Critique

We are working on locations for our film we have the mood of all the locations in mind but not exact locations for every one. For the interior we are striving for a chaotic victorian style home. We want to achieve the look of victorian drapes and furniture mixed with Daisys everyday living. We are planning on going around to local B&Bs and location scouting, here is a list of local B&Bs with some shots of the interior.

For our exterior location we want a large victorian style house with a porch and fencing up. The coolidge house B&B in ashland epitomizes this style as you can see here //www.coolidgehouse.com/. For the hilly streets in the end of the film we have many around ashland and plan on looking for the best locations. For the interiors we are going to scout B&Bs this week and try to find the best interior we are looking for. If no B&Bs workout we will look into residential homes we could possibly transform. Heres a list of the B&Bs in ashland we would like to go to, with some pictures http://www.abbnet.com/browseinns.asp .

Sarah Week who is handling the animation portion of Pushing out Daisy has storyboarded but has no additional drawings since them. She is wanting to wait till we cast actors to make the animation look like the actors. But i believe at least with daisy the 80 year old version of her and her 30 year old animated self would be accepted to look different. We do have a visual concept in mind of how we want the animation to turn out and want to experiment with many techniques.

We are looking to use the style of pixelation which is a stop motion technique turning the actor into a stop motion puppet. An example of pixelation can be see in the bolex brothers "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YKBOkfmbU&playnext=1&list=PL8CAB607FEDF9BF13

We also want to experiment with the use of cardboard sets and props mixed in with the animation. Like in the flash back with Daisy Driving we would like the establishing shot to have a cardboard background with a lil cardboard car driving. And on the interior shots we would see Daisy and Anne in the car in animation but see cardboard trees outsie the window next to animated clouds. We would like to mix cardboard trees and cars into our animation kind of like in this snoop dogg video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6speA_XhP4 except there are no plans to do cardboard work in the live action but its always a possibility.

We will also be using basic 2D animation to tie the animation together. We are looking at other techniques such as puppets which sounds very cool to do but may not be right for this project.

we are holding an open casting call for actresses and are looking for 2 female leads to play middle aged and elderly women. The photo i am adding is a visual Ad we are including along with a written paragraph on craigslist looking for actors, it will be posted later today.