Movies x paintings
Every new idea is a mashup or a remix of previous ideas. I take this thought and started a creative experiment where I add movie scenes and paintings of artists to bring out new magical realism kinda vibe images.
When Austin Kleon said this:
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.
I had an idea to put movie scenes or frames and add some of the artists' paintings as the background and look at how it turns out.
Today's post is all about this creative experiment.
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So, first I had this idea when I was re-watching the Rockstar and I saw this frame.
I thought hey, let's try to add the famous Vincent Van Gogh's painting - 'A starry night' as the background for this as this still was kinda dreamy. Â
At the time, I got the license for Canva pro to create Instagram posts for my blog posts and  I used Canva to make this happen. When I saw the result. I was excited.
It was something I created, I thought of, and I have made a simple addition of two different things to make something even more meaningful and beautiful.
Anyhow, here is the end result –
So, now and then, when I am free and don't have anything better to do, I open up the Canva website and mix and match some movie stills with paintings.
After that, I added a few other rockstar movie stills in front of a painting to bring the magical realism stuff to life.
Here are the images:
After these, I experimented with a few others as well. Some were good and some were not so good, but the importance of setting a background matching the emotions portrayed by characters is the hardest part of filmmaking I believe.
This experiment allowed me to explore that region a little more. Because the constraint of needing to have the background match the emotions portrayed is not entirely necessary. The only requirement I thought of having was to give out one good-looking picture.
At this point, I have done a few more experiments. I made such mix-pictures of the Telugu film called Jersey.
More recently, I have tried editing more challenging poses to edit. For example, this shot from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was hard because restoring the walls, and pipes to which they leaned and the actors themselves was a bit difficult.
Anyway, I completed it, and here is the result –
This creative experiment was a refreshing one and needed a little bit of my time. I think I will continue to make some more. I will keep sharing them in my newsletter as well for you to see and also on Instagram.
I want to see how much time it takes for me to get better at editing such scenarios.
You don't need a creative idea to make something. Take things you love and try to make something out of them by bringing them together. You need to give proper credit for things you took inspiration from and make something that adds on top of it instead of copying it.
I'm not saying you can't copy. You can copy to learn. But you are copying and showing it as your work is not good.
That is all about this creative experiment. If you are trying to make such images please do share them with me on Instagram here, so I can check them out.
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