Window Screenings

We've arranged a few screenings of our new animation, Window. Come along to one of the following events:

PREMIERE!

MiniCine at the Mills - Thursday 28th February, 7pm, Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Leeds.

Website: http://minicine.org.uk 

Tickets: http://minicine.bigcartel.com

Hush Hush Film Night - Thursday 28th March, 7pm, The Base Leeds.

Website: http://thebaseleeds.com

Young Filmmakers Day (INDIs Award) Leeds Young People's Film Festival - Monday 1st April, 3.45pm, Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds.
Website: http://www.leedsyoungfilm.com/events/young-filmmakers-day-2/

Making Tracks - Friday 12th April, 7pm, Whirlygig Cinema at Rich Mix London. Window will be screening with a live original score, composed and performed by The Cabinet of Living Cinema.
Website: http://whirlygigcinema.com 

Exploding Cinema - Saturday 20th April, 7.30pm, MS Stbnitz, Canary Wharf.
Website: http://www.explodingcinema.org 

Showroom Shorts - 23rd April, South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.
Website: http://syfn.org

Chapel Allerton Short Film Festival - Monday 26th August, Seven Arts, Leeds. As part of the Chapel Allerton Arts Festival.
Website: http://www.chapelallerton.org.uk/

Leamington Underground Cinema Festival - 23rd-29th September 2013.
Website: http://leamingtonundergroundcinema.wordpress.com/

This blog post will be updated with more details and screenings as and when they are confirmed, so keep checking back!

Also follow us on twitter @enJoy_film for regular updates.

You can watch the teaser for Window here: http://vimeo.com/enjoyfilm/windowteaser 

Window

When a little girl visits her Grandma's old house, her unsettling surroundings begin to creep into her dreams...

The 7th stop motion animation from enJoy film focuses on the idea of how the sights, sounds and experiences of your environment can affect your subconscious.

Made over the course of ten months this is the most complicated animation we have made to date; utilising three different animation styles layerd on top of each other we effectively had to shoot the film three times! We played around with the idea of using different animation techniques in the same film with Joy, and wanted to take this to the next level. This animation sees claymation, 2D puppetry and hand-drawn animation in the same shot, with each layer animated in stop motion.

We tried a few things we haven't done before... We finally managed to have a free standing armature by using magnets underfoot. We worked in a much larger scale to enable us to put more detail into the set and also allowed us more freedom of movement. The majority of the action is hand drawn and shot in stop motion, something we really enjoyed experimenting with but took a lot of patience.

The edit was the most complex we have attempted yet; and we did this using the new Final Cut Pro X software which we had to re-learn to use! We had 2 layers of green screening, which took a long time to perfect. We also played around with changing the scale and positioning of the 2D puppets, which turned out to be much easier than expected.

It's taken us a long time, but we're very happy with the result and can't wait to show you all. We are hoping that Window will go round a few screenings before we release it online. In the meantime, onto the next animation....

To see a few production stills from Window, head over to our facebook page: facebook.com/enjoyfilm

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