Bat Country
The SXSW conference is a mad blitz. Maybe I’ll drink less tonight. Phonecams and Flickr.com prove that last night I deconstructed t-shirt messages and tried to lick my friend Sergio’s tit.
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10-Mar-2007 at 7:58 pm
Awesome episode!
11-Mar-2007 at 5:13 pm
Wow, you matched your skin tones to the logo colors.
11-Mar-2007 at 7:38 pm
Very well done.
* Are you constructing your show one sentence at a time?
* Or do you shoot a bunch of stuff and hope that it comes together in post?
I ask because I saw Ze tell the NY Observer that “I don’t write anything. I wouldn’t call my shows improvised, but I construct them sentence by sentence. And I also try not to precede a day with an idea, because part of this whole is trying to understand this rapid creative process as well.”
12-Mar-2007 at 11:53 am
I’ve had lecture/essay/argument ideas floating around all my life, so I usually plug those into a show that I write line by line as I film. I have no script, even if I have mentally planned threads.
Sometimes, though, I walk around and see what I can make of my surroundings.
I’m new at this sort of off-the-cuff work. My only proper film in college was fully scripted, a one-episode sitcom ripping off the Arrested Development style.
I also want to develop better one-shot monologues and see if I can replace the jolt of quick cuts with my own spastic form of delivery.
12-Mar-2007 at 12:29 pm
Nick - I do some writing over at TechCrunch. I’m at SXSW and would like to chat. Text me 716-400-3315 or http://twitter.com/techquilashots
12-Mar-2007 at 4:50 pm
Re: one-shot monologues.
They’re tough for me to pull off.
But I’m biased towards recording others and piecing together the 7 to 15 second sound bites.
I also find a world’s of difference between talking to the camera and talking to another person. I can rip off a great lengthy “sound bite” that is inspired by another human’s attention and non-verbal feedback. And their questions can have a lot of focusing power too.
I don’t mind the quick cuts — as it’s a style that definitely maintains the visual ADD attention, and has been fine tuned by Ze and the Ask a Ninja folks.
I haven’t asked Kent, but it certainly looks like AAN uses a number of digital zooms. Like they set up one static shot, and then zoom in during post.
And I’m sure if you do it long enough, it’ll evolve and mature.
Just check out a couple of old Ze videos:
http://www.zefrank.com/valentine/
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/extras/redalert.html
You can still twangs of his presenter voice in his first show:
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/03/031706.html
And now by the end, it’s much more polished.