A few days ago, I uploaded my favorite video so far onto YouTube. My brother Brandon and I worked very hard to create this one. I thought of the idea a while ago when he and I were thinking about the old Arthur episode where the young aardvark imagines that his pants have come alive and are trying to eat him. That has always been one of our favorites. I began to think it would be cool to see a pair of pants come alive and chase someone who hadn’t put fabric softener into the wash.
After we came up with several story ideas, we began the difficult part of the process – the building stage. Because we don’t have any advanced editing materials, we had to come up with ways to make the pants and the fabric softener bottle move in real time with the actor. Luckily, with my brother’s incredible talent in building rigs with common household items, we were able to make the pants in our movie appear to walk, fly, and growl on their own. He also made the spinning fabric softener bottle a reality with a clever fishing line apparatus. As the actor in the movie, he not only had to run around throwing things and using his bow and arrow, but he also had to operate the pants mechanisms and instruct me in the art of pants puppetry. He definitely had the hardest job on this set which is why he completely deserves the director’s credit for it.
Once we finished the filming, I began editing our masterpiece. This took several days to finish because Windows Movie Maker does not allow the video maker to layer sounds. We had to layer the sound of this video three times which was made even more difficult by the fact that I had to get my hard drive replaced halfway through the process. The music in the video also gave me a whole lot of trouble because the original intro music did not work as well with the rest of the video and the original song played during the credits didn’t sound complete. After several nights of staying up until 6 AM, I finally succeeded in putting this video together in a way that pleased even my perfectionist self.
I hope you enjoy it! Please comment to tell us how you feel about it, and please rate it as well.
