Between You and Me
Thursday, August 11th, 2005
Patryk Rebisz, a young filmmaker in New York has made a short, four minute movie called Between You and Me. The movie is shot entirely with a Canon 20D still camera and stitched together and the effect along with a “motor drive” soundtrack is stunning.
Yep, superb.
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Dang, the web site is gone and I only found the movie at atom films in real player or windows media player format. Drats, this was a great film that I wouldn’t mind having the quicktime of if I could have it. Anyone know of a copy?
An interesting concept, but it’s alittle gimicky. Though kind of cool at first, it gets old pretty fast. There’s some beautiful shots, but there’s some crap ones as well, and there’s not much of a story to carry the short. It’s basically all about the way it was shot. Good for one, maybe two viewings. Too bad, because it is a pretty cool idea.
Paul: I kind of agree with you but I’m not sure. I’ve now watched it three times and while I think it might have had slightly different screenplay I think it’s a great concept that’s pretty well executed. I’m not a filmmaker but it held my attention pretty well. But, thanks for your opinion as it got me following the link again which now works.
Putting something like this together is a very long and tedious process working from camera stills. From a different angle, imagine it as if it were put together with individual 35mm picutures. Considering the work involved the story line needs to be concise and simple. After awhile you hope just to get it completed with some degree of what you intended. Not
everything ends up polished and professional for such an amateur production. It would have been so much easier to have done it with a cheap video camera but then the result would have been no where near the quality.. I rate it well above average. an endearing and quality effort considering the format. Big pluses on the technical end with lighting and sound.
Joe: I think the way to think about this is that different things can be seen when you make a stop-action movie, it has a different feel (obviously) but also feeds back different information to the filmmaker.
I made dozens of flipbooks in a basic design class I took many years ago as a fine arts student and we had high end movie cameras available. The flipbooks (as in clay animation) have a different feel, one that many people like (me included).
In addition, the subject and storyline here is universal and well planned and executed. I’m a fan, even though it’s not perfect it’s a wonderful example of the medium.