It's a great film! "Pull ze strings!" Amazing characters and storytelling. Great work.

Great work, mr Alexander!

Just wiki'd you out of curiosity and wow! ed wood, people vs larry flint, man on the moon and dolemite is my name... love these movies!

Great film. Love it.

I love "Ed Wood" to pieces. It may be Tim Burton's most sustained, most charming movie. Part of its charm was the miniature work, in particular the title sequence (especially with the tentacles rising out of the lagoon). Piercefilm Productions, thank you for this video. And thank you, Scott Alexander, for co-writing such a gem.

Evan interviewed himself since I can't get to America with this pandemic going on. He did a great job mixing tech info with personal model shop stories. And I have many more of his interviews coming up!

@@piercefilm Some people are just born storytellers and he’s definitely one of them. But the great job you’re doing cannot be denied. Its like the ultimate Cinefex issue on steroids.

Just be aware wanky in the uk means ‘rubbish’ derived from wank which can be a verb ‘to wank’ or an adjective ‘that’s wank’ ie that’s shit. 😀

@@honestmcgyver oh I’m not only aware from having done my semester abroad in London.. but it makes it a million times funnier !!

That's an old model railroad construction technique along with the chicken wire. Mostly modelers have used a cardboard lattice covered with Hydrocal-soaked paper towels. Some even manufacture plaster or Hydrocal-soaked gauze (similar to plaster cast material for broken bones). All you have to do is dip it in water and drape it across the under structure. It's very popular along with carving rigid insulation foam or spray foam, or casting foam or plaster rocks in rubber molds.

Also a favorite of mine. Thanks for watching!

Great film about making low budget movies. And wearing angora sweaters...

Me me neither, me too! 👀

I consider it TIm Burton's best film, as well as the best movie about making movies of all time. I like Burton just fine but he was channeling something special here

same here lol, i literally go and watch or rewatch all these films that are showcased on this channel to see if i can pick up that it is a miniature or not. fun times

Excellent movie, highly recommended.

Thanks for watching. More coming up soon!

Motion control and good compositing. Also the lightning flashes helped hide the combination.

No... It's not just you. Most of us film fans feel the same way. My wife and I would rather see a cheap miniature than some God awful CG model fly on screen.

Agreed

@Tom Says I once saw a segment on the 'special features' of a DVD, in which a couple of SFX artisans from ILM said basically the same thing. In the segment, they talked about how much more fun it was to do film-effects the old-fashioned way, building huge models made of balsa wood & molded plastic with their own hands, gluing in all the little fine details, placing strings of leds in all the right places, and then going out & filming the models in the equivalent of somebody's garage or out in a vacant lot someplace. They pretty much agreed that they got far more enjoyment & satisfaction of doing effects that way than spending hours sitting in front of a computer screen moving a mouse around.

Sold out on Amazon. But the DVD is only a teaser trailer for my KZfaq channel. I am posting much more here including brand new interviews not on the DVD. Much more coming up soon! Every week a new segment is posted.

@@piercefilm I think it's great. I do scale modelling for about 50 years now and watched all that movies. Some movies I missed, now viewed because of your channel!

You should look at the original Plan 9 and check on Bela Lugosi's and Ed Wood's biography. Burton's film is thoroughly enjoyable as a love letter to these actors and that particular time period in Hollywood. Also, check MST3Ks episode on Plan 9 if you want a good laugh.

@@DoctorNemmo I saw the original Plan 9 and MST3K's. It was funny. Bela Lugosi was fine but when he died, the movie quickly went into the toilet. I'm pretty weird though. I've never been an Elvis fan either.

@@grantrichards4950 I'm pretty sure I'd have hated Plan 9 when I was younger. I didn't like Elvis or Sinatra either. But then the years pass and you begin to find comfort in silly, simple things. There's something inherently heartwarming in watching an already stablished director like Burton sharing a piece of his childhood in this film, and seeing how a transvestite, alcoholic director and a heroin-addicted old actor in his last years -individuals who otherwise would have been considered outcasts or simply bad influences- managed to fascinate him and imprint on him his future career.

Not bong... Boss. Evan worked for a few years at Boss Film doing effects before working at Boyington. He also talks about his work at Boss in other segments.

It wasn't the most modern, steady motion control.

@@piercefilm haha, it’s just an interesting choice of wording, especially if you’re British.

I was about to ask the same. Especially since he used the term in the correct context 😆 Rewound it three times to make sure I heard him right. Another great video, though! 👌

@@Lumibear. Is there another term used frequently over in the Isles because it seems it gets used a little too much - like there is no other expression. (Not that you don't get tired of American slang.)

@@spinsandneedles oh my, if I answered that question I’d get banned for life, but yes.

Not sure what you mean....

Also thanks for all these priceless SFX videos people 😊

A lot more video segments coming up!