5th
We converted A.J. and Tayler’s attic to a Mad Artist’s Studio Lair, where a seduced maiden goes insane from the portrait painted of her—more or less. When I reflect on the actual painting—without any animation on top of it, or filters—it looks like I had a fairly confident and striking Joan of Arc-like figure stand to my right, and then I systematically denied her patience and lankiness, and painted the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man instead. Soon after, my monster strangles me and flees. Dr. Frankenstein never had it so easy.
Goodness we had fun! I should post some more stills. Liz handled the camera—of which I know nothing about—and has done an incredible amount of editing work, as Final Cut Pro X (the “prosumer” version of the by-now obsolete Final Cut) doesn’t let me render four seconds of footage on my MacBook (my “prosumer” version of a MacBook Pro, apparently). What I have done, however, is make two animations in iMovie, using marker-drawings of monsters, and also stop-motion toy soldiers.
A.J. and Tayler cooked dinner for us Tuesday evening and yesterday Allison made dinner for them. This checks out not only for the use of their farmhouse, and the incredible mess of things we brought over to make the film, but also because at one point in the scenario, A.J. seduces the monster with his rippling abdomen and then dances a little. He’s left-handed so pulls everyone—the rigged lights, the monster, the camera—in counter-intuitive directions, his left elbow popping out in herky-jerk fashion. So elegant.
