October 29, 2004
My 3rd film "88 Teardrops"
Finally, I finished the last individual film project. This time I casted myself as a main actor. OMG, what an emptiness it was~! Moving the camera, and acting(and ,for sure,there's nobody reacting) and going back to the camera and so on... Now... it's group project~! there will be no more loneliness, yeah~~~
3rd indivisual film "88 Teardrops"
by Doo-yul Park(aka Doox)
INTENT:
* to make a film which sound and music are taking greater part than my 1st and 2nd.
- that's the reason I choose a pianist's story. Also raindrop sound and piano sound are somewhat similar in their transparency, and the teardrop ,which means the painful process of reaching high artistic level, also reminded me of raindrop. Those combination of "raindrop + teardrop + pianosound" gave me inspiration of visual and sound/music design in the film.
* to create visually interesting scenes & and improve the light which I missed in 2nd film.
- taking shots from the raining campus, I found really visually strong scenes and those were mostly scenes with flowers. So I decided to use flowers as a meaningful symbol in the film.
- when I saw a yellow flower which looks like a hand, I got an idea of dissolving it exactly where the pianist's hand is. That was the start and I came up with more ideas of dissloving
things like dissolving between dry scenes and wet scenes,piano keyboard and the road, and things like that.
- piano keyboard itself has visually interesting figure and it was just great to look at in a certain angle of camera. I wore black overshirt to make an impression of unity with
the black piano, and I also chose white overshirt for 2nd one.
* to make the film say something but not all the way serious. I wanted to make it humorous sometime but also making audience think about the painful process of being an musician.
SYNOPSIS:
* a guy is playing piano, he thinks his technique is perfect and is sure to have favorable response from his teacher at the coming lesson. But the teacher thinks there's no feeling in his play and even hits him with the piano score. He is so dissapointed and frustrated that he even throws his keyboard to the floor. But in a second he feels sorry what he did for the keyboard. He sleeps besides the keyboard and is awaken to find that it's raining. He starts to play the keyboard improvizationally with his own simple melody. There's raining scenes of campus, and he keeps practicing. In the next morning, he seems to be more comfortable from yesterday's frustration after listening raindrops and playing the keyboard with his own melody. He goes to the lesson again and the teacher tells him not to be stiff and to be himself. The teacher says he has to play the piano with his own feeling like when he looks at a flower. He tries to play Rachmaninoff with his mind and plays it in a JAZZ style. He also plays chopsticks and suddenly the teacher joins to play with him, and they seem to be comfortable to each other again. At the concert, he played well and the teacher is proud of him. The two hug each other after finishing the performance with applause from audience.
CHALLENGES:
* making various angles for playing piano and make their sound & music synchronize seemlessly.
* make big impression of symbolic dissolve transition like flower and hand, keyboard and road, and dry scenes and wet scenes.
* acting(also practicing the piano piece"Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concert") by myself
* giving various kinds of height and angle to scene(I used my keyboard stand to make various height) without panning or zooming(because I had to act away from the camera)
* recording sounds like(a guy next room hitting the wall, keyboard falling down, etc.)
Posted by doox at 05:07 PM | Comments (0)
Cover for my 1st film "PICKPOCKET"
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I made this cover for "PICKPOCKET" DVD the other day. Making a category of "DOOX film", it's really fun to reflect those days I filmed this. Lots of thank-you for JESS & MIKE, again.
I'll give you guyz, DVDs with this cover. I didn't have printer and enough spare-time when I finished this. Now I've finished my 3rd film, there's still so many things going on... but making things like this is totally fun enough to enjoy my free time.
Good luck for all you guyz still filming your 3rd~!!!
Posted by doox at 11:32 AM | Comments (0)
October 12, 2004
My 2nd Film "LOOK"
I finished my 2nd film last week and I made this DVD cover for actors featured in the film. They were really friendly and supportive. I enjoyed making this film too but I learned a lot more from this one. I used "www.nowcasting.com" to cast actors. There were over 200 actors submitted to this film and I choose 5 of female and 5 of male from them. 3 of female and 3 of male responded. At the open audition just 1 female and 1 male came. That was cool because the two were actually I liked best with their headshots and resume, and they just shined in my film. Most of all, I learned a lot from my laptop crash a day before my screening day. I managed to reach to the class and show my film but it was a real nightmare to recover lost data from that.
This is a comedy film about a couple. At her birthday the guy gives a TEDDY BEAR for her birthday present and actually there's a hidden camera inside the TEDDY BEAR and he tries to sneak a look at her through the TEDDY BEAR's point of view. The story starts from here and there are some more interesting reveals in it. I believe that watching movie itself is kind of sneaking a look at someone's story. In that point of view, it is interesting in this film that the guy is looking at her through the eyes of the TEDDY BEAR and we, the audience, are looking at the guy. This is kind of experimental for me in this point and the "first person view cinema" seminar I had at the ZML influenced me in thinking about the script for this film. I heard Justin is trying to make space for 1st year student's film. I hope to have a chance to show this to you.
Now... it's third film shooting week... it's so fast-paced... third film already? But it's always exciting to make a film.
To all 1st year guys, good luck for your films!!! Hope to see yours, too someday.
Posted by doox at 01:19 AM | Comments (2)
September 11, 2004
My First Film
Now, I'm trying to finish my first film.
I enjoyed so much making this film.
A LOT of THANKS to JESS and MIKE STEFFEN
for being actors for the film.
Well... it's time to do FLASH~
another lots of work waiting for me...
I wonder how other students are doing their projects.
I hope to post my FLASH work here someday.
Good luck to you all~~!!!
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