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You remember our legal. I do that is lay great episode classic and I highly recommend people listen to it or the name old coefficients ass. It is, I saw that name, flash me back greatness or yet. Oh l e thing, go by all just Clark and rights are certainly not. It goes well I'll bet you something tuckers back in nineteen. Thirty, two in all Kirk Kristensen founded Lego in Bill in Denmark, Finland, when she says that yeah you mean when he founded automatic, binding bricks. Eating com lego at first now, because definitely more Grady yeah! Well, he came up with them. Lego apparently- and I remember us debating this or not so and this is what I see everywhere, including on the way your site that Lego his two words leg got, which means play well Jody,

but Lego also means I put together in Latin. I believe well anyway, when he was coming up with this. I bet he never thought. These are gonna, be used to make hundreds and thousands of short stout motion. Films, and delight millions of people around the world one day, probably never let them know, but they do I wonder what all Kirk thought when he stepped on one with his bare feet her he thought ye man. This is gonna, take off a lot appearance for the next three thousand years. It's not one so check come. I am enough! You caught it or not. I just made a reference to break films. Did you catch the reference? I did start motion, Well, I guess animation early is what is it what it comes down to this, exactly where it is one of the earliest forms of animation, because all

it involves, is moving something taking a photo of it. Moving it just a little bit more taking another picture in doing that until you want to kill yourself prettier than at start motion. Animation near requires a lot of patience made a few, that myself and when I say a few of them, I mean one complete one with my brother with judges. I remember the separate, I made about probably twelve seconds of one was star wars figures in my time, and then about thirty seconds of one with clay, I built a little theatre box set in everything. Nice made a guy, look great a sculpture and dumb. I think he got out of it whenever distress, her got a shirt unlike went in, did the door and then I was like I'm done I'll bet. It's took so

like the rest of his day that you had the script forests. It look at them now I was proud of it, but it's not for me. Will you into posters anew to ban at their own view just somewhere? Who could take these things? You need to get on the Youtube. The world can access your vhf So what do I do to get deviate just taken at his bang on my laptop and it gets on you to get results. The black monolith in the background behind yeah yeah it'll work. I ought to try to do so never use Lycosa, never legos, but I do think legos are made for this kind of thing, because not only do they clicking the place, which is key casino, wants that moving around right, but they are these days. There are all kinds of pre packaged. Lego sets the right. Just little film sets waiting to be

maybe the movie right like I mean that that is probably the reason why it took off so much, I'm sure, because Lego keeps building these assets that are like Harry Potter, said through star wars, said Sir Marvel superhero sets and others lego competitors like mega blocks. That has licences for like the halo, your game series or hello Kitty or Barbie right call of duty. Yes, are you do is get like a young one of these packages. One of these sets sudden. You ever movie said if you have a lot of patience. Camera of any sort really is, will see an something the animated with basically alight source, sure now, a lot of stuff you can get away. When I It was about his bare bones as it got. It was working on a table top with

a couple, oh, you know the little clip on aluminum lights. You get it the hardware store you can use those sort of those were quite work: floods, yet still work lights, they get hot nature, and I didn't have any you know- I had a tripod in a camera. Is you wanna keeping superstar, definitely need a tripod, deafening I find or if you are fancy or have friends at her fancy and have a slider. You know it's it's. Like a little many dolly that your camera consider and there you know three to four feet long and then do little Dolly moves in camera. Moves on your side, her keep at nice and straight or if you have some ingenuity, which you probably do, if you're making a brick them you can make your own little skateboard, Dolly out of skateboard wheels and pvc by

please make a little track and then Numb attach, like you know, you basically may even there's lotteries and do it, but like a baseball to set the Cameron with the track wheels to guide along the pvc pretty need so arm a moratorium or specifically a brick films in one of them. There are a lot of requirements to make a break from safe from what you're saying, but why one is that, like us, have the kind of feature prominently. Most brick films are stopped ocean, and one of the things in addition to having like Harry Potter said, Sir outer space sets. Rallies differ said that are like many movies are trying right out. The banks are the many figures. There are those who your actors, too, Clearly he didn't come onto the late seventies year, nineteen, seventy eight and then I think the largest population on the planet. Our really near remember, there's four,

In other words, something like that are they made more tyres than anyone else here, but the other than surprise me. Yeah and I came along my lego. Experience was pre figure, so we had to we had to make our own little fan and women out of smaller Lego in the snow. That's ways both what these these mix and say, look core yeah. So most brick films are stop motion. Some people actually film the the were YO figures and characters moving their stuff. I would guess so. I would think it's not quite as time consuming there. Wire work and stuff. I bet it's frustrating yeah, but I mean, if you have, I all of your legal figures on rollers gates of some EU can drag him along sure. You don T, take picture picture. Picking

film them moving. Yet we start motion, it's very it's much. It's the opposite! Basically, like you said you you set up here, you your shot, you take a photo of it. And then you move the person a little bit like if their walking he would move their arm. One other, arms down. Another went up another one leg out a little bit, neither back a little bit and then take that picture and so on and so on and on What you're ultimately doing is re, creating motion right right the using inanimate objects and the way you recall motion is by the frames per second, which is a film speed and film who shoots it plays, I should say at twenty four frames per second, which means that every second of film you see you're, actually being shown twenty four still

graphs and secession? Yeah? That's fulfil my videos, thirty frames per second and their their variations on others. To achieve different looks you now, but if you are just doing the math, if you want to do, is stop motion film, a five minute, stop motion thumb at twenty four F p s frames per second would be. Seventy two hundred individual photograph right. That's for five minutes for five minutes fell means you have to take that many photographs. In order in between photographs, you can't just sit there and takes only two in a photograph was he's. Gonna have only two hundred of the same pictures, the seventy two hundred slightly different picture.

Where one is slightly different from the last yes one way you can shoot that a little bit is, if you just double it up and you use to frames for each move, I'm so you take twelve pictures. First, second of video right well and then just using twice in that twenty four seconds? Twenty four phrase Priscilla, yet it's gonna look a little more Hershey Jerky, but nature of the brick. Film is a little turkey jerky anyway, because of the way there in the range of motion on the little figures. So it's not like. If you took completely bend a ball action figures, you know you can get a lot more smooth detailed moves. Yet people expect You're Lego things move completely seamlessly vessel legos move. Now they got. I think, for four points of movement did over their shoulders in there

hips. Ok, they don't have like elbows are niece. Now, an technically you can say there It has a range of motion so five years, our electors, pneumonia, his area adorable, which people can see the stuff just thanks. I was secular, break you're in get back to some lighting techniques. This here's the thing save money with Geico, was almost better than playing pick up basketball, because there's always that guy who joined your game, He never passes the rock he constantly bricks theories and who completely, you and then put his hands up and say no foul, no foul with Geico, it's easy to switch. Save on car insurance, no,

need to fake an ankle sprain because you're, absolutely exhausted. So which, in save with Geiger it's almost better than sports I guess you ve you ve built you're. You ve got your Ghostbusters Lego KIT, Lego brand kid you want to make a sequel to Ghostbusters, because Ghostbusters too was horrible. Not true did you like it sure it wasn't. Ghostbusters movies, great boy, so you want to make us first. Three because he thought too so good. It deserved it. Some seek off any wanna, get some lights already said you can go cheapen, get a little aluminum lights. If you have If you really want to get serious, you can read lights from a camera house.

And worry I'll go to your friend, Scots sure we're gonna? U has life yet our here asked of works. We have the use of lights, the f you're, making a brick from drop Bible than you. Some life is that basically, lighting is gonna. Do a few things. It's gonna of your set, so people can see it a and b it can help. You set a mood for sure like whether its day Your nighter nor, earned sunny like a bright sunny day. And what you really looking to do, though, is have complete control of your your lighting, because one thing that can really thwart your brick film any change in lighting your notice. It you'll just take your little picture and then you'll see fit doing going on when you play it back and that's because some internal light in the other room next to you right and you didn't notice. If you want a blackout, all the curtains just get in a room where you have complete control over the lighting yeah. That's the same reason

you don't want to shoot a brick film or any kind of start motion outdoors, no cause the sun changes its lighting positive, fairly, regular radio faster than you can shoot, move I'm sorry. You wanna totally be able to control lady. So Every lighting under total control you wanna use usually about three lights, at least yet, but on your bike, turtleneck yeah or like your black route, soon or something like that, it even better and don't let anybody see like that. Is it, like. I told a weirdo locked away in this room with no windows wearing a bike roots you paying with you later Lego. Many think, then you signal I made filmmaker brig film maker in there. This back out of the room So are you

Is one life for backsliding these that, behind the thing behind your shot, you have key lighting, which is the frightened, and they also want to have some sort of balance, and you can basically replace that third light source with, even just like a white sheet of paper, something there five right off the that's very mobile, so you can director wherever you need it and whole point of this. Is the white normally, but also to chase off shadows yeah if you ve, never let anything. You're gonna be frustrated at first, because you're, Lego characters are gonna, have like two different shadows going into different directions, and the first thing you I think is that doesn't look like real life, so you can do two things you can. Experience. Around with your phyllite until you get rid of your shadows or you can get a book.

Or look on the internet. Just some very basic lighting techniques sat super complicated, its noble after get like really good at it right outside necessarily intuitive now re, like other schuyler. Get soccer player in a night games got foreshadows you area exactly. So how do I get rid of the hours? This balance? I would say this will be one of those times when its vestiges rely on the wisdom of who have come before yeah wisdom on the internet, the yeah yeah. Exactly the m. The lights do you're gonna, Wanna diffuses. It's probably meet way too harsh. Coming directly off the bulb, so I'm u can use like wax paper or a handkerchief or anything that doesn't catch on fire. Ideally yeah enjoy your grandfather's room and get out of his judgment or exactly but the initials monogrammed small cresty browns not yet, but I think so

surround little. It is like a man, the boy in their nose in their putting it in their body and away for safe keeping Berkeley grass. There was less wasteful generation, though they didn't Philip landfills with Kleenex that that is true. You know such a pretty much feeling wages gave it click on living, yet sheets and tests footage don't die right in there. You know monkey around with oh yeah you're, going to be really mad or you think, scale a terrible at first and then get progressively better. Is the final I don't think. As I see it, you want to learn by doing yeah yeah to see some exercises. Are we talking bit about equipment. There are all kinds of cameras you can use what I use on the last one, which was super handy, was a the camera that had a remote control, so you could just click off the photos without having to touch the camera. That is very advisable and when she had Chemisette it's really. Nice did not touch it again

you'll have to death because again you're moving the stuff within this world, not the camera at least further shot you're taking right and again. If you, you have a three second shot. That's what's the two photos, you need to take from the exact same position right so yeah, when they came in a move at all, or else is gonna, be some weird jarring and stuff like that in the best way to do that as remote capture camera yeah. That really helps If you have an auto focus, slash manual focus you want to turn it off the out of focus. You make it fix, focus Manual, focusing again you're, just looking for complete control to focus all you know, you don't want to focus on the wrong thing, especially if I come here, you many figure is coming closer to the camera. Every time that's gonna change that auto focus in a year every.

Every photo and the framers can look slightly differently. Fuzzy you're just completely change from time to time, not good, yet you're after consistency Insistency through control, it pretty much. If you have a digital zoom camera one it will you want an optical zoom. What is that it's. Basically, I think a digital zoom simulates, the the it rather than it behaves in it. Actually I get it it. Digitize is the zoom at a certain point, and it's not as high call it now looks. It always looks pretty catch in my opinion, so yeah you're, gonna control. So a truism, Basically you remember the gamma. Yes, a group that will thing in like a dolly for if he ever slighter you're all set. So are you say it's like a what you basically one

you like Nickolay, Ceausescu or Eddie. I mean other of your many film set here. You are like total control over everything. I thought you were gonna say like Orson Welles like his while to her even worse, so we talk about funding the camera. You also know a bump. Your film set MIA makin really ruin your day at the the long day, new value market and all your stuff falls over so clamped that stuff down clamp. You sit down glue it down to where we have to do to keep it as route is possible anyone anywhere near it now, because as my leg or set right and I'm the otter, so you get more stuff, Seymour, awesome recommendations here, we're gonna, get to

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I really feel like we're helping a lot of people here. I think so too. So we talked about lighting. We talked about the kind of camera equipment you watch her in a lot of well, especially the first brick phone which we'll talk about later, are silent. There, silent films, which means that sound, but there's a lot of them that do have sound dialogue. All that stuff. Worry about. Recording that as you go along with most of the sound can be recorded in post production, but You want to have an idea of what is going to be where her, what what you're soundtrack is going to be like, because you have to figure out how long shot needs to be in how many, ultimately, how many photos you need to take within a given scene, or else like them It's over! Yet Israel's going well just change scenes in Europe.

Tire, family and friends will laugh at you when you show them your breakfast. You dont want to be the Edward of Brick. Films he's just did not care. Now he didn't care. There was great. That movie was great. My favorite or one of my favorite parts, aside from everything they'll Mary did, was when tore like, but the law on the land and air? I don't you want to shoot that towards supporting all you like. No, I like it, it's real. What is it? so expressions and drama these little lego folks aren't super expressive in, but they suggest. In this article and economic sense pop they head often

on something else near. You know it could be a ping pong ball that you draw faces on well there. There are different many figs that have different expressions yet, and so you can just interchange there had so before someone needs a look of hordes put in the horror of a right catch up and then apparently, there's come these that will facial expressions on your many figures, and I imagine, if you have some money in you can get better. That's right! and now I want to go. Not our topic, but off article in say, story, story story: if you are going to make a brick film or any film, have a good story, Doesn't it just because it's a two minute lego, brick film? Is it's gonna? Stick! If it's just no matter how good it looks. It's not gonna be fund a watched unless you have a good little story right so like right,

now that's good and engaging or funny there- and I don't know be super long to have a law character arc. Her story arc. Have your guy taste by something else, like I watch when the other day, and it was it, was fun was silly. It was one Lego guy helping the guy next door. Wallace chores as it is today, and I know the name of it. Ok, but he was now help Animo and help and put on shutters and do in all this and all the while, like his home, was getting beaten up, and I was just That's all I needed was at one little joke at the end of the nice house. And then the house in tatters, yeah, that's it. I'm reigned in film. Has it Don't help your neighbor loescher, your own house will fall to pieces. If you help your neighbor, while the Tangiers yourselves with the character, was John Gulf, so there maybe something there

so anyway. Yes, story to stir, I would encourage you to make something engaging and then make it look good yeah, that's my soapbox moment. There was great thanks does get stuff. I certainly on the software yeah. I think so, because you're going to find very quickly when you have seventy two hundred photos you need a way to turn them into a video. They noticed automatically turn into a video like that. No and you can't just do a foot book on the internet, hope, because you'd have to shoot there anyway and run it through suffer eventually say my will not go to that extra step does get yourself. Some stop stop motion, estimating software and there's plenty of them out. There are some that cost tens of money, some that are free legal, has won the common legal movie maker up. You can make your own little. They encourage the making of brick films, of course, right so

on the kind of software you have the there's, some that will automatically import from your camera. Theirs that will that has something called onion skinning illustrating which shows like transparency of the last shot over the current shots. You come here, everything's going the way you need two's airy help you you need to stop and reach you one of those photos. You know you can real quick. It's gotta be super helpful to have that culture and the whole thing's gonna, put it all in order animated and then is partly also going to have some sort of. With a bang features like this one called wrote a scope which makes things which comes very handy if you're doing a star wars, brick film, and you want to make the light savers glow Madrid summit. I have other little cgi tricks built in or you can do some I see you have your own with a little investigating in learning on the

tube. It's that super hard to learn a couple of basic things and again these are brick films. This one that I watched had some low fire like fire effect and numb you know looked it look great for what it was supposed to be announced. That was to be a Hollywood action, thriller, the brick them. So you can look, can a champion corny in its networks. The gives you the matrix brick from now is a good yeah. I think it's it's not even, shot for something in the matrix. It's like a like. In addition to it, is super gory and on it just incredibly well done. It is like Hollywood action, thriller break them nice at the check that out well, there's hundreds and hundreds of thousands. Thousands point brick films, the first one that day I watch this would actually nineteen seventy three years cute Lars and Heinrich harassing Meda, separate brick film called journey to them.

And you know it is cute it sir It's actually can you my mother, it's like kids playing around but and then it was pretty good. Yes and the is especially when consider that they are doing our film and using like still meriting software in such producing together It's kind of mine, blowing that these two kids put this together made basically the first brick from what's more, since it was ninety seventy three. This is five years before the many figures came out here today to build their own characters are legos you get stuff, then there's another classic brick found from the late. Ninety nine these by Linsey Flee ethnic, the early eighties. What I say late ninety far, yet eddies is what am I right? the magic portal and Thou shalt on sixteen millimeter film, yeah. Look for her right. He said he was filmed student and actually get money from my a grant from the Australian Film Committee

and by people donated Lego sets, and it looks really good and took him years yet to do it took I think, more than a year to shoot the photos. Yeah, I mean I know I, my films were all twelve seconds alone. You know you're this one's like sixteen minutes on crazy. What are some of the other when's, star wars, the HANS Solo Affair, yeah, what a star wars, ones, yeah, Peggy, sue We place our holy GRAIL now shot for shot of the cameras on gotta, see this like not only that shot for shot so great. They got the lighting correct on every shock. Really like it's not like that some inside lego world. It looks like they took the original Monty Python, this minute and fifteen second clip and like a rabbit

you like a leg- you Lego nadir like they got the lighting perfect. You gotta see it man I'll be the best I have to check that and some really great went out here. Like again, I matrix one amazing but- and I have to I'm a fan of the MAGIC Poodle now yeah, but this money python was. This is my boy and those faced by your face. They seem to be the premier break them India. They do a lot of us about remark about the the attention to detail and like the money python thing, but I think that by nature, what you're getting with these people who make these here

I haven't attention like a scary attention: Verde they'll you're, not Emmy, working and stop motion anyway. So that's why stuff by Like Nick Park and ardent animation, did Wallis and government and the creature comfort series. They look like the details so great because that is their deal. California raisins murmur Good intention here did you see the Lego movie? I didn't. I didn't either hurdles great yeah but is it a brick film or not? No, no! No! It's not is also gee, I sure bricks and doesn't have to be stopped motion by typically, it should be in at least like it should be real life lego figures, not cd but apparently had plenty of homage to bring films and yet another thing- that's colony. Yes, I have the impression I have from researching, MRS. That way was a company is very well aware. Films, obviously because they have that movie maker. At that level, leave me figure,

a war, doubtful, brick, films, and in the Lego movie it was kind of a tribute to Britain Yellow typical cap. Ok, Kristensen would have been like I e, oh yeah, like I love stuff. You know, make a star wars when making ghostbusters when making Indiana Jones one bye, bye, Bye fits don't make three star wars. What do we do that make a star wars and ghostbusters in it and, finally, to the eight zero, exactly my anything else being nope brick once again. This is another entry in our quest to explain absolutely everything there is on earth and beyond so enjoy it. Everybody liner-

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