Dia de los Muertos

I finally broke down and purchased the computer and software I need to become that great independent director I always wanted to be.

Ok, so I really never wanted to be a great director, or even an indy filmmaker until relatively recently, but I do really want to be fairly lazy. By which I mean, I don't want to drive to campus every day and walk a million miles to school because parking is terrible, only to find out that there are "issues" with the computers in the library and I can't get on. This has become problematic with the podcasting I'm doing this fall, and there really aren't enough hours in the day.

Anyhow, I finally bought my sweet-ass computer and all the fancy software to work from home. It's pretty great. And the first thing I worked on (to try everything out, obviously) was the old movie from last year, Dia de los Muertos. You remember: my terrible attempt at stop motion animation with a skeleton puppet?

[See if you can locate R. Batty lurking about.]

And for those of you who say: "This is terrible filmmaking. How in the hell did they even let you near a camera??"

I say, You're Right. It is terrible filmmaking (on a Bolex, with 16mm film, thanks, and I didn't use a filter for the outside shots because I wanted them to go blue, and yes I realize *now* that the sight guard was open the whole time, but actually it worked out because the f-stop was totally open and it's still pretty dark), but it's my first attempt to do anything film/video related. Ever.

And Batty put me in my place about wanting to use my new fancy software to do fancy editing. I have not gone George Lucas on this. I am reproducing it in its entirety (but now with fun titles and music!).