48 Hour Film Project

Logan and Blu and Ebi and Dad and Cazaluff and Rico and me entered in the 48 Hour Film Project Machinima Contest. This was COOL… but it seems that forty-eight hours is a long time for humans to stay up and there was not much rest and it was all I could do to keep Logan awake until the end.

First we went to the “Kick Off” Event at the “Fly In Cinema” (where the space ships park so the people in them can watch films) and we hung out with some weird looking people and some normal looking people and a girl who could not stop dancing and we waited to find out what we had to have in our film.

Hanging out at the Kick Off

  • Prop: Beach Ball
  • Character: Pat Mitchell, a painter
  • Line of Dialogue: “I need a drink”
  • Our Movie Genre: Holiday Film

Me and Logan and Rico and Dad at the Kick Off

When the Kick Off was done we all went to Rico’s island to brainstorm for ideas. Well, that’s what they said they were doing, but I saw a lot of people lying around on the floor and stuff. Oh and I saw this…

I’m still not quite sure what this was all about, but I don’t think we were allowed to make that sort of a movie anyway, in case some other people’s kids saw it or something.

Anyway, we made up this story about a boy who wanted a bear for Christmas, but he got the wrong one and he was grumpy about it, like forever and had a big row with Santa Claus.

Ebi played Santa Claus

Blu built some cool sets with Diddi…

Diddi and Dad played the Elves that worked in Santa’s Warehouse

But Dad also had to play the part of Pat Mitchell and he was changing his costume but he screwed up and took most of his kit off without putting any more on. He was standing there almost naked and everyone was cheering and laughing.

Back on the set with the little village, there was this snowman who kept talking to anyone that came near. He wasn’t like good AI or anything and he talked crap mostly, but he thought he was too good to talk to me and when I spoke to him he ignored me.

Of course he may have been ignoring me because I was shouting at him because he was talking rubbish and distracting the crew who were supposed to be working. So anyway, I got a bit wound up and things got a bit heated and I erm…… well, I flamed him. And then he looked like this:

I don’t recall there ever being a scene written where Santa Claus steals Pat Mitchell’s truck and races off in it and crashes into some trees. But, here is Santa, in the truck, crashed into the trees and… taking a picture of himself.

In one scene Dad had to be Pat Mitchell and sit at the table in his house looking very, very glum. But he was having a bit of a fit and he ended up sitting in the drawer of the table looking very, very stupid. So I took a photo of that too.

You’re probably wondering what the hell Logan was doing, right? (Apart from carrying me of course) You’re probably thinking “where is that lazy goodfernuthin Logan?” Well although it would be quite natural for you to think that, on this occasion she was actually making herself useful and she made a set too. She made the set for the warehouse scene. Actually, it was just a building that she made really, and a conveyor belt, it only became a set when everyone got in there and put all the toys and all the gifts in. Then it looked really good.

Elves in the warehouse

Decorating the warehouse

I had to send Logan to wikipedia to look up about Kris Kringle so that she would understand about how it is a corruption of ChristKindl or Christ kindel (the Christ Child) which is what they call the Christmas time gift bringer in various parts of the world. Anyway, once she had got it into her head, I could make her make the sign for the warehouse.

Global Distribution, geddit?

Here is a picture of Santa reading Pat’s letter, Pat says he wants a live bear for Christmas.

If you look carefully in the top of this photo, you can see Blu. She is lying on an invisible physical box. She has to hold it up so that it does not fall to the ground and Ebi (Santa) has to move it and Logan has to film. It was part of the special effects, you can see the result in the film.

Blu and Logan were relieved when they realised that there was only one more scene to shoot…

…but wait, WHERE is Dad?

Everyone had been working for a long time and everyone was tired, so Dad just went to lie on the bed “for a moment” and listen for when it was his scene again. But, he must have gone to sleep because no one could make him hear…

Santa with a machine gun is standing on Pat’s head whilst Blu and Logan do the Onigokko and everyone is making as much noise as they can, shooting and playing sounds and music and doing Hooooooo and Yayyyyy*…

…oooops Blu and Logan crash into eachother. And look at Cazaluff… she was just standing there pretending that she is not a lunatic or anything. Ha!

Dad woke up again after about fifteen minutes and we got him back to do the last scene. After that me and Logan had to stay up for hours more to edit the film and put in the music and make the titles and upload it, which takes like FOREVER!

Of course, there were LOADS of photos that I didn’t think to take and a lot of stuff that I have missed out of the story because I can’t remember so please send me links to where your photos are… or send me more photos!

A few days later we were back with the weird looking people and the normal looking people at the screenings in the Fly In Cinema, to watch all the cool 48 Hour films.

You can see our film at the 48 Hour Film project site, look for the link to Machinima and our film is called “A Very Bear-y Christmas”

And this is the Director’s Cut, which if you don’t know, is where I have to stand over Logan and make her do it again properly.

And if you’re really keen, you can download the full fat version from Logan’s account on blip.tv.

 


*I hate Yayyy, I get Logan’s hair up my nose.

 

 

Dad is Broken

Auntie Juana came to visit Dad (sorry, but I don’t have her picture) and he was very excited. He was talking with Blu and Logan and they were all giving it “Hoooo” and “Yayyyy” but fortunately they weren’t doing the backflips because that makes me feel ill and I have told Logan many times that I will throw up on her coat if she does it too often. Anyway, Dad got into a bad yayyy and he got stuck…

…Dad in a bad yayy, wearing a sign so that everyone would know… as if you could bladdy miss it.

 


Just in case you are interested: as luck would have it, he got better again shortly afterwards and he is no longer running around looking like a retard.

 

Uncle Fred

This is Dad’s brother Frederico Vidor, which apparently makes him my uncle Fred. Of course I can’t understand a single thing he says because he is Spanish and he only speaks Spanish. Him and Dad go “gabba gabba gabba cojones gabba gabba gabba joder gabba gabba gabba” and the only word I understand is cojones, because they are “bladdy foreigner innit”.

…oh and joder too, but I am not supposed to say that one.

Grandad

Look who Dad dug up, it’s Grandad. He’s looking a bit pale and skinny, he probably should have been left in the ground, but it’s too late now I guess. Dad says it’s not his Dad, but I mean, no one even knows who who me Mum is*, so how would he find her Dad? Besides, if you took that bucket off Grandad’s head, I bet they’ve got the same haircut.

Anyway, don’t be fooled by Grandad looking a bit pale, skinny and stiff, he’s actually very alert and still pretty able. Just look what happened when this poor woman walked past, the old pervert grabbed her and molested her.

And look at this one too, Dad was trying to look the other way whilst Grandad was copping a feel, but doesn’t he look like Alf Garnet?

Rule Brittania mate! Aaaahhhhhhaaaaaahhaaaaahhhhhaaaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa !!

If you’re wondering why he looks a bit brown, apparently around this time there was some accident where he put his skin and his trousers into a dog, but I didn’t really understand all that, sounded like a lot of old cojones to me.


 

*I asked Dad about her but he won’t say much except that she was a bit of an old dragon. I wonder what happened to the rest of her.

Dad!

This is Solcar Amat, he’s me Dad, innit. You can see that he’s me Dad cuz ‘he has the same hair as me. He makes animations and smokes a lot of weed :c)

Millers Dad

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