This week's taks is....
Q) find some short films (3 please) that were made for Internet distribution/viewing
So I googled 'short films' and found these three good ones!
1) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
official website: http://www.drhorrible.com/
This is an award winning musical tragicomedy short film. This film won seven awards including Creative Arts Emmy Award in 2009. The movie was made by Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy. It was written during the Hollywood writer's strike in 2008, and he filmed this in only 6 days. (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Squidoo, viewed 20/08/10, http://www.squidoo.com/Dr-Horrible)
I love Patrick Harris! He was great on Malcolm in the middle, too.
It is great to see a low budget but professional quality movie like this. It is a fun movie which is completely different from the blockbuster distributions. No one would go to see this if it was released at the movie theatre, but people love this because this movie is so suitable for Internet. People use the Internet for many different reasons, but they always love to see something short, easy and fun.
2) The Hire series by BMW (2001-2005)
BMW created the very high quality Internet short films using various popular actors and directors. Key producers of the series were included David Fincher, Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and the directors were including John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Guy Ritchie and John Woo! This series of 8 movies won many awards, and the third one, 'The Follow', was shown at Cannes Film Festival in 2001 (TV & New Media : BMW Films : Press release, BMW North America, viewed 20/08/10, http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Content/Uniquely/TVAndNewMedia/BMWFilmPressRelease.aspx).
Oh my gosh, Clive Owen is just gorgeous!
I like this "the Follow" best in the series, as every scene is so beautifully shot. It is almost like you can stop the movie anytime and just enjoy watching the picture. Another movie of the series, John Woo's 'Ambush' is pretty good, too. It is a typical John Woo action movie and so cooooool.
Every movie shows the beauty and the great ability of BMW cars quite effectively, and this makes the viewer really want a BMW. What a great promotion. BMW definitely showed the company and it's products go ahead of the appearance in a new media as well.
3) Pixels (2010)
There must be so many people have already seen this short film, as it is so viral on the web lately. It is made by Patrick Jean of One More Production. It was shot entirely with Canon 5D DSLR camera and shot in two days in NY! (Mottle, J. 2010, Interview with One More Production (Creator of Pixels), CGarchitect.com, viewed 20/08/10, http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=4889)
Wow. What a great short film! This reminds me the Mazda ads which use Lego blocks to create the fun pixel objects around the car, but this movie is heaps better. The pixel objects are so pop and well designed in this movie, and the contrast between the cute pixel objects and the horrible story such as the end of the world really makes this movie interesting. I like how it ends, too. The earth becomes one cool pixel. And the credits! I loved the way they showed all the credits like the old computer display.
It is also appropriating many cultural icons of pixel images from old video games such as Tetris, Packman, DonkeyKong and Invaders, so this relates to the next week's 'cultural jamming' issues as well.
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