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Jarvis Cocker as a puppet: The Sleeping Forecast built in ten days and shot in two
Stop Motion Magazine covered Joseph Wallace's brand film for the BBC podcast The Sleeping Forecast on 10 November 2026. A puppet of Jarvis Cocker, who narrates, sits in a miniature seaside world that links the Shipping Forecast with calming music and people drifting off to sleep. Wallace directed and designed the film; Yoav Segal was creative director and producer.
The schedule is the story. According to the magazine and to Dragonframe's earlier interview with Wallace (20 November 2025), the puppet and set took about ten days to make, followed by one day of setup and lighting, two shooting days and two days of post-production. Wallace extended an earlier film: Cocker's narration was edited onto it and new stop-motion bookend shots with the puppet were added.
The puppet was designed around Cocker's clothing, features and gestures and built by Adeena Grubb. Animator Kim Keukeleire worked from Wallace's filmed gesture references, with Steve Warne and Wallace also animating and Robin Jackson rigging. Eve Bannister built the miniature seafront, inspired by Hastings and Martin Parr's photography, from layered elements in a small studio. Cinematographer Malcolm Hadley set warm, practical-looking light against a blue setting to separate the figure. Federico Parodi composited at Gramercy Park Studios, and the film was shot at Clapham Road Studios.
The sources do not name the camera, lenses, armature or how the layers were combined. The durable production facts are folded into the Wiki page on short-schedule brand films.
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