a wee stop motion made from digital stills taken at a minor stage in the demo process. crunckcrunckcrunchcrunchcranediggerdiggercrane.
This is an amazing little clip shot from the Menzieshill Multi’s, can see the old polo shaped car garages :)
MENZIESHILL 1960’s (by williehools
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Rebecca photographing Hilltown multi.
Oh Wouldn’t It Be Nice…
if everytime you found something affy clever on the internet you had the equipment to recreate it? It’s like craving homemade cupcakes and find out you have no flour. And flour costs £565783 :)
Source: http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/shooting-true-firstperson-interviews
Most interviews have the seen or unseen presence of the interviewer. Sometimes they are actually on camera, asking the questions. Think 60 Minutes, Barbara Walters, or most news-style interviews. In other cases, the interview subject is speaking to someone just off camera. The person asking the questions sits anywhere from right next to the lens to 90 degrees away. This positioning matters, because it alters the relationship between the subject and the audience.
The problem is that the interviewer can only sit so close to the lens without actually getting in the shot — unless she is a ghost or has a hole in her head! But there is another method — a method director Errol Morris used in Fog of War — and we got to try for the first time ourselves recently while shooting a feature story for ESPN, with producer Scott Harves.
This clever technique uses the existing technology of the teleprompter, a device that been around for a very long time. Normally, a teleprompter projects words for the on-camera person to read. Sometimes it’s mounted right in front of the camera so it looks like this person is speaking directly to the audience.
The lens shoots the subject through a small two-way mirror. The subject looks back at the lens, but instead sees the projected words. We’ve done this hundreds of times with CEOs, spokespeople, and even actors.
So imagine if the teleprompter could project the interviewer’s face instead of words. By rigging a second camera that shoots the interviewer, and projecting that image into the teleprompter, we accomplished just that effect. From the point of view of the interview subject, he or she is looking right into the eyes of the person who his asking the questions. From the point of view of the audience, the subject is speaking directly to them. Pretty cool!
Eva Mertz is a magical artist :) she took an eyesore and made it beautiful and friendly. Wouldn’t it be possible to do something with the Multi’s? What if a group got together and put some love heart stickers on them before they came down? This is what Eva had to say about the prohibition signs, a lot of it rings true for our dear high rise friends:
“In Tillydrone there are more than 70 prohibition signs - most of them saying No Ball Games - a lot in a community of 4000 inhabitants. Coming as an outsider, this is one of the first things I noticed. Most locals will say that they don’t really pay attention to the signs anymore. But, when you get them thinking about it, most will agree that the signs are quite offensive. Especially when you advise that the signs have no legal standing, meaning it’s not against the law to play ball next to a No Ball Games sign. Some of the signs, half-rotten, sitting on a rusty pole, date back 25 - 30 years, or maybe more. Other signs, the metal ones, are as new as January 2007. Strange, that in contemporary society, with a general focus on community regeneration, engagement and participation, this is the only visible communication from the city council to the people… No no no.”
This is a video discovered by Becca that captures a lovely scene, with a lovely edit and a lovely voice over. Right up our street.
Menzieshill Multi, Dundee. Photo by Heather Anderson.
We likey tall building…
We do indeed. Multiple stories of peoples stories and lives and dreams and all the houses and the ones that are homes. We like when they are dismantled but not so much when they are blown up, you don’t get to see all the old wallpaper that way.
