What to do with the green screen footage

This is the first edit to try and figure out what footage will be used in my thesis. The backgrounds are crudely composited in Adobe Premiere Pro, so I don't want any flack, it was just to get a rough idea of what goes where.

The props and animated characters aren't there, you have to make believe, like Mr Rogers and his ugly puppets. But here is some temp sound mixed in if you prefer to close your eyes and experience "theater of the mind" (brought to you by Chesterfield -- Chesterfield always satisfies).

Chester Green Screen

Chester is a mix media film. An homage to the physical slapstick of the vintage cartoons of the '40's and '50's. It's the story of someone who just doesn't belong, no matter how he tries. Chester is played by Brian Bitner, who had to do his act in pantomime in front of the green screen at USC's Zemeckis Center, with the help of very few physical props.

The Rough Idea

Chester actually started off as a much more complicated script, it even featured a kick-ass pirate. Something too big for a thesis project. And it took a long while for me to give it up and trim it down to a much shorter "little fun film." What I was left with was a loser in a bunny suit named Chester, who was a miserable failure at his one dream -- to be a cartoon animal

Attached are two rough animatic of the shorter, simpler film as I brainstormed out how it would work.

Sad Depressed Man in a Bunny Suit

My thesis film was entirely inspired by this photograph. I don't know who to credit it to or how was the model. But if you're out there, I'll buy a print. I seems to pop up from time to time on the web, so I'm not the only one to discover it.

"About time!"

That's what I heard from a classmate about me finally starting my blog on my thesis film. The fact is, I hate blogging, as anyone who keeps track of my other blog might know. The concept that an individual needs needs to endless document their live or process seems overkill to me. I prefer to work on my art and films and let it speak for itself. Documentation seems more the tool for the hack artist who have to explain what their art should be able to say for itself.