film

Humans Aren’t So Bad After All

by Andy Polaine on December 1, 2008

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I twittered about this the other day and I know it’s been doing the rounds of the interweb, but wanted to post about it properly.

The film has nothing to do with interactivity in the sense that I normally write about it here, but has everything to do with interacting with people. It’s a project by Crush & Lovely and Deltree called Fifty People, One Question.

When I first watched this, the attacks in Mumbai has just happened and I was in a terribly mood thinking about how awful people can be to each other. Then I watched this video and remembered just how wonderful people can be too. It made my day. I just watched it again, and it’s made it again.

(It’s also a great example of indy filmmaking, 80 hours of editing and depth-of-field use with a HV20 video camera. More on the set-up and process over at Deltree’s blog).

Tagged as: crush and lovely, fiftypeopleonequestion, film

Taxi Driver With Storyboards

by Andy Polaine on October 29, 2008

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There’s a discussion going on over at IxDA about whether an interaction design can create great interaction without great visual design skills.

My answer is “It depends”. The two are overlapping areas and whilst some interactions are really helped or hindered by the visuals, it’s also possible to have something almost entirely visually driven or entirely interaction driven. In service design, the designed interactions are often human-to-human and have no designed visual element at all.

It also depends on who you are working with too. I remember reading Scorsese on Scorsese when I was studying film and being surprised and rather relieved that Scorsese’s storyboards for Taxi Driver were pretty much just stick men drawings and very rough sketches. Michael Chapman’s cinematography brought to life the miserable rain-soaked loneliness of late-night New York and Travis’s unstable life.

Thanks to the wonder that is YouTube, you can watch a side-by-side comparison.

Tagged as: Design, film, scorsese, taxi driver

Film Friends Forever Oscar & Bafta Screening

March 11, 2008

I don’t normally do straight plugs for things that aren’t interactive and that I’ve never heard of, but this screening at Film Friends Forever looks pretty good. £2 at the Truman Brewery. You can’t complain about that. From the blurb: Film Friends Forever is returning on the 18th March 2008 with a killer line up [...]

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