RE-editing, remixing footage

Oh the joys of re-editing footage to make it say something completely different...

There's the re-mix of George Bush's State of the Union speech to Congress:

There's the old favorite: "Honey Badger." A remixed nature documentary.


And then there's the popular film clip of Hitler (from the film, "Downfall")  finding out something tragic.  There are many...

Audio LISTS!

Richard Serra's list of verbs, 1967

Some links to Audio LISTS!  (For Studio 4D)

Chris Burden's "Atomic Alphabet"

Third Coast Audio: "The List Show" - To do lists, compulsive lists, data lists, lists in literature and a list of firsts.

Jim Metzner's "Sound Memories"

Alice B. Toklas' "Recipe for Hashish Fudge", 1963

Prelinger Archives - repository for downloadable ephemera films

All royalty free, no copyright needed to use these.
An amazing collection of historical educational movies, ads, news, etc. from the 20th century.

Archive.org is here.

From "Duck and Cover," a film about what to do about an atomic attack.

Free AUDIO books

Download...for audio for a piece? For your own entertainment?

Open Culture has an amazing online archive of movies, ebooks, lectures, online course materials, language courses and more...

Free Audio Books here!

Download Free Music - sites

Royalty FREE music sources:

• Free Music Archive
• Bensound
• Incompetech

Animating a print

Guilherme Marcondes animates a printed drawing for the Anima Mundi festival.

The Eye and the Ear

The Eye and The Ear by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson (1944/45) Using images specifically to visualize the music. Motion graphics before motion graphics.

The Amazing Malcolm McLaren animates shapes

Pre-motion graphics era. 1950s whiz bang wow.

Sample motion graphics using squares, lines, circles

Square - Motion Ident from Peter Northcott on Vimeo.



2D Motion graphics from Jay on Vimeo.



NERDO - VISIONI EROTICHE from POCKO on Vimeo.


The one and only Saul Bass, master of the movie title sequence.


Studie nr 8 (excerpt) by Oskar Fischinger from CVM on Vimeo.



Straight Line Motion Graphics Challenge from Joshua Ryan on Vimeo.

More on motion graphics...

The Basics of Motion Design from Rogge & Pott on Vimeo.

Dots! Norman McLaren

Just dots.  Just weird electronic sounds.  Just great.

Animations of Place

Some examples:

Gary Schwartz's animation of the Scripps Mansion:

Rivermation: (Los Angeles river area)
RIVERMATION from Gary Schwartz on Vimeo.

TRAILER absent from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.

Ezra Wube--Ethiopian Animator

Check out the stop motion, hand painted work of Ezra Wube!

"Mela" is a nice meditation about place and belonging.

Michael Langan's "Doxology"

Doxology from Michael Langan on Vimeo.

Check out his website for more.

NEIGHBORS (1952) - Norman McLaren

An animation classic.

Neighbours by Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada

"In this Oscar®-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower." (NFB website) Made during the Cold War...

Pes: Human Skateboard

The amazing Pes (Adam Pesapane) with his pixilation animation. See all of his stuff on his Pes YouTube Channel.

Norman McLaren - Canada's great animator

A Chairy Tale by Claude Jutra& by Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada

Check out more of his work on the National Film Board of Canada
website!

Check out their playlists: Annecy 2015 (Great animation festival in France!)

The Dot and the Line--a visual story

"The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" an animation based on the "book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. The story was inspired by Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,(written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott) in which the protagonist visits a one-dimensional universe called Lineland, where women are dots and men are lines."
You can read it online for free here. (no longer in copyright)

Brothers Quay: animated documentary about Anamorphosis

The incredible Brothers Quay "use animation to explore the now forgotten 17th and 18th century art form of the title. The Quays reveal how, in that practice, special paintings employ visual distortion to disclose hidden messages and symbols when viewed from different angles. Leszek Jankowski composed the score." (YouTube)

an·a·mor·pho·sis ˌanəˈmôrfəsis/    
noun 1. a distorted projection or drawing that appears normal when viewed from a particular point or with a suitable mirror or lens.

Signe Baumane's "Teat Beat of Sex"

"Teat Beat of Sex" from Signe Baumane on Vimeo.

The One and only Signe Baumane tells stories of her sexcapades; sex from the female point of view.

Nikki Schuster's haunting film about empty places

Nikki Schuster's (Austria) recent film, "Absent," is a wonderful and haunting meditation on the ghosts of places that seems to be empty.

TRAILER absent from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.

Recyclers Project by Nikki Schuster

Nikki Schuster creates wonderful work by animating the scraps and trash of a certain city (Paris, Taipei, more...) WITHIN an animation of the city itself with audio collected from the city. Fun stuff.

  Blog for Paris Recyclers here.

 Trailer for the Recyclers Project here:
RECYCLERS - Trailer from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.



Workshop Recyclers #1: Paris from Nikki Schuster on Vimeo.

Words, Words, Words - conversations beautifully visualized

"Reci Reci Reci" by Michaela Pavlatova, 1991 (Czech Republic)

A Curious Nun & the dark side

LAPSUS from Juan Pablo Zaramella on Vimeo.

A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her world. A short film by Juan Pablo Zaramella

Kuleshov Effect

The original Kuleshov Test, showing how editing/juxtaposing a single shot (man's face) with different objects/scenes changes our reading of that shot.

Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques

Really nice explanation of different editing techniques with great examples:

Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques from Evan Richards on Vimeo.

Ken Burns talks about STORYTELLING

Documentary film maker Ken Burns talks about his formula for a great story, 1+1=3. His directing credits include: The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The National Parks.

Ken Burns: On Story from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo.

The "Ken Burns Effect" is now part of most video editing software.  Many examples of panning or zooming in on a photo in this first episode of "The Civil War"

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Ira Glass, host of This American Life, explains in 4 videos, the basics of storytelling and the creative process (it ain't easy!).

Walter Murch, Sound design of THX 1138

Some great videos on this page from the THX 1138 DVD extras.  Murch explains how he designed the sound for George Lucas' first film. 

One sample: