This is probably one of my favorite games of all time. The story goes like this:
There is a guy dropping bombs on you. You catch them in your buckets or you die.
“Kaboom!”
This is one of the more catchy songs I’m working on. Simple structure and melody.
The guitar sound still eludes me. I tried a 57 close mic and the 414 as a way distant room mic. After solving some phase issues, the sound ended up ok for the clean tone, but the darn distortion haunts my ears. Tried my Dan Electro Daddy’o and it was better than the amp gain …. but ehhh. ?
So the problem is that I’m just not turning it up loud enough. I don’t want to bother my neighbor. Or scare off her pet squirrels
Shot on the same Yashica super8 camera as “The Long Winter”. The color effects were achieved by mounting a split color polarizer in front of the lens. I love the old Technicolor feel that it created in the footage.
The stop motion sequence was filmed in my mom’s basement. I was the cloaked figure, so my sister Auria was the camera operator for the shot. I must have done a terrible job of explaining how the shot was suppose to work so we had to shoot the dissolve sequence twice due to some communication breakdown. I was mad because I knew I was going to have to edit the film.
It was all shot in sequence based on images and ideas we came up with as we went. I constructed the robotic arm out of some Robotix of mine from when I was a kid. Auria ran the arm from off camera.
Jenny had to be wrapped from head to toe in tin foil and I think she ended up wanting to kill someone by the end of the day.
This pond was just down the hill from the chicken-coop that Adam and Auria were living in and Jenny and I eventually moved into. It was also very close to the barn from “The Long Winter”.
I edited the film by physically cutting each scene out, hanging it on a clothesline, and taping it back together
I tried various songs with the movie until one day I realized that it was the same length as the song “The Mule” off of the Eureka Farm album “The View”.
The final animation was created to use up the end of a roll of film. The music is by Raymond Scott.
~40mb … so let it stream for a bit before you start.
