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This is my way to narrate Tim Burton's "Staring Girl". It is one of his short stories from the book “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories” (1997).

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Italian text:

"La Bambina che Fissava"

Una volta conobbi una bambina
che se ne stava impalata
a fissare tutto e tutti
e nient'altro la impressionava.

Fissava la terra.

Fissava il cielo.

Ti fissava per ore
e non sapevi perchè.

Ma dopo aver vinto
una gara locale per gente
che fissava tal quale

offrì ai suoi occhi
vacanze e balocchi.

(translation by Nico Orengo)

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Original music by sogni birchofiani


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  • Zac C 1 year ago
    I love this!
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  • Underovsky 1 year ago
    suprising ending :P
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  • Kendy plus 1 year ago
    Wow ! This is just incredible !!!
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  • Bob Corbett 1 year ago
    I love it !! It is so cooll and a bit ghoulish!!
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  • Alex Nakone Films plus 1 year ago
    Good motion tacking! occasionally lost the track. Love the concept .
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  • Mark Rigler plus 1 year ago
    cool
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  • Janet Bloem 1 year ago
    loved it!
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  • Glenn (aka Avene) 1 year ago
    Well done!!
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  • sogni birchofiani 1 year ago
    Now I replaced the old video with this one that has some corrections.
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  • 33hirtz plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic work, especially considering you did everything yourself!
    Bravo, sogni!
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  • nachoad 1 year ago
    Wow! Great work!
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  • 3d2dizayn 1 year ago
    nice work :) I especially like the music!!!!!!!
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  • Marcos Silva 1 year ago
    This is great Bro.! I love TIM BURTON work. and this is a good adaptation. the sound is good too, maybe a little equalization, sometimes they kind get alittle loud. And the animation, trie to use the animation curves for better control.

    cheers
  • sogni birchofiani 1 year ago
    Thank you for the advices. I need them to improve myself. I'll be more careful the next time!
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  • dario congedo 1 year ago
    Bravissimo, il video è bellissimo è mi piace come hai riarrangiato il brano. Grande!
  • sogni birchofiani 1 year ago
    Grazie Dario. Vedo che ti occupi di musica... che ne pensi di quella in sottofondo nel video? Io non ci capisco niente (infatti uso Magix Music Maker).. so solo unire pezzetti di suoni e vedere se mi piacciono o meno. Per il resto sto a zero con la teoria..!
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  • dario congedo 1 year ago
    Bravo due volte allora!
  • sogni birchofiani 1 year ago
    Grazie due volte allora! ;D
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  • Greg Ash 1 year ago
    Very cool!
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  • bob lorrimer plus 1 year ago
    Visually and aurally diverting.....

    However, For me I am not sure that the 'handheld' principal shot was necessary.....I felt that it did not serve the 'narrative'.
  • sogni birchofiani 1 year ago
    Yes, maybe. The fact is that I wanted to test After Effect's 'tracking' tool adding a story (not just a common no-sense test). In fact, when I tested my new Canon, lens and mic, I created a short and simple simple simple story:

    vimeo.com/10634636
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  • Brice Clocher 1 year ago
    Seriously outstanding music and visuals. Loved it!
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  • Frank Mahoney 1 year ago
    Very cute video. Enjoyed reading the comments too.
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  • Tinefis plus 1 year ago
    I really like this! =o)
    Is it stop motion?
  • sogni birchofiani 1 year ago
    Thank you Tinefis. No stop motion..
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  • Mihnea Chelariu 1 year ago
    BRAVO! I love this!
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  • Danny Cooke plus 1 year ago
    Awesome!
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  • Marco Asbach plus 1 year ago
    Wow, seems to be a lot of work. Great done.
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  • Sasha Fornari plus 1 year ago
    really amazing! love all the choices you made and the way the animation takes place inside and out of the frame sometimes. brilliant!!!!!!!!
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  • IVYBetty.com 1 year ago
    lovely!
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  • Kostas Petsas 1 year ago
    Concetto molto originale. Bella realizzazione del tutto. Anche la musica e molto convincente. Forse se la camera fosse stata fissa avrebbe dato un tocco di perfezione, visto che c'e gia tutto il movimento necessario nel quadro.
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  • Brian Boudreau 1 year ago
    great work
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  • Tyler Sparks 1 year ago
    1997! wow.
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  • Garry B plus 1 year ago
    Beautiful work! So well done.
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  • Trevor Hardy 11 months ago
    That's great!!!!! I love it. Tim Burtons stuff is so simple yet so engaging. He has such a finger print on all his work, you instantly know it's Burton, from the type of story to the feel and design of it. Sogni, you did a great job with that. Nice one. And thanks for your comments about my work too!

    Cheers

    Trev.
  • sogni birchofiani 11 months ago
    Hi Trevor. Thanks for your comment.
    (I'm waiting for your new videos!)
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  • Sofie Hansson 9 months ago
    amazing!
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  • Hassan Saddiq 6 months ago
    Pretty cool story, nice work man. One critique I have is with the hand held movement. It was too much and took away from the story because the audience was basically floating side to side the whole time. It was a bit disorienting. Other than that, very good job!

    Ps. Is that the harry potter theme? I love HP
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  • sogni birchofiani 6 months ago
    Thanks for your comment. You're right Hassan: there's too much movement. My first idea was to make just a test of After Effect's Tracking tool, but then I create this.
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