Wednesday, March 21, 2012

"The Ball"

So to escape the clutches of LEGO Stop Motion cliche - and the slight chance of either having to actually storyboard - or even having to write a script. I decided the ball I'd been walking past the last few days needed to be a star. "To shine through all the other 'ball' stereotypes!" It did take alot of character building but in the end the ball stepped up (even knocked back a role in Titanic II)and pumped himself up to be the bigger (midget) soccer ball. This was a special day for me, and a special film. I knewI was doing nothing special on this day except what I wanted. It was the 14th anniversary of my brothers untimely death, and as every year I take this day to remember the only brother I lost. We weren't that close after we turned about 18 but regardless, we were still brothers. The day he died is the day I remember like my own birthday. I do the same for the both, I take the day off. This year I took the day off, but prepared. I charged the battery in my camera. On the day of the shoot, I just filmed everywhere I could and it felt so good. I knew it was going to work. It did. This is the result: