Day: September 18, 2010

They don’t make ’em like that any more!

 


 

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Production date:    20 July 2006
Playout date:    20 July 2006
Camera:    Logitech Webcam
Post Production:    Windows Movie Maker – heavy use
Location:    Home on the terrace
Genre Intro’d song
Soundtrack info:    Somewhere over the Rainbow – karaoke version
Languages used:    Northern English
Animals featured:    None
 
 This is actually a one off so far – the only film with Arthur Pettycommon in. I have had requests to develop this character and I’m sure that will happen in due course.
 
 The song “Somewhere over the rainbow” of course comes from the Wizard of Oz film – or at least that’s what made it famous. The film is also famous for transitioning between a black and white opening and colour, and that’s also being spoofed with the colour changes here in this film. Had I had the technology then that I do not, I could have even superimposed a whirlwind onto it!

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Donner und Blitzen!!!!

 


 
Production date:     17 July 2006
Playout date:      17 July 2006
Camera:        Logitech Webcam
Post Production:       Windows Movie Maker – heavy use
Location:        Home at desk
Soundtrack info:      Nicole – “Ein Bisschen Frieden”
Languages used:     English, German
Animals featured:     None
 
 Sproey von Weytzentrenner returns putting the world to rights, slating the advertising going on in YouTube while plugging Lomza beer, expaining why Schroeder belongs in prison and that governments should construct huge batteries to store the power from lightning.
 
 Afterwards, von Weytzentrenner has a treat in store – the German Eurovision winner (the only one until Lena came along in 2010) with “Ein Bisschen Frieden” – but this is the yodelled version!
 

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George’s adventures with a remote control and a grasshopper

Production date:  16 July 2006
Playout date:  16 July 2006
Camera:  Fuji Finepix
Post Production:  Windows Movie Maker – slight use
Location:    Home on the terrace
Soundtrack info:    Natural environment only
Languages used:    English, Russian
Animals featured:   Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)

In this one, I try to film a grasshopper – or more accurately a bush cricket – which has latched itself onto my son’s head. George was 3 years old at that time, and we used to keep a pool going out on the terrace in the summer.

While chasing him aroound on his little buggy what I fail to notice is that he has removed the TV remote control. Irina is looking for it and comes to retrieve it but just after he’s thrown it in the pool! We took the batteries out and dried it off and got it working again afterwards.