Format: 16 mm Length: 2:08 min. Completed: 2 July 2008 Budget: $145.00 Log line A Gusanitos De Risi commercial: Red Beard The Terrible is shipwrecked on Treasure Island but survives starvation by eating his precious cheesy maggots he hid there in a mysterious chest. Blog Pre-Production This probably has to be the most retarded film I ever made. Mainly because of the labor I forced upon my family and friends. But more because of how retarded it is. Back in 2004, during a break between semesters I visited friends studying abroad in Madrid. Hungry, poor, and packed like sardines on a sticky bus ride to the port that leads us to Morocco. A bus stop vending machine led me to the discovery of "De Risi Los Gusanitos." Cheesy snack puffs that weren't as good as the retarded artwork on the bag, and it also had a lame pirate shanty on the back in Spanish which helped us endure the remaining bus ride as I sung it out loud in a pirate voice. A year later Cavanaugh, funny red haired dude, and I had a film special effects class together. I still had the plastic wrapper which I wanted to do a Japander style commercial. Basically, super colorful sparkly shit that makes no sense. Convinced this was a good idea for a final project Cavanaugh used rolls of film meant for his final film from another class (I think he might of failed because of this). And we shot six rolls of this blue screen madness. There was never a script, I just wanted to do the song and have it be like a like a Captain Crunch commerical. So we made some story boards where Red Beard wakes up starving and then hunts down and eats all the Gusanitos. After me and Cavanaugh got kicked off the beach when we shot some video story boards. We knew there was no way we could film at the beach. So my dad and brothers hauled two tons of sand ($60.00) and piled it ontop of our old garage which we dismantled and made into a hollow island in our backyard that we could shoot from all sides. The blue screen was four 4x8 sheets of insulation (from the garbage) painted blue. The rest of the budget was spent on fabric for the pirate's costume, makeup, gold tooth, and paper and plaster of Paris for the palm tree trunk. I made the worms out of 'borrowed' foam water noodles and plastic buttons for eyes, and the treasure chest was made out of scrap wood. Production We shot in January of 2005, below zero weather. We shot this in four days. Each day was a direction: North, West, East, South, and it all depended on which direction the sunlight hits the character and the island. Cavanaugh would take the camera inside to keep it from fogging up. And Dylan had to act the whole thing without breathing otherwisew we would see his breath. And we all had to go inside every hour to keep our limbs from going numb. We spent about four days shooting using the indirect sunlight to light our blue screen (we didn't have enough lights). The abuse to my older brother continued: to make it look like he had one leg I attached a plunger to an old wet suit and had dylan put his leg in knee first. This looked great but he would lose all circulation in about 20 min. So that one wide shot where he's running after the worms. He wasn't meant to fall. The plunger couldn't hold his weight. But the reults are much funnier. All the background elements: the water, the sky, the clouds, the sinking ship, etc. were shot separately using black back drops or blue screens. If we had more time it would have been smart and more stylish to have shot the island and the character in front of set with cut-out waves, painted sky, and polyester clouds. Post-Production The big mistake I made was not making the music first, and this film is basically a musical. Editing it was a bitch. The music wasn't even made until two years later. I had to first teach myself how to use Logic Pro and write some pirate shanties, Stan Hugil's Shanties From the Seven Seas was extremely helpful. It also helped to have a musically talented family to lay down some vocals and a sweet mandolin track. For the death march song, I had friends sing "What will we do with a drunken sailor," then reversed it. The background elements were luma or chrome keyed out, and then digitally stitched and animated together. My Computer almost died from the rendering, and 16 mm is too grainy making it near impossible to get clean separation between foreground and blue - so most everything was masked out. Months maybe even a year later Cavanaugh recorded sound effects, and re shot more translucent looking water (cellophane on top of painted waves), and I shot some condensed milk in water (for the moving storm clouds) as well as re shot the sinking ship (got a larger model to pick up more detail). Four years later I finished the titles and the mix. I sent a copy to De Risi in Madrid just for kicks. Never heard back from them...

Format: 16 mm Length: 2:08 min. Completed: 2 July 2008 Budget: $145.00 Log line A Gusanitos De Risi commercial: Red Beard The Terrible is shipwrecked on Treasure Island but survives starvation by eating his precious cheesy maggots he hid there in a mysterious chest. Blog Pre-Production This probably has to be the most retarded film I ever made. Mainly because of the labor I forced upon my family and friends. But more because of how retarded it is. Back in 2004, during a break between semesters I visited friends studying abroad in Madrid. Hungry, poor, and packed like sardines on a sticky bus ride to the port that leads us to Morocco. A bus stop vending machine led me to the discovery of "De Risi Los Gusanitos." Cheesy snack puffs that weren't as good as the retarded artwork on the bag, and it also had a lame pirate shanty on the back in Spanish which helped us endure the remaining bus ride as I sung it out loud in a pirate voice. A year later Cavanaugh, funny red haired dude, and I had a film special effects class together. I still had the plastic wrapper which I wanted to do a Japander style commercial. Basically, super colorful sparkly shit that makes no sense. Convinced this was a good idea for a final project Cavanaugh used rolls of film meant for his final film from another class (I think he might of failed because of this). And we shot six rolls of this blue screen madness. There was never a script, I just wanted to do the song and have it be like a like a Captain Crunch commerical. So we made some story boards where Red Beard wakes up starving and then hunts down and eats all the Gusanitos. After me and Cavanaugh got kicked off the beach when we shot some video story boards. We knew there was no way we could film at the beach. So my dad and brothers hauled two tons of sand ($60.00) and piled it ontop of our old garage which we dismantled and made into a hollow island in our backyard that we could shoot from all sides. The blue screen was four 4x8 sheets of insulation (from the garbage) painted blue. The rest of the budget was spent on fabric for the pirate's costume, makeup, gold tooth, and paper and plaster of Paris for the palm tree trunk. I made the worms out of 'borrowed' foam water noodles and plastic buttons for eyes, and the treasure chest was made out of scrap wood. Production We shot in January of 2005, below zero weather. We shot this in four days. Each day was a direction: North, West, East, South, and it all depended on which direction the sunlight hits the character and the island. Cavanaugh would take the camera inside to keep it from fogging up. And Dylan had to act the whole thing without breathing otherwisew we would see his breath. And we all had to go inside every hour to keep our limbs from going numb. We spent about four days shooting using the indirect sunlight to light our blue screen (we didn't have enough lights). The abuse to my older brother continued: to make it look like he had one leg I attached a plunger to an old wet suit and had dylan put his leg in knee first. This looked great but he would lose all circulation in about 20 min. So that one wide shot where he's running after the worms. He wasn't meant to fall. The plunger couldn't hold his weight. But the reults are much funnier. All the background elements: the water, the sky, the clouds, the sinking ship, etc. were shot separately using black back drops or blue screens. If we had more time it would have been smart and more stylish to have shot the island and the character in front of set with cut-out waves, painted sky, and polyester clouds. Post-Production The big mistake I made was not making the music first, and this film is basically a musical. Editing it was a bitch. The music wasn't even made until two years later. I had to first teach myself how to use Logic Pro and write some pirate shanties, Stan Hugil's Shanties From the Seven Seas was extremely helpful. It also helped to have a musically talented family to lay down some vocals and a sweet mandolin track. For the death march song, I had friends sing "What will we do with a drunken sailor," then reversed it. The background elements were luma or chrome keyed out, and then digitally stitched and animated together. My Computer almost died from the rendering, and 16 mm is too grainy making it near impossible to get clean separation between foreground and blue - so most everything was masked out. Months maybe even a year later Cavanaugh recorded sound effects, and re shot more translucent looking water (cellophane on top of painted waves), and I shot some condensed milk in water (for the moving storm clouds) as well as re shot the sinking ship (got a larger model to pick up more detail). Four years later I finished the titles and the mix. I sent a copy to De Risi in Madrid just for kicks. Never heard back from them...

Format: 16 mm Length: 2:08 min. Completed: 2 July 2008 Budget: $145.00 Log line A Gusanitos De Risi commercial: Red Beard The Terrible is shipwrecked on Treasure Island but survives starvation by eating his precious cheesy maggots he hid there in a mysterious chest. Blog Pre-Production This probably has to be the most retarded film I ever made. Mainly because of the labor I forced upon my family and friends. But more because of how retarded it is. Back in 2004, during a break between semesters I visited friends studying abroad in Madrid. Hungry, poor, and packed like sardines on a sticky bus ride to the port that leads us to Morocco. A bus stop vending machine led me to the discovery of "De Risi Los Gusanitos." Cheesy snack puffs that weren't as good as the retarded artwork on the bag, and it also had a lame pirate shanty on the back in Spanish which helped us endure the remaining bus ride as I sung it out loud in a pirate voice. A year later Cavanaugh, funny red haired dude, and I had a film special effects class together. I still had the plastic wrapper which I wanted to do a Japander style commercial. Basically, super colorful sparkly shit that makes no sense. Convinced this was a good idea for a final project Cavanaugh used rolls of film meant for his final film from another class (I think he might of failed because of this). And we shot six rolls of this blue screen madness. There was never a script, I just wanted to do the song and have it be like a like a Captain Crunch commerical. So we made some story boards where Red Beard wakes up starving and then hunts down and eats all the Gusanitos. After me and Cavanaugh got kicked off the beach when we shot some video story boards. We knew there was no way we could film at the beach. So my dad and brothers hauled two tons of sand ($60.00) and piled it ontop of our old garage which we dismantled and made into a hollow island in our backyard that we could shoot from all sides. The blue screen was four 4x8 sheets of insulation (from the garbage) painted blue. The rest of the budget was spent on fabric for the pirate's costume, makeup, gold tooth, and paper and plaster of Paris for the palm tree trunk. I made the worms out of 'borrowed' foam water noodles and plastic buttons for eyes, and the treasure chest was made out of scrap wood. Production We shot in January of 2005, below zero weather. We shot this in four days. Each day was a direction: North, West, East, South, and it all depended on which direction the sunlight hits the character and the island. Cavanaugh would take the camera inside to keep it from fogging up. And Dylan had to act the whole thing without breathing otherwisew we would see his breath. And we all had to go inside every hour to keep our limbs from going numb. We spent about four days shooting using the indirect sunlight to light our blue screen (we didn't have enough lights). The abuse to my older brother continued: to make it look like he had one leg I attached a plunger to an old wet suit and had dylan put his leg in knee first. This looked great but he would lose all circulation in about 20 min. So that one wide shot where he's running after the worms. He wasn't meant to fall. The plunger couldn't hold his weight. But the reults are much funnier. All the background elements: the water, the sky, the clouds, the sinking ship, etc. were shot separately using black back drops or blue screens. If we had more time it would have been smart and more stylish to have shot the island and the character in front of set with cut-out waves, painted sky, and polyester clouds. Post-Production The big mistake I made was not making the music first, and this film is basically a musical. Editing it was a bitch. The music wasn't even made until two years later. I had to first teach myself how to use Logic Pro and write some pirate shanties, Stan Hugil's Shanties From the Seven Seas was extremely helpful. It also helped to have a musically talented family to lay down some vocals and a sweet mandolin track. For the death march song, I had friends sing "What will we do with a drunken sailor," then reversed it. The background elements were luma or chrome keyed out, and then digitally stitched and animated together. My Computer almost died from the rendering, and 16 mm is too grainy making it near impossible to get clean separation between foreground and blue - so most everything was masked out. Months maybe even a year later Cavanaugh recorded sound effects, and re shot more translucent looking water (cellophane on top of painted waves), and I shot some condensed milk in water (for the moving storm clouds) as well as re shot the sinking ship (got a larger model to pick up more detail). Four years later I finished the titles and the mix. I sent a copy to De Risi in Madrid just for kicks. Never heard back from them...

Format: 16 mm Length: 2:08 min. Completed: 2 July 2008 Budget: $145.00 Log line A Gusanitos De Risi commercial: Red Beard The Terrible is shipwrecked on Treasure Island but survives starvation by eating his precious cheesy maggots he hid there in a mysterious chest. Blog Pre-Production This probably has to be the most retarded film I ever made. Mainly because of the labor I forced upon my family and friends. But more because of how retarded it is. Back in 2004, during a break between semesters I visited friends studying abroad in Madrid. Hungry, poor, and packed like sardines on a sticky bus ride to the port that leads us to Morocco. A bus stop vending machine led me to the discovery of "De Risi Los Gusanitos." Cheesy snack puffs that weren't as good as the retarded artwork on the bag, and it also had a lame pirate shanty on the back in Spanish which helped us endure the remaining bus ride as I sung it out loud in a pirate voice. A year later Cavanaugh, funny red haired dude, and I had a film special effects class together. I still had the plastic wrapper which I wanted to do a Japander style commercial. Basically, super colorful sparkly shit that makes no sense. Convinced this was a good idea for a final project Cavanaugh used rolls of film meant for his final film from another class (I think he might of failed because of this). And we shot six rolls of this blue screen madness. There was never a script, I just wanted to do the song and have it be like a like a Captain Crunch commerical. So we made some story boards where Red Beard wakes up starving and then hunts down and eats all the Gusanitos. After me and Cavanaugh got kicked off the beach when we shot some video story boards. We knew there was no way we could film at the beach. So my dad and brothers hauled two tons of sand ($60.00) and piled it ontop of our old garage which we dismantled and made into a hollow island in our backyard that we could shoot from all sides. The blue screen was four 4x8 sheets of insulation (from the garbage) painted blue. The rest of the budget was spent on fabric for the pirate's costume, makeup, gold tooth, and paper and plaster of Paris for the palm tree trunk. I made the worms out of 'borrowed' foam water noodles and plastic buttons for eyes, and the treasure chest was made out of scrap wood. Production We shot in January of 2005, below zero weather. We shot this in four days. Each day was a direction: North, West, East, South, and it all depended on which direction the sunlight hits the character and the island. Cavanaugh would take the camera inside to keep it from fogging up. And Dylan had to act the whole thing without breathing otherwisew we would see his breath. And we all had to go inside every hour to keep our limbs from going numb. We spent about four days shooting using the indirect sunlight to light our blue screen (we didn't have enough lights). The abuse to my older brother continued: to make it look like he had one leg I attached a plunger to an old wet suit and had dylan put his leg in knee first. This looked great but he would lose all circulation in about 20 min. So that one wide shot where he's running after the worms. He wasn't meant to fall. The plunger couldn't hold his weight. But the reults are much funnier. All the background elements: the water, the sky, the clouds, the sinking ship, etc. were shot separately using black back drops or blue screens. If we had more time it would have been smart and more stylish to have shot the island and the character in front of set with cut-out waves, painted sky, and polyester clouds. Post-Production The big mistake I made was not making the music first, and this film is basically a musical. Editing it was a bitch. The music wasn't even made until two years later. I had to first teach myself how to use Logic Pro and write some pirate shanties, Stan Hugil's Shanties From the Seven Seas was extremely helpful. It also helped to have a musically talented family to lay down some vocals and a sweet mandolin track. For the death march song, I had friends sing "What will we do with a drunken sailor," then reversed it. The background elements were luma or chrome keyed out, and then digitally stitched and animated together. My Computer almost died from the rendering, and 16 mm is too grainy making it near impossible to get clean separation between foreground and blue - so most everything was masked out. Months maybe even a year later Cavanaugh recorded sound effects, and re shot more translucent looking water (cellophane on top of painted waves), and I shot some condensed milk in water (for the moving storm clouds) as well as re shot the sinking ship (got a larger model to pick up more detail). Four years later I finished the titles and the mix. I sent a copy to De Risi in Madrid just for kicks. Never heard back from them...