Remaking A Modest Propsoal with Jelly Babies based on an idea from lidan & librarygirl6. You can read the origins of this collab here!: http://www.hitrecord.org/records/652031

collect 'treasure' whilst walking through a city and showcase it!

treasure could be things, images or sounds collected from the town or city where you are.

this is open to interpretation! doesn't need to be a completely straight showcase. for instance i usually do this pretending im some kind of alien and label everything i find with what i think its purpose might be

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i should mention that i wasn't going to bother with this collab until Lidan showed me her awesome findings! then i got excited about the idea again 

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should also mention that this is obviously a Marke's 'pocket autopsy' spin off

Contribute all your live records from the hitRECord At The Movies Sundance 2012 show here!

In honor of our upcoming show at The Sundance Film Festival 2012, I'd like to start making art regarding the theme of Independence. You can record a testimonial of your thoughts regarding this topic but more importantly, you can contribute a short story, an illustration, a song or even make a short film. Anything that regards the idea of Independence.  

We will then take these pieces and put them together in a clever, funny, entertainingly way and intersperse them throughout our show while bringing up audience members to share their thoughts. 

Independence is the theme that is running throughout our show. Not only because it's the Sundance Film Festival but also because all of the projects that we are working on embody this topic in their own way. 

Here are some ideas regarding Independence to think about: 

• The Sundance Film Festival showcases Indy Films.  What is Indy when it comes to art and business? 


• A child's life can lead to independence, independence from their parents as an adult. 


• And as an adult, Independence changes and one can become codependent.  Codependent in a relationship or with other things. 


• Political independence. 

Let's get this conversation started early shall we!

Thanks again

<3

J

Calling all Graphic Artists, Animators, Visual Effects Artists! We are making Strawberry Bootlaces into a short live action animation and guess what? The rotoscoping is already done!

You may or may not know the wonderful piece titled 'Strawberry Bootlaces', written and spoken by Day Glo. Well, a while back Ozie picked it up and played a beautiful piano score underneath. 

This week, I finished recording the live action part of our short film, which is me pantomiming the story in front of a green screen.  So now it's time to design and animate the world it takes place in.

Here's what to design: 

SETTINGS - The store, the Boy's apartment, the parents' house.

PROPS - The strawberry bootlaces, the phone, chairs, table, etc. 

OTHER CHARACTERS - Mother, Father, The Store Clerk

I want all of these visual elements to be very SIMPLE, BOLD, BRIGHT, COLORFUL, sorta cartoony.

Okay, we are going to be screening this at Sundance as well, so we have 8 days, we can do it!

Thanks Again J 

This last Halloween, we put on a show for seven hundred standing RECorders at The Poisson Rouge rock club in New York City.  The evening's centerpiece was a theatrical performance/shoot of the Brothers Grimm's LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.  Costumed characters from the crowd pantomimed the parts while the vocalists voiced the story, and we all shot it.

Now it's time to make the short film.

I've just uploaded my first try editing the audio together from our half-hour staged shoot to make a ten-minute cohesive piece -- http://www.hitrecord.org/records/610429 

VIDEO EDITORS: Here's an album of all the video footage we have so far from that night -- http://www.hitrecord.org/records/593080 -- So let's start layering video over the audio above.  Also, while we'll certainly use a lot of footage from that night,  I also want to start making and mixing in other visuals as well to create a "kitchen-sink" collage sort of aesthetic.  So go ahead and find any other footage (either from our site, or from the Public Domain) you think is remotely relevant to the various moments of the story and try cutting those in there too.

ILLUSTRATORS & ANIMATORS: I also want to cut away to a bunch of graphic art that tells the story along with the theatrical performance.  I'm really envisioning an extremely wide variety of aesthetics and mediums all mixing together here, so you don't have to follow any guidelines other than one: TELL THE STORY.  Pick a moment, any moment, from the story and illustrate it.  Animators, take those illustrations and start animating them.  

Definitely aiming to screen this at our Sundance show on January 26, so let's get to work!

thanks J 

That's right, it's time to make Tiny Films out of our Tiny Stories. As you may or may not know, "Tiny Stories" has a 3 book deal with 'IT! Books' and imprint of Harper Collins, and wel Volume 1 is set to release soon.  So we need to start turning some Tiny Stories into Tiny Films to celebrate! Plus - they will be included in the E-Book copy of Volume 1, exciting right?

Here's what to do:

• RECord a Voiceover of a Tiny Story that you think is suitable to be made into a Tiny Film. 


• Animators, take the illustrations of these Tiny Stories and animate them with a voiceover and music  

I RECorded a bunch of voiceovers, so feel free to check out that album:  http://hitrecord.org/records/558669

Okay,  The deadline is actually tight, but I don't want to startle ya so I won't say it. 

Thanks Again!

 <3

J