*CONTAINS SPOILERS*

This week, I went to the movies and saw A Quiet Place. I’m not a horror gal- like, AT ALL, but I still really really enjoyed the film because I love apocalypse stuff, as well as when scary things have real purpose. I chose to do the Swede a Scene assignment and took some creative freedom. The movie is quite difficult recreate, but I was inspired by the opening scene when the family is tiptoeing around the store, and she’s quietly searching through the medicine bottles to get her son some medicine.

I tried my best to take some creative shots of me tiptoeing around, as well as picking up pill bottles slowly and methodically. I chose not to edit the scenes too much because things in the movie are very drawn out since they have to take their time and think about absolutely everything so they don’t make a noise.

I also took some creative freedom since it was only me doing this and did things like brushed my teeth and turned the water on- things that seem so simple to us now but wouldn’t be to them. For instance, when I swallowed the pill, I chose to dry swallow it because if I was that character, turning on the water wouldn’t be worth potentially making too much noise and dying over it.

At the end, there is a clip of my phone ringing after I leave the room and start doing other things. After it rings for a bit, the screen goes to black and you hear the noise of a monster. This is meant to symbolize when the little boy dies after turning on the rocket in the first few minutes of the movie. I don’t think the characters would be naive enough to keep their ringers on, but I wanted to keep the noise coming from a technological source, just like the toy rocket.

I’m WELL aware this video isn’t great but I really really tried on it and did everything to the best of my ability since I was working alone.

So I did the “Swede a Scene” assignment, which was o recreate a scene from a movie in any way you could. So since I like to draw, I broke out my wacom tablet and story-boarded a scene from the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde movie, replacing Clyde with Cleo. In all I ended up with 33 frames drawn, and each one took about 5-10 minutes to do. I uploaded all the frames to a folder on flickr too if you’d like to look at them individually. Some of them don’t look the best but overall I’m in love with them!

What I did first was use gifcam to capture the frames of the video that I wanted to use. At the point where Clyde comes out of the store with the money you can see I just recorded that little bit because it was too tough to pause at the frames I wanted. Then I took the gif into photoshop where I drew the new frames on top of the old ones. The technique is called rotoscoping. Typically it’s used for full on animating something frame by frame but that would have taken me all week to do. You can see in the frame below that I didn’t follow exactly how the actors were posed. I kind of went with what felt right.

I had everything separated into groups. The original frames were a group on their own and then the gray backdrop pieces I drew in and then a group just for the characters. I had a white layer set to 50% opacity over top of the original frames while I was drawing, to make it easier to see the black lines I was drawing.  Then once I had finished it I just saved every frame as a jpeg and put it into moviemaker. Then I downloaded the audio from the original scene, and all that was left to do was figure out the timing of each frame.

Over the semester I’d kind of been doodling ideas for character design for these girls. I liked Bonnie with short curly hair and a rounder face shape and round eyes to make her seem more friendly and kinda spunky. Then for Cleo I wanted sharper features to make her more mysterious, kind of.

The Wire Sweded

The scene that I decided to swede from The Wire was from Season 2. I’ve talked about this scene during my group’s radio show and am including it again because I love the dialogue in it so much. The scene involves Ziggy and his infamous Italian leather jacket.

Because of the cold treacherous weather, me and my roommates, who volunteered as actors decided to film our apartment. We included the wonderful leather jacket as a prop. To recreate the scene, I filmed some of the dialogue on focused/up-close shots. I did this so my roommates wouldn’t have to memorize all the lines and could recite them bit by bit. For the background noise I included dock sounds which I found on Free Sound. The footsteps on gravel are also from Free Sound, and give an outdoorsy/authentic feel to the scene.

Filming this was very fun, as some of my roommates tried to imitate Nick and Ziggy’s accents. Watch our recreated scene below!

For the Swede a Scene assignment I worked with Syd and we redid the opening scene of Season 3 Episode 11. Thanks to my house mate for filming the scene it turned out pretty decent. I do not think I have any chance at an acting career but you never know what will happen. After we recorded it we used windows live movie maker to edit it and then we added a few sound affects to make it like the actual scene. It took us a lot of takes mainly because I messed up and laughed a lot but here it is:

YouTube is doing something funky with a “warping” kind of effect that I can’t figure out, but here it is.  I think I’ll try uploading to Vimeo next time and see if that improves things.   I went with Season 1 Episode 5 “The Pager” for the Swede video assignment since it’s one of my […]

For this assignment, I worked with Travis. We decided to do the scene where Brother Mouzone finds Omar. It was a lot of fun filming this despite technical difficulties when all three of our phones died. We used Movie Maker to clip and edit the pieces of the film and then added sounds using freesound.org. Shout out to our friend John for filming and directing.

Enjoy!

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/swede-a-scene/

4.5 Stars

Apart from my trust laptop, I pulled some minifigs and some pieces out of my LEGO box and tried my best to re-position the two to make it seem as though they were talking. Along with that, I also had my Desktop running the actual scene in the background. I would have tried doing the speech myself, but I tried and kept stumbling on the lines. Overall, I think it went pretty well overall.

I chose this scene because I rather enjoyed it. Marlow is an interesting character right now, and Prop Joe is always a cool character. This scene really reinforced the idea that Marlow feels like he is invincible at the moment. This always strikes me as completely contrary to how the other drug dealers think he is. You hear a bunch of them talking as though he is young and inexperienced, but his crew seems to be rather tight at the moment. Furthermore, he has the best muscle out on the streets. Personally, this talk was just cool to me.

Let me know what you think! This was take number three for this video!