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Forums - Bricks in Motion » General Film Discussion » What was the first kind of film you made before brickfilming?
Like, what did you start out doing? ^^
I first started out doing Music videos, then random live action shorts, then brickfilming. I also do live action short films now. Yourself?
I put plastic toy dinosaurs on wires, waved them around in front of the camera in my yard / house, and voiced them off-camera for my first video made for a 2nd grade school project, Super Iguanodon.
Having enjoyed creating Super Iguanodon, I would later follow it with the aptly named sequel, Super Iguanodon 2.
I didn't really have any filmmaking interests before I started brickfilming.
I put plastic toy dinosaurs on wires, waved them around in front of the camera in my yard / house, and voiced them off-camera for my first video made for a 2nd grade school project, Super Iguanodon.
Having enjoyed creating Super Iguanodon, I would later follow it with the aptly named sequel, Super Iguanodon 2.
Wow, that's pretty interesting. I never really could use a camera when I was younger. x) My parents wouldn't let me. But I finally did get a camera of my own in 2007, but it was a web cam. Off of that, I made "Music videos" by randomly dancing in front of it with a friend, and lip singing the song. xD Good times...
Do you still have Super Iguanodon, or is it lost in time?
I think there's an old VHS tape of it somewhere.
I also made some stuff with a program called 3D Movie Maker around the same time and later. It was fun software. I started doing little stop-motion clips with LEGO in 2nd grade as well, though, probably around the same time I made "Super Iguanodon," though I didn't really make a complete brickfilm with a story and such until I got LEGO studios a few years later.
I think there's an old VHS tape of it somewhere.
I also made some stuff with a program called 3D Movie Maker around the same time and later. It was fun software. I started doing little stop-motion clips with LEGO in 2nd grade as well, though, probably around the same time I made "Super Iguanodon," though I didn't really make a complete brickfilm with a story and such until I got LEGO studios a few years later.
I see. I never heard of that software before, but it sounds neat. I started doing little brickfilms with my web camera late 2007, but I can still recall my very first stop motion...it was with Star Wars PEZ people. xD Frames per second where most likely 4 or 5 or something.
So were you always interested in filmmaking or animation as a career, or is it only a hobby you like doing?
I filmed myself playing with my Batman dolls. I didn't even attempt at doing animation, my hands were all over the screen.
I filmed myself playing with my Batman dolls. I didn't even attempt at doing animation, my hands were all over the screen.
Interesting! 
How long ago was that?
Infurno wrote:I filmed myself playing with my Batman dolls. I didn't even attempt at doing animation, my hands were all over the screen.
Interesting!
How long ago was that?
I think it was when I was about 8 years old. It was sometime before Lego Studios was released. The sets were drawings that I drew myself and then put the characters in front of it. Same for the props, except for the ones I had. Like the batmobile. I can't recall the story anymore, but I remember that I used some creative techniques to do effects. In one shot, I wanted to have Batman jump and I managed to keep my hands outside the frame. I attached a small wire to the doll, overexposed the set a bit and then filmed in front of a white background, so wire was practically invisible. I wasn't able to do editing, this was recorded immediatly on VHS so for the titles I came up with a simple idea. I wrote them in MS Word, printed them and then pasted them onto my closet and then I tilted the camera from top to bottom over the titles, so I looked like the credits were actually scrolling on screen.
I don't know if I still have the original VHS, I haven't watched at my old VHS's for ages. I think I'll go and have a look when I'm back home.
@Infurno:
Well that's very interesting. And it actually sounds like something I would watch. x) For my first Lego videos, I drew a background as well...and I didn't use any platform to make them walk, just my desk surface, which I made a "ground" for. I recall wanting to make a ship (Jedi Starfighter) take off...so I tied fishing wire to it to make it do the trick. Looked pretty good at the time. But that was only about 2 years ago. x) I am fairly new to animation, I guess.
What you did sounds pretty creative! 
This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idNuwbp8Cb4 was the first film I ever made with my friends. After that I started making videos about my dog, with xfiles music in the background, then I created gameplay videos. Then I moved onto stop motion with lego.
This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idNuwbp8Cb4 was the first film I ever made with my friends. After that I started making videos about my dog, with xfiles music in the background, then I created gameplay videos. Then I moved onto stop motion with lego.
I watched the video, and lol. xD That was funny. Did you play a part?
I made parodies of films.
One I did was "California Jones". It sucked so bad, I will barf if I watch it again. 
I made parodies of films.
One I did was "California Jones". It sucked so bad, I will barf if I watch it again.
LOL. 
That sounds pretty bad.
I took clips of my siblings and I doing weird things, sped it up, gave it a somewhat sensible title and played it to my hearts content. 
Power Rangers movie with my friends it sucked olol.
I made stuff with my dad while we were in the US, about toy animals at a near by park when I was like 4-5. And I voiced it all with an over the top Steve Irwin impression.
"Oh crikey! a wild plastic tiger, better stay back dad!"
I used Paint.net to make a cool yet really bad, 2-D animation, I have it somewhere.... If I find it, you'll see it
Stop-motion animations were actually my first videos. I had an analog video camera, and would take frames by recording, then stopping, then recording again. Better than most the stuff on YouTube.
In about 2006, Before i started Brickfilming, i made 'Live-action-Stuff'.
It was more likely a serie. Every day, i hosted a little 2 minutes long serie at my old Website.
It really stinked. Me and my Friend was 'Trying' to be serious, But it always turned out, in the last 20 Seconds to:
''I loove my Baaarrrtthhh''.
The show did never get popular, as you can assume.
-Jack.
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