Tag Archive: Great Videos


Lead a Visual Life

Intel is brilliantly showcasing its top-notch technology through a series of documentaries, where

“through visual experience [they] define who [they] are. And a 2ndgeneration Intel® Core™ processor, with its combination of smart performance and stunning, seamless visuals, is the perfect engine for expressing and sharing your visual life.”

The series, called “Intel Visual Life,” features various artists, photographers, and musicians, on how their talents are impacting the world and how Intel technology is a part of that.

You definitely have to check them all out, but here are two of Drempt‘s fave docs of the series, in that each are beautifully shot and edited and aspirational to attain:

Musician Michael Franti
Photographer/blogger The Sartorialist

~Arielle

“For me, cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Hitchcock certainly had a recipe for success when it came to filmmaking. In this animated short, see their interpretation of the Hitchcock Cookbook.

View full article »

Live Your Life

Perhaps you’ve seen this poster before… It’s the Holstee Manifesto “This is your life” poster floating around the Internet.

20120123-092616.jpg

 

Holstee is a team that

“designs and curates with the hopes that each product and its inherent story inspires others to follow their dream.”

Products include 100% recycled material t-shirts and wallets.

Drempt just discovered this film by Holstee, putting their well-known manifesto to motion. The passion of the manifesto is translated in the film through biking, a passion the Holstee team possess. Prepare to be inspired!

~Arielle

Now, this post isn’t to question the social position or condition of documentaries, but rather about the actual states they come from – the United States.
This list was found over at P.O.V, a blog and aspect of PBS that focuses on independent non-fiction films and is the longest running showcase of these films. P.O.V created a list of the 50 best docs that represent each state, based on story, subject, and connection to that state.

20120104-152920.jpg
What documentary would you add to represent your state?
~ Arielle

In this stunning short, you take an adventure across the country in the most creative way! With stop-motion animation, Google Street View, a little imagination, and a Canon 5D, this short takes you on an emotional ride where you experience limitless creativity in the pursuit of dreams.
For a source of inspiration you must see Address is Approximate, by Tom Jenkins and his production company The Theory.

There are behind the scene pics on The Theory’s Facebook page!

~Arielle

Amongst many things, TED Talks can introduce you to subjects you otherwise would have never heard about, or help you learn more about something you’re already interested in. This TED presentation, by Charles Limb, definitely accomplishes both of those!

Dr. Limb is a brain surgeon, who also studied music, and is fascinated by improvisation and creativity. Using his scientific expertise, he created an experiment that delves into the mind of a musician to see what part of the brain is triggered during improvised freestyle jazz. The musician first performed a memorized piece in an MRI scanner, followed by an improv session. That discovery lead him to the next part of the experiment
what is triggered in the brain during improvised freestyle rap?
Well, as you know, every experiment has a control, so in this case the rapper in the experiment had to perform a scripted rap… Thus a brain surgeon rapping on TED! Dr. Limb recited that rap for all TED viewers to enjoy; in the name of science, of course! This is a must see!
*refresh the page if the play button is not available
Any fun TED talks you’ve discovered that you’d like to share? Leave a comment!
~Arielle

Drempt loves TED Talks as much as the next person. Don’t you? My iTunes is filled with amazing TED discussions and conversations.

Well…Thanks to the good folks over at No Film School, here are 7 more TED Talks for our viewing pleasure! Blogger Nadia Jones compiled this list of “Seven inspiring TED Talks About Filmmaking.” She adds,

“These seven TED talks given by famous filmmakers, producers, and directors tap into the amazing potential of film as an art form, exploring the nature of inspiration, creativity, and communication.”

Inspiring is not a big enough word.

See the Talks from Jehane NoujaimJeff SkollDeborah Scranton, Shekhar KapurJames CameronMorgan Spurlock, and J. J. Abrams here.

And if that weren’t enough, in the comment section Sean Flynn suggested another influential TED Talks video! Check out Ryan Lobo on “Photographing the hidden story“.

What inspirational people or videos have you discovered? Share them on my twitter!

~Arielle

Who doesn’t want to enhance their videos? A great way to add some visual excitement is to utilize the mattes!

As Genius DV so eloquently describes

“travel mattes can add another dimension to your Final Cut Pro project by allowing you to conceal part of a video image with a shape, while selectively focusing on an area of interest in your video.”

In a 3-part tutorial series, found on Creative Cow, Walter Biscardi (comically) shows you how to create the matte and apply it to Final Cut!

First, is “Travel Mattes part 1: The Basics” explaining what a travel matte is and how alpha differs from luma.

Part 2 is a tutorial about “Adding animation and drop shadows.” Applying that drop shadow is not as easy as you’d think! Check out the video here to see how to do it!

Last, part 3 of the series explains how to “Enhance your interviews.” It add new visual stimulation by having text, backgrounds, video and travel mattes! It’s a fun way to show your interview and b-roll at the same time!

~Arielle

Producer-rapper-artist KanYe West unveiled his newest music video “All of the Lights” recently. KanYe is known for many reasons, his music videos included. This latest Hype Williams/KanYe collabo is visually stimulating with the artistic story-line, flashing fonts, and seizure-indusing visuals, but was it an original? Is the video sampled like much of his famous beats are?

Cut to, the Internets in an uproar claiming Kanye and Hype delibreately ripped Gaspar Noé‘s French film “Enter the Void“.  This cult 2009  ”psychedelic melodrama” is more known for its visuals than its acting, opening titles included.

The once thought original-use-of-text in the Kanye music video now seems like a blatant rip off of the opening flashy credits to the movie. Did Kanye or Hype give credit to the movie or it’s director? Unknown to me at Drempt, but we did our research.

MTV says that the music video pays homage to Noé, but I think if that were the case, Garpar Noé’s name would have flashed a few times, in homage.

NY Mag provides a frame-by-frame of that flashing text in the opening credits to “Enter the Void.”

The people of the Internet raising questions ask, “why wasn’t Gaspar Noé, or the film that inspired this concept, flashed in kanye West’s video if they flashed the names of all those involved with the song?”

I may not have heard of this movie, but interested film people definitely have. Even Quintin Tarantino names “Enter the Void” one of his favorite movies of 2010, and had this to say about it-

“Hands down best credit scene of the year … Maybe best credit scene of the decade. One of the greatest in cinema history.” ~QT

Hype, being the unbelievable director and visionary that he is, undoubtably is equally familiar with Noé’s work. This is only my 2¢, however.

In his own defense, @kanyewest stated via twitter, “Context is everything…something good taken out of context can become bad”.

Check out the two clips for yourself.  Remix culture strikes again!

~Arielle

Take a moment and look at this great video from Night of the Unboring, a 2005 benefit with the Ontario College of Art and Design. It shows the power of creativity! Everything we touch, see, and do pretty much!

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 269 other followers