IMM:Fulldome/Remind me later

Remind me later

Music: Moby, Isolate (Mixhell Remix)

<videoflash type>21757814</videoflash> After the initial idea of using Liszt pieces to visualise music our project developed on to a little bit other direction. the new conzept of Our Fulldome film is an abstract Music Visualisation to the music from Moby (no worries, we have the rights), using small colorful post-its. The content/inspiration for the images comes from old native Estonian glove patterns. So, the music visualisation we do combines something very old and something new and modern: Hundred-Year-Old patterns dancing to the rhythms of music from nowadays.

Visuals: To make a stop motion animation for our Fulldome project was our wish from beginning on. We decided to animate post-it notepapers. The papers we cut into squares look like oversize pixels, so the visuals have a touch of old 8bit animation. The content of visuals were found as I was leafing through an old handycraft magazin from Estonia. I was stunned about the fact that pattern sheets for knitted gloves were built up the same way we planned to do our visuals. We found the idea of using our film to animate the old patterns and bring them alive again appealing. So we took the old Estonian patterns for inspiration for the visuals of „Remind me later“.

Music: As we started, we were sure to use Franz Liszts piano music. After a while, there rose many doubts. It was really hard to find something that would fit our visuals. Finally we let go of the idea of trying to push Liszt in our concept and started looking for alternatives. As we found out that Moby has published quite a big amount of music for independent filmmakers on a webpage Mobygratis.com, we looked into it and after a while found the music, called Isolate, that fitted exactly. After making necessarry applications we got the rights to use that piece.

Technic: „Remind me later“ is a stop motion animation. We used black paper (1.20m x 1.20m) as a background, hung on the wall. On the background we animated colorful post-it papers. Every peace of paper was about 1cm x 1cm big. For photographing we used Canon 500D and Canon 7D cameras. For direct picture quality test and partly to save the photos we also used a program called Animator HD. For lighting we used self-built solar energy based Direct Current lamps. For editing and compositing we used Adobe After Effects.

Workflow: 1.Finding out the design of the visuals and a fitting music. 2.Storyboard. 3.Building up the set. (Put up the technick, prepare the background and cut the post-it papers). 4.Animating the post-its on the background. 5.Compositing, editing, rendering..

Difficulties: We had a lot to do with technical problems. There were problems with some programs like Animator HD, which was the reason we din't use it the whole film through. Also at the end of the production process we had to make compromises. Our initial idea was to put the whole picture shaking after the music beat, but due to different reasons it didn't turn out like we wanted it to. So we decided to leave it be. But allinall we are quite happy with the outcome.