New Short Film

[staceyrebecca]

So some friends of mine & I made a short film for a 24-hour film competition. So we did this thing in 24 hours.

Sadly I was only involved in the first half. I was on my death-bed (ok not really, I was just pretty darn sick & had to go home before we finished). I'm actually kindof down on myself for not sticking it out & finishing the film.

I play the rock in the first half of the film & was a writer.

Anyway, we won best use of prop (that day's newspaper) & 2nd place overall and the film will go on to the Phoenix Film Festival in April.

Here's a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joFQH2NFdSQ&feature=channel_page

It was really interesting to do some found object puppetry. Totally inspired by Kurt Hunter's marionette show featuring a box as the main character. He got so much emotion and had such a sweet story that went along with it. Granted, we didn't necessarily have a sweet story that went along with it, but just getting emotion (or attempting to) out of something without a face, feet, arms, etc. was a neat challenge!

I was heck-bent (aah? see that? censor dodger!) on making a stop-motion animation film in 24 hours. I'm glad I had friends that could pull it off, too.

 

[chrisfason]

cool.

 

[Jinx]

That was extraordinary! Great concept, and amazingly done in 24 hours! I would never attempt stop motion for a 24 hour film!

I love the "found objects" style. One of my current favorite examples is the current campaign that Swiffer is doing the the "Baby Come Back" theme and the mops & dusters peeking out from behind things. Hilarious!

I hope you win in April!

 

[Beauregard]

Oh that's fantastic. I love the Rock, Paper, Scissors concept! The rock had a really cool character, somehow, and I was kinda hurt when the mean old paper took him out...

 

[staceyrebecca]

Thank you, guys!

Paper got it in the end though..so...that's all good, right?

I'm seriously all over stop-motion. I'm hoping to do more soon.

 

[Jinx]

It does make me want to explore stop-motion as a medium again. A million years ago in high school I animated a sequence for our epic film Attack of the Snow Shark. It was a rubber shark "swimming" through the snow immediately before an attack. It took forever, and I got frost-bitten fingers, but it looked soooo good!

Of course it was so long ago it was done on film! I don't even know that I would know how to approach it for video...

 

[staceyrebecca]

If you were in Phoenix I'd say come to the puppetry guild tomorrow. We're going to go over how to do an easy stop-motion. There's some pretty good, inexpensive software available that can show you your last frame shadowed over your current frame, but then there's the good & dirty, old fashioned (haha) importing consecutive digital photos & adding them super-fast slide-show style to a movie editing software.

 

[RockerRob]

I loved the short. I have been wanting to do a bit of stop motion. What is the program called that you used to see your last and current frame simultaneously? I've actually been wanting something like that for a while.

 

[staceyrebecca]

its called istop motion and its free for macs.

there's a good one, I hear for PC (which is what I have) called monkeyjam. There's an animation instructor in our puppetry guild (i had -no- idea) that's had quite a bit of experience with stop motion (i want to steal his armatures) that recommended that program.

those both have free trials.