Friday, October 25, 2013

Framed- an iphone 4S short story

http://vimeo.com/31013938 Framed- an iphone 4S short story. The story is about a photographer who walks around the woods to take some pictures, when something unexpected happens.  It says in the description that it this video was shot entirely on iPhone 4S. The editing was done on Final Cut Pro 7.
 Photography: Thomas Buthod, Music by Jonathan Helme - Niorgen, Actor: Franck Descombes. The video is 3:18 minutes long.

The first scene is a guy walking through the woods with his camera and tripod. It looks like he is dressed up in clothes that was worn by people 100+ years ago. Then they show the guy walking on a hill covered with grass and trees. The guy then sets up his tripod and gets his old camera out near a stone wall looking over a beautiful landscape. He looks through the view finder and he sees this young lady sitting on the stone wall reading her book. When he looks at the stonewall without the view finder, he doesn't see the lady anymore. He then walks closer to the lady while he is looking through the viewfinder of his camera. He touches the lady, but she isn't actually there. The lady never looks at him directly. The lady eventually leaves and then she drops her book. Inside the book it says Property of Lise Grenier." Then the guy opens up the inside of his camera case and it says the same thing. At the end, the guy smiles and looks over at the landscape. The scene starts to fade at 2:56 minutes. It complete fades to black and then the credits roll the rest of the time.

I thought this was a wonderful story and it was well told it a short amount of time. It's hard to believe that this was entirely shot on a iPhone 4S. Most of the shots were pretty clear and not shaky. The editors did a great job of editing this piece. When the guy was looking through the viewfinder of the camera at the lady the scene had a black grid with a large white circle to make it seem like he was looking through the camera. It also had a old time look to it. I like the different angles throughout the film.

The title comes up 20 seconds into the video. The title is in all capital letters, white, and is over top of another scene. It last about 6 seconds. I like the position and color of the title. I also think the title has appropriate tracking between the letters.

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