The Kid Stays In The Picture:
I need to figure out how to achieve the fade in look.
The screen splits and opens like curtains at times.
Juxtaposition of party audio to visuals of an empty home.
Uses a constant combo of Fades and Zooms, always moving, always flowing.
Isolation of color on one figure in old photo to create depth, and emphasis- makes a still frame more interesting.
Uses simple animation of stationary objects in background-water rippling, leaves blowing.
Seperating the figure from the enviroment and moving them sepreatly is very important.
Newspaper clippings floating around screen at different trasparencies and paths.
Still figures are overlayed onto film clips.
Work with what you have.
Their goal is to create a discourse (what IS non-fiction)
Distortion of images make is subjective.
Every element in a scene on a different plane- creates depth.
background skewed let or right, foreground stable.
blur effect to create atmosphere.
Always collecting material for film.
Use of drop shadow can be effective.
Work with saturation and mono-chromatic.
Sunflare to create movement.
direct still images like they were actors.
Few hard cuts, cuts affect flow and feeling
no narration at times, for a break.
In the Realms Of The Unreal.
Use of old film clips
film archives useful
Overly often.
Uses more still images than in " The Kid Stays In The Picture"
Depicting drawings in progress could be a nice effect
animated still images.
Stock footage used to achieve atmosphere
Decolorize everything.
Ridiculous amount of movement by seperating figure from background. and animating them.
Panning in still image used often, zooms as well.
Animation loops, in the explosions for example are used often.
Cuts are mostly fades. or sharp cuts.
Ken Burns Civil War:
Shakes old still images only slightly to make them look as if they are being shot from a hand held video camera, cool technique.
Lots of fade-ins and fade-outs
obligatory panning on still images, and zooming in and out of still images. Audio plays a stronger role with Burns, carries more weight.
use of archive film clips breaks up monotony of panning still pictures.
Also uses talking heads to break up still imagery.
and of course the good ole' Ken Burns effect, where he pans across a still image, resting in places of note byythe narrator.