I Met The Walrus

From YouTube: In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.

Tilt-shift and Time-lapse Miniature Films

Keith Loutit is a photographer who mixes tilt-shift and time lapse techniques to create short films that look like they were made with miniature people and stop-motion animation. The videos are delightful – check them out here. And here’s Keith’s blog.

Here are lots of tilt-shift photographs and an explanation of what it is and how to do it.

watchmen movie-making blog

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity… but who is watching the watchmen?

This is the blurb of the graphic novels Watchmen which are being turned into a movie. The website Firstshowing has been hosting a monthly video blog from the set giving backstage glimpses of the films making. This one is about the costumes, which span many decades, and clothe many extras as well as the prinicples. The other videos include props, set, stunt work, and Dave Gibbons, the artist who created Watchmen.