Toozle and Tinkle – 2006

THE MAKING OF TOOZLE AND TINKLE (working title) is a mockumentary about the making of a poorly conceived and badly executed low budget children’s t.v. pilot.

The inspiration for this film came from a real-life experience I had when I was hired to play a blue dog, in a suit I designed and created, for an independently produced children’s television pilot. The comedy of disasters that unfolded during production provided the basis for much of this script, which Raul Viceral, my co-writer, and I then embellished. We cast several San Francisco theatre actors well versed in improvisation, and captured hours of footage while they improvised on camera. As a result, the characters are rich and multi-dimensional.

The Making of Toozle and Tinkle incorporates several techniques, including green screen compositing, 2D animation, various post-production special effects, and the combination of 24 frame-per-second 16:9 footage, used for interviews and other “documentary” scenes with regular video for the show itself, shot at 29.97 frames per second with an aspect ratio of 4:3. The film is currently in post-production.