Flash! Flash! I love you!

...But we only have 48 hours to save the Earth!

48 hours. Its either a long amount of time, or a very short one, just depends on who you are. When it comes to making a movie, its a very short amount of time, at least if you want to make a decent one and have it polished and edited within that time frame. I discovered though that 48 hours was more than enough time for me to make a movie, shooting, editing, and even special effects. How did I do it? Not as some master of the camera, but rather through the use of Stop Motion.

Roommates. Theirs always some anger, some hatred, some rivalry between the pair of them. You never really know who they are, or what they do, one minute their your best friend the next you want to shove a cheese sandwich down their throat in order to shut them up. This was the basis for my movie. 

I found to friends of mine, roommates, and put them in a situation where the hatred for one another had built up over the semester, and suddenly, the time had come, there will be blood. There wasn't any blood in this case, rather some suffocation, and a bit of punching.

I decided to use the still camera on the basis that it would be easier to make a movie that way, its the closest thing I have to an actual film camera. And with myself and my roommate being keen photographers we had the necessary equipment. All it took was a trip to Wag for a cheese sandwich and we had the movie ready to go. 

I ad the fight set up, and with some great input from my roommate and the two lads who would be the stars of this show, we managed to come up with some cool camera shots, moving cameras and something like zooms. All very Wachowski. 

For the final part of the movie in which the words, "My God, its full of stars," needed to be said, I decided to drop into the influences from German Expressionism and fall into a weird world of over exaggeration and elaborately designed sets. Yet keeping it rather rough. This came out well enough with the use of a duvet covered in papers stars that was hung from my bed and then lowered, mimicking the blank sheet we used as the dead Oliver laid still movements, and had him deliver the line as though he had passed to the next world. 

All fun and games really, just a shame I didn't get to see it on the big screen since had other things to do that night.

GORDON'S ALIVE?!