Hello everyone,
This semester I'm taking a course in documentary film making. For the term project, we're making 5 or 10 minute documentaries on a subject of our choice. Well, I'm thinking of doing my documentary on pixel art. What I want for this is some interviews or stories; people speaking on the subject, basically. Audio seems like it would be easiest to use, basically I'd just edit it and arrange various still images to it. Its sort of cheap, but in this context I think it would be effective. I have another idea on how to use images, but I’ll talk about that later.
What I'm asking for in this thread is if anyone would be interested in speaking about pixel art with me either via a Skype interview or by recording themselves privately and responding to some pre-written questions or just gabbing on thematic lines. Ideally I'll get a variety of voices like artists, professionals or hobbyists.
Some of the questions I’m looking to answer are things like “what is pixel art?”, “why pixel?”, “what got you interested in pixel art?” and so on, in addition to more specific questions depending on who I’m interviewing. The tone of the documentary will be basically expository, it will be to a lay-audience so I’ll have to explain some of the esotera, but I’d also like to touch on the motivations of artists as well.
So right now I just want to ask around, put the idea out and see if anyone is interested. If you are interested in being interviewed or talking to yourself and recording it please respond to this thread, or via pm, and then I’ll have to decide on my own if I have enough takers to go through with the project (I do have a fall-back plan). I want to make this really worthwhile!
The other, somewhat ambitious, idea I had for the visuals is to ask participants to do a pixel self portrait as a 4:3 image with frames for the basic phoneme mouth shapes and then I would lip-synch it to the recording. I think that would look pretty cool, and also add some character. That might be too much work considering the 4 weeks I have to do this, however.
Anyway let me know if you have any questions, input, or whatever. I would love to get community feedback on this project.