1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: w charas of you, Chuck Bryant and Jerry and is 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: this stuff you should know? How's it going? He's going great, sir? 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? Yeah? Do you remember our 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: Lego episode? I do. That is a great episode, classic 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: and I highly recommend people listen to. It's where the 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: name old Kirk Christiansen came us. Soon as I saw 9 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: that name, that just flashed me back. A great name, 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: old yep O, l E. I think we should go 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 1: buy old Josh Clark and all right, Chuck Bryant, that's 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: definitely how it goes. Well, I'll bet you something. Chucker's 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: back in nine two when old Kirk Christensen founded Lego 14 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: and Bill and Denmark Bill, when don't you say is 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: the name? Yeah? You mean when he founded Automatic Binding Bricks. Right, 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: he didn't call him Lego at first? Um like it 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: was definitely more gratty. Yeah, well, he came up with 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: um Lego apparently, And I remember us debating this or not. 19 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: But so I looked around and this is what I 20 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: see everywhere, including on the Lego site that lego is 21 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: two words leg goat, which means play well, g o dt. 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: But lego also means I put together in Latin. I believe. Yeah, yep. Well, anyway, 23 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,960 Speaker 1: when he was coming up with this, I'll bet he 24 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: never thought these are going to be used to make 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of short stop motion films are gonna 26 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: delight millions of people around the world one day. Probably 27 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: never thought about that, No, but they do. I wonder 28 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: what old Kirk thought when he stepped on one with 29 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: his bare feet. He thought, Yeah, he's man, this is 30 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: going to take off a lot of parents for the 31 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: next three thousand years. It's not fun, so chuck um. 32 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught it or not. I 33 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: just made a reference to brick films. Did you catch 34 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: the reference I did? Stop motion? Well, I guess the 35 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: animation really is what it what it comes down to, 36 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. One of the earliest forms 37 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: of animation because, um, all it involves is moving something, 38 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: taking a photo of it, moving it just a little 39 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: bit more, taking another picture, and doing that until you 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: want to kill yourself pretty much. And that stop motion 41 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: animation requires a lot of patients I've made a few 42 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: of them myself. And when I say a few of them, 43 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: I mean one complete one with my brother with g 44 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: I Joe's with the Super eight. I made about probably 45 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: twelve seconds of one with Star Wars figures in my twenties, 46 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: and then about thirty seconds of one with Clay. I 47 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: built a little theater box set and everything made a 48 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: guy look great out of sculpie, and um, I think 49 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: he got out of bed, went over to the dresser, 50 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: I got a shirt, and like went and exited the door. 51 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: And then I was like, I'm done. It's took so long. 52 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: The rest of his day that you had the script 53 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: for is just no. Yeah. It looked good though, and 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: I was proud of it, but it's just not for me. Well, 55 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: you need to post those on YouTube. Man, They're on 56 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: VHS somewhere. I can dig these things up. You need 57 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: to get them on the YouTube. The world can access 58 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: your VHS tapes. So what do I Just get the 59 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: VHS tape and I just bang it on my laptop 60 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: and it gets on YouTube. Okay, as long as there's 61 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: a black monol with in the background behind you, Yeah, yeah, 62 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,119 Speaker 1: it'll work all right. I'll have to try that. Uh 63 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: so you never use Legos though, never use Legos um. 64 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: But I do think Legos are made for this kind 65 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: of thing because not only do they click into place, 66 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: which is key because you don't want stuff moving around, 67 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: but they these days they are all kinds of pre 68 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: packet Lego sets that are just little film sets waiting 69 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: to be made into movies. Like I mean that that's 70 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: probably the reason why it took off so much, because 71 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: Lego keeps building these sets that are like Harry Potter 72 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: sets or Star Wars sets or Marvel Superhero sets, um. 73 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: And then there's Lego competitors like Mega Blocks that has 74 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: licenses for like the Halo video game series or Hello 75 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: Kitty or Barbie. Right. Yeah, so all you have to 76 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: do is get like a one of these packages, one 77 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: of these sets, and all of a sudden you have 78 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: a movie set. If you have a lot of patients, uh, 79 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: camera of any sort really is we'll see, um and 80 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: something that animated with basically a light source, not a 81 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: lot of stuff you can get. When I was doing it, 82 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: it was about as bare bones as it got. It 83 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: was working on a tabletop with a couple of you know, 84 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: the little clip on aluminum light you get at the 85 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: hardware store. You can use those. What are those worklights? 86 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: Work floods? Yeah, just a little worklights. They get hot, 87 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: they sure do. Um, and I didn't have any, you know, 88 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: I had a tripod and a camera because you want 89 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: to keep things super still. Definitely need a tripod. Definitely 90 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: need a tripod. Or if you are fancy or have 91 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: friends that are fancy and have a slider, you know, 92 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: it's it's basically like a little mini dolly that your 93 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: camera can sit on in there, you know, three to 94 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: four ft long, and then you can do little dolly 95 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: moves and camera moves on your slider and keep it 96 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: nice and straight. Or if you have some ingenuity, which 97 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: you probably do if you're making a brick film, you 98 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: can make your own little skateboard dolly out of skateboard 99 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: wheels and PBC pipe. Yeah, you just make a little 100 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: track and then um attached like you know, you basically 101 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: you can. There's a lot of ways can do it, 102 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: but like a baseboard to sit the camera on with 103 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: track wheels to guide along the PBC pretty neat. So um, 104 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: what we're talking about specifically our brick films and one 105 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: of the There aren't a lot of requirements to make 106 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: a brick film aside from what you're saying, but one 107 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: of them is that legos have to kind of feature prominently. 108 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: Most brick films are stop motion, and one of the things, 109 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: in addition to having like Harry Potter sets or um 110 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: outer space sets, are all these different sets that are 111 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: like many movie sets right out right out of the box. 112 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: Um are the mini figures. Um there, those are your 113 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: actors typically. Yeah, they didn't come along to the late seventies. Yeah, 114 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: and then now I think they're the largest population on 115 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: the planet. Oh really, Yeah, I remember there's like four 116 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: billion of them or something like that. You know, they 117 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: made more tires than anyone else. But yeah, that doesn't 118 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: surprise me. Yeah, I came along. My lego experience was 119 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: pre uh figure. So we had to we had to 120 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: make our own little men and women out of smaller 121 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: legos in the snowy ways. These make sense, they look cooler. Yeah. 122 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: So most brick films are stop motion. Some people actually 123 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: filmed the the um lego figures and characters moving, I 124 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: would guess, so I would think it's not quite as 125 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: time consuming though wire work and stuff. I bet it's frustrating. 126 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: But I mean, if you have like all of your 127 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: lego figures on roller skates or something, you just kind 128 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: of drag them along. Sure, you don't have to take 129 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: picture picture picture. You kind of film them moving with 130 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: stop motion. That's very it's much. It's the opposite. Basically. 131 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: It's like you said, you you set up your your 132 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: your shot, you take a photo of it, and then 133 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: you move the person a little bit, like if they're walking, 134 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: you would move their arm, one of their arms down, 135 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: another one up, and one leg out a little bit, 136 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: and the other one back a little bit, and then 137 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: take that picture and so on and so on and um. 138 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: What you're ultimately doing is recreating motion, right right, um, 139 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: using inanimate objects. And the way you recreate motion is 140 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: by the frames per second, which is a film speed, 141 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: and film shoots it or plays I should say, at 142 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: twenty four frames per second, which means that every second 143 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: of film you see, you're actually being shown twenty four 144 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: still photographs in secession. Yeah, that's for film. Video is 145 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: thirty frames per second. And there are there are variations 146 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: on all this to achieve different looks, you know. Um, 147 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: but if you are just doing the math if you 148 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: want to do a stop motion film, a five minute 149 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: stop motion film at twenty four fps frames per second 150 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: would be seventy two individual photographs. Right, that's for five minutes. 151 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: Five minute film. Means you have to take that many 152 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: photographs in order and in between photographs. You can't just 153 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: sit there and take shotographs. Rust just gonna have seventy 154 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: two hundred of the same pictures. There's seventy two hundred 155 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: slightly different pictures where one is slightly different from the last. Yes, 156 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: one way you can cheat that a little bit, um 157 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: is if you just double it up and you use 158 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: two frames um for each move. So you would take 159 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: twelve pictures for a second of um video, right, well, 160 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: and then just use them twice and that would make 161 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: it a four second, four frames per sent. Yeah, it's 162 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: gonna look a little more herky jerky, but um, the 163 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: nature of the brick film is a little herky jerky 164 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: anyway because of the way they move and the the 165 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: range of motion on the little figures. So it's not 166 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: like if you took completely bendable action figures. You know, 167 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 1: you can get a lot more smooth, detailed moves. Yeah, 168 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: people aren't expecting your lego thing to move completely seamlessly. 169 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: That's not how legos move. They've got I think four 170 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: four points of movement. Yeah, their shoulders and their hips. Okay, 171 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: so they don't have like elbows or knees, and then 172 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: technically you can say their head has a range of motion. Five. 173 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: You just acted out a lego movement. It's very adorable. 174 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: Which people could see the stuff? Josh, thanks man. All right, 175 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: well let's take a little break here in um, get 176 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: back to some lighting techniques right after this. All right, Josh, 177 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: you've you've built your You've got your Ghostbusters lego kit, 178 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: Lego brand kit. Right. Um, you want to make a 179 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: seque old to Ghostbusters because Ghostbusters too was horrible? Not true? 180 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: Did you like it? Sure? It was a Ghostbusters movie. 181 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: It was great, boy, So you want to make Ghostbusters 182 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: three because you thought two was so good it deserved 183 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: its own sequel. All right, Um, and you want to 184 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: get some lights already said you can. You can go 185 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: cheap and just get those little aluminum lights if you have, 186 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: if you really want to get serious, you can rent 187 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: lights from a camera house. You can go to your 188 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: friend Scott's sure be like, I know you have some lights. Yeah, 189 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: or here at how stuff works. We have the use 190 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: of lights. Yeah, if you're making a brick film, drop 191 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: Bible'll lend you some lights. No, don't do that. Um. Basically, 192 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: lighting is gonna do a few things. It's gonna light 193 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: up your set so people can see it a uh 194 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: and be. It can help you set a mood for sure, 195 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: like whether it's day or night, or noir or sunny, 196 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: like a bright sunny day. Uh. And what you're really 197 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 1: looking to do, though, is have complete control of your 198 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: your lighting, because one thing that can really thwart your 199 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: brick film is any change in lighting. You won't notice it. 200 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: You'll just take your little picture and then you'll see 201 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: flickering going on when you play it back. And that's 202 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: because someone turned on a light in the other room 203 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 1: next to you and you didn't notice it. So you 204 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: want to black out all the curtains. Just get in 205 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: a room where you have complete control over the lighting. Yeah. 206 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: That's the same reason why you don't want to shoot 207 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 1: a brick film or any kind of stop motion outdoors, 208 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,320 Speaker 1: because the sun changes its lighting to be impossible fairly 209 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: regular rate yea faster than you can shoot and move. Um. 210 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: So yeah, you want to totally be able to control lighting. 211 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: So once you have your lighting under total control, you 212 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 1: want to use usually about three lights at least. Put 213 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: on your black turtleneck, yeah, or like your black roots 214 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: suit or something like that. Ye even better, uh huh. 215 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: And and don't let anybody see like that, because they're 216 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: gonna be like, you're a total weirdo locked away in 217 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: this room with no windows, wearing a black roots who 218 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: playing with your light lego mini things And you'd say, no, 219 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm a filmmaker, right, brigg filmmaker and they would just 220 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: back out of the room slowly. Yeah, exactly. So, Um, 221 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: you you use one light for backlighting, use that behind 222 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: the thing behind your shot. You um have a key 223 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: lighting which is the front. And then you also want 224 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: to have some sort of bounce and um you can 225 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: basically replace that third light source with even just like 226 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: a white sheet of paper something to reflect light off 227 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: that that's very mobile, so you can director wherever you 228 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 1: need it. And the whole point of this is to 229 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: light normally, but also to chase off shadows. Yeah, if 230 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: you've never let anything, you're going to be frustrated at 231 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: first because you're lego characters are gonna have like two 232 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: different shadows going in two different directions, and the first 233 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: thing you're gonna think is, well, that doesn't look like 234 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: real life. So you can do two things. You can 235 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: experiment around with your phil lights until you get rid 236 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: of your shadows, or you can get a book or 237 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: look on the internet. Just some very basic lighting techniques. Um, 238 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: it's not super complicated. It's nobody tough to get like, 239 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: really good at it. It's not necessarily intuitive where you're like, oh, 240 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: this guy looks like a soccer player in a night game. 241 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: He's got four shadows everywhere exactly, So how do I 242 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: get rid of that? Oh, it's this bounce. I would 243 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: say this would be one of those times when it's 244 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: best to just rely on the wisdom of others who 245 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: have come before. Yeah, and that wisdom on the internet. 246 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: The yeah, exactly. Um, the the lights too, you're gonna 247 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: want to diffuse it. It's it's probably gonna be way 248 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: too harsh coming directly off the bulb. So um, you 249 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: can use like wax paper or a handkerchief or in 250 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: anything that doesn't catch on fire. Uh ideally, Yeah, and 251 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,479 Speaker 1: you do in your grandfather's room and get a handkerchief 252 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: out of his gesture drawer exactly with the initials H monogrammed. 253 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: It's old krusty brown snot Yeah. I used to think 254 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: that was so gross when I was a little it is. 255 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: It's like, oh man, they're blowing their nose and they're 256 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: putting it in, they're puttying it away for safekeeping. Gross. 257 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: It was a less wasteful generation, though they didn't fill 258 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: a plan fills with clinics. That is true, you know, 259 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: so it took I pretty much feel like we just 260 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: gave a great clinic on lighting. Yeah, shoots some test footage. 261 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: Don't dive right in there, you know, monkey around with it. 262 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're gonna be really mad or your thing's 263 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: gonna look terrible at first, and then get progressively better 264 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: as the final final thing goes on. Say yeah, you 265 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: want to learn by doing yeah, and yeah, just do 266 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: some exercises, all right. We talked a little bit about equipment. Uh, 267 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: they are all kinds of cameras you can use. Um. 268 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: What I used on the last one, which was super handy, 269 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: was a camera that had a remote control so you 270 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: could just click off the photos without having to touch 271 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: the camera. That is very advisable. Yea. Once you have 272 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: the camera set, it's really nice to not touch it 273 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: again if you don't have to. Yeah, because again you're 274 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: moving the stuff within this world, not the camera, at 275 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: least for the shot you're taking. And again, if you 276 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: if you have a three second shot, that's what seventy 277 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: two photos you need to take from that exact same position. Yeah, right, 278 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, you don't want that camera to move at 279 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: all or else is gonna be some weird jarring and 280 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: stuff like that. And the best way to do that 281 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: is a remote capture camera. That really helps. Um, if 282 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: you have an auto focus slash manual focus, you want 283 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: to turn it off the auto focus, make it fixed focus, 284 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: manual focus you can. Again, you're just looking for complete control, 285 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: uh auto focus little you know, you don't want to 286 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: focus on the wrong thing, especially if, like um, your 287 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: your many figures coming closer to the camera every time. 288 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: That's gonna change that auto focus and you're every every 289 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: photo in the frame is gonna look slightly different or 290 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: fuzzy or just completely changed from time to time. Not good. Yeah, 291 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: you're after consistency, uh, consistency through control pretty much if 292 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: you have a digital zoom camera you want to you 293 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: want an optical zoom? What is that? Uh? It's basically 294 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 1: I think a digital zoom simulates the image rather than 295 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: it being actually so it digitizes the zoom at a 296 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: certain point and it's not as high quality now it 297 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: looks it always looks crutty in my opinion. So, yeah, 298 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: you want to control, so a true zoom basically you 299 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: remember the camera, yes you know, yeah, creep that little 300 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: thing in like a dolly right, or if you have 301 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: your slider you're all set there, so where you can 302 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: say it's like a what you basically want to be 303 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: like Nikolai cho Chesk or eat a mean of of 304 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: your mini films set here? You want like total control 305 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: over everything. I thought you were gonna say, like Orson Welles, 306 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: like he's to even worse. Okay, Uh so we talked 307 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 1: about bumping the camera. You also don't want to bump 308 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: your film set. Yeah, I mean that can really ruin 309 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: your day at the end of a long day if 310 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: you bump it and all your stuff falls over. So 311 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: clamp that stuff down, clamp your set down, glue it down, 312 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do to keep it as 313 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 1: ruded as possible. Yeah, and don't let anyone anywhere near 314 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: it now because it's my lego set and I'm the outdoor. 315 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: So we've got some more stuff, some more awesome UM recommendations, 316 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to it right after this, Chuck, 317 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 1: I really feel like we're helping a lot of people here. 318 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: I think so too. So we talked about lighting, we've 319 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: talked about the kind of camera equipment you watch or 320 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: UM and a lot of well, especially the Brick film 321 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: which we'll talk about later, UM, are silent. They're silent films, 322 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: which means you don't have to worry about sound. But 323 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot of them that do have sound, dialogue 324 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: all that stuff, UM, and you don't have to worry 325 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: about recording that as you go along. Most of the 326 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: sound can be recorded in post production, but you want 327 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: to have an idea of what is going to be 328 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: said where or what what your soundtrack is going to 329 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: be like, because you have to figure out how long 330 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: each shot needs to be and how many ultimately how 331 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: many photos you need to take within a given scene 332 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: or else, like the voiceover is still going when you 333 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: just change scenes and your your entire family and friends 334 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: will laugh at you. When you show them your brick film. 335 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 1: You don't want to be the Edwood of brick films. 336 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: He just did not care. He didn't care. It was great. 337 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: That movie was great. My favorite or one of my 338 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: favorite parts, aside from everything Bill Murray did, was when 339 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: tour like bumps the wall in the way in and 340 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: they're like, don't you want to shoot that to or 341 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: just walked in the wall, He's like, no, I like it. 342 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: It's real. Let's use it. Um so expressions and drama. 343 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: These little lego folks aren't super expressive in the face, 344 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: but they suggested in this article, and it kind of 345 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: makes sense. Pop that head off and put on something else, 346 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: you know, could be a pink pong ball that you 347 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: draw faces on. Well, there there are different many figs 348 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: that have um different expressions yea, and so you can 349 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: just interchange their heads. Okay, So if someone needs to 350 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: look up horrors, put on the horror face. Um. And 351 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: then apparently there's companies that will customize facial expressions on 352 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: your mini figures. Yeah. And I imagine if you have 353 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: some money and you can get that done. That's right. Uh, 354 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: And now I want to go not off topic, but 355 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: off article and say story, story, story. If you are 356 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: going to make a brick film or any film, have 357 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: a good story. Just just because it's a two minute 358 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: lego brick film, it's gonna stink if it's just you know, 359 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: no matter how good it looks, it's not gonna be 360 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: fun to watch unless you have a good little story. 361 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: So like, write something out that's good and engaging or funny, 362 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be super long to have 363 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: a little character arc or story arc. Have your guy 364 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: chased by something else. Yeah, Like I watched one the 365 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: other day and it was it was fun, It was silly. 366 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: It was a one lego guy helping the guy next 367 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: door do all his chores. Is that the the dandelion? Oh, 368 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,919 Speaker 1: I don't know the name of it. But he was, 369 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: you know, helping him mo and helping him put on 370 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: shutters and doing all this stuff and all the while 371 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,199 Speaker 1: like his home was getting beaten up, and it was 372 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: just you know, that's all they needed was that one 373 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 1: little joke at the end that they showed the nice 374 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: house and then the house in tatters. It's a very 375 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 1: in Randy and brick film. Was it don't help your name, 376 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: your own house will fall the pieces if you help 377 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: your neighbor well to take care of yourself. The character 378 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 1: was John Galt, so there may be something there. Um 379 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, story just uh, I would encourage you 380 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: to make something engaging, uh, and then make it look good. Yeah, 381 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: all right, that's my soapbox moment. That was great. Thanks, 382 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: that was good stuff. All right. So we're onto software, Yeah, 383 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: I think so, because, um, you're going to find very 384 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: quickly when you have shotos, you need a way to 385 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: turn them into a video. They don't just automatically turn 386 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: into a video like that. And you can't just do 387 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: a flipbook on the internet because you'd have to shoot 388 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: that anyway and run it through software eventually. So you 389 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: might as well not go to that extra step. Just 390 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: get yourself some stop stop motion um animating software, and 391 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: there's plenty of them out there. There's some that cost 392 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: tons of money, some that are free. Lego has one, yeah, 393 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: called Lego movie Maker. Yeah, it's a little app you 394 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: can make your own little big encourage the making a 395 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: brick films of course, right, So depending on the kind 396 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: of software you have there there's some that will automatically 397 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: import from your camera. There's some that will. Um, that 398 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: has something called onion skinning, which shows like a transparency 399 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: of the last shot over the current shot, so you 400 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: can make sure everything's going the way you need to say, 401 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: if you need to stop and reshoot one of those photos, 402 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: you know you can real quick. Um, it's got to 403 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: be super helpful to have that. And the whole thing 404 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: is gonna put it all in order, animated, and then 405 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 1: it's probably also going to have some sort of whiz 406 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: bang features, Like there's one called rhodoscope which makes things glow, 407 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: which comes in very handy if you're doing a Star 408 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: Wars brick film and you want to make the lightsabers glow. 409 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: That's right. Uh. Some of them might have other little 410 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: c g I tricks built in, or you can do 411 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: some low fi c g I of your own with 412 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: a little uh investigating and learning on the YouTube. Uh, 413 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: it's not super hard to learn a couple of basic things. 414 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: And again, these are brick films. This one that I 415 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: watched had some low fi like fire effect, and um, 416 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: you know it looked it looked great for what it 417 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: was supposed to be. You know, it's not supposed to 418 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: be a Hollywood action thriller. It's a brick film, so 419 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: it can look kind of campy and corny and it 420 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: still works. Did you ever see the Matrix brick film? Now? 421 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: It was a good Yeah. I think it's it's not 422 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 1: even like a shot for shot thing of the matrix. 423 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: It's like a like in addition to it, it's super 424 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: gory and um, it just incredibly well done. It is 425 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: like Hollywood action thriller brick film. Nice. You have to 426 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: check that out. Well, there's hundreds and hundreds, I would 427 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: say thousands, thousands at this point brick films. The first 428 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: one that they I watched this one. Actually in the 429 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: ninety three, Lars and Einrich Hassing made a little super 430 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: eight brick film called Journey to the Moon, and um, 431 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: you know it's cute. It's uh, it's actually mother, it's 432 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 1: like kids playing around. But and then it looks pretty good. Yes, 433 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: and the especially when you consider that they were doing 434 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: a film, yeah, and using like film editing software and 435 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: stuff to put this thing together. It's kind of mind 436 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: blowing that these two kids put this together and made 437 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: basically the first brick film. What's more, since it was 438 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, this was five years before the mini 439 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 1: figures came out, so they had to build their own 440 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: characters out of legos to good stuff. And then there's 441 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: another classic brick film from the late nineteen nineties by 442 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: Lindsay Flee and I think the late eighties. What I 443 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: say late nineties, Yeah, late eighties is what I'm at, 444 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 1: the Magic Portal, and that was shot on sixteen millimeter film. Uh, yeah, 445 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: it looks great. He's a he was a film student 446 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: and actually got money from a grant from the Australian 447 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: Film Commission, and um, a bunch of people donated lego 448 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: sets and it looks really good. Yeah, and it took 449 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: them years to do it. It took um, I think 450 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: more than a year to just shoot the photos. Yeah. 451 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: I mean, now you know why my films were all 452 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: twelve seconds long, you know. Yeah, this one's like sixteen 453 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: minutes long. Crazy. What are some of the other big ones, 454 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: Star Wars, the Han Solo Affair, Yeah, a lot of stars. Yeah. 455 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: Have you seen Monty Python on Holy Grow shot for 456 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: shot of the Camelot song this, and like, not only 457 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: is it shot for shot, it's so great. They got 458 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,479 Speaker 1: the lighting correct on every shot. Like it's not like 459 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: there's some inside Lego World. It looks like they took 460 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: the original Monty Python this minute and fifteen second clip 461 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: and like ran it through like a Lego Lego Nader. Wow, 462 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: Like they got the lighting perfect. You gotta see it, man, 463 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: it's probably the best one. I have to check that out. 464 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: And there's some really great ones out here, like again 465 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 1: that Matrix one. I'm amazing. But um, and I have 466 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: to say I am a fan of the Magic Portal 467 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: now yeah, um, but this Monty Python one is just 468 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 1: it's just mind blowing. And that was by spite your face. 469 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: They seem to be the premier brick film studio. Yeah, 470 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: they do. Uh, they've done a lot of them. Um. 471 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: I was about to remark about the attention to detail 472 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: and like the Monty Python thing, but I think that's 473 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: by nature what you're getting with these people who make these. 474 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: If you don't have an attention, like a scary attention 475 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: for detail, you're not gonna be working in stop motion anyway. 476 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: So that's why Stuffed By, like Nick Park and Ardment 477 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,479 Speaker 1: Animation did Wallace and Grommet and the Creature Comfort series, 478 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: they look like the detail is so great because that's 479 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: just their deal. California raisins remember then, Oh yeah, good 480 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: attention to detail. Yeah. Uh did you see the Lego movie? 481 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't either. Hurdle was great, Yeah, I 482 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: want to see it. But um, is it a brick 483 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: film or not? No? No, no it's not. It was 484 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: all c g I s. Brick film doesn't have to 485 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: be stopped motion, but typically it should be in at 486 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: least like it should be real life Lego figures, not 487 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: c g I ones. But um, apparently it had plenty 488 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: of homages to brick films in general. Yeah, I didn't 489 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: know that. I think that's kind of neat. Yeah. So 490 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: the impression I have from researching this is that Lego 491 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: as a company is very aware of brick films, obviously 492 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: because they have the movie maker app They love it. 493 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: They give a ward out for brick films. Um, and 494 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: in the Lego movie, it was kind of a tribute 495 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: to brick films, a little tip of the old cap. 496 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: Old Kirk Christensen would have been like, oh, yeah, Lego 497 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: loves this stuff. You know, make a Star Wars one, 498 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: make a Ghostbusters one, making Indiana Jones one, bye bye bye, 499 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: don't make three Star Wars ones. Who would do that 500 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: make a Star Wars and the Ghostbusters and a and 501 00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: a Planet of the Apes. Yeah exactly? Uh, you got 502 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: anything else? Mean? Nope? Brick films again. This is another 503 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: entry in our quest to explain absolutely everything there is 504 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: on Earth and beyond. So enjoy it, everybody, right not. 505 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: If you want to know more about brick films, you 506 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: can type that word one word into the search part 507 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. But even more than that, 508 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: I would encourage you to just type that word into 509 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,479 Speaker 1: your favorite search engine and sit back and start watching 510 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: brick films. Delightful. They are amazing. Uh. And since I 511 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: said your favorite search engine, it's time for listener mail. 512 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this jokes to her husband. Hey, guys, 513 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: to listen to the podcast on revenge this morning as usual. 514 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: I really enjoyed. It made me think of a revenge 515 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: story in my own life that backfired, uh then became 516 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: something pretty amazing. My wife and are big jokesters. 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Using 530 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: a pen, I was able to make the pregnancy tests 531 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: look positive and put it back where she left it. 532 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: I never will forget the look of terror on her 533 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: face when she eventually saw it came walking to the 534 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: room with the test. I immediately started joking with her 535 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: about how exciting it is and really playing up the ruse. 536 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: I didn't let her dangle too much though, before telling 537 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: her the truth. It was a good time and last 538 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: for had by all. One month later, she actually was 539 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: pregnant and quickly found out that we had twins. 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