Filming "Boxed In". In order for it to really look like Moss was bumping into the edges of the screen, there needed to be real physical objects there for him to interact with. So we filmed it in a doorway, carefully lining up the edges of the doorframe with the edges of the camera's field of view. Filmmaker Frederick Blichert is holding up a piece of glass -- tilted upwards to eliminate reflections -- to represent the screen itself, which Moss also has to convincingly run into. I'm sitting on a wheeled desk chair, and a white craft paper backdrop is on the wall behind the puppet.
Here you can also see my homemade microphone headset. Real ones are prohibitively expensive, but I needed a way to record dialogue live, instead of looping it afterwards like I used to do. I already had a good-quality microphone, so I threaded a piece of coathanger through a fitness headband and extended an extra few inches at the front, which I attach to my microphone with elastic bands. It's cobbled together, but it works perfectly. |
