the elephant and the monster

I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd do an update.

I'm feeling a bit schizophrenic right now, trying to make two videos at the same time.

As it turned out, my idea to add another motion for the elephant's lullaby got vetoed by the director and the producer. They thought it just made things too complicated.

So, we filmed the green screen stuff of me teaching the motions. Nutmeg (the producer) played Marika the monkey.

I intended to take a photo of the set to show how the green screen thing works, but I couldn't find my camera when I needed it. So no photo.

The idea was to film me teaching the motions as a reference for the animators. Liz McLelland and Wright Rickman will watch the footage of me, and draw me onto an animated background, and use the sound we recorded.

I'm excited to see what they come up with.

I've also been working on the Garbage Monster video. Lauren Cowdery has come up with some great stuff so far, based on David Murk's design.

But I want to do something a little different with the face. Here's my first attempt.
I kind of like it, but it doesn't really work. I think the eyes and the mouth need to be different.

Here's what I've been doing lately:

Figuring out a costume for myself, hopefully involving a pork pie hat.

Scheduling auditions for kids
Talking to my friend about scheduling her house for the location
Talking to an artist about doing the title for the Elephant's Lullaby video.
Talking to designers about how to dress the set for the film shoot at the Sciencenter.

It's been a fun process, but challenging. Every so often, when I start to think that I know what I'm doing, something happens and I realize I don't know what I'm doing!