It is Fine! Everthing is Fine. Crispin Glover Trailer...

school assignment: create a title sequence/trailer for the Northwest Film Forum's presentation of Crispin Glover's "It is Fine! Everything is Fine." film. Music by Timothy Mendonsa. Filming/editing by Kemeya Harper.

Process:
I had this crazy idea that filming things melt might be cool for this project, so I bought a pack of synthetic braiding hair, and with a pile of printouts on transparency film, I went to town with my embossing heat gun. The hair melted so wonderfully (and fast) - and it didn't stink at all. The transparencies took a lot more time to start melting, but once I got it going, it rumpled up pretty nice. The drippy goodness at the very end is just watered down acrylic paint.

In post-production, I sped up the film by 2-300% and tried to give it a choppy look, to add to the feeling of degradation. If I were to redo it, I might exaggerate the choppiness a bit more. Then, I played around with the color and contrast to get a stark, drastic look. I think it turned out ok!

The music really makes it - I worked with Tim, who did an amazing job! All I told him was that I wanted a minimal sound with maybe some strings and inaudible whispering. Then I sent him the url for Crispin Glover's website and let him loose. Bravo!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• kemeya
• harper
• crispin
• glover
• it
• is
• fine
• everything
• trailer

[ilostmyorgans]

this always gives me goosebumps. to me it looks like someone curly hair being so violently pulled until it becomes straight and starts being ripped apart. it makes the film seem "fucked up" in some way, i really like it. it makes you wanna watch. it draws your attention and it makes you really wanna see the movie now.

[kemeharp]

wow.. thanks! You should check out the actual film trailers for both "It is Fine..." and the prequel "It"... crazy stuff.

[WillardStillesHere]

*Shivers* Ohhh creepy, very good :D!!

[BROKENHOUSEFILMS]

awesome!

[MagnumStellarz]

whoa.

[CNSS2008]

I f*cking missed it too.

[drfeelgoodTO]

I really wish Crispin would put his two films on DVD, I missed his screenings to promote What is it and sadly will not get to see both these films.

[mercawiz]

Very nicely done i like it

[TheLast0000]

Exxxcellent! very effective.  leaves me wanting more...

[JunkyardGlory]

Very cool effect with the synthetic hair. Great idea.