BACK TO PROJECTS
As a �special feature� of sorts for The Uni Video, I decided to make a sort of �found footage� film (having been inspired from seeing such things on my film course that past year). I went through all the old footage I had recorded when I first got my camera and animated sequences I had filmed in 2000.
The footage consisted of a series of experiments with exposures, effects and shots as well as serial killer skits I had filmed with the guy I made Night of the Living Ted with. Finally, I also included a whole host of experiments with animation I had done, ranging from manipulating an artist�s pose-able hand and figure to an elaborate scene I had been working on. This scene was a rendition of Rhode�s demise in George A. Romero�s �Day of the Dead�. I constructed a series of wire skeletons with wooden feet before making plasticine bodies (filled with plasticine guts). I also created a corridor set which I lit in a similar way to how I had lit The Evil Ted. The actual finished animation, which was heavily influenced by the style of editing used in Kubrick�s �A Clockwork Orange�, was of course, very bloody � the entire set basically being drenched in red paint in the process. I enjoyed making this short animation so much that I made another one where the Rhodes model shoots a zombie. And how did I animate his gun firing? Well, I made a cardboard muzzle flash which I pinned to the gun and every time a shot was fired, that frame had a flash of torchlight!
But back to �Back In The Day�, this 10 minute short film was again edited using the REC/PAUSE process and was set against a series of songs by the Misfits � added in the same way I had added music on The Uni Video.
