Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
Something a little different–a live-action comedy sketch created with Nicole Stamp, starring Hayley Hudson, Ben Hudson, and Danielle Ayow.
format: DV video
software: Final Cut
Toronto, 2008.
Archive for the ‘Live Action’ Category
Outside the Box
Sunday, June 12th, 2011Trip Down Market (annotated)
Monday, May 2nd, 2011Available on: youtube.com
A realtime recording made with GPS data and popcorn.js, based on the classic “actuality film” shot by Harry Miles in San Francisco, April 1906. Here’s the code used to create this.
format: website
software: popcorn.js, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.
Neighbourhood Watch
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
It’s very rude to stare! Experimenting with my new Canon video DSLR…
format: HD video
software: After Effects, Flash
Toronto, 2010.
Disarmed (Rule or Ruin #5)
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
(click to play)
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>> #5 in a series of 6
My cousins used to play this odd little game; they were about five and three years old at the time. The older one would pick up the remote control to the TV, point it at her sister, and say “Turn you off”–she’d obligingly fall to the ground and play dead. Then the remote changed hands, they’d change places, and the game would begin all over again. It was carried out with the solemn gravity of an execution by firing squad.
This short is a grown-up version of the same game, played with a grown-up weapon…
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.Broadcast on CBC TV 2002.
Mother of All Bombs (Rule or Ruin #3)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
(click to play)
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>> #3 in a series of 6
I’d seen pictures of it before, but an especially dramatic photograph caught my eye on a magazine cover in the grocery store. It almost looked like another vegetable: a brilliant marigold-orange “fuel-air” bomb, the most powerful non-nuclear weapon on the market.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.
Bird’s Eye Bull’s Eye (Rule or Ruin #4)
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
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>> #4 in a series of 6
The painter in this short may think she’s only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it’s all going to lead….
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.
Fickle
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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A curious little fragment. I rarely work with real film; the results always surprise me.
format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Los Angeles, 2002.
The Thief
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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The middle episode of an epic Super 8 trilogy; the other two parts are lost.
format: Super 8mm film
software: Premiere
Pittsburgh, 1997.
One, Two, Three
Sunday, January 1st, 2006
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This was an early compositing test, multiplying myself with hand-painted mattes. For me, the magical feeling was probably pretty close to what the first photo pioneers must’ve felt…
format: DV video
software: Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1998.
Techniques for Managing Anger
Friday, December 30th, 2005
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“Remember, you never need to solve the problem right now.” Apparently, no problem could possibly arise that this handy video self-help pamphlet is unprepared to deal with.
This short, a dance for camera, was created at the Point Park Conservatory in Pittsburgh, choreographed by Doug Bentz.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.
