8mm the second

8mm development 

Graficolor, Gewerbestrasse 22, 3012 Bern, www.graficolor.ch
Ektachrome 64T und Wittnerchrome 100D

Dwayne's Photo, 415 S. 32nd Street, Parsons, KS, 67357, USA,www.k14movies.com
Kodachrome 40

Andecfilm, Hasenheide 9, 10967 Berlin, www.andecfilm.de
Farbumkehr: Ektachrome 64T und Wittnerchrome 100D
Schwarweiss: Kodak TriX und PusX
Farbnegativ: Kodak Vision 2 200T und 500T

Zoe Caroll

our Sophie Ivory Blue

once upon a time sailed the seven seas ...

Captain Robyn John Wild


Ivory Sophie Blue


Laila Crazy Owl Barney


Vivian Bloody Mary Jones


Kirka Velvet

Acting techniques

Silent film actors emphasized body language and facial expression so that the audience could better understand what an actor was feeling and portraying on screen. Much silent film acting is apt to strike modern-day audiences as simplistic or campy. The melodramatic acting style was in some cases a habit actors transferred from their former stage experience. The pervading presence of stage actors in film was the cause of this outburst from director Marshall Neilan in 1917: "The sooner the stage people who have come into pictures get out, the better for the pictures." In other cases, directors such as John Griffith Wray required their actors to deliver larger-than-life expressions for emphasis. As early as 1914, American viewers had begun to make known their preference for greater naturalness on screen.

In any case, the large image size and unprecedented intimacy the actor enjoyed with the audience began to affect acting style, making for more subtlety of expression. Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere (1916), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and The Dice Woman and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.Directors such as Albert Capellani (a French director who also did work in America directing Alla Nazimova films) and Maurice Tourneur insisted on naturalism in their films; Tourneur had been just such a minimalist in his prior stage productions. By the mid-1920s many American silent films had adopted a more naturalistic acting style, though not all actors and directors accepted naturalistic, low-key acting straight away; as late as 1927 films featuring expressionistic acting styles such as Metropolis were still being released. Some viewers liked the flamboyant acting for its escape value, and some countries were later than the United States in embracing naturalistic style in their films. In fact today the level of naturalism in acting varies from film to film and our favourites may not be the most naturalistic. Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film


Link to a Blog and discusion to Silent Acting ...

"if you are going to do anything, do it to perfection and surrender yourself with like-minded rebels" John Galliano

I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul

documentary about silent movies in hollywood

hahaha

amazing link, beautiful women

SOUNDTRACK

my friend Tiffany sent me this link of a musician friend of her's who lives in California and plays the piano ever so well .... He just confirmed to do the soundtrack for our short film! WUP WUP

Slowly by Charlie Hale

Organigram...:-)

8mm

http://www.sanspareilco.com/upload/superwild8mm-choi_steiner_web.mov

CAROL just booked!

Pratäschiff, zur inspiration, harr harr!

pistol!!!

eini vom Ed sine Pistolle ..

SCHEDULE - JULY 2011

16mm movie

shot in the back yard of my LA friend ilona's house  ..... set made out of cardboard

Ship - Lisa the first

classical pirate costume inspiration and kitsch : )

graphics and fonts ....

for example ....

Schrift = altmodisch und schnörkelig, mit Verzierungen auf der Seite ...

Sequence 2

Within the second sequence we want to introduce our pirates and their "life & adventures" a bit closer. because we are not able to shoot our ship in real water, battling with another ship, there will be a little handmade ship on a map (made by lisa) that will be animated with stop motion and sailing through the seven seas. this is the best way to let our ship go on treasure hunt, sea battles and fight with monsters

the boat will leave traces like on this card, but the map will be way more old school and hand made, like for example the map below.

After every adventure the pirates will pose inside of a frame for a "moving groupe photo". Please watch the  film of the  Frère Lumière to get an idea : "portrait of the whole Dam family and the Dam dog" 1905





an other inspiration are the group photos from the wild west :

short story long i imagine the shots like that : 

shot 1a:  group photo / fix

Insight the wooden frame, after they plundered the boat. Some of them are injured and wear bandaids, but all are proud and pose for the photo.

shot 1b:  group photo / fix

Insight the wooden frame, after a successful treasure hunt.they have shovels in their hands and are dirty. They start fighting over the gold, while they are posing for the “photo”. The captain shouts out and stamps on the grownd, they calm down and pose for the camera.

shot 1c: group photo / fix 

Insight the wooden frame, after the fought a sea monster. The whole crew is dripping wet, but stand smiling and united next to each other. Vivian holds two big knifes, Laila and Ivory an arm of the big squid.

Sequence 1 - life aquatic

Sequence 1 in unserem Film sollte in einer oder zwei Aufnahmen das ganze Schiff und die Mannschaft vorstellen ... Inspiration dafür ist unter Anderem die Szene in Wes Andersons "Life Aquatic" wo das ganze Set nachgebaut wurde und wie im Film gesagt wird, Theater gespielt wird ...

die Idee für die Eröfnungs-sequence ist mit der Gallionsfigur anzufange, dann einer Piratin von vorne im Bug bis nach hinten im Heck des Schiffes in "einer" Aufnahme zu folgen und somit der Ort (Schiff) und alle Crew Mitglieder vorzustellen ...

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - The Belafonte Pod
Tags: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - The Belafonte Pod

TALKING OF ANDERSON :

Schiff

Da wir unser Schiff ja mehr oder weniger zwei Dimensional aufbauen werden, sind die Bilder auf dem unser Schiff in einer Bucht steht, von Lisa gemalt und hängen an der Wand in der Kabine .. : )

kurze abgsageti Hose

Pluderhose ? Dünne Säbel ? Ohrering ?

ladies from the silent movies = black lips, smoky eyes, curly hair

she is it!

so e wunderschöni, wildi Frau! Ich weiss leider nöd wie sie heisst, aber sie isch mis absolute ROLEMODEL wänn ich an Style vo eusne Pirate dänke

Nosferatu - F.W. Murenau 1922

wunderbares Schiffsdeck. Ich liebe die Netze und Seile ... we need!

AHA!

Afang vom Film isch super --> Titel, Intro, Fahne und los gahts...

amazing, very well made silent movie

silent movie documentation

Douglas Fairbanks war der erste Action Held des Kinos .. von ihm sind auch die zwei Filme Zorro und Black Pirate. In diesem Dokumentar Film Ausschnitt, kommen viele der klassischen Silent Movie Bewegungen und Szenen vor .. z.B Kuss hinter einem Tuch und wie sich die Hand der holden Dame bewegt...

Georges Méliès

MINUTE 4:19 Der Mond dreht sich und die Erde geht auf... --> GENIAL!

PHOTOS : http://www.flickr.com/photos/pritheworld/sets/72157604831238429/