Rolling...

I'm doing a mostly self-motivated senior project.  My plan is to shoot and edit a short animated film version of my two-minute play from last year's Thirty Plays in Sixty Minutes at Hawken.  Last year, I recorded the vocal performances of my cast from the play (Jocelyn Adams, Lindsay Kopit, and Alec Aldrich) with a high-quality mic.  Since then, I've edited the raw recording into a trim, audio-only version of the story.  I've also toyed around with building puppets for animating.

Today I continued with building puppets.  I'm going for an industrial look, so it's a lot of bare, twisted wire and such.  I also did some work on cataloguing the different sounds my actors make when they say each line, so I can use the appropriate mouth shape at the right time when it comes to shooting.  Mostly, it's been a busywork day.  I've cleaned up work spaces and begun setting up my shooting space.  I ran a bunch of errands for materials, from ping pong balls for heads to pegboard for flooring to clamp lights for suitable lighting maneuverability.  We'll see how things go....