My second film.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
I edited the film by physically cutting each scene out, hanging it on a clothesline, and taping it back together<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
The final animation was created to use up the end of a roll of film. The music is by Raymond Scott.<\/p>\n
~40mb … so let it stream for a bit before you start.<\/p>\n
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My second film. 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 …<\/p>\n