Monday, August 27, 2012

Paranorman

Paranorman looks like a great motion picture for kids, parents, teens, and just people that appreciate a good film. This is a movie directed by Chris Butler and Sam Fell also the directors of Coraline (2005). This is more directed towards children but the work that went in to it makes it suitable for all ages.
        Paranorman is what is called a stop-motion film. What that means is each scene is made up of hundreds of individual still shot photos. What they do have is very skilled artist come in and make a very small set. And they make figures of clay that are very detailed, you can almost not even tell. There is a scene in the movie where there is destruction in the town the characters live in that is about five minutes long. This scene took the film makers almost a week to make. They had to take a photograph, move the figures the slightest bit and then take another photo. The film makers had to do this hundreds of thousands of times. The whole movie took two and a half years to shoot and writing took sixteen years.
        Personally I have not seen this movie yet but I'm looking forward to it. I already have a lot of respect for this movie because of all the work that has gone in to it. So if you guys are looking to see it, I would. And just think about how much work it was to put this together. Should be good, below is the link to the trailer. Thanks guys!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1RXm81AsNo

1 comment:

  1. Well I wasn't planning on seeing it, but because you say it's a stop-motion film I kind of want to now.

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