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ericlnz wrote:
pberk wrote:

Nice Eric .. a fun piece .. The white cat near the end was "robotic" -- right?

Yes "Moggie" is a battery driven "clockwork" cat.  Given to me as part of my retirement present fifteen years ago.  Two troublesome young ladies with whom I worked were behind it.  She's a FurReal Kitty Cat from furrealfriends.com (Hasbro) in the USA.  She's no longer shown on their website but I did see another like her years ago in a local shop.

She's also here in this video where more is explained https://vimeo.com/299351808

Cute Eric .. Using battery operated actors is a blessing.  Even if they disappear and have green daggers coming out of their eyes. By the way, the eyes were a well executed VFX .. But "Moggie" gave a great performance.  Imagine if you had to use a real cat to tell the story.

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ericlnz wrote:
pberk wrote:

Nice Eric .. a fun piece .. The white cat near the end was "robotic" -- right?

Yes "Moggie" is a battery driven "clockwork" cat.  Given to me as part of my retirement present fifteen years ago.  Two troublesome young ladies with whom I worked were behind it.  She's a FurReal Kitty Cat from furrealfriends.com (Hasbro) in the USA.  She's no longer shown on their website but I did see another like her years ago in a local shop.

She's also here in this video where more is explained https://vimeo.com/299351808

I must admit that cat is realistic in fact it would suit my wife, since our last one died a few years ago we decided that it is unfair to leave an animal in a cattery for 5/6 weeks at a time and taking it with us wasn't really an option.

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Things have been quiet around here so I thought I'd post a short piece I made under my One-man-band banner.  I'd love to hear what folks think of it. 

The Appointment - 5 min

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pberk wrote:

Things have been quiet around here so I thought I'd post a short piece I made under my One-man-band banner.  I'd love to hear what folks think of it. 

The Appointment - 5 min

Well it was certainly interesting and well made, I hope I go the same way !
Here is the finished YEP, I hope the ending doesn't cause a heart attack !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkRZAL1jY8

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To be very honest Paul, I am not quite sure what I think of it. Not too many laughs in it, not particularly eye catching, in fact it the "play" could well have been written for the radio. How often does your mind wonder about what will happen when you eventually "pass over"? I guess most people have thought about it, to a greater or lesser degree, but not too many people openly talk about it, even to their other halves.

I am interested in your motivation for making such a video, what inspired you to write and film it. I have now seen a few of your videos and each one made me think much more than the average You Tube creation, at least it wasn't politically driven, unless I am missing something.

How did it make me feel? A bit confused, and more determined than ever to enjoy life while I am still capable.

Thanks for the link.

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GStree wrote:

Here is the finished YEP, I hope the ending doesn't cause a heart attack !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkRZAL1jY8

Very nicely done Gordon, I can see a lot of hard work has gone into that film. Nice scenery, lovely animation, acting was a bit wooden, but kudos to you for having a go. Makes you appreciate just how talented those who act for a living have to be.

The video had a "melodrama" feel to it. I'm assuming that was the intention?

The alien certainly had an interesting taste in men!!

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Albert Ross wrote:
GStree wrote:

Here is the finished YEP, I hope the ending doesn't cause a heart attack !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkRZAL1jY8

Very nicely done Gordon, I can see a lot of hard work has gone into that film. Nice scenery, lovely animation, acting was a bit wooden, but kudos to you for having a go. Makes you appreciate just how talented those who act for a living have to be.

The video had a "melodrama" feel to it. I'm assuming that was the intention?

The alien certainly had an interesting taste in men!!

The scenery is our garden and the field next to our house,  as for being  "a"bit" wooden" ? more like oak !!

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Albert Ross wrote:

To be very honest Paul, I am not quite sure what I think of it. Not too many laughs in it, not particularly eye catching, in fact it the "play" could well have been written for the radio. How often does your mind wonder about what will happen when you eventually "pass over"? I guess most people have thought about it, to a greater or lesser degree, but not too many people openly talk about it, even to their other halves.

I am interested in your motivation for making such a video, what inspired you to write and film it. I have now seen a few of your videos and each one made me think much more than the average You Tube creation, at least it wasn't politically driven, unless I am missing something.

How did it make me feel? A bit confused, and more determined than ever to enjoy life while I am still capable.

Thanks for the link.

Thanks for your comments.  The "radio" comment was most interesting.  I suppose I could have made the piece much more visually interesting -- but somehow I liked it as it is .. Theater of the Absurd.   I guess I was a bit lazy too.  This way it was very easy to shoot.  Still, at the end of the day, I liked it that way so that's what I went with. 

What motivated this piece?  First it had to be something I could do entirely myself.  Second, I wanted to use the famous soliloquy from MacBeth.  I started fooling around with it, acting it out in front of a mirror.  Gradually the "story" of the appointment came to me.  I started shooting and then running the voices through various filters for effect.  The two characters started to be different.  I worked on the script and found an ending.  This, for me, is always the most important thing.  The ending.  Does it make any sense?  Does it complete the story?  Very very often I have a story idea that has a nice start, but no ending.   I wish I could learn to start with the ending and work backwards.  I'm constantly looking for one-man-band ideas with a good ending!!! .. Got one?

This little grim piece is not for everyone. BUT .. It worked for me as it gave me the chance to do the speech from MacBeth.  As far as politics or some other meaning in the piece, there is none that I was aware of .. It's about checking out -- and I guess I'm answering Shakespeare by saying, "It's not so bad" .. I say guess because I don't try to analyze these little pieces.  I leave that to others. I do what feels good to me.

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GStree wrote:
pberk wrote:

Things have been quiet around here so I thought I'd post a short piece I made under my One-man-band banner.  I'd love to hear what folks think of it. 

The Appointment - 5 min

Well it was certainly interesting and well made, I hope I go the same way !
Here is the finished YEP, I hope the ending doesn't cause a heart attack !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkRZAL1jY8

I didn't go into cardiac arrest at the ending -- in fact, I laughed.  It was unexpected.  Clever. Good job.
But why do we always assume that Aliens are up to no good?

Well .. let them speak for themselves: https://youtu.be/mioq-tRAGBQ

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pberk wrote:

Things have been quiet around here so I thought I'd post a short piece I made under my One-man-band banner.  I'd love to hear what folks think of it. 

The Appointment - 5 min

Thanks Paul, very well done.

Being of senior years, I've just passed my 80th birthday, and with one of my retirement village friends passing two days ago I found it very moving.

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ericlnz wrote:
pberk wrote:

Things have been quiet around here so I thought I'd post a short piece I made under my One-man-band banner.  I'd love to hear what folks think of it. 

The Appointment - 5 min

Thanks Paul, very well done.

Being of senior years, I've just passed my 80th birthday, and with one of my retirement village friends passing two days ago I found it very moving.

Thanks.  Sorry to hear about your friend .. I'm 78 ... can't avoid thinking about (and hearing about) such stuff .. but didn't Shakespeare nail it?  Even when I was young, I had the "Complete Works of Shakespeare" with a bookmark planted on the page where this speech occurs. 

I use to think I'd like to play the guy who comes on and says, "The Queen, My Lord, is dead."   I think its his whole part in the play.  That's it. Just the one line. 

I would rehearse that speech in the mirror.  I was ready -- but sometimes I'd get it wrong and say, "My Lord, the Queen is dead." .. I'd have to look it up.  To me this was real drama.  All these years later, I finally made something out of it.

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ericlnz I need to log in on a new computer. I can't find my password so I need to change it or can I find it on the computer that I am on at the moment ?. Regards Gordon

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Is it your Microsoft account?  If so...If you can't remember your password or it's not working

You can reset your Microsoft account password by following these steps:

Go to the recover account page. https://account.live.com/acsr
Enter the email address, phone number, or Skype ID you used when you made your Microsoft account.
If you have security info on your account, we'll send a one-time code to the alternate phone number or email address you gave us. After you enter that code on the next screen, you'll be able to make a new password.
Enter your new password, then select Next

Always searching for the keys of knowledge

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I still want to log into this forum on a new computer, how can I reset my password ?

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Try contacting Alfred at admin[at]punster[dot]me as I assume he can help.

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There once was a man
Who had a good plan
But as much as he tried
His Internet died
And he never was heard from again.

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ericlnz wrote:

Try contacting Alfred at admin[at]punster[dot]me as I assume he can help.

I'm sorry but I can't make any sense of that ? try as I may.

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GStree wrote:
ericlnz wrote:

Try contacting Alfred at admin[at]punster[dot]me as I assume he can help.

I'm sorry but I can't make any sense of that ? try as I may.

You have to send an email to Alfred .. He can deal with your problem ..

Alfred does not wish to post his email address on the forum so as to avoid spam from Robots scanning websites for email address. 

Therefore, he spells it out. 

So, if your trouble is decoding Alfred's email address:

admin[at]punster[dot]me

substitute an @ sign where it says [at]  and substitute a period . where it says [dot]

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pberk wrote:
GStree wrote:
ericlnz wrote:

Try contacting Alfred at admin[at]punster[dot]me as I assume he can help.

I'm sorry but I can't make any sense of that ? try as I may.

You have to send an email to Alfred .. He can deal with your problem ..

Alfred does not wish to post his email address on the forum so as to avoid spam from Robots scanning websites for email address. 

Therefore, he spells it out. 

So, if your trouble is decoding Alfred's email address:

admin[at]punster[dot]me


substitute an @ sign where it says [at]  and substitute a period . where it says [dot]

Sorry but I assumed that "dot" meant a dot ! and what do you mean by "a period"

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pberk wrote:

Alfred does not wish to post his email address on the forum so as to avoid spam from Robots scanning websites for email address. 

Therefore, he spells it out.

I have sent several emails with different permutations and none have bounced back so they must have gone somewhere, just a thought have you ever sent an email to "Alfred" ?

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Yes, I have sent an email to Alfred,and he replied via a PM. Check on the opening page top right hand corner, if the "PM" is in BOLD then there is a PM waiting for you.

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Gordon - Actually as you are able to post on the forum you could simply send him a PM.  Sorry I should have realised that.

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ericlnz wrote:

Gordon - Actually as you are able to post on the forum you could simply send him a PM.  Sorry I should have realised that.

PM sent, hopefully I will get a reply, I need to take a new laptop to Spain for a while and I like to keep in touch on this forum. Cheers

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GStree wrote:
ericlnz wrote:

Gordon - Actually as you are able to post on the forum you could simply send him a PM.  Sorry I should have realised that.

PM sent, hopefully I will get a reply, I need to take a new laptop to Spain for a while and I like to keep in touch on this forum. Cheers

Alfred seems to be on vacation .. He has not posted anything since Aug 27th .. nor has he admitted any new members since Aug 27th .. In other words, nothing from Alfred since Aug 27th .. This is unusual.

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OK Guys n Girls I am back on line with the new laptop. All this palaver is testing me !!