Women | 45s | 9.5MB
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Honeymoon
Honeymoon was produced during the spring and summer of 2001. Detailed information on Honeymoon can be found in my master's thesis, Intercreative Cinema, completed in September 2001. Sample sequences Apple QuickTime required |
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Women | 45s | 9.5MB |
Lost | 32s | 7.4MB |
Family | 55s | 12.3MB |
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Story
Two newlyweds arrive in a foreign city for their honeymoon. On the surface, they are like every other couple, but a distance grows between them. Its roots could lie in a well-kept secret, best left unexposed; or in a word and a gesture, the smallest of signs. Isolated in their strange surroundings, they only have each other, but they cannot talk about what is happening. Slowly, both the wife and the husband begin to rely on their video camera, in order to document and to express. I want to explore how we find unexpected uses for technology in our lives, the way we remake familiar devices into private tools for mediating thoughts and emotions that cannot be expressed otherwise. Framework Honeymoon is an experiment in cinematic co-production by geographically separated filmmakers. Two groups of directors and actors will be shooting nearly simultaneously in Boston and New York, with a director and an actor in each city. All footage for Honeymoon is composed of video that is shot by one of the two main characters, either the wife or the husband. Therefore, the footage always presents the optical point of view of the offscreen character, who is supposedly operating the camera and shooting the video of the onscreen character. In one possible setup, the Boston director might shoot with the husband from the perspective of the wife, while the New York director shoots with the wife from the perspective of the husband. Honeymoon is an attempt to construct and complicate the cinematic illusions of shared space, time, dialogue, theme and authorship. The production will take the form of a series of focused experiments. One of them might be to create a sense of shared location and time, by using shot / reverse-shot camera setups, generic location, and scripted dialogue. Another might be to present a shared location but highlight a different time frame, and vice versa. Yet another would be to follow a reactionary process, where the two groups take turns shooting, and each group reacts to the footage shot earlier by the other group. Tools The filmmakers will share footage and exchange feedback using Individeo, a web-based tool for collaborative video production. Individeo is supported by the Shareable Media architecture, which provides storage and annotation mechanisms for shared digital video content on the web. With Individeo and Shareable Media, online filmmakers in different cities can share their footage, edit simple video sequences with the shared footage, and exchange comments and feedback about the sequences. References
La Rencontre | Alain Cavalier | 1996 Credits
Honeymoon is a collaboration with Phillip Tiongson.
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