“Fridge” – short film
What a wonderful way to end the year and start a new one, doing a project I’m enthusiastic about. The project is called “Fridge” and it’s directed by David Green and produced by Ryan Hendricks. “Fridge” tells the story of a community of refrigerator inhabitants and their valiant and noble struggle against a mortal foe – a baleful and metastatic ice that threatens to enshrine them if they don’t act quickly.
The bulk of the movie takes place inside a diminutive refrigerator. Shots we couldn’t get with the real fridge were shot using a small “set”. It should be noted that all our little “actors” are being puppeteered by either Ryan or David with me lending a hand on a rare occasion to work the wires. Also, since someone asked, this project isn’t stop action.
To light our little actors, we used a large array of LED “throwies” (see image below for more notes). We’re in the middle of shooting right now – I’ll add more in next year’s blog.
↑↑ LIke Patton and Marshall planning the field of battle, David (dir) and Ryan (prod) map out the day.
↑↑ The fridge during the recce, notice the ice beast
↑→ To get all the angles we needed, we attached a baby spud / 1/4, 20 adapter to the handle of the camera and positioned the camera using a c-stand.
↑↑ Using the magnets to position the light. It’s odd how like lighting a large set the work has been.
↑↑ Role over the image to see my notes.
↑&→ Images taken from the monitor don’t do the project justice since you can’t see the food animated.
