WURST - Stop Motion

Found this amazingly creative video on Vimeo called "Wurst." It's a clever title because it's a german film and wurst serves two meanings.

It actually took me a while to realize this video was stop motion, and the cinematography was so animated, I figured it had to be green screened. It's quite a cool story as well.

The website has a "how it was made" page which is such a cool behind the scenes aspect.

Iphone 6 Cinematography

iStanbul // iPhone 6 Plus from The Film Artist on Vimeo.

I thought this video was fascinating because it was all shot with the new iphone 6 Plus. Of course the guy used different video filters and applications, but that fact that we have phone cameras that can produce such amazing quality is so so cool.

I don't think it will be long before we start to see actual films being made with camera phones and other recording devices. When I was younger I had a really bad, old video camera that I barely knew how to use, and now I think the landscape has changed drastically to the point where kids can start using mobile devices and ipads to create videos.

I wish I had the knowledge and accessibility to things like this when I was a kid because it could've greatly propelled my creativity. I think the slo-mo and time lapse features are so cool on the new phones, and with each new generation the features are just going to get cooler.

Recipe For Gruel

Here's the whole video: https://vimeo.com/80218060

Saw this video on Vimeo as the short of the week. I thought the cinematography in this film was especially clean, and worked well with the simplicity of the message.

The other thing I noticed was how simplistic the setting really was. Things in the background were half drawn and not fully created. This could be considered lazy, but I think it works so well with the simplistic message and creates this dystopian society where our eyes aren't drawn to useless object. I felt it was very successfully animated and told a story very successfully. It also felt very much like a Tim Burton film because of the coloring and figure drawing.

Great Short film!