Last year, during March Break, Devon and I had
a lot of fun making a stop motion animation film using lots of his Lego
characters! Have you seen Devon’s Joke 2017???
This year, we were inspired to make another
stop motion animation film! One that was
even better than last year’s film!!
The idea began to form some time in February. Devon and I took a pocketful of his allowance
money to a toy store, to look for a new toy to buy. We found a really fun building set that would
let him build all sorts of dinosaurs! It
has plastic pieces, metal pieces and lots of metal brackets that had to be
bolted together using an assortment of small bolts and two kinds of nuts. It took us a few days to build the first
dinosaur – a T-rex! Once it was built, a
spark of imagination took hold in my mind!!
Devon and I began talking about how it would be
really funny to make a part of our movie look like he was building the
dinosaur. The dinosaur was to be the
main character in our film. He was going
to be the joke teller. I told Devon that
it would be very difficult to do a good job making it look like he was building
the dinosaur, if we started with a pile of building pieces. I told him that it would look really cool if
we filmed the dinosaur being taken apart and then played those bits of film
backwards!!! We discussed this concept a
few times during the weeks leading to March Break – I wanted him to fully
understand what it was that we would be doing!
That was about the only preparation we had when
we began the project!
March Break started and the very next day, we
began to work on the film. But what
would we do at the beginning? What would
the joke be? Who would hear the
dinosaur’s joke? How would we end the
film? We had no idea!
Just like last year’s joke, Devon and I just
made it up as we went along. That was
what made this project so much fun – how it was completely spontaneous!
Since Devon is learning how to play the piano,
we decided to film him playing a short song as our introduction. It was during the filming of this part when
we thought that it would be funny to show his collection of paper robots
climbing over top of his piano while he was playing it, so they could gather
together on the table – ready to hear the joke!
We had to use our imagination and a bit of ingenuity to make it look
like the paper robots were jumping off of the piano, onto the tabletop!
Then – before the joke was told – we had to
figure out what joke we wanted to tell.
We spent the next half hour reading jokes from Devon’s Chickadee
magazine and we finally settled on a joke that ended up talking about Moose-tery
movies! Once we made this decision and
idea sparked in my mind about how we would end our film. Since Devon has grown to love Scooby-Doo, I
thought that it would be funny to use this idea to end our film.
We filmed most of the movie in just one afternoon! We decided to take a break and film the
‘backwards’ part of the film – Devon building the T-rex – the next day!
It took me almost three afternoons to put the
film together. All the editing! Adding sound effects to all the voices to
make the characters sound like robots!
Adding additional music to the movie to make it more fun! And finding a small clip of audio from a
Scooby-Doo DVD to end the film! A lot of
work!!
So – with no further adieu…. I present to you….
Please enjoy!!!!
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