Star Wars Uncut!

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Hey! Are any other Arisians working on scenes for Empire Strikes Back Uncut? I was wondering if there are enough of us to have a meetup or something.

The idea is this: ESB gets sliced up into 15-second chunks, and each one is recreated by a different filmmaker, using any method they like: action figures, Lego minifigs, computer animation, traditional animation, pencil sketches, cats, dogs, ferrets, terrible costumes, excellent costumes, excellent terrible costumes, puppets, adorable children, greenscreening, machinima, rotoscoping, repurposed footage, shop vacs, stop motion, fast motion, slow motion, no motion, instant messaging, an Oscar statuette, a hamburger, or My Little Ponies. Then the chunks get reassembled, John Williams's score is added back in, and you have a remarkable — and distinctly odd — video experience. I just finished and uploaded my scene last night (with the help of my friends, including three other Arisians), and I had such a blast doing it.

They did the same for Star Wars, and the final product was screened at the Brattle this summer. (You can watch it online, too.) It's one of the most buoyant, innovative, purest expressions of fandom I've seen. I guess it's too late to suggest programming for Arisia 2013, but it'd be a great video to watch with a roomful of con people, and it's free to screen if it's not-for-profit.

Comments

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Perhaps both SW and ESB can get slated for 2014

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I would be very surprised if it's too late to get that Star Wars shown at Arisia. Even if the video program has already been made, it could be changed for a good reason. (I think this is a good reason, but it's not my call. Wouldn't hurt for you to ask the appropriate people, anyway. :)

[saichick.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I'm technically incompetent, but I vote for trying to get it screened at 2013 if possible. I just watched Episode IV and laughed my rear end off!

[pryder]

The person running the video program has lots of scheduling leeway at this point; the convention probably doesn't have the entire schedule done, just knows when video will be running. So that could certainly happen.

The problem is that SWU is likely to draw far too big a crowd for the video room; it should be scheduled as a special event in some large space like a ballroom, and that space has to have a video projector designed for such a space. The technology exists at Arisia; whether the schedule space does, I couldn't say. This would be in the events department, not programming, different people and different deadlines.

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Thank you; that's very helpful. I'll drop them both a note, and if they think it's too late for 2013 I'll try to be more on the ball for 2014.