I present to you, in all its crappy black-and-white glory, 'Lego Alien', a film shot in about twenty minutes and edited together in about five.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXaVVhhgzLgThat be the 'Assembly Cut', and goes 4 minutes and 4 seconds (originally 10 seconds, but YouTube cut it off). I didn't quite like it, though, so I took it and hacked it down to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcOgOfwoUtIThe 'final' version, which runs 3 minutes 23 seconds (originally 30 ... again, YouTube).
I had some sort of story planned for it when I shot it in February 05, but I couldn't really remember it. I knew it had something to do with some dude going somewhere after something had happened. Not knowing what the story actually was, I threw something together on-the-fly as I edited it.
Looking back there's a lot I'd like to change, but as it is I'm pretty happy with it. It could be a lot worse. I'm currently making another short, this time with Medieval figures, with story, sound, dialogue, and an actual plot. Should be better.
BTW, at the end ... the guy's supposed to be shooting. But I could never be assed putting it into Flash and animating it. So it's stuck like that for all eternity, or until I get around to it. Either/or.
BTW 2 - The reason there are subliminal flashes of 'Those that had died were buried' during the short version (about 3 in all) is because Windows Movie Maker sucks. Without frame-by-frame editing, I simply couldn't get rid of that title card, and it was the only viable piece of black frame I had. Sorry.