Between You and Me by Patryk Rebisz, 2005

"Between You and Me" garnered prestigious awards from numerous international film festivals for its great use of still photography using burst mode in a camera. The story itself is structured to come full circle. The random meeting of the man and woman in the beginning and the intended meeting at the end of the film wraps up the film nicely. The story involves photography, with the woman shooting pictures with her camera, while the short film is also grafted together using photography stills.

Mr. Rebisz uses very quick collections of stills to show settings and help progress the story, such as in the fast introduction involving the blinds being open, the water from the shower head, tea in the glass, and so on. There are no dialogue, rather, moans and groans reminiscent of the game, Sim City, where there are hints of a language through indiscernible mumblings. The music coincides with the frames and events of the story line, and when the story became intense so did the music, such as in the attack on the protagonist woman, the acoustic guitar went from ominously slow to a fast rhythm pace. The sound effects, from footsteps to human moans, groans, and whistling added great atmosphere to the entire piece and was also very well in-sync with the photography frames.

A wonderful short film that takes the audience from lighthearted to frenzy and back to comfort through the use of well synced photography stills, human sounds, sound effects, and musical atmosphere.

http://www.patrykrebisz.com/films_between.html

BAG of Reminisce

sampling

America Is Waiting by Byrne/Eno, 1986

VS

Get Down, get down by Emergency Broadcast Network, 1995

"America Is Waiting" (AIW) has more of a electronic rock sound to it in its background sound track while "Get down, get down" (GDGD) has more of a hip hop vibe with its beats in its background. AIW has more of a continuous flow of the music soundtrack in the background with the commentator adding spice to the track, while GDGD on the other hand, the commentaries and sound clips from music artists like Mariah Carey and movies and shows actually are the beats themselves and almost overpower the background sound track. Both pieces deal with commentaries on politics; AIW has a radio commentator sometimes blurting out words such as "America is waiting" while GDGD has repeat sounds clips of Maria Carey in sync with video news, movie, and show clips from Harrison Ford shouting "Get down, get down!" to a news reel of someone with a gun saying "this will hurt someone." GDGD seems more interesting especially when there is video syncing well with the music.