The fist movie I wanted to share here tells, in a time laps photography way, the story of modern technology meeting old school craftsmanship, created by Matt Bigwood. A nice, simple piece which made me laugh. You find Matt's, the creators youtube channel here.

Time lapse photography is of course one way to tell a story with photography and single images. But I was somehow looking for something else, when digging deeper into the realms of youtube. I was looking for movies, who's stories are told not by thousands of but just a few still photographs. In a way, I was looking for a more cinematic approach to still photography - an advanced slideshow, if you wish. And I found this masterpiece, the movie "Blindfolded" by Stephen Maneri.

This is a very intriguing way of telling a story. The way Stephen assembled the photographs to a movie really makes them jump to live. The very artful way of using the Ken Burns effect combined with some colouring action in the still tell the story. Essentially he just took the "key shots" of a movie, and assembled those to tell the story.

This movie taught me a lot about photography itself. It taught me about the meaning of a photograph itself and about the storytelling part of an image. It shows the importance of one image leading to the next and about the anticipation that can be created in a viewer looking at a single shot. What was before? What will come after? Looking at a landscape photographed at sunrise will (or can, actually) leave the viewer with an idea on how the next part of the morning is going to look like.

This is something we as photographers can easily forget over time standing behind a camera and being obsessed with light, composition and exposure. Those three criteria are really just the most simple part of the image creation process. But the story is the important piece.

Oh, and I could not properly embed this movie in my website - it only wants to be played on youtube. Oh well….

Tags: Photography, Camera, Short Movie