Urban Legends
Day One:
So I’ve been terrible lately, yes I know I’ve been super busy with a new job and school But I’m finally doing another animation so here I am, faithfully yours. So the project I was given at school is to make a film at least one minute long in response to a piece of literature you pick out of a given selection. There were a lot of interesting things to choose from, and I ended up choosing an excerpt from a book on Urban Legends, specifically the one about the back seat killer. You know the one, where a girl gets in her car and starts driving and notices a suspicious car following her, she drives home and honks her horn until her husband runs out side and beats the guy up, only to have him say he was trying to warn the girl he saw a guy hiding in the backseat of her car. Scary right?
Instead of going to obvious route of doing a satire of the situation, and I aiming for dramatic tinted with dark humor. I’m not sure if it’s going to carry well since my budget is absolutely zero.
Anyway I designed my character from a collage I did which consisted of found images. I then made drawings of my collage and modeled it out of plastescine and wire. Of course through the creative process certain things about my character changed, like the head for instance.
Unfortunately I am not the best sculptor and I’m not talented enough to make a gas mask, which is an inch tall, so I improvised. I’m not sure what it is, but I think it’s slightly creepy.
Today I started filming the opening sequence. I took just over a hundred pictures and hope I can triple that number tomorrow, and finish up shooting on Saturday with another 5-700. I’m really looking forward to editing this. I think directing and editing my own material, next to painting is one of my favorite things to do. I find it extremely tedious movie my pound shop Barbie bit by bit, having to wrap tape around her legs and tape her to the floor so wouldn’t flop over every time I went to hit the shutter button. I also don’t have a tripod so I’ve ghetto rigged a stand out of my toolbox by taping a pencil under the lens to keep the camera from rocking. I just move the whole toolbox around to adjust shots. I’m aiming to do the film in black and white with some reds and yellows. Oh did I mention I have less than a week to finish this? Ha. Well I do. Here are some pictures of what I have so far.I will update tomorrow with some action shots of me shooting etc. Hope you're looking forward to the finished product as much as I am enjoying making it! Oh one lil tid bit of exciting news in my world. I just got offered an internship at Nickelodeon here in London :)
So I’ve been terrible lately, yes I know I’ve been super busy with a new job and school But I’m finally doing another animation so here I am, faithfully yours. So the project I was given at school is to make a film at least one minute long in response to a piece of literature you pick out of a given selection. There were a lot of interesting things to choose from, and I ended up choosing an excerpt from a book on Urban Legends, specifically the one about the back seat killer. You know the one, where a girl gets in her car and starts driving and notices a suspicious car following her, she drives home and honks her horn until her husband runs out side and beats the guy up, only to have him say he was trying to warn the girl he saw a guy hiding in the backseat of her car. Scary right?
Instead of going to obvious route of doing a satire of the situation, and I aiming for dramatic tinted with dark humor. I’m not sure if it’s going to carry well since my budget is absolutely zero.
Anyway I designed my character from a collage I did which consisted of found images. I then made drawings of my collage and modeled it out of plastescine and wire. Of course through the creative process certain things about my character changed, like the head for instance.
Unfortunately I am not the best sculptor and I’m not talented enough to make a gas mask, which is an inch tall, so I improvised. I’m not sure what it is, but I think it’s slightly creepy.
Today I started filming the opening sequence. I took just over a hundred pictures and hope I can triple that number tomorrow, and finish up shooting on Saturday with another 5-700. I’m really looking forward to editing this. I think directing and editing my own material, next to painting is one of my favorite things to do. I find it extremely tedious movie my pound shop Barbie bit by bit, having to wrap tape around her legs and tape her to the floor so wouldn’t flop over every time I went to hit the shutter button. I also don’t have a tripod so I’ve ghetto rigged a stand out of my toolbox by taping a pencil under the lens to keep the camera from rocking. I just move the whole toolbox around to adjust shots. I’m aiming to do the film in black and white with some reds and yellows. Oh did I mention I have less than a week to finish this? Ha. Well I do. Here are some pictures of what I have so far.I will update tomorrow with some action shots of me shooting etc. Hope you're looking forward to the finished product as much as I am enjoying making it! Oh one lil tid bit of exciting news in my world. I just got offered an internship at Nickelodeon here in London :)