{"id":12159,"date":"2012-04-09T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2012-04-10T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:51:08","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-spider-festival-1-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/weekend-fright-flick-spider-festival-1-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick Spider Festival 1: Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scratch<\/strong> is a short film made by Ethan Snell in 2011, a film that neatly ties in with a theme the Backbrain introduced just yesterday in an article on the upcoming creature feature Mega Spider<\/em><\/a>. The theme? Extreme arachnophobia!<\/p>\n

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Scratch<\/em> won the ‘Scariest Film Award’ at a small private film festival in 2011. It “brings\u00a0one man’s greatest fear into reality during the darkness of a power outage”.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>An aspiring director and animator, Ethan Snell studies at a private film school where, he says, “he continues to improve his film making skills”.<\/p>\n

Says Ethan:<\/p>\n

Scratch<\/em> was an idea I had several months ago. It started when I ran into a spider web. I just wanted to channel my arachnophobia into a short film.<\/p>\n

Originally, the idea was much shorter than it turned out to be; I planned for it to be 30 seconds or so. The guy would wake up in bed, and the spider would be there. However, when I got my Director of Photography, Stephen Watson, on board, we agreed that it needed a little more set up. It didn’t take us long to come up with the idea that eventually became the movie.<\/p>\n

The monster itself was a practice 3D model that I had laying around on my hard drive … I decided to revisit it for Scratch<\/em>, and touch it up. Fortunately, it didn’t take long for me to rig and animate it. This is the dream of every film student: to be able to put spectacular ideas and stories onto film… my idea of spectacular was fortunately within my capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a brief, but atmospheric little film, with an extremely effective reveal. Great FX!<\/p>\n

You can view Scratch<\/em> now, in the Cinema of the Backbrain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Extras<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“a moment in the film before any visual effects were added…”<\/p>\n

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“a shot from a sequence that wasn’t put into the film”<\/p>\n

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Source<\/strong>: Ethan Snell via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood.<\/p>\n