School Blog: Project: CCR Production

This is the production process of both my CCRs.

My main two ideas are a CEO showing the viewer around his research facility while talking about his film, and the other idea is a simple interview style talk show using sock puppets.

Concepts

For the 1st CCR, the CEO idea, I needed three sets since the CEO will be walking and traveling around: A couch room where the three new interns are being briefed by the bored instructor, a hallway where the CEO/me will be talking about his work while crazy things happen in the background, and another empty hall with a gate. There is also a small little box that the CEO will be riding in as a cart (This helps with making animating easier since making Stikbots walk is time consuming).

I will be using the same materials as always: Cardboard, paint, plastic, duct tape, super glue, and paper tape.

For the 2nd CCR, the sock puppet show, it is simply just one set. It will just be a box painted, super glued, and cut out (for lights).

The puppets themselves will just be ordinary socks with either googly eyes or styrofoam balls glued for eyes. And the interviewer puppet will have fuzzy sticks as arms to hold a piece of paper he has filled with the questions he wants to ask me.

Making the sets

Creating the sets are pretty straightforward. I am just using cardboard and paper tape to put it all together. Especially for the insides for the windows so that the inside of the cut out cardboard isn't seen.

The only main problem I came across was that the cardboard kept falling backwards, so I had to create this little cardboard extension, using a weight like a metal water bottle to keep it standing. Not for the second set since it was small enough to stand on its own, but the bigger one needed some sort of stand to keep it upright.

I'm pretty sure there are better ways to approach this, but I am working with a very tight production and shooting schedule (This is the last week for working on the project). So if it looks stupid but works, then its not stupid.

I decide to not do the third set because of time and its unnecessary. After all it is just a plain white room, which I can probably easily replace with a white cardboard background by reusing one of these sets.

The puppets were easy to make. They are just socks with either styrofoam balls or googly eyes glued on. There are only a few problems I came across, the main one was that the third puppet at the back (Who I call Mr. Cheetos), googly eyes kept falling off. So if they fall off one more time then I'll replace the eyes with styrofoam balls.

The other problems are just stuff I am missing. Like tape for the arms for the host puppet to hold his paper, and red colored paper for his bowtie. But generally most of these problems are very minor and easily solvable when I get back home.