This is a short film we originally made for the BAFTA/Orange 60 Seconds of Fame competition. The brief was to make a 60 second film with the theme of ‘Unite’. We produced, wrote, and funded the film along with another friend of ours, we also did the visual effects and animation.
We’re shooting a short film of this year’s Fangoria show, and we thought we’d have a bash at building a Snorri Cam rig from bits we have lying about. We slug a tool belt on the Boob, whacked a couple of legs from a tripod in the pockets, tied a length of webbing around his back to each leg, screwed a camera on the top with a wide angle lens… and that was it, it works and everything.
ok, “what’s a Snorri Cam?”, well it’s when you rig a camera to the actors body so it appears to float in front of them, pointing back at the actor. Some say it was invented by Icelandic photographers/film makers, the Snorri Brothers (you see what they did there with the name?). It was used a lot in Requiem for a Dream which is of course an awesome film.
Here’s some more shorts of our rig in action. Stay tuned for the final film.
Bought a new frying pan, tested it by toasting some panettone with a tiny bit of butter (our little secret). Seemed to work.
I know, it’s ALL rock and roll now-a-days.
Heed the warning.
Smart list on the back of Creative Review this month from the walls of Tate Media director Will Gompertz’s office. Of course item 7 need not apply to The Flippers.
Well here we are, Fangoria ’07 is all over, a lovely time was had by all and nobody died. The show all went off perfectly (as far as you know) and there were many fine and obscure costumes.
In between taking people on a flying saucer joyride and blowing shit up, we managed to snap a few pics of the party:
A special mention must be made of Stu’s Kuato costume which marked the first audio-animatronic costume Fangoria has seen.
We’ve also added a whole heap of previously secret production photos to the set that was already up on Flickr
…and after many requests (ok, one request) we’ve put the TV station off air graphics online for all to view as well.
Thanks to all for coming, especially those that travelled so far. See you all next year, hopefully for something different.
If anybody else has any photos of the night please share. Like Stuart has here and oh look! he’s even blogged about it, how wizard!
The canopy is up, rehearsals are going well, many may still die.
6 days till Fangoria.
Have your costumes and explosives ready.
It’s for his own good, the Boob needs to be cured.
Sometimes, when asked to perform certain tasks, the Boob needs this special helmet that keeps his reward in view at all times.
