The Night Walker (HD)

It's been quite a while since I made a new short film, so here's a very different and unique one.

For my Photography class final my teacher suggested that I make short film using techniques I learned about in the class. I had a mere 5 days to make it happen, but I started thinking about what kind of short film I could quickly throw together that would reflect the feel of Photography and still be able to stand on its own. I got the idea to do a completely silent music-driven piece. My online colleague Maigus recently completed a film noir film, which inspired me to loosely base my film on that feel.

While my camera is not capable of manually adjusting things like aperture and shutter speed (that I know of), I decided to play with lighting, dramatic shadows, atmosphere, angles, lines, value a little bit of texture and mood in order to make this a photography short film without just being a photo montage. I met with Jonathan and told him what I was going for, initially suggesting a man walking much like the voice over narrations in film noir movies. We drove out to several places, ironically all within a block of each other and I just filmed Jonathan walking in the cold as it was beginning to snow/sleet/drizzle.

The story was kind of formulated as we went, and Jonathan provided many music choices, two of which I used in the final edit. The story is intentionally somewhat ambiguous, because, like in photography critiques, I find it interesting to see what other people interpret the story to be. So if you'd like, in your comments tell me some things. What do you think the story is? What mood(s) do you get from this? Why does the man walk?

Kind of my first experiment with a quick movie driven story, so enjoy.

Starring Jonathan Consiglio
Written, Produced, Directed and Edited by Matt Gilbert

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• the
• night
• walker
• music
• cold
• street
• lamp
• light
• short
• independent
• film
• jazz
• miles
• davis
• kind
• blue
• hat
• good
• juila
• mario
• comboy
• bebop
• farewell
• blues
• seatbelts
• jonathan
• consiglio
• matt
• gilbert
• friends
• university
• movie
• photography
• line
• shadow
• lighting
• mood
• texture
• snow
• sleet
• drizzle
• rain
• cars
• wichita
• apartment
• experiment

[armstronglaviola]

Yes man! It reminded me of "Hard Eight", and "Leaving Las Vegas".

[Catherine4love]

Love it! well done ;)