I’ve made a (very) short film: Landscape.
It’s an exploration of the – duh – landscape that I’ve been living in for the last couple of years: some of the sights and sounds that come with being surrounded by Yorkshire’s fantastic nature, and some practical experimentation with framing and exposure. I shot the film on a series of walks over one weekend, wandering around the Bretton Country Park with camera and tripod, setting up then waiting for the sun to make an appearance.
I’ve spent much of the intervening time trying to find the ideal soundtrack – since there’s no real plot or dialogue in the film it uses music to help drive the visual, so getting the right track was very important.
I wanted to use Creative Commons licenced music, since that would neatly step around any problems with copyright, and I found what I was looking for at CC Mixter. After ploughing through practically everything in the classical, instrumental & experimental categories – among many others – I found sHORT fACED bEAR and his Big Idea (reduced mix).
Thanks to the wonder of Creative Commons’ non-commercial sampling plus licence, I could have sampled, remixed, scritched and scratched bEAR’s music, so long as any derivative works that I make with it are released using the same licence.
So, that means that Landscape is now also kind-of public property: you can “creatively transform this work for non-commercial purposes” provided that you play by the rules: please drop me a line if you do.
Anyway, downloaderify away: Landscape.mov [16MB .mov - QuickTime required]
[Update: file now hosted at archive.org ]
