30 Days of shooting v.2 (the linear edit)
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8. 30 Days of shooting v.2 (the linear edit)
1 year ago
During the shooting of my thesis, a 10 minute stop-motion animated piece titled, "sweet dreams," I took a quick isight video each day that I filmed a scene to document what I had shot, the happenings of the day, or just my mood.
I took 30 videos over the course of 78 days of production.
All strung together, the videos amount to a total of 40 minutes. Here I've ordered them chronologically, and edited each one down to make a 12 minute compilation.
I took 30 videos over the course of 78 days of production.
All strung together, the videos amount to a total of 40 minutes. Here I've ordered them chronologically, and edited each one down to make a 12 minute compilation.
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Thanks so much for your response! I wasn't sure if anyone would even be interested in watching this video, but I'm glad you found it insightful! :)
To answer your question, yes I did all the music with the help of my 2 sisters. We all got to contribute our individual instrumental specialties to the soundtrack!
But.
This 'making of' video is too long, you could cut it down by at least 30%, there are times when engagement drops a little.
The other thing is this: I love it when it's about you, and the animation is only the event part of the narrative. The real story is you, the film maker and her trials and tribulations over 30 days.
I don't know.. maybe you just were so close to the project to see yourself as the main character in this.
When you make it about you it's a story, when you make it about the project it's an essay... does that make sense?
What I like is the fun you had making this, and the animation - it shows!
The fact that I watched through 12 minutes of you is testament to both that fact that you cared about the project (and therefore the audience cares about you) and second that you definately have a great webcam face.
I like.
I'm definitely going to reconsider the focus of this...I have some thinking to do...
Thanks again! :)
I watched your video diary and also "Sweet Dreams" itself last week but was too tired running around to leave a comment.
I also tried some animation when I was younger - with Super 8 film so you can tell its early 1980s - when black and white reel to reel video was still around and we were still talking about vidicon tubes..! I still have a rare treasure, a book about video production from 1973 called "The Spaghetti City Video Manual" - totally quaint now but a nice reminder of another era.
Anyway, I enjoyed your webcam diary. I enjoyed your personality, your humour and that calm and measured determination to finish your project.
I loved the trials of cup cake, I could identify with him early... you manage to invoke early in your audience that he was a person who dreamt to be out sailing in the ocean but like everyone else was stuck in a job which he may have felt was boring - but just by being himself and trusting in his own talents and by being accepting of other fellow vegetables, was able to overcome a shipwreck, homelessness, love and a flood..!
That's what I'd like to congratulate you about. "Sweet Dreams" demonstrates talent and an intelligent production sense on your part. I could even suspect that you would be great at casting characters for a feature film- eg: cup cake: character and appearance: short, fat, round and sweet. Dreams, reality etc...
I was so killing myself laughing about your little touch of how "cup cake" came back home a changed person. A rigid personality who went on a journey of adventure and discovery and came home changed - well became a "nudist" and all the mothers covering their children's eyes..- haha! To try that with an animation I could really imagine how difficult that is because in that genre, one cannot really always be aware of where the energy of the dramatic plot is at various moments. But you are daring enough to try things, and be certain about mood at various points, and then to manage character evolution with a character that didn't even have any eyes and lips - I have to say I admire that confidence...
Okay I'll just stop here,
I wish you lots of fun and courage as you face the next ones.
Cheers!
Martin
Thank you sooo much for your beautiful message -- I'm so happy that you enjoyed "Sweet Dreams" and the journey of that little cupcake! I also appreciate the time you took to write such a thoughtful and insightful comment.
As you probably gathered from that video diary piece, making this film was the biggest creative undertaking of my life -- I endured multiple crises, ran the gamut of emotions from hopelessness to elation, and luckily was able to come out alive with a completed film! So, needless to say, it is a joy to hear you commend the fruits of my labor (no pun intended, hehe) and my persistence throughout the production process.
So thank you again, Martin, for your kind and encouraging words...
...Hopefully I'll be able to muster enough courage in the near future to produce another independent short! :)
-Kirsten
By the way I also wanted to say that you should keep your short story - the one you based the "sweet dreams" project on. Short stories can be very quickly adapted into other projects - novels, or even a longer feature film.
In this business, the idea and the story telling are the most essential assets to production. And you have a gift so you can go ahead and face your work with your smile. You have good ideas, I can tell, and in your video diary you tell us that you even accepted ideas and suggestions from other people - "drawing in the sand" etc... That's required of every good director - accepting other opinions and applying some of them to the work - creatively and with your own personal touch - at the end it's your capability to interpret and to apply germs of ideas that mark and define your style.
And you're right about the extra difficulties one faces on top of the creative challenges - All I can offer any friend is to take everything in your stride, you have to if you want to get your projects done.
Still, I wouldn't worry about courage or energy because it seems to me that whenever we know what we want, we are often surprised in hindsight, where all the energy came from.
I'm also being very careful here not to offer careless encouragement. Every project is a new reality, has a new challenge and requires that commitment of time energy and other resources - lets face it 78 days is almost three months..!
That requires an incredible attention span and application to a story that is shot for a few seconds of screen time at each film session. I dread to imagine how your continuity script was managed.
My wild guess is that not all the vegetables and fruits made the 78 days trip by sailing boat..:)
By the way I loved the sugar boat - your are smart - everyone knows that sugar melts in water..! So it was an effective way of introducing doubt into the plot and probably - for those who think like public servants - one way of explaining the shipwreck in the story line...
Great work Kirsten. Keep going. I'd be very happy to see more..!
Cheers!
Martin
Why cut the content down? I think it was good and gives me an insight into how dedicated and labour intense animation can be. Well done and I look forward to more in the near future.
All the best!
Shiraz.
Australia.
Just a thought.
...I still wanna know who this is though!
tienes mucho futuro en esto !
bye cuidate mucho =)
Good to see you around
Best
It was nice to see,
Thank you for sharing
hi Sam
Just watched the whole thing (while eating takeout chinese).
I admire your open mentality, not much people display the process of their finished product or just make-off with a fast "making of".
These vlogs are very personal and really make me have even more respect for "Sweet Dreams".
For the people who aren't that famliliar with animating it's very good to see the things the creator has to go through before something as long as 10 minutes is even realised.
I think sharing and being open is the key in today's media. It lets people get closer to the artist and the art itself and treasure it even more. And you're a good example.
I wish you all the best in your future work.
If you ever need some help in audio, sound design, or digital music you're free to contact me.
Tobias
Thanks again for your kind words!
I'll keep you in mind for any sound design I might need!
-Kirsten
your too cute ;)
good luck <3
Well thanks again.
it's hard to edit your own stuff with succes.
you have to be super critic about the path, and it's allmost imposible when the actor is yourself...
But nice work. The captions works perfect. And you really get the idea that the only thing you do is get up in the morning, talk for a few mins, and then stop mo.. HOT!!
just letting you know I had to sign up VIMEO just to comment here. imagine how good is your piece :).I'll start putting some of my motion graphic piece on here. Well, I think I'm moving in VIMEO. looking forword for your next piece.
Glad you enjoyed the videos!
:)
congratulations on your effort!
ahhh...moments. Brains are dorks.
-Later Dr. Lepore.
it is soooo smooth... did you really move your tripod or something ? how can you make your travelings so smooth ??
I mainly used either Tungsten or 60-100 watt incandescents. Sometimes it would take me hours to get the lighting just perfect for a shot. So my only tip would be make sure you take the time to really get the lighting how you want it before you shoot. It's a vital part of the mood for any animation.
ABout the sets ? I've seen a timelapse video of you building it but I can't figure out what it's made of ? plaster ? I make mine out of papier mâché, just wanted to know if you had some other ideas ;) and the sets in interior ? in the house for instance ? made out of wood ? Carton / cardboard ?
Would you marry me?
It´s hard to find a girl who likes animation, and more when it´s about stopmotion, and I love this kind of animation too.
Really, I love your work, I think this video is very personal and show us more about you than the film making process, I like that because your pretty and honest, but I would like to know more about your technical difficulties, like what kind of armature did you use, foam latex or clay, lights, software, etc.
Well its just curiosity, congratulation your great, keep this way and soon your will be doing the next Coraline movie.
Yea, unfortunately when I took these videos throughout the process, I didn't think to record any pre-production stuff (i.e. building the puppets or the sets)...instead I would only take these videos on days that I shot something, so it was mainly just me explaining what I had done that day as a progress marker. Inevitably, it became a documentation of my emotions and personal life as well.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
good luck.!
see you soon
Great stuff.