"Apeel"
I helped make this film with Holly Johnson and Samantha Lo. Holly constructed the stage and exterior for the shots in our film. We had four main characters: Holly animated the tangerine, I animated the banana, Samantha animated the onion, and Holly and Samantha took turns animating the tomato. Our "studio" consisted of a variety of fruit, arts and crafts supplies, a small table to place all the props and characters on, and a camera on a tripod. The most difficult scenes to shoot were the ones with all the fruit in the crowd. Each character had to be moved, and we switched off between the mango and apple, strawberries, and blackberries in different scenes. Some fruit couldn't stand on its own, but everything we wanted to move through the air was attached to some thread. The blackberries on the strings were spontaneous, making for some sporadic, fun movements. But what worked in our favor was the integrated motion blur in the shots from the fruit moving through the air. The best part was peeling the banana and improvising its movements. While shooting it, I didn't have too much an of idea what my banana was going to do, but every time we looked through a scene we just shot, we laughed for a while.
When everything was shot, Sam, Holly and I edited it in After Effects where we added the music, sounds and timed it out. Overall, it was a really fun experience, and although I didn't know what we were getting ourselves into, it was rewarding to see our idea come to fruition.
That's a wrap! :)
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