I’ve got this picture in my head inspired by Ring 0 and some shampoo commercial (not Carla Abellana’s pointy fingers commercial).
“You have to be my model/actress,” I told Jaycelle (as if she and I had a choice).
For us to visualize what we’re going to do, I sketched the idea.
A sketch of fingers running through the back of the subjects hair.
After demoing several times how to look confused and terrified simultaneously, she got the drift of “acting”.
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I remember in high school, someone from the repertory or something visited our school and taught us the only lesson an aspiring actor would ever need — how to be a human chewing gum and get chewed by a gigantic chewer. So, those interested in being Florante or Laura were positioned in a circle, getting chewed by an imaginary monster. I could still see it — we looked stupid as hell.
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But I didn’t require her to do that warm up, she picked up almost immediately.
After fifteen (15) takes, we narrowed the footage into two shots.
Screencaps from the very very short short, Haplos.
Then, I needed some original background music to avoid getting kicked out by Vimeo and Youtube. I took out my precious Alvarez and brought it to the comfort room where every voice becomes American Idol quality — only that I didn’t intend to make the very very short short scarier by inserting a vocal track in there.
I slapped the footage and recorded music together in the PeeCee to produce this materialized idea.
