Catacombs

Catacombs are ancient, human-made subterranean passageways for burial or protection. Any chamber used as a burial place can be described as a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman empire. Many are under cities and have been popularised by stories of their use as war refuges, smugglers' hideouts, or meeting places for cults.

Video's

A reflective video. The keys dropping looks as if the camera angel is looking up.

Final Cut Pro tutorials

Some final cut pro turtorials.


Opening credits idea




Doing my video in Final Cut Pro so these might prove helpful.

Tutorials!

Some tutorials that might come in handy.

Photoshop



Make a Shattered Dagger Poster: Photoshop Tutorial

Experimental Videos

A few experimental video's. Trying to stay within the theme of  family and a generation.

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Cinegraph

Nosferatu - Idioteque.

An interesting piece of film from the 1920's

Nosferatu the Vampyre is a 1979 West German vampire horror film written and directed by Werner Herzog. Its original German title is Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht ("Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night"). The film is set primarily in 19th century Wismar, Germany and Transylvania, Romania, and was conceived as a stylistic remake of the 1922 German Dracula adaptation, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. It stars Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula, Isabelle Adjani as Lucy Harker, Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Harker and French artist-writer Roland Topor as Renfield.

For me it displays an excellent use of light and camera angles. The music in this particular one gives the film more meaning and sets the setting of the scary atmosphere. You could also say that the sound track takes away from the original silent film. 

Dracula (1931) Trailer

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It was first published as a hardcover in 1897 by Archibald Constable and Co

It is called Bran Castle,and it used to be one of Prince Vlad Tepes'temporary residences.

Bran Castle

I have been to Bran Castle in Romania and it wasn't that exciting!

Opening credits of ''The Pacific''

Band of Brothers

German Expressionism

I came across the album cover for Sunshine Underground, Nobody’s coming to save you. It put me in mind of the Metropolis film release poster. It was interesting more because of the strong use of vertical and horizontal lines that leads the eye upwards.

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism.

 Metrotpolis Video