The Grace of Eyes

The meticulous work of recording the eyes was done in late 2011.

On the pictures below some of the handsome actors are at hard work. Trying to go where the puppet went, trying to look where the puppet is looking and trying to feel what the puppet is feeling.

Henrik Vierø did magic work with the light. Creating that graceful and important sparkle in the eyes… 

Also the smoke and fog was recorded, with the help from Andreas Berg. At the near bottom is I, your humble director, trying to create it.

And last, the man himself…

Jonas Bjarnøe Jensen, took these pictures, was production assistant on the eye recordings and played the other soldier.

Vibe Lilmoës, Playing the boy. With her child like and beautiful eyes.

Jonas Bregnhøj Nielsen. The Nazi with a gun, smoking a cigarette.

Sanne Løwe, getting ready to lovingly kiss the boy.

and smiling at him

Rie Nymand aplying the make-up on Ene Øster Bendtsen. Who is the beautiful mother eyes.

Yous truly, nearly puking over a cigarette.

And here he is, Jakob Eriksen from Jafilm. The magician and saviour. Who made it happen. Worked intensely November 2011 and gave the puppets there eyes. So well crafted, that they could call them their own.

Jakob Eriksen Smiling satisfied.

EYE TEST

The Eye Movie (brought to you by WiredFly).

This li’l video beneath is different shots compiled during some of the different stages of our ”Human Eyes Composite” madness. Hjalte, he who will portray the eyes of the boy, has blue eyes – and we took him to Martin the optician to see if he could wear contact lenses; unfortunately it didn’t work, so we will have to rely on fancy computer colour-grading.

We also shot some test of Ene, she who will portray the eyes of the mother. We got our almost-neighbours Wahlberg to build a helmet that sticks on the head like glue; in that way we could film her eyes perfectly, but alas; there was some technical problems... so we postponed the eye-shoot into the ”undiscovered country” (which is the term the Klingon ambassador uses in the 6th Star Trek film about the future).

You may also notice Anders the storyboard artist taking a wee in the forest in the very end of the film.

The music is made on church-organ – with fancy organ beats and some strange effects!

Godspeed!

Misc.1

A li'l friday update from WF.HQ:
Today we got CRAZY amounts of oilbased clay with the mail. Two big boxes indeed! We also got a scale that Hanna is using, as I write, to measure stuff for the mold.
We have talked with the actress Ene, who played the mother in the pace video we did to test the pace and the rythm in the movements and the editing. She was very interested in letting us use her eyes for the puppets. I don't know if this has been mentioned on this blog yet - but we will composit real human eyes on the puppets. This will offcourse look awesome!!! So now we are making tests to see if Ene's eyes will "fit" the puppet. More on this as it developes.



(A portrait of Ene, that she sent us to test her eyes on the puppets).



(Johan and an armaturemaker named John Wright have mailed weird drawings back and forth concerning the armatures. Above here is one of the pictures. The armatures isn't finished yet - but O the glory when they are!).