Ok, so that title is only part true. Being part of the week long Boris Karlof Blogathon, celebrating Mr Karloff's birthday on 23rd November, I'm given a chance to drag out a film I made during the first year of my animation degree. Before I get into it, please remember to take some time to check out all the contributing blogger's posts, a full list can be found on Frankensteinia's blog. There are some great additions on there honouring a great man.
So back to my animation degree and the year 2002. The task was to complete a short narrative piece, an animatic to be precise (An animatic is basically a filmed storyboard)to teach us how to tell a story with pictures. After thinking long and hard I decided to base mine on the story 'An Appointment in Samara" Not only is it a cool little story but I could also get Boris Karloff to narrate my film. Obviously as this was a project and I made no money from it (copyright notice covered there) I lifted said narration from the Peter Bogdanovich film "Targets" in which Karloff, as Byron Orlok, recites the story.
So I edited down the narration, created the storyboard and presented my work. Unfortunately it was under appreciated as the lecturers felt I was relying too much on the the narration rather than the visuals. In hindsight, they may have been right, but who cares. With Boris Karloff telling the story, you're guaranteed to end up focusing more on him than my rough sketches.
so for your pleasure, and if you can bear through a couple of my early works, you can watch the animatic I created for "An appointment in Samara"
And below is the scene from which the narration was taken, from the Peter Bogdanovich film Targets.
To finish off with here's a clip from The Bride of Frankenstein. It is the end so hopefully you've already seen the film. It's just a really cool moment in film and one of my favourites
On that pleasant note go and check out Brother Chris blog and, the rest of the participants, to share the love for a movie legend at Frankensteinia's blog.
Happy Birthday Mr. Karloff.
1 comment:
I'm unacountably late to the working through the Boris Karloff blogathon links, but in case you're still thinking of an animation of Appointment in Samara, there's a longer version of Boris Karloff narrating this, in hi-fidelity stereo, on his LP "Tales of the Frightened." It's an orphaned work, copyright-wise, and widely available on sharity blogs, torrents, and RapidShare.
I'd love to see a full kinematic, or even a finished animation, especially in light of recent events in Iraq. Done right -- and I've no reason to think you couldn't do it -- this could be amazingly powerful.
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