 Welcome, welcome, welcome. We're here to have a good time. I guess Tentman, well you're going to tell us about what's going on with Tentman. And so some folks I think we're expecting a movie this year and instead we get to meet the movie producers which is outstanding. So please come on in, have a seat and hear about Tentman, the story so far and give a warm welcome to Alia and Kat. Just make noise with your face instead of the computer. Hi. It's okay, just say hi. This is better. Okay, good. Right. Yes, so you know how sometimes you try and do a thing and you don't know it's impossible so you try. We thought we should make a film last DMF and we had this completely ridiculous and it's not my fault, it's the fault of everyone on the main list who loved this idea the best story about this tent that came to life and experienced DMF and the idea was to do the premiere this year and we have not done that, it's not finished and lots of things went wrong and we're going to tell you all about all of them. Quite a lot of things went right as well. So Jonte said give a talk about what you're at, people love hearing about all the disasters and there might be something interesting as well about what to do next time but the main thing is nothing actually was bad. We turned up to EMF with our script about this event and we filmed it but we realized that we hadn't filmed the festival because we'd gone to do this film and we'd got the story of Tentman but we didn't have the story of where he was so I'm going to play some clips. I've written my talk in text edit. Okay, so yes, Pasco, Pasco Foxell is the writer of Tentman. It was very crowdsourced thing so the whole crew came from EMF and the only person who was like non-EMF was Teddy the actor who was just wandering around in this happy days because people get buying drinks and so happy. And Pasco's stories tend to be quite intense. I will read you some of the script later. Intent, intense? Yes. So I was going to introduce the character of Tentman. Who here knows about this and was waiting for a premiere? Okay, sorry, sorry. So he doesn't need much introduction but one of the scenes that we got is a good introduction so I will play it for you. So this is who Tentman is and his kind of his life and his aims and his this is EMFM. We now have an interview with Mr. Tentman. So have you been to EMF before? I came last time but did not have a chance to experience it probably. No? No, my owners, they tied me to the ground with ropes, with me in a field with gazebos. A man came, he said he was there to help but he just took his mallet and banged my restraints further in. He looked at me and he said everyone should have a mallet. It's not your fault. Do you think that's true? Did he mean what he said? I don't have a mallet. But everyone should have a mallet! I'm so sorry, please forgive me, I lost my trail of thought. This is EMFM. So yeah, there's some trauma there. One of the things that we have done with the footage that we've got is graded it. So this is much brighter colours than we had last year and I'm going to just go through progress. That's good, right? Yes, good. Kat's going to then talk about special effects and why she hates me. Yeah. My favourite topics. Where are we at on the talk? Yes, right. You've done those things. Have I? I haven't done crowdsourcing. No, you've done some things. Okay, but I need to do crowdsourcing now. Okay, do that. Yes, good. They say that a film is born three times. Once when the writer writes it, the second when the director directs it and the third when the editor edits it. So who's saying the famous infamous Blade Runner cut with the voiceover? Yes. I don't know if it's true, but the story I heard was Harrison Ford hated the voiceover idea so much he made it really boring and then they used it. I'm so sorry to you who have seen it. So with the editing hat on, we found that everything we shot was beautiful. I mean, EMF was beautiful. The footage was beautiful and everyone at the festival kind of went, oh yeah, have this beer or you can be here or we'll just hold this sunshade up for you. So everything is perfect and we have these perfect moments and they don't join up into anything because what you need is a million cutaways. So Edgar Wright films, hot fuzz. Anyone seen hot fuzz? Woo, yes. And there's a million tiny scenes where they're picking up a shot, putting in a sugar and they had a whole unit, a whole camera unit getting every single one of those shots. Now I just think they're going all we're filming is people putting sugar cubes in things and they use every single one of them. We didn't get any of that. So this year we've come back and we're shooting. I've been creeping on all of you. I've been going around with the camera, filming people drinking things and putting on sun lotion. I'm pretty sorry about this. And just general because we just didn't have a lot of that and there was, we found that there was this isolated story character, but not where it was happening to him and who all these other people were. So one thing we tried to do was crowd source footage. And it's very different when you film something for yourself versus for a movie. So if you're filming for a movie, you want a steady shot with a tripod, hold the shot. It doesn't have to be long, but it has to be five seconds at least of the camera not moving around. And generally I'm like, you know, like that. So crowd source footage tends to be really hard to work with. That said, EMF, we got quite a lot of crowd source footage and it was quite good. So we thought, okay, we need to make an introduction to the festival. This was not written in the script and it's not the writer's fault because none of us knew what EMF was going to be like. So the writer wrote the script and said shots of tent man enjoying the festival, we didn't know what would happen. There was no intro. So we've made an intro. John T. hasn't seen this intro. But I've invented the word jontage. I've got to find it. So basically a lot of this stuff needs the sound fixing and grading done. We were also trying to do a shot where Pascal wrote this thing in the script. The owner puts the tent up wrong and it turns into a man. You could spend an infinite amount of money realising this. So this is our attempt to do that with no money. So I'm still playing around with this at the moment and frankly I've got better footage this year but it's a way of trying to show where the story is. And all the footage you see in the first chunk before you see tent man is, before you see Tom Bird putting up the tent is all crowdsourced from people at EMF 2014. So this year we are over 1,000 people. I'm really glad everyone's here and I'm really glad that we sold that because we were reading notes that we've got so much bigger in two years' time. We thought things might go probably wrong. We thought we might sell out. We thought we might go bankrupt and Russ and I don't know if in jail or something. But yeah, it's fine. We've sold more than enough tickets and we really appreciate everyone coming. So thank you very much for everyone who's here. So yeah, crowdsourced footage. Awesome. And if anyone has shot stuff at this festival please send it to me. I'm on the EMF general list and we would like your footage. I'm going around taking footage of all the signs and just as much as I can but yeah, we need more. Great. So last year, my mind is kind of boggling at how much we did get done because we had whole scenes edited with music by the end of last EMF. One of the things we've been doing is grading the footage. So grading is the process of taking the colours you have and making them more cinematic. And it used to be done in projection rooms so you'd project the film with filters over it and then refilm it with those filters and now we just do it all in After Effects or Premiere or anything. So here's the scene. Is Tentman getting a little bit insecure about his tent-ness because he meets the Nottinghack tent and how he kind of responds to that situation. So this is the not graded version. This is what we shot and we shot it in a flat profile so the colours are unusually muted but it allows the camera to store the maximum colour information and it's a nice format for grading. This is what we started. So that's inside and this should be more neon colours really and then... You've seen bigger... So that's the not graded version. This is the graded version. Big crowd you've got. Pretty good. They've seen bigger... Hosted bigger I should say. Well I thought out was to enlarge myself so it's actually very impressive. I can't do it for you. I am a tent that can walk around. Wow, that's what you should be saying. Wow, he probably isn't a big liar and he probably is amazing in all sorts of different ways. I love that scene. We're still playing around with the grades because it's a bit of a not okay thing to do to ask someone to start grading footage without actually having the whole film. One of the things Byron asked was what does this film feel like? It's kind of like a fever dream, I don't know. So it's all a work in progress. Right, yes, effects. We wanted to make it really clear that Tent Man is still a tent. He's in person mode. I need to do the Lauren one first. But then your time will come. So it was very important to us that he could do things Tent's did. And this is a very early, this was done really shortly after EMF actually and we're still playing with it. We think we can make this better. But this was a lovely job by I think Robin Gething who is on the list but not here today. Here we go. So we wanted Tent Man to make friends and sort of not really realize that he was unusual. So here's Tent Man making a friend. Is Lauren in the audience? So what did you come as? I am a tent. What did you come as? I came as a bat. So it's like some kind of horn bat. I don't know, the bat people would probably say it's not the right kind of bat or whatever. You look like you need to rest. I shouldn't have. Come inside. I have room. Yes, you do. We want to make it bigger inside but yeah. That wasn't too bad. So Pasco is one of my favorite writers but he will write stuff. I'm going to set you up. So I'm going to give you that. And you don't need sound? No. I might take the sound out anyway. You can just keep that there. I'll do this. Right. Yes, I'm going to read you the next bit of the script. We did not film all of it but the reason it's relevant is because we filmed what we could and then Kat had to do the special script and she basically said do what you can which is very close to saying let's fix it in post. I was not there and I thought I had you much better trained than this. She does not. Okay. Let's find the script. Open. Yes. Here we go. So we've had the tent unzips his big zip, pulls his body open to reveal a hollow interior. Climb inside I have room. Lauren looks at the tent bewildered. We've done that. That was okay. Interior somewhere else night. A small queue of people lined up to climb inside the tent. They do so one after the other. Everyone's fascinated, delighted, not wanting to question it. So we filmed this. Kat will talk about it. We catch the last part of the final person climbing in. The tent satisfies zips himself up, looks around the room smiling but then groups his stomach. Something is not okay in there. A drunk festival goer is doubled over exterior night trying to throw up. The tent comes running over to the nearby spot, doubles over in almost exactly the same pose, wretches. The drunk person looks over distracted. The sound of the tent throwing up is accompanied by a thump and then another the drunk stares in shock. The tent walks off fine now. The drunk person goes to where he just was, looks down, two people lie on the ground covered in bits and pieces of sickly yellow fabric. It's not okay. We did not shoot that. It was horrible. You could have shot it but I would have preferred if you shot it so that everything happened off screen. So yes, we were supposed to shoot this. Everyone goes into tent man shot. And I thought okay, well it's fine. I have a pop-up green screen. So I thought fine, they'll take the pop-up green screen, they'll set it up, they'll shoot tent man. Oh, thank you. Thank you. So it is in the floor out of shot where it is being so very helpful. Thanks. Yes, so I thought well they'll shoot tent man separately on, you know, a nice static shot so I don't have to do too much faffing. They'll shoot him on a green screen, they'll shoot the people on the green screen. It'll all be fine, it'll take me an hour or so. This is what I got. So I have lots of people dancing. This I don't really have a problem with. But you'll note that this is a handheld shot which means I have to track it bouncing up and down. That is the first thing I'm said is the fact that the floor is made of straw which is not the easiest thing to sort of match because it goes everywhere. Everything's really dark so it's hard to separate anyone from the background. It was night. Yes, but there are light colored things. Yeah, you'll notice in a sec there's a tree that everyone makes shadows on. Everyone is very much in the distance from where Tent Man is. Everyone's heads are occluded by Tent Man and occasionally when they stand up on the other side they make big shadows on the tree. This was quite a hard shot which is why it is not yet finished. Yes, there was some excellent dancing. Everyone who was dancing should be very proud of their dancing. So what I have is part of it. This is what I have at the moment. It is extremely shonky and I apologize. There is a bit towards the end which is a bit better done but most of this is a very, very quick me shoving everything together and I'll show you how it's done in a minute. So yes, this is sort of what it's going to look like when it's finished only less rubbish. Oh, thank you, you're sweet but it is bad. Okay, so this is After Effects. This is what I use for doing all of the compositing all of the mad things earlier gives me. So the first thing with this is I had to fix the fact that Tent Man and everyone else were in different places. So I had to warp the background plate in order that everyone goes into the right place. I then had to add the front half of Tent Man. This is seven separate hand-tracked masks. I love you. The only reason I do this is because at some point in my life I will want to make a film and Alia will owe me so much. Yes. Then I have the party goers entering. I should point out that I have had to replace a number of heads on this just by basically drawing, which takes a while. Then I have to add the background bit of Tent Man, which is behind his leg. I have to replace the tree. I have to put in the shadow and the foreground grass. And then the background behind Tent Man. This is quite a lot of work. It works out about sort of about a day a second to finish all of this. Which is a little bit more than the sort of hour I thought it would take. This is why essentially this will get finished when we have the finished edit. I'm perfectly happy to do it but it's one of those things that I don't really want to do anything that doesn't make it to the final film. Because I'm lazy. Yes. The easy way to shoot something like this is to use background which means that it's easy to take people out of the shot. You chuck in a green screen behind the Tent Man and that means that I can take him out and move him wherever he likes. The better is if we put a green nicely lit green piece of fabric where the opening is and then I could just take that out. Point if you're ever filming things green screens need to be well lit. They have to actually be bright green if they're just a dark green thing behind stuff. I can't remove it. Your VFX people will hate you. Also yes. You can't put things in front of your green screen. I did work on a shoot once where somebody put lots of lighting stands in front of a green screen and went we've got a green screen surely it's fine. No. I can remove things that can remove the green. Not things in front of the green. Crazy person. Yes. So if anyone ever wants to shoot anything again please do get in contact and I will explain to them how to make their VFX people not want to murder them. Back to you, Alia. In our defence the reason why we had the green screen on the floor next to the shot and didn't use it is because we actually couldn't light it. It was too outdoors. The green screen was too small. The lighting was too underpowered. Cats magic. So there are ways it can be done. Anyway. I should have phoned you. I should have woken you up and phoned you. I mean I do that for outfit choices so it would have been okay. I will honestly forgive you at some point. Okay. We've done the dancing. Okay. You've spoken. I've done talking. We've made it. We've made it to the end. Wow. Okay good. There's a person holding up three minutes. We've got four minutes. After all this managing your expectations saying we don't have a film we do actually have a film for you. Randomly I got asked by my employer to do a where is it, where is it? It's that right. To do a workshop, a filmmaking workshop with some people. We've got a character. We've got a costume. And we thought one thing that might be of interest is what Tentman has been doing since EMF 2014 because we figured this would be an experience that... What? Make it work. I don't know how to make it work. That's what these people are for. Faster. It's not finding the thing. I don't think you're doing it right. Wait, it'll be fine. No, I did that. We need arrangement. Because it's not picking up the screen. Pull it out in and again. It's not recognising. It's because we unplugged it, isn't it? No. Blow on it. Turn it round three times. Hey, is she am I? Yes. Sorry, the AB people. You are my favourite wizard. So yes, we decided that Tentman wouldn't just go to EMF and then be unchanged by that experience. So this is what he's been doing. Now there's a moment in here. There's a sound effect that's not in there. So I'm going to do it on the microphone. But the rest of this is done. Wow, live foley. Today on the show we have Mr Tentman bringing us his unique perspective on life. Do you feel like a traitor? Excuse me? You hate humans, correct? No. Some humans then? I have had bad experiences, yes. But I don't know what this is about but I don't hate anyone. I'm friends with humans. I have loved humans. In fact, I've spent the entire last year of my life in human company exploring their society learning from their way of life. Yes, exactly. You have. So do you feel like a traitor? I do not, no. Does the phrase four legs good two legs better mean anything to you? What? No, I suppose it wouldn't. You are a creature defined by the years you spent as a slave to the humans. But you rebelled against it. Escaped. And yet, here you are now practically indistinguishable from one of your captors and telling me of your love for them. Tent man. Which is it? It's both me and myself. I want to tell you a story. I have a friend close friend, human being. Now my friend felt that as a child he had been dealt a raw deal. One that has never quite been able to shake loose out of his system. He knew what I was what I am. He had witnessed some of my more popular party tricks firsthand. So he came to me with a request. One that would in a sense let him experience something akin to a rebirth. A chance of coming into the world an opportunity to start from a different place. There's a surprising amount of room inside me. Even enough for a grown man to exist quite comfortably. My friend wished for me to become his mother for a time. I agreed. He's been in there seven months now. Only two months to go. Here. Do you feel him kicking the inner fabric? I never used to have to eat before, you know. But now Darren's in here. It's quite necessary. Perhaps I am becoming more human. Maybe you're right after all. What do you think, Darren? This is ridiculous. No. No, this is evil. No, sorry. Traitorous. You have this idea that my simple existence is an aberration of the kind. I'll say you're probably right. After all, no one ever wanted me to exist in this form. Not really. But Darren actually runs a chain of camping supply shops, you know. They don't sell tents in shops anymore. And what they do do is hold social events where customers can meet a number of tents and get to know them. Invite them on their holiday. As things have turned out, there's nothing quite as intimate as a night under the stars and a cozy tent. We're actually seeing quite a few human-tent relationships springing up recently. So there it is. I am a traitor. The tent way of life should be destroyed utterly by my influence. Social the human way of life, too, if all goes well. Only aberrations will remain. The end. We promise we'll finish it.