Port Sebastian: The Backstory is an introduction, using a selection of my photos going back to early 2012, to some of the characters and the back story prior to Season One.
In the time it took me to develop a clear view of how I wanted to tell my doll stories, I took a couple (ok , about five) years’ worth of photos and made several slide show videos, making all sorts of mistakes along the way and changing my mind countless times about the way I wanted to go about it.
Finally, I decided that:
- I wanted to attempt to create a web series that is part stop-motion animation and part slide show
- I wanted to do it with voices rather than the mixture of speech bubbles, captioned dialog, and text-to-speech (in one video) that I’d used before, and
- I wanted to tell an ongoing scripted story, with scenes and plots and twists, in soap-opera style, rather than simply “glimpses” into various characters’ lives as I’d done before.
Well (cue record-scratch sound here), I had to rethink numbers 1 and 2 for so many reasons; mainly a lack of the time and resources needed to pull off something like that. I may be able to do that later in life at some point, but for now my direction is to stick with number 3 and to do it in photo-story format.
So, I’m still building sets, writing scripts, and planning, with hopes of debuting Season 1 by the summer of 2017.
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Many of my older photos, slideshows, and videos either told a piece of a story or allowed a glimpse into the backgrounds of some of the characters. Port Sebastian: The Back Story explains how it all began and provides insight into the characters and stories you will see unfolding in Season One.
So, yes, there is a video. There are four Back Story videos, in fact. This video is Part Three and covers the same photos as the Part 3A, 3B, and 3C posts. I made these videos when I was planning to make Port Sebastian as a stop-motion animation with voices, and also when I thought I would be ready to debut in 2014, so please ignore all those references if you decide to watch, and please excuse my poor video-editing skills. 🙂 Ok, I agree! Take me to the video!
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In Part 3B, Carolyn, Janice, Kiersten, and Ryan accompany the Giants on a trip to Washington, DC and surrounding areas.
(Click any image for larger view or to start slideshow. In larger view, click anywhere in image to advance to next image or click arrows at lower left to go back/forward. Click “Start Slideshow” at lower right for auto-advance. Click “X” at lower right to close photo viewer.)
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More on Kiersten feeding the birds – a note from GetMeStarted:
I had some bread in my backpack, and while we were relaxing at the National Mall Park, I fed a little bit to the birds. I got the idea to put some bread in Kiersten’s hand and try to get a pictures of her feeding the birds, but it became comical watching their reactions to her. It was as if she were a scarecrow. They would fly near her and quickly turn and fly away when they saw her. I got out my phone and shot seven minutes of video of them while my partner snapped pictures.
I posted the video on YouTube. It’s seven minutes of a doll kneeling on the ground and me tossing little bread-balls near her to try to entice them to go over by her, so it’s probably not very interesting, but I still find it funny that they wouldn’t go near her!
Kiersten says, “Seriously? You birds went closer to the giants, and they’re (more than) six times my size! AND they were moving and talking!”
(My apologies for the shaky video.)
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