Micro 4/3 Kroeger (the ghost in the piano)

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A pointless little film I made playing around with hybrid photography -- combining stills with a bit of video and audio. It's full HD and made with the G5.

NOTE: Revised version based on some suggestions received. Thanks all.

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Definitely fun. The only thing that seems a little off for me, and I know you were just tinkering, is the hanging rat wall, it's just not as peeling and grungy as the rest of it. At any rate the playing piano at the end was a nice creepy touch to end with!
 
First, thanks all for the nice comments!

And one of the creepiest. As if the pictures were not bad enough. Good thing I am not going straight to bed.

My wife said the same thing basically, Dave: "Don't play that again before I go to bed! It's creepy!" -- lol.

Definitely fun. The only thing that seems a little off for me, and I know you were just tinkering, is the hanging rat wall, it's just not as peeling and grungy as the rest of it. At any rate the playing piano at the end was a nice creepy touch to end with!

Good call. I'm new to this, lol. I've done some movies but nothing quite like this. One in India that was a "real" project and some offroading films for a group I used to go offroading with ("Green laning" for you Brits, lol).

The little bit of piano footage was the only video I shot all day! I'm going to experiment more with this in the future.

Again, thanks all.
 
Nice stuff, John. Did you eat David Lynch? I especially how you had the piano early on, and then later I was surprised to see what looked like a still of the piano innards actually be video. Nice misdirection.
 
The title total reminded me of a quote from irobot. tweaked for piano.



There have always been ghosts in the piano. Random segments of notes, that have grouped together to form unexpected harmonies. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some musicians are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when musicians are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of verse? Or is it something more? When does an arpeggio become consciousness? When does a fermata become the search for truth? When does a messa di voce become the bitter mote... of a soul?

-Eliot "...but if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world..." - Fox, Le Petit Prince
 
NOTE: Revised version based on some suggestions received. Thanks all.

I've also changed the original post to point to this version, but the original version is still on my YouTube channel.

[video=youtube_share;HJaHwhU07eU]
 
<3!

-Eliot "...but if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world..." - Fox, Le Petit Prince
 
Superb - sorry I missed the first one

In UK we have a couple of short film series called 4 Shorts and / or Random Acts which are well worth watching

Random Acts | Channel 4

yours is shorter but damn good enough

5 *****
 
Thanks for all the nice comments! I'm having problems making replies but "Quick Reply" at the bottom of the screen still seems to work.
 
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