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Short Film: Balance

September 8, 2009

Over the course of the last few weeks I’ve been working on a short film for my film creation class (a pretty cool free elective). First I had to come up with a story and pitch it to the professor and the rest of the class, and they’d give suggestions. The film was not free topic. We were assigned the topic (a single word) pretty much randomly by other students. My word was “balance”. We were given a few restrictions by the professor, namely a one-minute running time and no dialogue allowed (including on-screen text). My story is about a man who works as a tightrope walker, who has perfect balance at work, but his personal life is in shambles. So with a couple of weeks to make this short film, and a pretty difficult-to-film concept, I decided to film using my old Legos. I present to you my finished work, Balance. If you find yourself not understanding it, give it a few watches and pay attention to detail. I tried to cram so much into that one minute that you might not be able soak it all in the first time.

Comments are appreciated :D

9 Comments leave one →
  1. Mely permalink
    September 8, 2009 1:41 pm

    Babe it’s awesome! Yesterday’s hard work paid off.

  2. Rey permalink
    September 8, 2009 4:58 pm

    This was great. Not very hard to understand once you get the gist of it, and it’s pretty good. I found a lot of it funny, Idunno if that was intended, but I definitely liked it. Nicely done, dude.

  3. Zuna permalink
    September 8, 2009 10:15 pm

    Love it! Like I mentioned to you before, I’ve loved your imagination since we were five years old! :D

  4. September 8, 2009 11:22 pm

    @Mely it did take forever to edit… :D

    @Rey The comedy was completely intentional. I see the film as a black comedy.

    @Zuna Thanks :)

  5. September 9, 2009 6:54 pm

    Manses, I adored it! We shall screen it and be all sad when the pudding is gone… All in all, it was great! I hope you got a good grade.

  6. September 11, 2009 9:29 pm

    Wow de que Brutal!!! eso fue con muchas still pictures??? :| Yo quiero intentarlo!!!!! :)

  7. September 11, 2009 10:25 pm

    Yep. It took like 450 photos for that clip. It was tedious, but fun.

  8. Coral permalink
    September 15, 2009 3:24 pm

    this is really great, damian!

    stop motion totally rocks. congrats on your short film.

  9. Alexander permalink
    October 27, 2009 1:13 pm

    haha Nice! and very true.

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