Hi, my name is Sandra Cosfeld. I'm currently producing a short film in Cardiff and we urgently require some origami.
Any designs and colours are OK, but we will need about 12-15 for Tuesday.
Unfortunately we are a student production with a very small budget, but all expenses (including shipping) will be covered and you will receive a thanks in the credits and a copy of the film if you want.
For more information on the project, check out our website
http://www.identitycrisisthemovie.co.uk/
If you're interested or have any questions, please send me a message or email me at sandra.cosfeld@gmail.com
Thanks!
origami needed for UK short film
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Sara
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Hi Sandra,
maybe you could tell us a bit more about what kind of models you'd imagined.
If you're not sure, maybe you can tell us what the short film is about and what part origami is to play in it.
Also, it's very important to know which size the models should have.
Given your restrictions you probably can't expect to get something hugely complex, but there's still so many models to pick from.
Finally, if you give some details I might be willing to contribute something.
-- Sara
maybe you could tell us a bit more about what kind of models you'd imagined.
If you're not sure, maybe you can tell us what the short film is about and what part origami is to play in it.
Also, it's very important to know which size the models should have.
Given your restrictions you probably can't expect to get something hugely complex, but there's still so many models to pick from.
Finally, if you give some details I might be willing to contribute something.
-- Sara
The film is about a young man who wakes up in a hospital with temporary memory loss. He strikes up a friendship with one of the nurses, who helps him rediscover his own life, and he eventually discovers that he is gay.
The origami is one of the devices we want to use to show that, while he may have lost his memory, his subconscious remembers some of the skills he had before the memory loss.
There will be two scenes featuring the origami, one in which he starts folding some paper, almost unconsciously, like some people doodle. In the other he shows his origami to his friend the nurse and basically asks, how come I can't remember my life, but my hands remember how to do these?
As I said, any designs and colours will be ok and we're not looking for any particularly fancy ones. Simple ones will be fine. It would also be good to have a few, maybe 3 or 4 on just normal writing paper, as those are the first ones the character does.
Hope that makes it a bit clearer.
The origami is one of the devices we want to use to show that, while he may have lost his memory, his subconscious remembers some of the skills he had before the memory loss.
There will be two scenes featuring the origami, one in which he starts folding some paper, almost unconsciously, like some people doodle. In the other he shows his origami to his friend the nurse and basically asks, how come I can't remember my life, but my hands remember how to do these?
As I said, any designs and colours will be ok and we're not looking for any particularly fancy ones. Simple ones will be fine. It would also be good to have a few, maybe 3 or 4 on just normal writing paper, as those are the first ones the character does.
Hope that makes it a bit clearer.
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Sara
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Hi Sandra,
In that case it'd be good for your actor to watch a couple of instructional origami videos. Like this "folding subconsciously" will look more like the real thing.
For example, check the start of videos on the following sites:
http://www.pem.org/sites/origami/
http://www.happyfolding.com/instructions
Do you mean by "normal writing paper" plain white paper, squared paper, or ruled paper? Does your character have interests that emerge within the film? E.g. do you have scenes where animals, plants, etc play a role?
-- Sara
In that case it'd be good for your actor to watch a couple of instructional origami videos. Like this "folding subconsciously" will look more like the real thing.
For example, check the start of videos on the following sites:
http://www.pem.org/sites/origami/
http://www.happyfolding.com/instructions
Do you mean by "normal writing paper" plain white paper, squared paper, or ruled paper? Does your character have interests that emerge within the film? E.g. do you have scenes where animals, plants, etc play a role?
-- Sara
Thanks, Sara, you're a great help! I'll pass on those links to the actor.
The paper can be squared or ruled, as long as it's paper that could have come from an ordinary writing pad.
We don't see him express any particular interest in animals or plants in the film (it's only a 10 minutes short), so I'm happy to leave the choice of models entirely up to whoever agrees to do the origami for us. Ideally I'd like a few swans, as they're instantly recognisable, and a selection of a few different flowers (to mirror the flowers the nurse puts by his bed), if they're not too complicated to make.
The paper can be squared or ruled, as long as it's paper that could have come from an ordinary writing pad.
We don't see him express any particular interest in animals or plants in the film (it's only a 10 minutes short), so I'm happy to leave the choice of models entirely up to whoever agrees to do the origami for us. Ideally I'd like a few swans, as they're instantly recognisable, and a selection of a few different flowers (to mirror the flowers the nurse puts by his bed), if they're not too complicated to make.
I live in very close proximity to Cardiff compared to any other of the Forumers. I'm going to make some models, will yellow writing paper be OK? Will it fit the criteria? What is the address to send the models too?s.cosfeld wrote:Thanks, Sara, you're a great help! I'll pass on those links to the actor.
The paper can be squared or ruled, as long as it's paper that could have come from an ordinary writing pad.
We don't see him express any particular interest in animals or plants in the film (it's only a 10 minutes short), so I'm happy to leave the choice of models entirely up to whoever agrees to do the origami for us. Ideally I'd like a few swans, as they're instantly recognisable, and a selection of a few different flowers (to mirror the flowers the nurse puts by his bed), if they're not too complicated to make.
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Sara
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Good to hear that elanman is close by and is willing to fold you some models from writing paper.
Here's a couple of models I folded just now, all from the same sort of paper. If you like, I could send those, as well as a couple of extra sheets of origami paper (for props).
[img]http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8143/selectiont.png[/img]
Models:
Primula by Mitsonubu Sonobe (yellow)
Swan by Stephen Weiss (white)
Penguin by Stephen Weiss (black/white)
Hydrangea by Shuzo Fujimoto (blue)
Pig by Quentin Trollip (pink)
Rose by Toshikazu Kawasaki (red)
I tried to pick models that you can easily memorize and that are recognizable even with a passing glance (at least the animals).
-- Sara
Here's a couple of models I folded just now, all from the same sort of paper. If you like, I could send those, as well as a couple of extra sheets of origami paper (for props).
[img]http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8143/selectiont.png[/img]
Models:
Primula by Mitsonubu Sonobe (yellow)
Swan by Stephen Weiss (white)
Penguin by Stephen Weiss (black/white)
Hydrangea by Shuzo Fujimoto (blue)
Pig by Quentin Trollip (pink)
Rose by Toshikazu Kawasaki (red)
I tried to pick models that you can easily memorize and that are recognizable even with a passing glance (at least the animals).
-- Sara
), traditional iris with stem and a simple flapping bird.
s.cosfeld wrote:Wow, those are lovely. Thanks, Sara. If you could send them to us, that would be great. I'll pm you.
elanman, thanks again. Looking forward to seeing yours, they sound interesting.
Sandra
I have made a few of them with notebook paper, so it appears that the main character has folded them. I'll send them off tomorrow, here's a picture:
[img]http://i30.tinypic.com/292kw9i.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i28.tinypic.com/11c48k1.jpg[/img]
Flapping Bird (notebook paper): Traditional.
Penguin: Stephen Weiss (if you don't mind me using it, Sara .A
) .Sampan with man: Traditional, Chris Boudias; respective.
Iris: Traditional.
Blue Pigeon: Akira Yoshizawa
Yellow Rat: Eric Joisel.
Fish: Unknown
Box with lid: Traditional.
Pig: Paul Jackson.
Waterbomb: Traditional.
Thanks for helping me out, Sara, your renditions look fabulous.