Sebastian Versus Cleanliness

Les chevaux à bottes
By: Cirque Du Soleil
Style: Marionette
Notes: This will hopefully be one of my last films without my green screen for a while. There might be a few while I'm waiting for it to arrive, but it's coming with a stand and two big lights. Very exciting.
I don't really like the puppet or my manipulation of it, but he looked pretty cute in editing. And this video was more so that I could look back and see how clean my room was and how cute my Japanese marionette was when it ran.

Oh my god I haven't made one of these in like three months.

I tried! But my green screen was -cough- destroyed by somebody.

And then I went and saw Handmade Puppet Dreams and am consequently pre-productioning so hard that I stop being interested in projects.

So, that's what I'm doing. xD

Girl Visits The Animals

Benny & Joon
By: Rachel Portman
Style: Children?
Notes: Drew the sets with crayon. Final Cut was helpful in making them not look washed out. The tree was the hard part because Final Cut wasn't a fan of having a green screen AND having a four point matte to crop the footage of the girl so it would look like she was coming from behind only a part of the set. In the end I was victorious.
Other than the fact that my hand is annoyingly visible quite a number of times, rather than tastefully visible, I'm sort of a fan of this one.

I'd Rather Dance With You

I'd Rather Dance With You
By: Kings Of Convenience
Style: Norwegian? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Notes: For now, I'm more than slightly pleased with this. I don't like how I incorporated the real video, but once I spent six hours uploading the thing, I figured I just had to put it in somewhere. And the YouTube quality is so bad that you can't see her mustache. So, that's good. It's a pretty good video, I was very happy with the manipulation.

Rat Scat

Rat Scat
By: Rizzo the Rat in Muppets Take Manhattan
Style: Mother's Day puppet infestations
Notes: I was hoping this would be a little more technical, but I thought it turned out okay. The green screen tablecloth is being a little nicer, but I should probably buy a real one or at least one that's not a tablecloth. Anyway it's a gift for my mother. A little better than last year's Mother's Day video. I probably need to work on plot, my gimmicks are becoming less and less obvious as I try to figure out this green screen and advance technically.

Michelle Vs. Nature

Dr. Bartlett
By Christophe Beck
Style- Tragedy/Jazz
Note-

This features my Mme. Alexander doll (It's Not Easy Being Green Edition) I bought on the way to Ocean City. It was supposed to be a great video.

But my doll came untied from her boat and I had to more or less abandon the camera in an emergency doll and boat search and rescue situation. Luckily I accidentally filmed that part (though the dangling lens cap makes an appearance more often than not).

After embarrassingly two or three of these scenarios, the camera filled with saltwater, short circuited, and rendered itself useless, playing dead for the rest of my one filming day.

It woke up the next morning, so I still had all the footage, and I left in the part where it short circuits because it looked kinda cool.

And the music's from Charlie Bartlett.

Once again I apologize to people who made requests- Being in school, I have very little motivation to work hard on much of anything else if the inspiration doesn't trump my laziness. I assure you that the remaining two requests will be completed within the first week of summer, at the very latest.

NHD Project: Andrew Jackson and Peggy Eaton

Andrew Jackson and Peggy Eaton
Script/edit/puppeteering by Marianne, Peggy Eaton played by Joanna
Style- Children's Documentary
Note- This was for the National History Day project our school forced upon us so that they could receive some funding and provide us with an educational experience. This was our response to their demands.

It includes a lot of green screen effects, some of which backfired (I now understand that while a green greenscreen does help, it's not a great idea to just make the background completely white, and also to have a main puppet with green hair).

We also bought our theme song from Andrew Pants (songstowearpantsto.com), but I put together that sequence at like 11:45pm at night so it didn't turn out wonderfully.

Either way, it's my first feature film that includes my actual voice AND a plot/theme to boot.