The video for Gretchen Lieberum’s take on the Flaming Lips song ‘Do You Realize’ was directed by Jacob Aaron Estes (Mean Creek) in three afternoons, with a three thousand dollar budget and no lights, shot with a used fifty dollar Canon Super 8mm film camera. With only two people on the small crew, the filmmakers and the artist traveled around Los Angeles through Silverlake, Echo Park, Chinatown, Downtown, Beverly Hills and South Central asking random people on the street for five minutes of their time to pose for a music video. With the exception of a few friends who let the filmmakers into their houses to film them and their children, all the subjects who generously posed for camera were friendly strangers. During the filming, each participant was passed a toy crown to place on their head and each subject then passed the crown off screen to the other side of frame– to create an illusion in the editing room that the crown is being passed from person to person, starting with the artist in Echo Park, traveling to Santee Alley in the heart of Los Angeles’ Garment District to Rodeo Drive and back again. Some of the subjects with more time on their hands to donate were then asked to attempt to lip sync the song, which the filmmakers played them on a cheap CD player and the participants had to learn the lyrics on the spot. The humanistic, equalizing quality of the video, dramatized by the passing of the crown from person to person was a visual-intellectual idea that came from …
Cameras now offer and exciting outlook combined capability of high quality STILL and VIDEO image capture.One thing remains the same-lighting is a key component to any successful image.Seeing the light is the first step to getting a good photography/cinematography.Controlling the light is the second.” I know what it is like to go against overwhelming odds being the first filmmaker from Fiji. But, I see this as an opportunity to advance my career as a Asian filmmaker, while telling a wonderful story’s. While cinema can provide entertainment and escape, for many committed filmmakers and viewers it is a vital medium of information and powerful tool educate and enhance for social change.Tackling wide- range, thought-provoking issues,activist filmmakers help deepen our awareness of the value of dignity,equality, and justice, as they tell universal stories of human struggle and triumph.The Director is the creative force that pulls a film together, responsible for turning the words of a script into images on the screen. Actors, cinematographers, writers, and editors orbit around the director like planets around the Sun (19). Despite the director’s pivotal role, most Hollywood/Bollywood movies are designed to pull you into the story without being aware of the director’s hand. Many talented film directors such as independent film maker with long lists of feature film credits are so skilled at being “invisible” that they are little known by the movie-going public. BECAUSE YOUR IMAGE …
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