Tut 8. Movie making - mission completed!

Task 2
As our tutor told us, this movie is not an attempt to win an Oscar. I would have loved to win the Oscar for Foreign Language Film, but the winner of that Oscar was Susanne Bier’s “In a Better World” from Denmark. Watch it if you get the chance, it is really good. Award winning!  

My idea with the movie was that I wanted to show the development in the technology of communication technologies. I was highly inspired by the movie “Mankind Is No Island”, so I wanted to try and do the same thing - making a movie with pictures. All of the pictures in the movie are mine and if you look at the pictures by themselves they do not make much meaning. However, when they are put in a context like this and you add some text to them, they do tell a story. I call my story: "In Tech We Trust?"

The plot of the movie is reasonably uncomplicated. Act 1 sets up the mood of the movie and presents us to our sympathetic lead character. As we move towards the end of act 1, the point plot 1 is revealed and the story takes a different direction into something we did not expect. The lead character has to overcome the big hurdle / problem of making a movie. Act 2 deals with the hurdle and we see how the movie takes its audience on a journey through the development in technology with the starting point of old ways of communicating; cave drawings and rock art. Throughout the movie the director draws a parallel to old and traditional ways of communication technologies and at the same time addresses the audience and their feelings towards technology. The main climax is in act 3, where the development in technology is being questioned. The resolution and what provides the audience with a sense of closure is when the main character’s attitude towards the development in technology is being revealed. However, the movie does have an open ending that force the audience to consider the question raised by the director – in tech we trust?

“With its dynamic composition and the audio codes, this movie certainly questions the development in technology in a way that captures the audience” – anonymous movie enthusiast

 

Behind the scenes
Okay, now let us talk about the making of my movie. I totally got carried away late Friday night listening to sound effects on http://free-loops.com/audio.php?term=instrument&page=5 Who knew you could find sounds like that? Cool stuff! Continuing my search for a soundtrack to my movie on http://www.artistserver.com/genre_charts.cfm/g/genre_charts.cfm?G=31 – I didn’t even know there where genres like this “Symphonic Electronica”!

I found the perfect soundtrack for my movie: “Still waters run deep” by Christoph Burghardt on this page for royalty free music: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/96389

According to the website, this music is registered with some rights reserved under the creative commons. That means that I can copy, distribute, advertise and play this particular album as long as I:

-          Give credit to the artist

-          Don’t use this album for commercial purposes

-          Don’t alter, transform or build upon this album

Have a listen to some of the other songs from the album ‘Unshot Movies’ by Christoph Burghardt http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/96389 and think about how the various tracks on there can be used to create a different mood in the movie :)