This
is
an unofficial music video for Saint Mary by Sparklehorse. Best
viewed non full screen to avoid any nasty compression artefacts
- I had problems with some of the more subtle parts of the film
when compressing it for the web.
The film was done using my Dad's old slide projector from the 1950's, with a
bit of after effects cheating. The projector allowed me to have two slide cases
in
at
a time, and each of them could have three layers within them so I could change
the focus of the lense between each layer. I was only actually able to do
this
on a couple of shots though. Here are some of the slides I made for the video...
.......
It's really fiddly work, especially the paper cut outs, but I was encouraged
to keep at it by some of the early images I was able to get out of the projector.
I love the cross hatching style, and the first flickering, jumpy tests I did
really
semed
to
work
with
the
song,
so
I was free to concentrate on the story to a certain extent, and just let the
projector
do most of the work :)
The narrative (such as it is) came from a combination of the lyrics of the song
itself, and vague memories I had of one of the short stories in Ray Bradbury's
The Martian
Chronicles
that
I'd
read a
year or so ago. I had no great plan for the story though, it just kind of evolved
as I was making the images and figuring out what the hell the next shot should
be. It seemed to work out ok, I think...
This is
the
projector I used
-
you
could
actually
open
it
up
from the top and
slide
a
longer
piece
of acetate through, which is how I did the scrolling trees at the start.
