for it or against it?

9/16/2008 8:41:45 PM

can't I be both?

9/16/2008 8:42:28 PM

as long as the balls don't touch

9/16/2008 8:42:36 PM

film in general? or porn?

9/16/2008 8:42:42 PM

smut king

9/16/2008 8:43:12 PM

we can talk about POV in porn, sure

I also mean historically and in popular cinema

9/16/2008 8:43:51 PM

shit was awesome in Short Circuit 2

9/16/2008 8:44:53 PM

I was ok with it

until I saw The Blair Witch Project

then I was not ok with it any longer


eventually, I came to accept it again

then Cloverfield came out

and I wanted to shoot myself in the head all over again

9/16/2008 8:45:42 PM

POV in porn im for

it means i don't have to look at EMCE's face when hes pounding an 80 lbs white girl

9/16/2008 8:46:29 PM

YOU JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP, GIMP


by the way, did you just say that you'd rather look at my cock than look at my face?

9/16/2008 8:47:03 PM

Depends on the situation.

9/16/2008 8:47:24 PM

it means i don't have to look at EMCE's face when hes pounding my lady friend

that better?

9/16/2008 8:48:16 PM

dude, just stop

at least put a (no homo) in there

9/16/2008 8:48:51 PM

see today I was given my midterm for one of my classes

I have to make a film using only still photographs that I take, editing techniques and a soundtrack which I will be recording and composing

I think since the readings have been theorizing on the role of photography that I should pay some respect to the photographer's point of view

so I've decided on a short POV zombie horror

9/16/2008 8:49:24 PM

but i mean it in the gayest way possible

9/16/2008 8:49:32 PM

hey God, listening?

I know we don't talk a lot

but if you could just help me out this once... just tell me what to do

I promise I'll stop taking your name in vain

9/16/2008 8:50:56 PM

I hate you

9/16/2008 8:51:01 PM

quit having your gay fight in my thread, you two

I'm trying to have a divine moment with my media studies here

9/16/2008 8:51:52 PM

sorry Snewf

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 8:53 PM. Reason : I really did mean my second comment. ]

9/16/2008 8:52:37 PM

its okay... I know you got a little carried away

just kiss and make up, everything will be alright

9/16/2008 8:53:10 PM

ok in my opinion it could go either way

some people might get motion sick

9/16/2008 8:53:17 PM

I loved the different cams on people's bodies in the Truman Show.

9/16/2008 8:53:43 PM

understand this: I'm not shooting video

this is all told through still photographs

like La Jetee

9/16/2008 8:54:19 PM

Snewf, check out this film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/

I have it on DVD.

^I see you've already heard of it.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 8:55 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2008 8:54:45 PM

haha nice

yeah we watched that today!

for the rest of you, its 12 Monkeys

9/16/2008 8:55:40 PM

Do you really have to compose your own music?

I had to do a project exactly like that. I did a film about a man who suddenly, through some sort of strange metamorphosis, becomes the sun.

9/16/2008 8:56:59 PM

i can think of a few scenes where it is good but i wouldnt over do it

9/16/2008 8:58:48 PM

we have to record our sound effects
composing the sound track is only recommended... but the next floor up is the College of Jazz

I may not personally compose mine but it will have an original soundtrack

9/16/2008 8:58:51 PM

I've always been a fan of zombie movies and POV has been used more and more in the genre

there's some POV sniper footage in 28 Weeks Later

and Romero's new Diary of the Dead is entirely POV

9/16/2008 9:01:31 PM

I think POV with any sort of action would be boring.

Unless, you did it as a slide-show instead of a style like La Jetee.

Think, "found footage." What if there was a zombie apocalypse, and then humanity recovered afterwards? People searching for survivors find a ruined apartment with a badly damaged digital camera. On it are still images that show the horror that four people endured when attempting to survive the night.

9/16/2008 9:05:18 PM

hmm I like the slide show idea

I am wanting to do photos "sourced" from a variety of cameras

stills from a security cam and from a webcam

my response to the action would be to do most of it offscreen

but I'm considering an omniscient soundtrack

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM. Reason : -]

9/16/2008 9:07:30 PM

That'd work.

Make it look like it's some genuine thing like Cloverfield did

Something like "FBI Recovered Footage. Still photos of Incident #00343"

9/16/2008 9:08:41 PM

see I'm not sure what I want the source to be

is it archived footage? if then it has been curated so there is some sort of editor or censor inherent in the narrative

I was thinking maybe the source would be the agenda-less and immoral recordings of an automated system

9/16/2008 9:10:19 PM

just do zombie photos over incredibly creepy ambient music

music like this http://beksinski.pl/

fuck that would be scary

9/16/2008 9:10:19 PM

I've gotta have a narrative structure


how do you feel about an omniscient soundtrack?

like sound effects indicating movement and action existing beyond the scope of the still photos

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:13 PM. Reason : -]

9/16/2008 9:11:36 PM

Llike a beginning middle and end?

I mean, it could work with the story I presented.

"Hi we've found this apartment yayyy"

"hey look zombies"

"holy fuck we're all dyin"

"the end"

I don't think I've ever used that, but it could work.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:14 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2008 9:13:20 PM

haha true

I think if my violence is gratuitous it won't come across well though because I haven't the budget for it

like it will lose its impact


-oh I also don't want any dialogue

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM. Reason : -]

9/16/2008 9:14:51 PM

But since they're stills you can work on them in photoshop

make them grainy, add blood effects, etc.

I don't mean dialogue, I was just indicating the narrative direction.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2008 9:15:33 PM

yeah the photoshop thing is pretty much required

I'm going to make them look like they come from a variety of sources

but I do think I'm going to shoot my webcam footage with a webcam

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM. Reason : -]

9/16/2008 9:16:18 PM

Make sure you don't do something that looks TOO similar to what they did in the end of Dawn of the Dead. It was similar to:

Quote :

"Think, "found footage." What if there was a zombie apocalypse, and then humanity recovered afterwards? People searching for survivors find a ruined apartment with a badly damaged digital camera. On it are still images that show the horror that four people endured when attempting to survive the night."

Basically short video clips they took of their little journey at the end of the movie before they encountered a few nasty zombies. I am terribly interested by the idea of first person zombie movies though. Think how fucking crazy it could be if it was from the point of view of somebody who woke up to zombies busting through their window and their first reactions and such (or maybe their first person view of being eaten alive/killed by a zombie and becoming one themselves).

I need not encourage people to make stuff like this though. I like zombie movies, even though they cause me to lose sleep at night when they're exceptionally well done.

9/16/2008 9:23:05 PM

what scares you about them?

is it the (albeit anticipated) surprise of the everyday becoming threatening?

9/16/2008 9:24:49 PM

^^ POV zombie movie has already been done.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848557/

9/16/2008 9:42:16 PM

^That's a bit more "meta" then what I'm referring to.

9/16/2008 9:52:31 PM