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Wednesday November 19th 2008, 4:01 pm

UPDATE: Because of the incredible attention this piece is getting online thanks to Digg and being featured on Boing Boing, we asked one of the designers, Lisa Temes, to tell us more about the team’s process in approaching this piece.

Lisa says: “Our goal for this project as motion designers was to complement an informative and powerful script by using subtle yet engaging imagery. Although we took inspiration from sources such as the recent animated film Persepolis, we created all of our assets by photographing live subjects and tracing them in illustrator, so we were able to achieve the exact look we were aiming for.” Thanks, Lisa — and stay tuned, VFS Blog readers… you haven’t heard the last of this team!

Digital Design students have done it again: a team-made motion design infographic about blogging culture in Iran has just been written up on Motionographer! Iran: A Nation of Bloggers explores how the digital world allows many Iranians access to ideas and freedom of expression they haven’t had for close to thirty years.

Congratulations to the talented designers who created the piece: Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes, as well as to writer Kate Tremills. Check out this incredible piece below!

 
 
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[...] Digital Design department at the Vancouver Film School. They accepted… and four incredibly talented students turned my Iranian Blogs script into a visual [...]

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11.19.08 @ 11:39 pm

Kudos to all of you! I’m so proud of the work you did on this piece. It’s absolutely incredible. I had to write a blog entry about it: http://www.scriptgrrl.com/blog!

Comment by kate
11.19.08 @ 11:57 pm

[...] (Vancouver Film School (via)) [...]

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11.20.08 @ 12:12 pm

[...] cortometraggio infografico realizzato da quattro studenti della Vancouver Film School e basato su uno script di Kate Tremills. L’Iran è la terza [...]

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11.20.08 @ 1:44 pm

Awsome…its the only word I found to praise this piece of work. In this dynamic and susceptible world the only way people can echo their voice is Digital media. hats off to you guys….Hope if youcan share this creativity with others it will bringout more such issues and the impact would be tremondous.

Comment by asit jain
11.21.08 @ 4:19 am

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11.23.08 @ 4:03 am

As a persian girl I’m absolutely amazed by the deep understanding of the writer and artists who created this piece and I guess are not Iranians. For most of the people in the world the life behind the walls of Iranian borders is a true mystery, it’s complicated and so hard to conceptualize the life of my nation. I enjoyed watching this video… Thanks!

Comment by Darya
11.24.08 @ 10:54 am

Good job…. continue do your best for Universal freedom through your talented design and animation..

Comment by PT CKK
11.24.08 @ 10:32 pm

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11.25.08 @ 11:26 pm

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11.26.08 @ 3:01 am

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11.26.08 @ 5:21 am

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11.26.08 @ 7:41 am

It would very nice if you could provide a persian mobile/bluetooth version so that it can be spreed in Iran!

Comment by Ali
11.26.08 @ 10:31 am

[...] Este es un vídeo realizado por Aaron Chiesa, Hendy Sukarya, Lisa Temes y Toru Kageyama de la Vancouver Film School en donde se explica, en inglés, toda esta problemática. Me quedo con una frase del vídeo que lo [...]

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11.26.08 @ 11:58 am

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11.26.08 @ 7:00 pm

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11.26.08 @ 8:55 pm

So siick!
Nice.
-S

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Comment by Shawn
11.26.08 @ 9:37 pm

Wow you do bring up some really good points.

Comment by JImmy Jones
11.26.08 @ 9:44 pm

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11.27.08 @ 9:30 am

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11.27.08 @ 9:59 am

very well done

Comment by female model
11.27.08 @ 11:42 am

Great work! Let freedom reign!!!

Comment by jefCostello
11.27.08 @ 2:16 pm

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL :) That was amazingly uplifting … show me more

Comment by steve
11.28.08 @ 12:09 am

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11.28.08 @ 8:20 am

Could be possible to download this video en hight quality?

Comment by Matt
11.28.08 @ 6:33 pm

Higher Quality: http://vimeo.com/2232226

Comment by Ayrakus
11.29.08 @ 1:08 am

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11.30.08 @ 3:44 pm

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12.03.08 @ 6:54 am

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12.03.08 @ 12:09 pm

Fantastic work!!

Is there a chance to get the video under Creative Commons Licence, so it can be translated on http://dotsub.com/ ??

Comment by Markus
12.04.08 @ 9:17 am

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12.04.08 @ 7:30 pm

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12.07.08 @ 4:56 pm

すごい! !

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12.08.08 @ 1:41 pm

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12.14.08 @ 5:16 am

Nice!

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Comment by bfunk
12.14.08 @ 2:00 pm

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12.17.08 @ 5:15 pm

I’m in China and I just saw this on the Aljazeera news channel. Well done!

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12.18.08 @ 7:53 am

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02.10.09 @ 5:56 am

You should give production credit. Hard to read the tiny ugly font.

Comment by Jura
02.11.09 @ 3:06 pm

Hey mates great job, I wonder if any Iranian (not second genration) particpated in the project? all information seems correct , except one, Iran’s revolution in 1979 was not Islamic at all, many people didnt know what is Islam and how would be a Islamic regime, and the leftists had the great role on it, the Islamic regime showed his face only a few month after establishing IRI, when they began to kill leftists and other oposition groups, supress women and make Hijab obligatory and…
so as somebody who remeber the revolution I am sure nobody used Islamic term for it regardless Khomini became the leader of it in last months and turn it to IRI.

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02.11.09 @ 3:14 pm

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02.14.09 @ 7:09 am

Awesome Team. This is Soheil, Studying in Digital Media Arts @ Seneca in Toronto, I had plan to come to VFS, I ended up here, let me know fore future projects, Cause I’m Iranian ;)

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02.26.09 @ 12:17 am

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04.26.09 @ 1:09 am

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[...]  Dans son article ce matin sur son blog  Jérôme Hourdeaux écrit : ” Dans un pays dirigé par les islamistes, et où la moitié des 70 millions d’habitants a moins de 25 ans, internet représente l’un des seuls lieux où l’on peut s’exprimer librement. L’Iran est ainsi devenu le troisième pays en terme de nombre de blogs. C’est également l’un des pays où les internautes sont le plus durement réprimés. A partir de ce constat, 4 étudiants de la Vancouver Film School avait réalisé cette animation en hommage aux blogueurs iraniens “. Ce film a été réalisé à partir d’un script de Kate Tremills :  http://www.vfs.com/blog/2008/11/19/iran-blogging-motionographer [...]

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06.22.09 @ 4:17 pm

What is the name of the song used in the end credits?

Comment by Bogdan
07.06.09 @ 6:45 am

@Bogdan: The music is from 5alarmmusic.com. Not sure of the exact piece.

Cheers,

Jeff
VFS Blog Team

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07.06.09 @ 7:55 am

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07.25.09 @ 5:10 pm

kiss of the Dragon

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08.19.09 @ 5:58 pm

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