Stuff that Sticks Out

I saw Wreck it Ralph because I am a major kid on the inside and I love the concept that they were trying to do. The designs in the movie were absolutely amazing and the storyline intricasy blew me away. I mean yes it was a bit of classic Disney because make no doubt that it was aimed at kids as the primary target group. Their were plenty of bad name calling such as stinky brain and such which for me cheapened the experience a bit but from the amount of laughs from the kids I guess it worked pretty well. The entire experience of WR was to me a very well put together movie with drop dead gorgeous ascetics which completely amazed me. I feel like this related to the past week or so because we have been discussing the difference between the big fancy companies and the average animator who can't work three years on rigging a snake. The movies such as the balloon pirate short and whatever that short was that the cheerleaders blew up in made me laugh like crazy. They were't by any means extravagant like WR but none the less were by far just as entertaining. I take this lesson into my live action and am trying to make videos with in my means and time schedule. One shoot that I really look up to is the latest Taylor Swift shoot for a music video that was by no means cheap but the technique they used was so inventive that they cut so many corners to make it cheaper and so much more appealing to me as a film maker. If you haven't watched it or read about the shoot basically what they did was have the entire music video as one take. The amount of design and storyboarding that had to go into that let alone the actors was nothing less than absolute genius. This latest video inspires me that with a good idea and working the system to my advantage a bit can produce results that might rival the big boys like Peter Jackson or Christopher Nolan, not necessarily as pretty but just as entertaining like the balloon pirate clip was.