trade. - A Splintersilk Film (our first short film)

 

"It can be great when you try to find your­self. It's a dif­fer­ent mat­ter when your­self comes look­ing for you. "

So here it is, our first short film.  Filmed on a couple of early mornings in my appartment building.  It came about as a result of a few things, including some visual iconography that I find disturbing but intriguing.  We tried to keep them subtle here - see if you can spot them.

I toyed with using a song called Choke by Hybrid as the audio, but despite loving the tune it really didn't work.  It was too upbeat defeated some of the narrative.  I ended up doing the sound design from scratch using the same tools I use for music.  Ended up being great fun, except one particular sound component kept scaring the crap out of me and found I had to work on it during the day hahah!  I know..  Very sad, but woefully true.

The first shot in the whole thing was conceived as a result of a good friend sending me youtube links in our hunt to validate lenses and cameras (in this case the Panasonic Lumix GH1 and Canon FD 135mm/f2.5 lens) as used to (I think) beautiful effect here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykYA7TUd8hk (go to 0:56)
In fact I used the same combination in the corresponding part of trade.

Anyway, enough blabber.  Hope you enjoy :)

GH1 Canon FD 50mm f1.4 Kowa 16-H / 8Z - test 2

Ok about as silly as the last Kowa video I made, however at least now I've learned how to open the aperture all the way to f1.4 and not have those streaky anamorphic vertical tears on the 'in focus' area. Thought I'd share as I'm pretty happy :)


GH1 Canon FD 50mm f1.4 Kowa 16-H / 8Z - test 2 from Splintersilk on Vimeo.