Inspired by classic fairy tales I wanted to experiment with
compositing and a noir type aesthetic. As such, this experiment was not intended to be part of a more cohesive narrative or future project. Rather, just for the fun of it.

I shot our actors as well as the set against a green screen pulling the project together in Apple’s Motion. Special thanks to Eric Carlson at the Sioux Valley Model Engineers Club for constructing the model. Additional thanks to Desir’e Jensen and Lilly Breems for forfeiting a Saturday afternoon and playing the characters.

Although pleased with the final result I did learn some valuable lessons. First, Apple’s Motion is not a great program. I found it to be buggy, causing the program to frequently crash. In the future, I would like to try a project like this using a high speed camera like the Phantom Flex. A little bit of slow motion would be pretty
surreal. My initial plan was to puppet various layers of the still photos to give the impression of motion. However, my afore mentioned frustration with Motion prevented me from doing so.

Future forays into the world of compositing will be done in After Effects.

The stills were shot with a Canon 5d and Zeiss Prime SLR lenses. The song is aptly named “Good & Evil”, by Alexandre Desplat found on The Tree of Life soundtrack.