This blog is made by myself, Vincent Moon, as a tool for mainly two objectives: defining new limits of that still young art form that we mostly know as 'cinema', and sharing ideas through links that crossed my life at some point and that I find interesting and inspiring. 'Passeur' is a good french word to define it. This blog, or my work itself, is not only dedicated to music, even if my passion for sound is pretty big. It will mostly deal with the confrontations and dialogues between new technologies and social interactions.

Overall, I hope this blog, whose content is under Creative Commons, will give you ideas and even inspire you to change things by creating at your own level. An important notion to keep in mind is the impact of our works on new viewers we communicate with - what do we want people not only to feel from it, but to create from it? Well, this maybe quite ambitious. I will post once a week, hopefully, and each time with a new film i made - working along the idea of one long shot each time.

Thanks to Aisha, who helped me so much on creating this blog, Chryde, without whom, well, not of much of this would be happening, and mister Lessig, who is a constant inspiration and whose writings helped me to start this little window. And many others who are my constant partners on all the travels and films.

Last thing, a lot of people often ask me what do I shoot with, I wanted to keep it secret for a while but then realized it was pretty dumb to do so, so here's the recipe.

I film mostly those days with the Panasonic 171, on which I use a shotgun mic I record sounds separately using a 4-track recorder (I got an Edirol R4, but would strongly advize the Sound Device 744T), on which I plug from 1 to 4 standard Sennheiser wireless transmitters, using different laveliers, Sanken or Tram. I also use one or two ambient mics if possible on the 4-track , an omni directionnal and an ultra directionnal being a perfect deal. I often add to all this another isolated small recorder, the Zoom H2 being really cheap and good stuff. I then work on final cut pro all of my edits, and even do the color corrections in it - i still dont get it with Color. I would advice Compressor or Episode to compress the videos then, and of course the wonderful Vimeo website to host them on the web.

Yalla.

v moon, march 2009