Fred Mortagne is a French film maker that makes skateboarding videos. As well does he make skateboard videos he creates 'gimmick' videos, which serve no purpose but are very cleverly shot and edited. Mortagne has an amazing editing style, he can make clips that are very smooth flowing, as well as making something look glitchy, I think his style is very effective.
In this first video he takes the idea that skateboarders are always moving, then takes that idea and flips it on its head, by making the objects move towards the skateboarder the video is given a new edge, taking the norm and reversing it. I also think the editing style reflects this, the editing is very choppy and looks very effective.
This next video is shot by Fred Mortagne and is a video of American band called Schwervon! The song its self is very distorted but the filming style and editing reflect this very well, the film is very distorted and feels disjointed and slightly creepy, Mortagne captures this very well in his film, he has a great way of portraying feelings and emotions through shots, without the aid of narration. This is something i would like to emulate.
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Chill Magazine Advert
This short film is for a French skateboard magazine called 'Chill' and the film is made by a French skateboard videographer Fred Mortagne. The film follows a skateboarder through the streets of Paris and the way the film is shot presents a story, as the skateboarder moves from one scene to another. The film has a 'fly on the wall' style but is more simple. The motion graphics that appear on the floor give the film a slight edge, its like the graphics are doing the narration for the film, but in a very simplified way, i like the way this is done. I would like to portray my ideas about my film in this way. Trying to find a way to narrate and tell my story in an unconventional way, that way my film has an edge and looks different to other skateboard documentaries.
Fly On The Wall Documentaries
The film 'Don't Look Back' by D.A. Pennebaker, is one of the greatest 'fly on the wall' documentaries ever made. The film follows singer Bob Dylan as he tours England in 1967. The film has no narration, no interviews with any characters, just simply follows Dylan around London on his encounters. The film captures some epic moments, like Dylan's interview with 'Time' magazine when a heated argument breaks out, the film also captures a moment when a waiter working where Dylan is staying tries to attack him.
The film has a very raw and real feeling, no shots looked faked, or made up. The way the film just follows the characters gives the viewer the feeling of being in the room with the characters.
Fly on the wall style gives a natural feeling to documentaries, which is something i would like to show, for example i think a film is more believable if you can make up your own mind about the story rather than being told what your seeing is real.
The film has a very raw and real feeling, no shots looked faked, or made up. The way the film just follows the characters gives the viewer the feeling of being in the room with the characters.
Fly on the wall style gives a natural feeling to documentaries, which is something i would like to show, for example i think a film is more believable if you can make up your own mind about the story rather than being told what your seeing is real.
Badly Drawn Roy
Badly Drawn Roy is a parody of the standard documentary style. A style which is not based on props and actors but has a narrator telling the story, and conducting interviews with his subjects. The point of this style of documenting is for the viewer to see the film makers subject from an outside view, but as they watch the film the viewer is brought in to feel like they know the subjects as they see them in every day life and learn how they feel and think. The only draw back from this style of filming is the content can be very biased, as the film maker is trying to make a point about his subject he also has the control to choose the footage that the viewer see's, so the film maker can controls what the viewer sees, so then the viewer gets the film makers views and opinions from the film.
Badly Drawn Roy is taking the rules and conventions for standard documentaries, but given his film an edge, by have the subject of his story a cartoon. Which comes across as a ludicrous idea, but the way the film is shot makes the story almost feel believable by the way the actors show their emotions in a way people do in standard documentaries.
Badly Drawn Roy has given me ideas to think outside the box when it comes to documentary film making, the idea of trying to come up with something different to the norm but still convey my ideas a thoughts.
Badly Drawn Roy is taking the rules and conventions for standard documentaries, but given his film an edge, by have the subject of his story a cartoon. Which comes across as a ludicrous idea, but the way the film is shot makes the story almost feel believable by the way the actors show their emotions in a way people do in standard documentaries.
Badly Drawn Roy has given me ideas to think outside the box when it comes to documentary film making, the idea of trying to come up with something different to the norm but still convey my ideas a thoughts.
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