research: spike jonze

Being John Malkovich (1999)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Adaptation. (2002)
Amarillo by Morning (1998)

"Heaven" by UNKLE (2009)

"The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" by Weezer


Jonze was an avid BMX freestyle rider in his youth. As part of the famous Rockville BMX crew he was known for making fast friends with touring BMX teams that came to town, befriending riders and often touring with them for short periods afterwards. we can see this in some of his movies - especially Heaven (which is amazing).

Since 2007, he has been the creative director at VBS.tv, an online television network supplied by Vice and funded by MTV.

research: michel gondry

He has directed these feature films:

• Human Nature
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Science of Sleep
  
• Be Kind Rewind

And also these music videos:

• "Declare Independence" - Björk
  
• "The Denial Twist" - The White Stripes
• "Heard 'Em Say" - Kanye West
• "Star Guitar" - The Chemical Brothers

I'd say his style is very childish and naive - making us all identify with his films on a slightly immature level. i realised this when i watched Star Guitar - the concept is something we all identify with but dont bring up as it seems childish.
again with his video for Kanye West as he used a combination of boil-ey animation alongside real footage in b/w, creating a purposeful amateur effect, seeming ironic and therefore enthusing.

Syncing excersise 3

our third was our most labour intensive. we were assigned a random track (in our case, "the clash" with "i fought the law") and were then told to film to it.
we did this by playing the track while we acted against bluescreen. after the footage was digitized we took the audio from the upload and synced it with a high quality mp3. once they were both in time we then had to cut it up and edit just like the previous 2 excersises.
our plan was to have us running with images of a zooming police chase in the background, accomplished via our bluescreen.

Syncing excersise 2

in our second excersise, we were given more substantial amounts of video to work with as well as a collection of possible tracks to use.
the clips used were from a video by DJ Format but their audio was cut off, allowing us to re-edit what was there to a different selection of tracks.
it all proved pretty easy really - it was a good chance to showcase our individual editing skillzones.

Syncing excersise 1

in our first excercise, we needed to sync the lip movements of one video's characters to a separate peice of audio - pete showed us how and it was all fairly easy. we used markers and a master track that we'd sync all of the individual clips to and then "link" them in place with it, allowing them to be cut and bought back in still synced up.