NEW!!: THE TREE is digitally re-edited and remastered!!!

What's New in this version?

*** The whole film is reconstructed from the original source tapes.
*** Previously unused footage is also edited but the film is 2 minutes shorter
*** the dream sequence is completely re-edited
*** the soundtrack and sound mix is now stereo and new
*** dialog sound quality is improved
*** emre aypar composed two new songs and remastered end title song for the film.

This new version is now available for download

DOWNLOAD THE NEW, DIGITALLY REMASTERED, REEDITED VERSION
8min - 320*240 pixels DivX Compressed AVI file 25 fps size: 17mB.
(right click and choose save target as...)

DOWNLOAD (old version) -
9.35 min. WMV file 192*100 pixels MPEG-4 compressed 4.6 MB

Why Did We Do it?

it is just an experiment for the preservation of short films in Turkey
and the proof of quality degradation of analog editing systems versus digital.
Plus by the time of the original editing betacam decks had only 2 ch of audio.
Now we have 8 channels...

Following is the explanation of the digital remastering:

the image from the original edited betacam master
(hi8 footage was transferred to betacam in 1994
and edited on linear betacam system using s-video connections.
above is the result of the second generation image)

the image after the digital remastering process
(the original hi8 tapes are digitized to Avid by firewire
from a D8 camera - thanks to Alp Korfali -
and re-edited. there is virtually no quality loss)

Agaç  - The Tree 8 min. short narrative video actors: pinar çaglayan & ugur aydedim produced by onur eroglu & ilker canikligil asst. director kaan sensoy music & sound emre aypar written, photographed, edited and directed by ilker canikligil
funded by the Turkish Ministery of Culture and Marmara University Dept. of Film TV june 1994 eskisehir TURKEY