New Media by Ryan Adlaf
PART II!
This time I had a friend take only 579 pictures of my face.
This edition of Headshots, The Movie isn’t as hypnotic as part I, however it does find our hero in faraway lands escaping a Turkish prison and running from the forces of evil.
Feel free to compare and contrast part I and part II. There is a seizure warning in effect for children under 12 who watch both videos simultaneously.
Black Dollar Productions teamed up with Quiet Pirate Press to create this meditation on what a Web 2.0 video might look like if it was created by an robot Noel Coward. The piece debuted at BETALEVEL‘s Late Night Snack in Chinatown.
Two of the robot voices were default Mac text-to-speech voices. The other two, the bawdy Brits, were GhostReader voices. I split the main script into four character scripts and exported each characters lines to audio. After timing the stop motion in Premiere, I chopped up each characters audio in Digital Performer and edited it all together with sound effects and Kraftwerk.
I had a friend take 805 pictures of my face. I started to get desperate as I tried to find the 2 or 3 good pictures out of the 805 and wound up making a short film.
Headshots are normally pretty depressing to look at, especially the ones where you are half blinking. But a video like this breathes new life into the half-sneeze, the shit-eating grin, and the sex criminial pictures that are normally deleted as soon as they’re opened.
Enjoy!
Hypnotic and creepy, eh?