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Hey guys!
Well today is another big filming day since we're on the final stretch of the movie here. I can't WAIT to show you the movie though, some of the shots were getting now at the end are so adorable... but I cannot say too much. We've been filming things in the living room for a Nutcracker section of the movie, but I'll say no more.
I love it when we get to do a big project like a movie. I don't know how many of you know this, but we actually made about four feature-length stop-frame movies before Kitty Kapers over the course of about 2 years... the first one was about the dolls going to school, doing chores, doing soccer, swim team, drama class, all that good stuff. It was called "A Day in Pleasantville." The second one was about the Larsons, and it was called "Anna and the Barn Dance." The third one was "Our Dolls and the Great Outdoors," which I've got the first ten minutes of up on youtube right now (the full movie is actually about two hours long..I'm hoping to get the rest of it up on youtube eventually, don't worry.) And the fourth one was the last Christmas-themed movie we made, "Pumpkins and Candy Canes." (that's where the ballet class and skater's waltz clips are from.)
Every time we did one of those projects we would be forced to make things a little better and a little more realistic, so our whole town would start looking better. We'd notice what was in the background of a shot and replace it with something doll-sized that made sense in the room.
It wasn't until we moved to this house (around 2002) that we really started changing the dolls' houses around to look more and more realistic. Then Kitty Kapers stepped it up in 2005, followed by all of the photo stories we made whenever we hosted a traveling doll. So now it has been four years since we made a movie, two years since we stopped doing the Nutcracker, even. And this new movie is bumping each house and the detail level up another notch. That's all I'm sayin'! heehee!
I'm hoping to share those first four movies with you all eventually, I just want to fix them up a little bit. Great Outdoors is lots of fun with huge mountain and river sets and stuff, and Anna and the Barn Dance has some fun dancing sequences. We shall see!
And then you will get to see this latest movie, which I love watching, even all cut up and boring the way it is when you have to watch 15 takes of the same shot in a row. lol!
OK, have a great Friday, everybuggy! (As Nan would say.)
:-)
Greta
Posted by tinuviel_156
at 12:23 PM EST
