he evolves to a the biggest drug contributer in the area, and you can definetly see the changes. To start with his behaviour with family members and to end with how he started treating his enemies and the people who were trying to get in his way, for those who not know, he became a vicious man, even a killer who god obsessed with money, and power. Surprising, huh?
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween!
A paper craft instalation, a tribute to Hitchcock's "Psycho"
https://vimeo.com/52109559
The Conversation
A movie that is different. In many ways you could understand
it wrong, but maybe that is that whole beauty of it. Starting with a strange
first scene, that gives us the spy movie theme and surveillance business as on
of the main subjects of the movie director Francis Ford Coppola introduces us
to a whole different view to sound in movie industry. For the whole idea
fulfillment of in my opinion is responsible, the sound engineer – Walter Murch.
A young couple that is being followed by one of the best sound recording specialists in the business, trying to figure out their conspiracy, or why are they so anxious. What is happening between them, inside them and what is the thing that makes them hide and to be scared. The main character Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a sound specialist, with a big background of work, respected and admired by others, considered to be the best in the area. From the first look you could say he is a firm and cold minded man, but this case is different and at the same time familiar, because few years ago, a man was killed because of a his recorded conversation.
This time is the same, he has an assignment to record young couples conversation, that he is having a big struggle with. During the recordings and the studio work, he hears different “cuts”, which gives him the idea that the couple is going to be killed when he hands in the tape. As he delivers the assignment he still does not know that the whole concept is the other way around. But that comes to Harry only when he see the client – “Director” dead and the all the pieces fit together. The suspension is essential to this film.
The thing that the viewer should pay attention is sound, that is the key element of this movie, this and the usage and potential of it. Even the story is closely conneted with one of the main elements of the movie as Harry Caul is the sound specialist as I have mentioned before. You can definitely feel and hear lots of experiments with the sound in the movie at the time. In my opinion it should have been quite a big and risky step for the director, he could have been misunderstood. But on the contrary the experiments fit perfectly in the places gives a special “spice” and fulfills the whole idea of the movie.
A young couple that is being followed by one of the best sound recording specialists in the business, trying to figure out their conspiracy, or why are they so anxious. What is happening between them, inside them and what is the thing that makes them hide and to be scared. The main character Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a sound specialist, with a big background of work, respected and admired by others, considered to be the best in the area. From the first look you could say he is a firm and cold minded man, but this case is different and at the same time familiar, because few years ago, a man was killed because of a his recorded conversation.
This time is the same, he has an assignment to record young couples conversation, that he is having a big struggle with. During the recordings and the studio work, he hears different “cuts”, which gives him the idea that the couple is going to be killed when he hands in the tape. As he delivers the assignment he still does not know that the whole concept is the other way around. But that comes to Harry only when he see the client – “Director” dead and the all the pieces fit together. The suspension is essential to this film.
The thing that the viewer should pay attention is sound, that is the key element of this movie, this and the usage and potential of it. Even the story is closely conneted with one of the main elements of the movie as Harry Caul is the sound specialist as I have mentioned before. You can definitely feel and hear lots of experiments with the sound in the movie at the time. In my opinion it should have been quite a big and risky step for the director, he could have been misunderstood. But on the contrary the experiments fit perfectly in the places gives a special “spice” and fulfills the whole idea of the movie.
Rear Window
The Movie itself takes you to a a block of houses there all of the actions takes place.
Jeff, the main character is a daredevil photographer that is trapped in his apartment, during the days he observes throught his window to the neighbors that he has. His boredom leeds him to a shocking experience that he finds out later on.
One of the key elements that i have liked on this movie was the whole screen play, how it took place and how Alfred Hitchcock used such fresh ideas to make a movie. The innovative ideas of the shooting, and the edges of editing is way more futuristic for 1954. Even the diagetic sound gives us the feeling of reality in the movie, you can feel in Jeff's place with the big lense watching your own neighbours.
What makes this movie stand out of the grey mass is camera angles and editing. Points of view gives the viewer a different experience than other movies. The whole concept of being trapped in one place while the actions is around you, not being able to do anything yourself is quite irritating and at one point nerve wracking. That what happens to Jeff, the main character, in the place when he can't do nothing just sit and watch, the suspense is one of the main things that builds up the tension and makes his girlfriend and the nurse explore scene of the crime. The director at one point uses the every single neighbour to create diversity of situations when anxiety hits the roof when they find out that Thorwald really killed his wife.
Introduction
I am Matas, a first year student in Middlesex university. My subject is Television production, Since i've been a youngster movies, television shows and cartoons have been and continue to be
highly influential in just about every area of my life. The curiosity of movie/tv production and
development has always led my way. The insights in this sphere made my skin
shiver from realizing how a scratch can be transformed into a something amazing like a movie or a tv show. My passion and knowledge, as well as desire to explore and
learn brought me to the point, where I stand now.
Through this blog i will try to share my point of view about different movies and visual projects that i am interested in.
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