Script improvised by Ryan Gerard. Video made by DoAn Forest.
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Music credit: “Game of Life” by Goldtea
About the video: I first met Goldtea hanging out in Itaewon, an area of Seoul where there are about as many ex-pats as there are Koreans. Somehow, the idea came about to do a video together. He brought over an album he’d made before coming to Korea. So, we went with this song for starters. I filmed him dancing against the walls of my one-room apartment, and obviously it would have been easier to edit this footage if I’d come up with a blue or green screen – don’t know what i was thinking filming against beige walls. The editing took quite a bit of time, and it went through a few edits. In the first edit, I mixed up Goldtea’s dancing footage with some scenes of Seoul streets, etc, and it wasn’t quite what he was looking for. He wanted me to add in some scenes of stuff like robberies and crime, and it evolved from there. But, as of 2006, with the resources I had it, it wasn’t easy to just get a bunch of images together to sample from – I rented a couple of movies, a Denzel Washington movie where he holds people in a hospital hostage and the Brazilian movie City of God. I looked up robberies on some online video sites, and that’s where I got the surveillance camera idea for this video.
But eventually, the editing just got to be too much, and so in the video above, I faded the song out early, and just did the first two minutes, just deciding I couldn’t devote any more to it for now. So, I was sorry to Goldtea that I didn’t put together things for the whole song, but hope this holds some value for whatever it is. The last time I checked the whole song was available for listening at Goldtea’s myspace page.
Anyway, I quite like it, but I can see it pushes a lot of my technical abilities to the absolute limit. It’s definitely one of the more creative videos I’ve done.
Han River VJ Demo
This video was done simply as an experiment in syncing together a music keyboard powered by the Logic music software with my Arkaos VJ software. I could load the still images into Arkaos, and then use a midi keyboard to simultaneously trigger the images as well as music notes. Someone complimented me on the music, which is funny, because I essentially just banged away at the piano keys at random since I don’t know how to play.
I have taken literally thousands of pictures along the Han River of Seoul in the past year – granted many of the photos are similar one to the other. I don’t know yet what I’ll do with all these photos, but for sure something more than this eventually.
Autumn in the Tropics
An underwater electronic meltdown filmed off the coast of Miyakojima Island, Okinawa, Japan in 2006. I hope this captures some of the awesome feeling of snorkeling far out from shore on a sunny day. I love seeing the bubbles, breaking the surface, and feeling the difference between air and water. The light and color dance everywhere.
The music is “Automne” by Seafran. I’d been to Miyako in June, and collected a lot of underwater images with my Olympus camera. I still want to edit this footage using the water sounds as music, but that’s technically difficult – and as I was working on this, my friend Seafran sent me a few of his tracks, and I thought this one matched really well.
I threw a lot of the video clips into my VJ software, Arkaos, and visually jammed along with the music for several takes. Then, using Final Cut, I edited together the better takes.
Flying Fish
I made this video as a demo for English teaching purposes. It’s not particularly great animation, but still I think my students would enjoy it. I’m actually really amazed that I could even make this. I look forward to trying some other motion graphics like this. I’d love to build a whole set of videos for teaching like this.
Flowfest 2006 – “Irie Days”
Set to the music of Seafran’s (a French DJ/musician living in Seoul: myspace.com/seafran/) “Irie Days,” this is a video recap of Flowfest 2006, a music festival which took place in Gangchon, South Korea in June 2006. The video combines photos and various filming techniques like filming projected images on moving things and underwater filming. Thanks also to the photo contributions from Paul Kotyk: paulkotyk.com
Birds in a Harbor
A photo remix by DoAn Forest. My friend Youki Cropas had taken a series of photos of birds in a harbor in Istanbul. The photos hypnotized when played in a slideshow. I asked for permission to remix them and this is the result. My concept was of a lonely merchant sailor watching TV in a Korean harbor, different thoughts going through his head. The music is a distorted remix of Billie Holiday’s “I’m A Fool To Want You.”
Dried Silence
Ame Agaru Onna
This video was made for the same-titled song by Chiharu Miwa (Note: I think their might be a group name, which I’ll find out when I get the chance.) It was made on Miyako island in Okinawa, Japan in the fall of 2003. At the time, I helped her put together a set of videos to go with her music. This is one of them. As I recall, it was made simply in iMovie, using mostly footage from Miyako itself.