‘Missing Pages’

07May08

a FOTOPLAY by CHAGE & JEROME OLIVIER

Sure took a long time to write just another blog entry now -looking back at the last dated entry. The job I was in surely did took a lot of time from me. And how a job can be really sickening when it took more than the course of time it requires. I’m gonna drop that for now until later dates to remember. And.. going back to blogging wouldn’t be easy; actually, the writing won’t be easy. So I’ll start again with something simple. Used this video as a reference for a project I’m working on, but just got the chance to watch it now -after a month of having it with me in my iTunes.

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Perhaps every photographers have thought of making this kind of fotoplay or correctly say people have been making this kind of stories through their pictures and slides. But probably ‘Missing Pages’ has the most recognition as a award-winning short and thorough planning in allocating their images in the story. Smooth transition and good blending of layered pictures. Though we realized the concept technic of the short in the very beginning of the short, I don’t seem to be bothered with any bad arrangements of angles, templates, and blending that goes on until the end of the short.

Story wise.. ehmm.. its simple and quiet expected like most Japanese manga or animations. Futuristic, simple and fantastical. I was more excited in looking at each frames of the shorts than the story. Not being biased to the short, it may just not happen to be my kind of story. Being said that.. makes me question whether the technics effect the story telling or not? or if they could put more of stop-motions in some of the action helps?

But great work in editing. Very well cut and to see what they’re dealing with (moving still pictures) -surely needed great visualization to achieve this kind of end-result. Hey, that reminds me.. I still got a lot of stuff to edit for my project  

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