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UPDATE: 1/22


ATTENTION ANIMATORS AND ILLUSTRATORS!


Here's an update with what we need:



  1. Can we get more animated characters for the background?  There are great illustrations of people already contributed, would be great if we could have them animated.  For exacmple:  check out the ones Jana did for Ben Franklin, The Little Girl, and the cop?  Arms moving, that sort of thing.

  2. Illustrations of people taking photos with cameras.  They can be animated, too!


This is coming together so nicely!  Can't wait to see where it goes!

<3

J



UPDATE:  1/21


ATTENTION ILLUSTRATORS AND ANIMATORS!


There have been some awesome illustrations and animations contributed to the 'Lights Off - episode2' collaboration so far.  Now we some more! :oD


What we need:


CHARACTERS:



  • Founding Fathers / Mothers — Thomas Jefferson, Betsy Ross, George Washington, James Madison

  • Mobs of Protestor


SETS



  • Wall Street scene — maybe include some recognizable Wall Street landmarks like the Bull, or the NYSE building.


OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS



  • Illustrations of Police officers doing dirty deads — cop littering, selling drugs, beating a homeless person, assaulting a peaceable protester with pepper spray at close range, exposing himself to an old lady.

  • Illustrations of technology:  iPhones, computers, cameras, etc.


ANIMATION



  • The lyrics of the chorus with a bouncing ball — sing-a-long style. :)


OK, I think this is all for now — this is gonna be awesome! :oD


<3


J


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Calling all Animators, all Illustrators, we are working with The Gregory Brothers on a second episode of the HITRECORD classic, They Can't Turn The Lights Off Now! And it's on the books to be screened at Sundance next week!


Episode One rallied behind Gay Civil rights, Episode 2 discusses the civil liberty to record Police and Law Enforcement officers throughout the country. Certain states in the USA have actually taken steps to outlaw anyone from photographing and video taping their local law enforcement, a direct slap in face to the First Amendment. 


That's why The Gregory Brothers remixed the "Lights Off" music and wrote a new story with new lyrics and characters that addresses this concern.  What they have made is fucking awesome!


And now it's our turn to start designing and animating the short film. 


Here's what to do:


ILLUSTRATORS -


Design the 3 main characters:



  1. The Kid with the Camera

  2. The Policeman

  3. An Angelic Benjamin Franklin who comes to educate us all


Design Background Settings:



  • Listen to the song that The Gregory Brothers have contributed and read the script to learn the settings and environments.   

  • Watch Episode One and School House Rock to get a sense of the style we are looking for.  


Also, it'd be great if you can contribute your character designs along with the limbs, head, and torso seperated, so that animators can have total control and ease while animating. 


Animators - Once we get some good Character and Setting designs, start animating!  But please do it as simply as you can.  The idea is to get this done in 7 days to be screened at Sundance!


Okay, get to work!


Thanks Again


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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 

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Calling All Musicians, specifically Pianists, Violinists and Woodwinds! 


Do you wanna play on a score for a short animated film featuring Gary Oldman that will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival next week? 


Well, here's what's going on! Our short film, The Man With A Turnip For A Head has a great original score written by musicinyouhead. We need to take her score that is performed on a synthesizer and transpose it to REAL instruments. 


Here's what to do: 



  • Listen to the score with headphones on and play along

  • Normally I am a fan of variation and deviation, but not this time. TRY TO PLAY AS PRECISELY TO THE ORIGINAL SCORE as you can because it specifically caters to every nuance and beat of Gary's voice.

  • Record your instrument seperately and contribute it to the collaboration. 


The instruments are: 



  • A REAL PIANO, with hammers and strings, no keyboards. 

  • Violin

  • Oboe, but a clarinet or other woodwinds are good too. 

  • If you play another instrument feel free to contribute it if you think it works. 


Okay, we got just about a week to bang this out, and then we will be finished with one of our projects for next week :)


Thanks Again


<3


J


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Calling All Animators!


We need 2 animated sequences for our short film called 'The Blue Dildo' that's going to screen at our show in Sundance 2012. 


There are 2 props in the film, an envelope and a brown paper bag, that have cute little illustrations on them, like bunnies and flowers and cats etc. These are the 2 illustrations that I want to come to life by being animated.


Here's what to do:  


ANIMATION ONE - THE ENVELOPE http://hitrecord.org/records/628570 (copy and paste the links)



  • The envelope is illustrated with romantic cats and cute flowers, hearts and other lovey dovey stuff.  ANIMATE this illustration to a 10 second sequence that is really CUTE and HAPPY.  The animation needs to maintain and expand upon the sweet, lovey dovey feeling that is the illustration.  The cats can kiss and the flowers can hug, whatever you think works. 


ANIMATION 2 - THE BROWN PAPER BAG http://hitrecord.org/records/628581



  • The brown paper bag is illustrated with similarly happy, sweet, cute bunnies. ANIMATE the bunnies in a 10 second sequence that starts off the same way as the envelope, where the bunnies are happy skipping along.  But then the bunnies need to get SCARY. REAL QUICK AND STARTLING make the bunnies get ferocious and bear fangs or whatever you think is frightening. MAKE IT AS SCARY AS YOU CAN.


If you want some background on where this fits into the the short film you can check out the screenplay here: http://hitrecord.org/records/493201


Or if you wanna see how this project developed you can check out the Tragedy/Comedy Collaboration here: http://hitrecord.org/records/474657


Thanks Again


<3


J


  

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Calling all Graphic Designers! All Typographers!


UPDATE: 01/22/11 -------------------------------------


Really great work so far everyone! Less than a week left to finish this so keep it up!


LET'S ALL FOCUS ON THE LINES THAT ARE NOT CROSSED OUT FROM THE TEXT BELOW:


 


Ladies and gentlemen,


the world is much larger and stranger than you have been led to believe


there are extraordinary things in your everyday lives


there are hidden treasures in familiar shadows 


you have been kept shielded


shielded from the dangerous and untamable world of the actual


we hand it all to you on a plate packaged and pristine


the blandly mass-produced trinkets


the omnipresent corporate cafes


the unchallenging brainless autotuned overprocessed media that fills your screens and airwaves


we've anaesthetised you like a Huxleyan Soma


with all the aroma of neatness and control


whilst the disorder of your anarchic nature has been pounding at your soul


we can never be like you


so we reduce you to simplicity


but you have sparks of divinity


you are married to infinity


we make you fear your imperfections


but in fact they are the diamond of your being


and they will always offer unimaginable variations


you have forgotten how to dream


because we have removed it from your language


but there are things inside you that are mysterious and magical and impossible to explain


and if anything cannot be rationally explained then our machines will not compute


you are being watched, my friends


you are taxed livestock


you are numbers on our screens


and you are seeking little other than the peaceful parade of pictures on screens


the tranquil melody of corporate lullaby


this is an invitation


put down your newspapers


turn off your tvs


because there is a war being waged for your minds


and you're starting to feel scared


you're starting to forget just how free and powerful you really are


deep inside you there is a roaring fire


that is not cooled by comfort or tamed by fear


a fire that burns in all things


a fire that can drag your fellow beings out of stagnant waters


and re-imagine your world with no leader or station


no grants from rich foundations


a world that is not made of atoms but stories


a world that shifts its shape with every passing daydream that intervenes your daily routines


and the narcotic moments of creative bliss


the bizarre stomach flutterings with the lovers you kiss


the complex structures you devise


and the endless nights shooting stars into your eyes


there are trails of light in your collective dreams


there is sentience in your discarded machines


everything in this world is intoxicating


everything is on fire all the time


and you are bound only by the limits of your imagination everything else will follow


the world will follow


as above so below


a new heaven and a new earth


END UPDATE:-------------------------------------------------


As you may or may not know, we are making a REPRISE of wirrow's 'and a new earth' for our show at Sundance this month.  


The original video has text recited by a computer and wirrow astutely added subtitles so viewers can read along with the computer's voice. 


My idea is, instead of giving our REPRISE a plain subtitle at the bottom, what if each line of the text has it's own typographical treatment that can pop on and off all over the screen! 


Here's what to do: 



  • Select a line from the text and design titles for that line.  Be as creative as you want with whatever colors and fonts and maybe other little iconic graphics.

  • Make it large enough so it can fill the screen if need be, the aspect ratio of the video is 16x9. 

  • Make sure your text is on a transparent background so it can be superimposed over the video.


 


Thanks Again,


 


<3

 


J

 
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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

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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 

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*UPDATE*


VOCAL PERFORMERS: Having heard a bunch of contributions layered on top of each other, I realize what we really need is PRECISION so that the words remain intelligible.  Let's make our recitations (I'm gonna do one soon now that I'm back in the REC Room) as close as possible to the original computer generated recitation.


Here's a link to the original video -- http://www.hitrecord.org/records/141257


And here's a link to the words transcribed -- http://www.hitrecord.org/records/142571


 


VIDEO ARTISTS: CameronSmith and Kavonne have done great early versions of a video for this.  Watch those.  And let's find more footage along the lines of what they've got going.  Whether you actually cut video or not, you can really help with this.  MAKE AN ALBUM, go through the site, find appropriate video clips.  It'll be even more helpful if you write in your album's description which clips you think might go well with which part of the text, even specifying times in the videos, like for example, "This clip from 3:53 to 4:07 would go well with the part of the text that goes 'you have forgotten how to dream because we have removed it from your language.'"


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You might know our record "and a new earth", it is definitely one of the most impactful short films to have come out of HITRECORD and we play it at all of our shows. I was thinking that Sundance 2012 is a great reason for us to make another version of it!


I absolutely love the original, it's a beautiful piece both in style and in substance.  wirrow wrote the text and set it to a timelapse from the site while adding an instrumental track that he had made. The simplicity of it is what makes it so impactful. (here is the link to the original or you can check the resources below. http://hitrecord.org/records/141257 )


But I've always wondered what it would be like if we took it to the next step because I feel this piece is really conducive to our mass collaborative creative process. 


So here's what to do: 



  • Vocal Artists, Actors, Poets - record yourself reading the text of the original video.  You can read it however you like, but it may be that the more similar to the original the better.  Be as close as possible to the original.

  • Audio Mixers - Mix together a large creative combination using these different recordings of everyone reading the text. 

  • Video Editors - Let's start providing and editing visuals into a big montage that corresponds to the text. Remember, sometimes it's not the most literal connection that is best, but maybe something less obvious that still provokes the same sentiment as the text. 


I wanna screen this at Sundance, we've got about a month... so let's get to work. 


Thanks again 


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