vector motion graphics

What can I say? Other than I’m a big nerd.

These clips are from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…. the graphics don’t look as nice smooshed into a small youtube movie, but really… does anything?

screen graphics as graphics

Hmm… this may be a little cheesy, but I stumbled across a visual example of what we discussed at our meeting last night… using screen graphics as graphics for the film:

We’ll want ours to look better… but this is something you see from time to time on the news. We’ll have to do our own experiements with the camera next week, and try to do it in a way that isn’t so news-y.

more short films

Yesterday, during the course of our conversation, we showed each other a few short films:

This Bush in 30 Seconds film uses a computer desktop & icons to deliver a message.

The famous Crying Indian PSA.

The 1984 Mac commerical.

Educational Films

I’ve been looking at a lot of short educational films as inspiriational material for our project. Here’s a few of the highlights… I’ll post more as I find them.

Joy of Living with Fragrance
Wipe cross-fade used to excess in the beginning… but then check out how they illustrate various lists of stuff by having the same woman over-act everything the narrator says. AMAZING.

National Barbeque Month
Another film from the 1970’s. An insane guy in a tiny cowboy hat takes a little too much delight in preparing meat for a group of teenagers he’s obviously kidnapped and forced into festive faux-cowboy attire. Points for photography, narration and instructive qualities.

Facts about Projection
An educational film from the 1970’s about the care and operation of film projectors. The narration and hokey soundtrack are delightful on their own, but the animations and miniature classroom used to illustrate the finer points of projection are the real winners here. Extra points for employing bored nerds to demo the equipment, especially the dude with the afro, who chews gum throughout.

Telezonia
Wow. This is obviously for little kids, so I realized it was all wrong for us about 2 minutes in, but by then I was sucked in and had to watch all 26 minutes. At least when the singing punctuation marks arrive on our planet to enslave humanity, we’ll be ready.