Description
Daan Bunnik

Project 1:
My first project is a short film called ‘Will you play with
me’. The film consists of three different shots. The film is shot on a digital camera in full HD. All three
shots are made by me walking with the camera around a
football cage. In the first two shots the football cage is
empty, all we see is a football lying still in the middle.
The difference between the shots is that one was shot when
it snowed, thus the shot has a cold blue character and the
other one is shot without snow, which has a warm character
because the floor of the cage is red gravel. The third shot
is of kids playing in the football cage, who kick the ball
around. Because it is shot with an extreme low shutter
speed and this is the only shot when the sun shined it has
a dreamy atmosphere. The film opens with the first shot,
which is alternated with the second. First they both run
ten seconds then they gradually become shorter which lifts
up the pace of the film, this is supported by electronic
music that builds up to a climax. When the shots are
alternated so fast we end up by only seeing one frame of
the second shot alternated with a black frame. When the
music reaches its peak the third shot begins. The film ends
with a fade out to black.

Project 2:
My second project is a short film called ‘All Around Us’.
The film consists of six shots that are edited after each
other, this means that when a shot ends and is cut to the
next one, we will not see it again. The six shots capture
different spaces with none, one or a few people in it. All
the shots somehow deal with transport. Two shots are made
hand held from inside a driving car of lampposts by night
and trees by day. The other four shots are made from a
tripod inside or on a train station. The audio consists of
train and train station noises. Every shot is shown 30
seconds or longer and the camera remains on the same point.
It captures the atmosphere of the space shot. The movement
of the content in the shots is important. When the camera is in the car, the angle stays the same but the background changes. When the camera is on a tripod, the angle remains the same, the background stays the same, but there can be movement of a train approaching or the movement of people. 


Project 3:
My third project is a short narrative film called ‘The
Crocodile and the Owl’. I call this film a narrative film,
because it is based on a scenario I wrote and it is with
actors instead of non-fictionalised persons. The film opens
with a surrealist dream scene of the main character, Koen. Koen lives according to a strict scheme and lives by hi own rules, he hardly goes outside and has no contact with the outside world.
The title appears and we see Koen doing twenty-five push
ups in his bathroom. Afterwards he takes a shower in his
tub when the messenger of the story, Mous, appears in his
tub. Mous is adventurous, enterprising and has to persuade Koen to take him on an episodic adventure. Mous tells about his childhood and how his mother told him to act as a crocodile and convinces Koen to join him to another world. Mous pushes Koen under water in the tub and they wake up in a new world, which is an empty beach. Mous quickly leaves Koen behind so that Koen can find his answers. Koen walks around on the beach and bumps into Lowie. Lowie is there to guide Koen, to portray him how his life will evolve if he remains to life like this or to present him the option to jump off the proverbial cliff. Lowie tells him about owls and their behaviour, that they are somehow lethargic. Lowie walks from the shore into the sea, to point out to Koen that it is not a normal sea but actually it is a swamp (where crocodiles Mous referred to, live). Koen follows Lowie advice and jumps into the swamp to awake in his bathtub again, now on the side where Mous sat.