Saturday, January 28, 2023

Who Are You?

 

Wow. What an epic journey it has been me to revisit this classic and experiment on the idea of a rotoscope motion graphic novel and this film is perfect in every way for that kind of exploration. Now please note, as happy as I am that this long widescreen version came out as good as it did, I am not stating this is perfect. The source material is perfect. Sergio Leone and the Maestro Ennio Morricone collaboration with all the actors and crew, the filmmakers are perfect. I am just a guy reliving his love of cinema through one of the best westerns ever made. I claim no ownership or credit here. In fact I am grateful to be able to do this. So thank you.


For this widescreen version, which was done completely on a second generation iPhone SE with iMovie and a free app called audio extractor you can find in the App Store, I cut down the sequence from nearly 8 minutes to 3 minutes and 55 seconds and cut down the action to bring the tempo up while still keeping in step with the soundtrack. I remixed the audio where necessary to match the score and applied both color and black and white comic filters to give it it’s graphic novel like look. That’s more or less it. This should be looked at as an experiment or just something made for fun and educational reasons. I like how this came out as compared to my take on Stanley Kubrick’s adaption of The Shining by Stephen King. On an iMac with something like Premiere Pro I imagine what could be created from scratch and maybe I will get to do that some day. In the mean time I have the less than sixty second short version done and I have an interview clip with Henry Fonda talking about the film in retrospect too. They are all below and the Longer Widescreen and Short Versions are cross linked in the respective discriptions on the @GenreOnline Channel on YouTube So stay tuned and thank you all for your support and patience. Namaste.


Click on the photo icon below for the Longer Widescreen Version on YouTube.


For this short version I managed to cut the scene down to less than sixty minutes by being ruthless in shaving off whatever was not absolutely necessary, remixing the soundtrack to account for all the cuts to make it flow better. Then I applied the filters and I was done.


Who Are You? (Short Version)


Henry Fonda On Once Upon A Time In The West.