Toast!
It’s been a while but the safe return of Monster’s lost camera inspired him to come up with an idea for a film. Whilst deciding what he wanted for breakfast he told me he wanted to make a film about toast. He wanted a shot of the toaster and one of the bread, one of it going in as bread and another with it coming out as toast, then a series of shots with the toast getting eaten shown by a diminishing pile of toast with bite marks.
This time I was far more hands off with suggestions about the film in the hopes that he would come up with ideas and then critique the finished product for himself, seeing where improvements could have been made. So he took all the photos, deciding when it was the right time to capture his next shot. I did suggest right at the very end that he took a few more pictures of individual bites missing from a piece of toast but this was to more ably demonstrate an idea he had already articulated and he was enthusiastic about the suggestion.
He then sat with me and dictated the credits, chose the colour and decided the length of each frame. Not an animation as such, more a series of stills but totally his own vision in the finished product.
We debated doing more but moved onto discussions about shadows and sillhouettes instead with a few ideas for future projects being tossed about.
So here is ‘The Toast Eater‘.
