I got inspiration from the different photo a day videos out there to make this video of my bedroom for a uni assignment. Took a photo of my room everyday for 2 weeks.. would love to try the face thing for a long amount of time if I had the commitment. Like this guy in Living My Life Faster. He's been taking photos of himself everyday since he was 22 (47 now so far) and aligned the eyes in After Effects.
I love a-ha's 'Take On Me" film clip, using an awesome hand drawn style mixed with real action footage rotoscoping. (It won 6 awards at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards.) It
inspired me to make a film clip in the same style for a uni assignment. I used my step brother's song, "Staring AT You". I cut it down so it would only be about 45secs, so I didn't have as much work to do. I filmed a friend in his house acting out getting ready in the morning, etc. Then I had to rotoscope him to give him that hand drawn, drawing come to
life in real footage look. Rotoscoping is drawing over footage frame by
frame. So thats exactly what I had to do. I used a graphics tablet and drew over the character in each scene. I
made it 12 frames per second, which means I had to draw 12 frames per
second of footage. That's about 270 frames I think, because some of them
where stills. I was going to have the end pictures animated as well but
ran out of time. I worked on it almost 24/7 for the last week. The day before it was due I got
up early and started working on it at about 9am and continuously drawing
until 9am the next day (when it was due). My hand was bloody sore, it
was uncomfortable to pick up a fork. The most exciting part was that the
class and the lecturer loved it. And it was shown at the Multimedia
screenings, which show the best of multimedia for the
year.
It also fit in with my step brother's Album art for the song:
Psycho (1960, Hitchcock) Music is perfect for it.
North By Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)
Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)
The Man With the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)
The Seven Year Itch (1955, Billy Wilder)
-American graphic designer and filmmaker.
-Animated motion graphics opening title sequences.
-Greatly influential in film history.
-Style being seen in many titles since (including Catch Me If you Can and Oceans Eleven).
Check out 30 Unforgettable Movie Opening Sequences for more inspirational movie title sequences. Saul Bass features a far bit.
