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This is an idea I've had for a long time. Gurren Lagann is a fantastic anime series, and Inoue Joe's music is passionate and energetic. Like most AMV ideas I've had, this one is designed to showcase the anime, and all it's most exciting scenes. There are several periods of buildup within the music that I tried to get to coincide with scenes in the anime, and a few softer moments that are aligned with softer scenes.Notes
I don't know where this idea came from - there's nothing remotely christmas-y about Princess Mononoke, but then I looked up the song, and found out that it was about "a lone cello player playing a forgotten Christmas carol in war-torn Sarajevo." The action, rythm and dynamic of the song really fits with the high tension action scenes of Princess Mononoke, and the face-outs combined with the jump cuts to the following clips allowed me deliver each clip with an impact to match the beat of the precussion in the music.Notes
Drew selected the shots, and ordered them together. I found all the miscellaneous materials and added all the effects. The overall effects is meant to resemble surfing through channels, including an auxillery channel of static that flips straight to channel 3, like it did with the older televisions.Notes
An idea I had after watching an ad for PBS. A consumer gets a new phone, is utterly amazed by all its technological functions, but is completely lost when it comes to using it as a phone.Notes
Trailer for a prospective documentary, "Anime in America." A Making The Documentary class production, 2010, Co-produced with Neil Parent with videography by Drew Wallner, covering the anime conventions of Otakon, Tekkoshocon, KuroKiiro Festival, and the Sangawa Project. Special thanks go out to the staff of Tekkoshocon Inc. for their cooperation and participation, as well as their continued enthusiasm.Notes
Excercise in Adobe Photoshop, using moving stills created using gathered clip art from across the internet. Project for Intro to Digital at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 2010.