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2018 / Short / mixed

Facing It

United Kingdom

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Year2018
Format familyShort
Techniquemixed

Overview

Director first-person Dragonframe technical breakdown confirms live-action actors and pixilation combined with separately photographed STOP-MOTION plasticine faces on green screen, rotoscoped from actor footage. approximately half tonne plasticine. Director's independent interview https://directorsnotes.com/2019/12/18/sam-gainsborough-facing-it/ corroborates. British Council https://filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org/projects/facing-it lists NFTS production, 2018, producer Jimmy Campbell-Smith, DP Bruno Grilo, editor Mdhamiri A Nkemi, writer Louisa Wood, designer Fiona Guest, sound Adam Woodhams, composer Jack Newton. Annecy https://www.annecyfestival.com/about/archives%3Aen/2018%3Aen/2018-programme/2018-index%3Afilm-20182657 labels live action but that is INCOMPLETE technique for the physical face capture, not reason to exclude. Authorized director film https://vimeo.com/380157225. NFTS making-of https://screeningroom.nfts.co.uk/detail/videos/animation-2018/video/5980396890001/making-it---behind-the-scenes-of-facing-it is documentation not separate work.

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Sam Gainsborough director direction
Official source dragonframe.com high confidence
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