F U T U R E S H O R T S

Last night, we went to the screening of Future Shorts One, which is the next generation film festival, at Village Underground in Shoreditch. One of the interesting things about it was that it connected 12 countries and 50 cities in one night, and this also meant the variety of short films shown was excellent. The theme of the night was made to feel like we were on an aeroplane, and the attention to detail was fantastic. The staff team were all dressed up as air stewards (with a bit of a dodgy American accent) and pilots, paper planes were also flying everywhere.

 The films shown actually really inspired me, I thought they were well thought out and really captured the viewers interest, often resulting in a large amount of clapping and whooping at the end of the clips. The line up from the night can be seen on the website, but there were three videos that I really liked and wanted to share on here. The first was Temper Trap's new music video for their single 'Love Lost', directed by Dougal Wilson/2010/UK. The video features some boys cross-country running, and for such a simple idea, it's very effective. Here's the video..

The next video I also found very captivating, also it being hugely different to the 'Love Lost' Video made it stand out even more. It is an animated film using design and logos, typography and minimalism. What seems like quite a simple video is actually incredibly complicated, and I can only begin to imagine how long it took to animate the whole video. I really liked the music chosen to link the animation together also.

Although I really liked all the videos shown on the night, the final video I shall share is one called 'Words'  directed  by Everynone/2010/USA. This video really reminded me of the Narrative workshop we did with David, as the video links from frame to frame by the choice of sequences that we had when making our narrative image sequences. Enjoyyyy.