(Non-Trek) Films You/We Done Did

Maurice · Sep 11, 2018

I saw Admiral Archer post a recent piece of work (link) and thought it might be fun to have a thread for posting films those of us here have done which are not Trek or not "fanfilms" per se, regardless of if they're short subject, quick sight gags, goofy animations, behind the scenes stuff, or even industrials.

I'll kick it off with a short spot I did in 2010 for a software company to promote their first iPad game. It was really silly and made in basically two days, including fabricating the sock-puppets (what better than sock-puppets for a touch screen?). The background was thin card with graffiti drawn on it. The developer didn't really know how to use it after paying for it, just dropping it a few places on social media, but it was fun to make.

Who's next?

YJAGG · Sep 11, 2018

I did some comedy work with my improv group my persoanl fav is my Doing your Part series
and I did some low budget horror films back in NY with my current job, I make some videos for work too

@Maurice thanks- hate posting on my phone

Maurice · Sep 11, 2018

YJAGG said:
I did some comedy work with my improv group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMHDLLz9e5Y and before that some low low budget stuff back in NY https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545509/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Your link is megabroken, @YJAGG, and points to the IMDB page and not YouTube. I fixed it below, but perhaps you ought to fit it in your own post.

YJAGG said:
I did some comedy work with my improv group...

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...and before that some low low budget stuff back in NY (IMDB link)

Bixby · Sep 11, 2018

I was part of this film's art team a long time ago, still a professional highlight as it went on to nab quite a few prizes and established its director. It's about 20 minutes and has a bit of dark humour, so be warned...

Maurice · Sep 11, 2018

Bixby said:
I was part of this film's art team a long time ago, still a professional highlight as it went on to nab quite a few prizes and established its director. It's about 20 minutes and has a bit of dark humour, so be warned...

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I love Sylvain Chomet! Les triplettes de Belleville is a favorite. Tell me/us more about what you did on La vieille dame et les pigeons.

My first pro paid video gig was to create a 10-minute animated sales demo for a paint and animation package called Art & Film Director (Atari ST and Apple IIGS), using the actual software to demonstrate itself. Originally released in Europe as two separate packages, in the US they were bundled and published by EPYX.

Here's the publisher logo sequence from that video, from the original source animation data run through an emulator.

And here's a dump of the whole video from VHS, very poor quality and rather dark, but you can see the entire thing. The aspect ratio is a tad off.

I've recently worked out the process of re-capturting the animations via emulator at HD resolution, so every blocky pixel will be pristine (it will be literally 5x the original size)!

Bixby · Sep 11, 2018

On la vieille Dame et les Pigeons (or the Old Lady and the Pigeons, Chomet's first film as a director), Sylvain himself did the animation in rough for the entire film. I was on the team that had to redraw the old Lady character in "clean" lines (I say clean but he had actually wanted a fake sketchy rough line style very similar to Disney's 60s and 70s features like the Aristocats, Robin Hood and 101 Dalmatians), and to complete the animation.
I'd estimate I had a hand in 90-95% of all scenes with the Old Lady character...

And Maurice, if you like Chomet's work you should be happy to know he'll be beginning a new production in early 2019- don't know when it'll be released.

Maurice · Sep 12, 2018

Bixby said:
On la vieille Dame et les Pigeons (or the Old Lady and the Pigeons, Chomet's first film as a director), Sylvain himself did the animation in rough for the entire film. I was on the team that had to redraw the old Lady character in "clean" lines (I say clean but he had actually wanted a fake sketchy rough line style very similar to Disney's 60s and 70s features like the Aristocats, Robin Hood and 101 Dalmatians), and to complete the animation.
I'd estimate I had a hand in 90-95% of all scenes with the Old Lady character...

And Maurice, if you like Chomet's work you should be happy to know he'll be beginning a new production in early 2019- don't know when it'll be released.

Neat.

That sure took a dark turn... but then what else did I expect.

Maurice · Sep 25, 2018

@Admiral Archer should put his Tom Morrow films in here, too.

Maurice · Sep 25, 2018

Here's an oddball one I did a not that long back.

It's based on an old TWA joke and more than a little bawdy, so I hope it's not offensive to anyone.

I've done 18 or so videos for this group, but there was one period where they didn't have time to schedule a shoot, so I suggested I could do a video using four dolls of the singers made by a fan as simple marionettes. "Simple" my arse. Finding all the imagery needed to pul this off was a nightmare. It was one of the toughest edits I ever did.

Daddy Todd · Sep 27, 2018

Maurice said:
Here's an oddball one I did a not that long back.

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It's based on an old TWA joke and more than a little bawdy, so I hope it's not offensive to anyone.

I've done 18 or so videos for this group, but there was one period where they didn't have time to schedule a shoot, so I suggested I could do a video using four dolls of the singers made by a fan as simple marionettes. "Simple" my arse. Finding all the imagery needed to pul this off was a nightmare. It was one of the toughest edits I ever did.

Absolutely brilliant, Maurice! Huge Kinseys fan, and somehow I’d never seen that.

Thanks for posting!

Maurice · Sep 27, 2018

Daddy Todd said:
Absolutely brilliant, Maurice! Huge Kinseys fan, and somehow I’d never seen that.

Thanks for posting!

Hey thanks. For some reason they just dropped that one out there with little fanfare and not tied to any event so it got very little attention, whereas "Worry" got like 120K views in a week because the release was timed properly.

Maurice · Oct 5, 2018

Earlier this year I was hired by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus to create a video using footage shot by their members while touring the south in 2017. This video ran on the two big projection screens in Davies Symphony Hall during the intermission of the show (which featured 500 singers at its peak).

The video...

...and it on the screens in the symphony hall...

This is the full-length cut they put out on social media. A 20% shorter edit was screened at the live performance because the footage of Reverend Caldwell was used in a different presentation at the live show.

It was both a technical and an editorial challenge:

A technical challenge because the footage varied in resolution, frame rate and orientation (pun intended) I ended up having to standardize all the clips to 30 fps and resize them as necessary for a 1080p project. Further complicating matters, many of the clips were flat out unusable because they were shaky or too short or—frustratingly—would end right in the middle of the last fucking note of a song! I also had to figure out how to sync audio from one performance across clips from another. (Oh, and then I had to figure out how to use the—hate it—vertical video, which, if you scale it to fit the vertical height of the output frame, only occupies a third of the horizontal space. Augh. In one case where I had multiple shots of the same moments I was able to arrange three vertical clips into a triptych. Elsewhere I didn't want to do the overdone gimmick of having the same footage blown up and out of focus in the background, so instead I found some stock footage of sparkling sequins and applied the color from the footage to that so the sequins matched the palette of the footage it was framing without being distracting.)

An editorial challenge because I had to figure out how to portray a slice of "life on the road", figure out how to use many still photos, and—most important—find a narrative thread in all this. I had to figure out how create a flow with peaks and valleys so we'd go from something serious to something fun and back and then end on a big finish.

I got a "that exceeded our expectations" from the Chorus, which was very nice. And it was fun to see it with a live audience.

Maurice · Oct 5, 2018

@Admiral Archer has been posting his "The Adventures of Tom Morrow!" shorts in a thread here (link), but I am mirroring them here because they fit the topic and so they don't go below the fold.

SYNOPSIS:
Tom Morrow was a kid on Earth when he was abducted from the year 1998 by an alien spaceship. When he grew up, he hijacked the ship and kicked the aliens out, opting to search for his home planet. Along the way, Tom has discovered CHARL-E, a busted up old robot that he reprogrammed himself. Together, Tom and CHARL-E have many misadventures and must overcome many obstacles in order to find their way home.

Admiral Archer · Oct 9, 2018

Thanks to Maurice for keeping my videos in circulation! I unfortunately just got out of a week in the hospital, followed by nearly two weeks of recovery. While I do not wish to disclose the nature of my situation, I wanted to say that Tom Morrow episode three is currently on hold until I am fully recovered. I apologize for the inconvinience. In the meantime, lets see what other original video shorts exist out there!

Maurice · Nov 12, 2018

Daddy Todd said:
Absolutely brilliant, Maurice! Huge Kinseys fan, and somehow I’d never seen that.

Thanks for posting!

@Daddy Todd might like this.

I found this while cleaning out some folders of old footage and elements. It was a test to see how easily I could replicate the stutter effect used in the Wang Chung "Everybody Have FunTonight" music video using footage I happened to have laying around. It was surprisingly easy.

Daddy Todd · Nov 12, 2018

Maurice said:
@Daddy Todd might like this.

I found this while cleaning out some folders of old footage and elements. It was a test to see how easily I could replicate the stutter effect used in the Wang Chung "Everybody Have FunTonight" music video using footage I happened to have laying around. It was surprisingly easy.

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Oh cool!

Also, amazingly distracting. And possibly cluster-headache inducing. :guffaw:

But cool!

JE Smith · Dec 7, 2018

Pretty happy with this superhero comedy I did a few years back:

And more recently, this really weird horror/SF hybrid could be said to have some Trek influences...

(Non-Trek) Films You/We Done Did

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Commodore

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