Han Solo and the mistle TOE

Decided to make a holiday themed short using grab bag pieces + Star wars minifigs....wee early hours. which may be a bad idea. Short's direction and storyling took about a few minutes, filming took a couple hours...but at the wee morning hours... i think my hands weren't steady, and i wasn't fully coherent.

my last short... i felt like i didn't have enough time to make a decent film due to lack of time. but that's actually not an excuse as this more recent took less time, and came out much better quality. (unless you put the indy and zane skit to comparison, then no, as thats nearly double the fps.) having a direction in mind makes a HUGE difference.

I didnt realize it until i scanned my shelf of minifigs....that the Lego Star Wars females were not as plentiful as the males. So pairing up wasnt as easy as i had hoped.

i thought about adding voices to the video. i wanted mace/jules to say. "hey baby" and anakin to say, "what the-" and "whoa!" Maybe even a "come here, snips." Leia saying "hey you" or "hey there stranger" in sequences that needed it, add giggling all around. some live audience "awwws." and social chatter. but i didn't, mostly because i felt that while these added things would make the film more easy to understand, and more interesting, it also bumped up the 'G' rating to perhaps a suggestive 'PG.' if a younger audience was watching this, or someone unfamiliar with American culture/tradition, i won't mind thinking that this party was about finding "dance partners" while at the party over "hooking up."

maybe i'll go back and add those sometime. (yes...sometime. echo.)

as i write this, i'm not sure if i'm coherent as well. maybe i should blog in the morning instead. i'm not a huge huge fan of ninjago. but i saw the transforming sets today. still can't understand why ninjas needs jets and helicopters. a motorcycle makes sense. ninja 250. indy's not going to be too happy, but they have guys in snake suits and white snakes.

Halloween Parties

So Halloween is coming... which means there will be a time to shoot Halloween themed pictures, and maybe some parties too. Which brings me to here.

The thing about making a Halloween party image is that ppl tend to go "oh yeah imma throw in my figs from so and so set, it's awesome." but they tend to forget, that when Lego made the fig, it was supposed to be an actual fig of a specific person. So if that fig shows up, it's not a kid in a costume. It's the real deal. Take my joker for example, think about high school. Did anyone actually go all out for a costume just to get girls and drink? So my kid here has maybe the jacket, sprays his hair green, styles it, and does the powder make up. He would never have another occasion to wear purple pants again, so he wears his jeans.