This is the version of Morgan M. Morganson's Date with Destiny that screened at Sundance 2010. Throughout the festival, this is the one we'd show as our example. Whenever anybody asked, "what is hitRECord?" this was my answer: "Here, watch this short film we're making; you'll never believe who did it and how!"
Albert proposed an off-kilter writing exercise, and then Metaphorest's beautifully strange short story inspired it all. I read the story aloud, Jenyffer.Maria started drawing the characters, Tori animated Jen's drawings, Lula and I did a live-action rendition, Lawrie Brewster took the project to soaring heights with his gorgeous visuals, and along the way there was the help, encouragement and roughly 180 contributions from throughout our community. We brought it to Sundance, and Nathan coaxed the lush and vast music out of the newly coined hitRECorchestra. (Good_Girl_Indie has written out a fabulously detailed timeline documenting what happened and when along this RECord's progression.)
Not only did we close our (two) official hitRECord screening(s) in the New Frontier Microcinema with this piece, but the next day, Sundance added it as a short film to play before the award-winning feature HOMEWRECKER on a much bigger screen.
I actually watched the thing again just now. And I can whole-heartedly say that, besides the progressive methodology with which it was made, and besides the warm reception it received at Sundance, just purely as a little piece of art, as a short film, as a RECord -- I'm as proud of Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny as I am of any work I've ever done.
Thank you, everyone, for making it all happen!
and thanks again...
<3
[PS] [updating soon with higher-res file, proper aspect ratio (!) and there's still more resources left to cite, etc, etc, etc...]
Personettes and Peoplethings – I present to you the SXSW 2010 version of ‘Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date – The Zeppelin Zoo’.
Our man Morgan and his lovebuddy Destiny, along with Mssr. Foodpenguin and that dastardly dip-stick Lionel premiered to two jam-packed houses in Austin. The screenings were met with the lovely love of excited SXSW humanians.
Thanks to everyone who collaborated on Morgan and all of our other RECords in Austin. Its a time I won’t soon forget! :o)
<3
J
It started as a couple conversations with the inimitable Sean Lennon, and look how far it's come! This is the version of Nebulullaby that screened at Sundance 2010. (Leaving UT today, we'll be updating with cited Resources and a new higher quality file with the proper aspect ratio soon )
Regular Joe’s “Escargots” was a video that I was really looking forward to re-RECording. For me, the language barrier in the poem Joe adapted was a welcomed obstacle in trying to draw a theme from the piece. The French language forced me to focus on the video’s elements of style and performance to reach a conclusion about its meaning.
And to be honest, I found myself perplexed by the video. But it was really interesting to watch and attempt to dissect.
When I approached re-RECording “Escargot” I knew I was going to eliminate the narration and create an interpretation of Joe’s character and his adventures in Paris. To me, the character seemed like an outsider struggling to uncover some kind of meaning to life. I re-titled my video with the French phrase “Raison d'être” (translation: “Reason For Being”) in order to give my re-RECording a starting point to be re-intrepreted.
It was as if he was getting all dressed up to go searching for something outside his boxed in room, only to find himself running around in circles in eternal frustration and impatience.
I drew from those emotions in my interpretation and felt I had found the perfect companion piece in the “Ain’t Nothin” beat by phonontek (one of the best beats I have ever heard.) It is a somewhat grating loop, and I found that to match the tone of the character’s frustration and tension.
Without simply putting movement to a beat, I constructed a narrative that is up for interpretation. Though under a minute, I did try and orchestrate a three act story. We begin with the character getting ready and heading out into the city and when we leave him he does seem to have a better understanding of something.
What that is I cannot say. That’s for the audience to decide, or re-RECord.
This is my response to the "re: LOVE" collaboration. And I don't think any other song besides tonguecutsparrow's "I Love... Sounds" could represent how I personally connect to the word "love."
What an absolutely wonderful song. It was an honor to work with this piece of music and, as I've said before, it's always just unreal to find so many pieces of art here that I wholly connect to.
I count this RECord as one of my most personal edits. And I hope this will connect with all of you.
<3
This is a REmix of Joe reading his "Find the Sun" challenge to the music of John Forté.
I used footage from two Public Domain videos as the B-Roll for this RECord.
For those who weren’t there. And those who were.
I didn't know what else to call this RECord, so I simply named it "SXSW / twenty ten." This is essentially my take on a recap video of the live shows hitRECord put on in Austin, Texas. I tried to encompass as much of how I felt about SXSW into this one.
This begins as a REmix of my first Interstitial Video, but then it goes into some of the moments I found most memorable and special out of the shows, as well as stuff that just so happened to cut well to the music I selected.
If I had to pick out a moment of this that I would want people to remember, I'd have to say it's the final moment of this video when Joe is watching RECords up on the big screen. The light happened to turn red and it was a great moment to have been captured of this site's creator enjoying the work he has helped us all create.
As an editor of other people's footage, I am always in debt to those that RECorded anything I've used. And in this particular case I really just want to highlight the work of milkriverfilm. His 18 minute "HitRECord @ South by Southwest" is something a lot of people seem to have missed. With only 166 views and 5 hearts as of now I feel it's something that got slept on and I encourage all of you to go check it out! It's marvelous!
Here's the link: http://hitrecord.org/records/65760
RegularJOE here. The old media tends to call me Joseph Gordon-Levitt, that being my name and all. Here in the new media, I hit that round red REC button on a regular basis.
HITRECORD.ORG is a project I started almost five years ago now, and in 2010, we've evolved into a full-fledged professional collaborative production company.
On new year's day, I released this video called THE NEW DEAL in which I've layed out what I want to do with hitRECord, how we're going to do it, and why. This version here was remixed by Tanja, one of our favorite hitRECorders here.
In a nutshell: we create and develop art and media collaboratively here on our site; we use my position in the traditional entertainment industry to turn that creativity into money-making productions; and then we share any profits with the contributing artists.
In a nutter shell, we just have fun making things together. Videos, writing, photography, music, anything -- we call them all RECords. Are you RECording?
A little experiment of mine ♥
I REmixed TwistedThursday's "As One" Tiny Story into this short video. I edited some of the text a bit to fit the visuals I shot, so you'll notice it's slightly different than the REsource. What really drew me to this Tiny Story was that it really worked as a literal story (ice into water.) But I really feel that, symbolically, it speaks volumes about what some people feel about life and death - that we are reunited with those we love after this life. For the past day the story really stayed with me and it continues to affect me. I'm not really sure what TwistedThursday's original intention was with the piece (maybe literal, maybe a bit more symbolic) but what makes all art so important is that it is up to the viewer how it is interpreted. I hope TwistedThursday likes how I perceived her beautiful piece of writing.
RECord of a day. Why did I reRECord these this way?
Compiling the Album of all these Resources is at least half of this process. Hit the red REC button and create an Album. Which RECords would/will you Resource in your next remix?
here is an idea ive been playing around with. Anatomy of a RECord, like a behind the scene on how we make some of our best records.
anyways here is my first pass at it for MMM.. i still want to add some more titles and i need to figure out some why to convey how the score came together visually.
feel free to add/ remix/ you know do what we do here to this.
oh and cause of its size... you most likely will need to download it to view it
as always i hope you guys enjoy
If only giorgio.carrillo's "Cold 22" could be the soundtrack to all of our dreams. With its airy sounds and dusty production, I found it to be a perfect companion piece to the footage I REmixed of LiSelect9's "Tufts Memory Bank."
I'd like to think of this as hitRECord's first unofficial sneaker commercial. I think it has that kind of vibe to it.
There's quite a bit of REmixing done to the original resources here. I played around with the sequential storyline to the dance video and edited to the music of thesherbethead (which I also had to REmix quite a bit - including shedding the brilliant "Alice" sample that just didn't fit into this.)
This was a lot of fun to do and I really like the last few moments quite a bit. There's just something really cool about the way the two dancers acknowledge one another. I played with the footage ever so slightly during that interaction, which is pure magic.
This is essentially a REmix of ANORIGINAL314's "Making of 'By Heart' Ring" and then a collaboration that links it to Lula's "a painty little thank you." I re-cut each RECord to the absolutely amazing "Le Jour Triste" by jonthewallflower (which is definitely a Top Five audio track on hitRECord for sure.)
I really wanted to show how linked we all are by what we create. I couldn't think of a better example than these two videos because each of them RECorded a separate piece to a story. I just wanted to link the two in order to demonstrate how it feels to see people come together from all over the world.
So this one is for Ashley and Lexy. Thank you for your resources. I hope you like this REmix.
I see you in everything everyday.
Deeasherself wrote this beautiful piece a while back & it's been an honour to make a visual accompaniment to such a moving story. This is the most recent edit of the movie, with refined audio from JeffPeff.
I've seen lots of portraits that inspired me to create this video. I just love photography. There are a lot of beautiful pictures out there those are just the ones I've seen recently :) Once again I used spaceship's music..
The only sonnet I know by heart. Sonnet 29.
Set to the somber sounds of gbwhale's "I Walk Alone," this RECord is my interpretation of a man (with hat) who goes to sleep and has the inability to fully realize his dreams due to circumstances of his past.
The visuals in his dreams are fragmented and unclear. The purest images he sees are those of cold ice, and his lonely feet walking through snow. The things that matter, or mattered, to him are fading into unrecognizable memories.
This is VERSION 2 of my REmix of Channing's "Reluctant Her" video. This one features more abstract visual layers than the first version and I tightened up the piece a bit. It's still a work in progress however...
I'm still looking for some extra clips for future versions. Color movement and bright light montages, as well as nature shots that fit the footage I've already used.
Let me know what you guys think of it so far. Thanks!
Perspective is one of our greatest attributes as human beings. It is far more important than we may even realize.
chriswonders' "Final Breaths of a Main Character" is the type of refreshing perspective on the world, and its possibilities both in reality and in imaginary form, that I love to discover here on the site.
It is a spectacularly shot video about a character who creates a fantasy world with a pencil, a piece of paper, and his imagination. And what unfolds is beyond fascinating. The visuals capture a sense of adventure, danger, and pure childhood fantasy.
I fused that together with the instrumental section of Afroskeleton's "Used To" and book-ended the piece with two spoken snippets of kellibean's "If."
I think Joe said it best when he said "The meaning comes after."
There's a lot going on in this RECord that I can't truly explain. When I edit, I'm really just piecing together what *feels* right. This felt right to me.
Feeling doesn't always transition into understanding. And that's the power of creation. And art itself.
Lukus' "Accents" put me in a particular state of mind and I went exploring through the site to find visuals that emoted the audio. GimikJo has an excellent compilation album from earlier today and that was a big help. Also searching by "tags" is always a great way to find pieces to the puzzle. And some RECords, like "A Boy's Dream," are sitting in the back of my mind (and saved on my computer) just waiting for the right project.
So, here's "Dream Ascension." I'd love to hear what everyone's interpretations are.
HitRECord's animated short about the Prop 8 trial, transparency, media, freedom and the future. Made collaboratively during the Sundance Film Festival.
Complete listing of resources coming as soon as I get home from Utah.
Here is a compilation I cut together of the footage from the first panel discussion between Sean, Charlotte, and Jared on March 16th.
I tried to integrate in as much B-Roll as possible rather than edit together the establishing shot footage, so hopefully this has enough movement to bring the proper visual pacing for everyone.
Instead of just showcasing the live rendition of "Nebulullaby" I really wanted to focus on the actual conversation because it was very engaging, humorous, and offered an interesting perspective on the RECording process for one of the site's biggest collaborative projects to date.
Quite a while ago I found a public domain video of children riding bikes with monkey masks on, and the images got stuck in my silly brain. So I wrote a bit of voice-over to suggest that these monkey children were chasing you, as in a dream. Maybe it will help inspire some interesting RECords for the collaboration.
This is the version of Dance Dance Repetition that screened at Sundance 2010.
A bit on the political side? Sure. A comment on Nixon and Vietnam? Absolutely.
I'm not a political person at all. I just want peace and freedom.
I used some very valuable public domain footage for this and put the links below.
"War Made Easy"
http://www.archive.org/details/WarMadeEasy
"Earth Zero Hour"
http://www.archive.org/details/MariosLefteriotis-EARTHZEROHOUR884
A video mashup of some wonderful little moments. I love editing stuff like this together and creating a psudo story out of it.
thanks to everyone who shoots random beautiful things.
i'll try and track everyone down whose resource i used, please let me know if i forgot anyone!
sending out joy,
e.
