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Walking Dead finally completed. I have to release these completed edits maybe two at a time weekly. Vacay almost over lol!
Been tinkering with a masterpiece of a film a couple of months ago-- one of my favorite horror movies ever, The Shining. This is actually an older edit I had lying around on my external hard drive that I abandoned because it took so long to render, but am thinking of revisiting it next week.
The documentary "Room 237" (which was ok for the most part) has a segment where a keen observer/?kook played the Shining simultaneously forward and backward. The effect was startling and I googled a few clips-- Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) appears to have premonitions of his future in the Overlook during his interview there--that was what got me to try watching this on Premiere Pro.
It was a bizzare, hallucinatory experience for the most part--I read a review where they called it "You probably know of some films which haunt you. The Shining Backwards and Forwards not only haunts you, but itself..." (http://www.thestranger.com/suggests/16374920/the-shining-forwards-and-backwards)
http://badassdigest.com/2012/10/01/fantastic-fest-review-the-shining-forwards-and-backwards/
http://screencrush.com/shining-forwards-and-backwards-review/
http://adhoc.fm/post/john-fell-ryan-shining/
I thught it was a project with great potential, but not without its problems. This article addresses them, and is what I used to modify my cut:
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/arc...ted-in-reverse-over-the-shining&view=comments
It's a fascinating project, that can be very simple to do, but to get the perfect effect, adjustments to opacity and trimming is needed. I also decided on using the European version (which imho is a superior version of the movie). Its experimental, interesting, and a total mind***k.
My original edit was a perfect overlay of the film on each other, but then as some of the articles mention above, while the first half of the film works eerily well with the superimposition, the second half breaks down. This is mainly because by that point the audience is so engrossed in the action that the "fllashbacks" of happier times seem distracting. Plus, having equal opacity blows out the finale.
Since there are no 'rules' on how it's meant to be watched, I reedited this film to 'break down' after the midpoint-- this reflects the perceptive distortion of Torrance-- the overlaid scenes may seem out of order-- brief gaps appear (where the title cards have been deleted), and imagery seems out of place, because you could have sworn those two images did not match up when you saw them an hour ago.
Its a neat little curiosity right now, albeit a disturbing one. Meant to be watched only after the original of course, I feel its a nice way to revisit the movie.
Been tinkering with a masterpiece of a film a couple of months ago-- one of my favorite horror movies ever, The Shining. This is actually an older edit I had lying around on my external hard drive that I abandoned because it took so long to render, but am thinking of revisiting it next week.
The documentary "Room 237" (which was ok for the most part) has a segment where a keen observer/?kook played the Shining simultaneously forward and backward. The effect was startling and I googled a few clips-- Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) appears to have premonitions of his future in the Overlook during his interview there--that was what got me to try watching this on Premiere Pro.
It was a bizzare, hallucinatory experience for the most part--I read a review where they called it "You probably know of some films which haunt you. The Shining Backwards and Forwards not only haunts you, but itself..." (http://www.thestranger.com/suggests/16374920/the-shining-forwards-and-backwards)
http://badassdigest.com/2012/10/01/fantastic-fest-review-the-shining-forwards-and-backwards/
http://screencrush.com/shining-forwards-and-backwards-review/
http://adhoc.fm/post/john-fell-ryan-shining/
I thught it was a project with great potential, but not without its problems. This article addresses them, and is what I used to modify my cut:
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/arc...ted-in-reverse-over-the-shining&view=comments
It's a fascinating project, that can be very simple to do, but to get the perfect effect, adjustments to opacity and trimming is needed. I also decided on using the European version (which imho is a superior version of the movie). Its experimental, interesting, and a total mind***k.
My original edit was a perfect overlay of the film on each other, but then as some of the articles mention above, while the first half of the film works eerily well with the superimposition, the second half breaks down. This is mainly because by that point the audience is so engrossed in the action that the "fllashbacks" of happier times seem distracting. Plus, having equal opacity blows out the finale.
Since there are no 'rules' on how it's meant to be watched, I reedited this film to 'break down' after the midpoint-- this reflects the perceptive distortion of Torrance-- the overlaid scenes may seem out of order-- brief gaps appear (where the title cards have been deleted), and imagery seems out of place, because you could have sworn those two images did not match up when you saw them an hour ago.
Its a neat little curiosity right now, albeit a disturbing one. Meant to be watched only after the original of course, I feel its a nice way to revisit the movie.