Monday, October 28, 2013

A Short Story of Marriage

http://vimeo.com/36091209 This video is called, "A Short Story of Marriage." It is 2:34 minutes long.
Credits:
Production: EPICMAN Production
Director: Christian Pfeil
DoP: Frederic Doss
Pilot: Stefan Müller
Editing/Grading: Max Duwe
Actiondesign: Reel Deal, Movie-Do
Stunt Coordinater: Ralf Haeger
Stuntteam: Reel Deal, Movie-Do
Camera: RED Epic X

I don't understand this story. When the title says story of marriage I thought that meant a story about marriage. What I watch was completely different from what I thought it was going to be. Maybe the director showed marriage in an abstract form.

It starts out with a ninja jumping from something and landing on the ground. The person ( I can't tell if it's a guy or girl, but I'm assuming it's a guy) is dressed in all black with a face mask and a sword. The colors are dull and mostly browns and blues. They definitely changed the colors when they were editing this video. The ninja slowly approaches a building where he encounters another ninja. The two ninjas fight and the ninja who attacked the other ninja defeated him and he moved on. The second ninja runs on a big sidewalk next to this old building and then he starts fighting another ninja. The third ninja moves on and defeats the second ninja. The third ninja runs up a flight of stairs until he encounters another ninja (this is the 4th ninja that appears during the film). The fourth ninja beats the third ninja and then the fourth ninja moves on and he then he runs up a series of stairs and runs across a tunnel and a roof. He then encounters a fifth ninja on the rooftop. He slowly approaches the fifth ninja and he is ready to fight, but he doesn't. The fifth ninja looks like a woman because of the long black hair and she isn't wearing a face mask. She gets out her sword and raises it above her head. The other ninja bows down to her. The camera then zooms out and shows the dense fog over top of the building then it ends.

It appears that the four ninjas in the beginning were guys that were fighting to get to the woman. The fourth guy ninja waited patiently to defeat the third ninja and then he got his chance with the woman ninja.

There wasn't any dialogue in this piece. The camera shots are amazing though and I have no clue how they got them. The camera would run with the ninjas and the cameras looked like they were high up because of the angles. They showed on ninja running across the sidewalk through a birds eye view. The camera also followed the ninja up the stairs. This old and run-down building is big and tall. This looked like it was shot from a crane or some kind of moving vehicle. Some of the shots were shaky, but that's because the people were running or climbing up the stairs, so the camera had to quickly follow them.

The people who edited this video did a good job of making the colors look muted. Some of the fighting could have been more realistic. There were some fighting scenes were it looked too fake and I could tell the other guy didn't really punch him and the guy would just fall down. The camera shots were amazing though. They chose a great place to shoot this video. I wish there was some time of dialogue.

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