Wearable Art Intermission
Monday, February 20th, 2006 by Pat
Lou, Aaron and I spent around ten hours on Saturday frantically putting together an intermission DVD for the annual JAHC Wearable Art Show. I missed a lot of the show because we arrived about five minutes before intermission but I did get to see the glass dress David Walker put together and I always get a kick out of seeing Costa on stage. She kicks ass.
For our part we included a bundle of previously screened JUMP Society films and also created several original short sequences. The new bits were all done using word balloons because we weren’t supposed to actually hold people’s attention.
It was a strange thing to make an intermission show because it was a show that no one was actually supposed to watch. They were supposed to go out to the lobby and bid on auction items. The lights came up, the films went on and everyone milled around and talked. Announcements were made over the top of our audio and there weren’t too many people paying attention. It was just like any other intermission and it was exactly what I expected but for some reason it still sucked. I don’t usually think of myself as being a particularly needy artist but it was a lame experience.
On the upside we had a great time putting everything together in our usual last minute scramble of frantic creativity. We ended up with a batch of five short segments and I was pleased with the final products and the process. A tip of a very large hat to Katie White who helped us film and brought us food… and beverages… and limes.
In the films we used word balloons because we knew there was a chance we wouldn’t have sound. The word balloons gave us the idea to put huge heads on tiny bodies so we would look more cartoony. We dug through the quote bucket and pulled some gems for dialogue and then slapped the whole thing together learning while we went. The sploding segment was in reference to a recent front page article in the Empire about exploding birds. We also included a nod to the lonely island dudes with the sploding high five.
I really want to go back now that we’ve made these hasty clips and clean up the process. The timing on the word balloons was a little rough but we’ll get rid of them in the next round. I’m also thinking big hands and feet might be cool.
