Advanced Media: Critiques and our short music video

Today in class we'll watch Paperman, a great 7 minute short romantic comedy film and we'll discuss how to critique the film for class using our template.  We'll watch some behind the scenes clips with the director, John Kahrs, that will give you some insight into how the film was made and styled.  The critique for the film will be due at the end of Monday's class.



Our first month's film assignment in advanced media will be to create a short music video in which all the sound editing takes place via video editing.  I've included examples from Jimmy Fallon and a look at a great duo Eclectic Method who DJs with edited video.  I'll collect you film pitches today and we'll discuss them tomorrow

Media Art: Paperman, the Oscar winning Short Animated Film

This week the Academy Award for Best Short Animated film was awarded to Disney's Paperman which was directed by John Kahrs and produced by Kristina Reed (who was actually kicked out for throwing paper airplanes) with Pixar head John Lasseter as executive producer.  It is a perfect example of a story arch with a clear begining, middle, and end as well as a clear theme and powerful emotional pull.  As we are gearing up to creating our own short animated films think back to the consise clarity that this wonderful film has to help keep you on track!