Weegee's Dead animals

rebecca pan-avant post prod - coupe de son

2009-05-08T16:26:00.003+02:00

photos maquette- in process

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be

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testing clothes

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Animatique

2009-04-10T14:19:00.002+02:00

home sweet home

2009-04-05T22:39:00.002+02:00

plans

2009-03-27T04:48:00.001+01:00

furniture design

2009-03-25T15:30:00.000+01:00

Maquette

2009-03-25T10:38:00.000+01:00

2009-03-23T22:39:00.002+01:00

dont hate me guys
yesterday was last day of work without you
im sorry!
here a little drawing to show that it would be nice to have a sophisticated place as we said, but still small, with a vertigo perspective to show how the character feels inside
kiss

test avec un polaroid

2009-03-22T15:43:00.002+01:00

Some drawings

2009-03-22T14:44:00.002+01:00

Hey !
I think we should all post our drawings of the house, of the inside, of the character etc... so that anyone can see where we are heading. It may also help to keep the style coherent.

Kovalyov

2009-03-21T20:01:00.001+01:00

Hey,
i know we should try to stop looking at things, but here is just a little kovalyov sweetness ...
I think that now that we have a story, we should find a way to tell it, something more than only "here are the facts" . I think we could go into a strange way, maybe like this one... i really like the editing btw, what do you think ?

Ref 2

2009-03-19T23:01:00.000+01:00

House in the forest reference

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Just to try to get a little away from the too much hunter like shack...

2EME Version of the Script: THE FLASH

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A cabin sits alone in the middle of a forest. Looking through a window, past laundry hanging on a line, a plump middle aged man with a large head can be seen busily packing a camera bag full of lenses and film. Animal noises can be heard coming from outside. They appear to be calling to him. He briefly looks into a full length mirror before stepping into the quickly approaching night. Pulling out his camera, he takes a photograph of himself in the mirror. When he does so, the flash illuminates him and his house in a way that makes everything become the opposite of what it is. The colors shapes and textures are for that one instant the opposite of the colors shapes and textures they were a second before. Even the man is the opposite of himself; he becomes a skeleton. After the photo is snapped, he pauses looks at himself again, now returned to his normal state. He then rushes out the door into the night.

Outside, the night is alive. Sounds of birds, hoots of owls, and howls of wolves can be heard, along with the rushing of wind through the trees. The man runs through the trees, snapping photos of all the animals he sees. Everytime he clicks a photo the same effect happens with the animals as happened to him in the cabin. The night becomes day and the animal becomes a sequence of day running into night, on each flash night becomes day; flat becomes three dimensional and dark becomes light. He keeps snapping and the snapping becomes rhythmic, and the strobing images flashing start to form a sequence of images like in a film strip. The juxtaposition of what the man is doing and what he is seeing through the camera lense at the moment of the flash becomes like two sequences of images playing together at the same time. Soon the images of the animals as seen through the flash become the dominant sequence, and the camera follows a fox in the day time running through a field, into a forest, and finally to a cabin. He scratches on the door to the cabin, opening the door and going inside. He sees photographs hanging on a laundry line. They are of running animals in the forrest, then they are of the man running, then there is one of the camera. Then the fox jumps on a bed and licks the skull of a pile of bones. The end.

ONE VERSION OF OUR SCRIPT

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The Man in the Woods

EXTERIOR. FOREST. DUSK.

A middle aged plump man sits alone in a cabin filled with furniture covered in photographs. He is attempting to mend a hole in his shoe. He takes a polaroid photo of his other shoe and tapes it onto the broken one. Outside the rain is pouring. A leak starts in his livingroom. He quickly takes a picture of a good section of his ceiling with his polaroid camera. The water rushes over him as he stands on a chair to reach up to cover the leak. The moment he tapes the photo over the leak the water stops, but a leg of the chair he is standing on breaks and he falls to the ground, breaking one of his own limbs.

When he lifts the leg it bends unnaturally, and he winces in pain.

Immediately he takes a picture of his good leg and tapes it onto his broken leg.

He also takes a picture of an attached chair leg and tries to tape it onto the broken chair leg.

He attempts to get up, and sit on the chair, but the chair falls over and he falls with it onto the floor. He tries to take another photo but his camera is out of film. He lays there for a moment, unsure of what to do next. He crawls over to a heap of photographs, and begins searching frantically through them for pictures of chair legs. He finally finds one and tapes it very securely on the chair. He then tries to get up and cannot because of his broken leg. He looks through the heaps of pictures for photos of legs. He makes several attempts to get these pictures to fix his broken leg and all of these fail.

He crawls here and there to fnd more photos, in vain. At some point, tired, he stops and leans on the wall.

By staying still for a moment, he feels free from the pain. From the angle he has managed to get to he can see behind the photographs on his furniture. Suddenly his world does not look right to him. All the furniture he fixed looks wrong somehow.

He then crawls around to find the perfect spot from which to see his things, one in which everything seems to be repaired. At last he finds it, and decides he will not move again.

TX effect

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Essais

2009-03-15T16:24:00.009+01:00

those pics are from the shoot before- just wanted to show them to you-

2009-03-11T00:18:00.003+01:00

look at puppet in natural environment compared with artificial environment.
I really like the shots where you animate the shadows of the trees on your wall.
I will translate the story and cant wait to see you guys tomorrow!!
Nicole

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Forestos

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http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/dc/dcboard.php

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steve buscemi

2009-03-08T20:42:00.002+01:00

heads-insane eyes characters, kind , sweet but disturbed

Feuille de route

2009-03-08T14:36:00.001+01:00

Hello,
here is a road map for our project ! (high def for print)
See you all monday !
Ben.

2009-03-07T14:58:00.001+01:00

Important Website To watch

Lots of stuff on puppet making.
One thing i like, the weight of the puppet is supported by an exterior rig, and no weight on the feet.
That could be awesome no? there is only a little bit more compositing, but it is really simple one, and we are 4 so...
What do you think ?

Ben.

Autoroute

2009-03-06T23:26:00.002+01:00

Nouvelle direction apres brainstormainge du 6 mars :

Sur le haut du dessin joint, un petit croquis de situation:
Notre personnage vit dans une cabane, situé dans une clairière entourée d'autoroutes !
Le film serait le portrait d'une journée de notre protagoniste. Homme d'age mur, fin mélomane, il mène une existence tranquille.
Cependant, pour nous spectateur, le bruit alentour nous sembles assourdissant ! Notre héros ne se rend plus meme compte du bruit alentour, donnant lieu à une succession de situation absurde et drolatique.
( mots : bruit/harmonique ordre/desordre )
Il faut garder a l'esprit le temps court du film, et cette ébauche de scénario ne prétend pas avoir epuisé toutes les ressources proposées par la situation.
( il faut construire sur ce cadre, semblable "skizein" qui exploite un postulat absurde.)
Notre personnage devient ici quelqu'un d'une 50aine d'années, tout a fait normal. Il téléphone a son frere regulièrement, possède la télé etc. Il s'est installé ici après la construction des autoroutes, et vit paisiblement.

pour essayer de retracer le fil de la conversation :

La foret nous a paru intéressant par son bruit. Grouillante, la vie y est invisible, mais sonore. Notre personnage habitué a la foret, au silence, pourrait avoir dévellopé une sensibilité telle, que le simple bruit d'un arbre qui pousse l'assourdirait.
Pour eviter un film de type " un homme devient fou ds la foret ", nous sommes parti sur l'idée de l'autoroute environnante pour 2 raisons :
- La situation absurde est a exploiter. Le début de scénario proposé est loin d'être exhaustif. Nous pensons que cette situation a exploiter peut etre un bon declencheur de scénario.
-Le "conflit" se trouve matérialisé dans un élément extérieur. Plus classique, mais plus simple à manipuler.

Into the wild

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set

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kinkajou bidou bidou

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ok watch from 0:30 to 01:00 listen to what the annoying woman voice says.

cabane

2009-02-28T20:31:00.002+01:00

preparing the camera before the night forest intense shooting session
i like the idea of a regular home, nothing looks wrong with that guy, but the dangerous tools on the bed are like an indication of his insanity, death predication

animals, by coco rosie

2009-02-28T15:17:00.001+01:00

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Stroboscope

2009-02-26T14:51:00.002+01:00

hello everybody,
I thought of something related to the flash and to the idea of moving/still and real/fake :
The Stroboscope here is some little page worth reading

Here are some ideas :
The stroboscope deforms movement by changing the way we perceives its rythm. Weither by slowing it down, or making it look like multiple stills.
So, in our idea of fake/truth, we can say that the stroboscope takes an actual real movement to deliver another sensation of the same movement, which is fake. Like juxtaposition of stillness.
I think there is something we can find into this way.
I realize this means more or less going into some movie talking about cinema or animation, but i think it is in our ideas. We can find another level in the script so our movie won't be only about cinema. But if we have these 2 levels, i believe it can be a great script.

Talk to all of you soon !!

Ben.

flat- flat

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c'est moi ce soir

trouble in paradise

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brothers quay

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Quay

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Quay brothers :

dino compressor

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from volume to flatnesssssssssssssss

meriem

2009-02-23T16:35:00.002+01:00

This above are pics by Blanquet, the wheel chair creepy man ! (awesome draughtman!)

The video we were talkin about you can watch like the first third, middle, where there is really a movement by replacing characters.

and here is the flatworld video :

paper

2009-02-23T07:52:00.000+01:00

morning!

meriem

Some more inspirations...

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...from an artist i like a lot : Taylor McKimens

Bathroom forest

2009-02-22T14:23:00.000+01:00

The images are yellow, this is sometimes blurred, I worked in my bathroom, sorry sorry! Flat vs volume.

Just to try 2...

2009-02-12T20:28:00.001+01:00

Don't cry Nicole

Just to try...

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Agnon

2009-02-12T19:17:00.000+01:00

Some animals

2009-02-12T16:57:00.000+01:00

Some dead animals... inspired by what you showed me nicole, and the pearce sisters maybe...
Ben.

one more noda =too much freakin good!

2009-02-12T01:33:00.001+01:00

noda!

2009-02-12T01:26:00.000+01:00

nagi noda is a reference i think about too much- anyway i though this video could match with our idea of real/fake things, and i love how the night comes with the background sky going darker
cool , right?
meriem

weegee wood-first character researches-

2009-02-12T00:57:00.000+01:00

quick ...just a try

not him, but kind of

No cheesy dead animals

2009-02-11T22:58:00.000+01:00

I thought about some influence to avoid cheezy animals...
The pearce sisters

At the end, one of the sister is playing with dead sailors.
The over stylized way they are drawn gives the sequence a real weight, and sense of horror, as well as humor in my opinion...
Here are some pics : ( i cant embed that video on our blog, sorry...)

Ben

2009-02-11T22:54:00.000+01:00

To find quicker some big influences maybe...

Ben.

Video de danse :

Bjork :

Welcome

2009-02-11T17:30:00.001+01:00

Welcome my deer friends !