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I have just finished my 3 part series, "The Case of the Missing Strawberries" which was more of a practice for me as I want to perfect the process of making a brickfilm, and I will post it on Youtube and here once I make some changes to it. Anyway, I am working on an idea for a brickfilm with a more in depth story (one that the case of the missing strawberries does not have at all) and I want to perfect it and tweak it some more yet so I came up with an animation project that would not require quite as much story development that I could make while I am working on the story for the more serious one. The "in between" project I came up with was simply a boy having a dream. However, I do not want to make it realistic or meaningful dream (the kind in most books in movies), rather, I want to make one of the completely random dreams like the ones I have every now and again. You know the ones that don't make any sence and it seems to constantly morph and change one thing to another? I just thought this would be a fun project to do and there were just some specifics I was wondering about. Here's what I have so far:
It starts off with the boy going to bed and turning the lights off. There is some nice piano music playing. I was thinking the same music should just play through the entire dream because I know I've fallen asleep while music is playing before and I actually heard it in my dream. Then one of the big questions I've been going back and forth between, was whether to have narration or not. You might think at first that there should be no narration and the audience should be able to tell what's going on, on their own, but I also thought it since dreaming is such a mental thing, the narration could help to understand the boys thoughts. If I have narration it would be the boy who is dreaming narrating, but should he be telling it as if it happened in the past or in present tense? In the dream, I just wrote down stuff similar to what I have dreamed about in the past: a weird creature that doesn't exist, getting upset or even terrified about not upsetting/terrifying things, and things constantly changing around just for random reasons. It ends with him jumping off a tower, then he wakes up and it is morning.

Please tell me your thoughts on this or any input you have! My goal is not to tell a story, rather just have a "realistic" example of the sort of dream I have sometime. If you have any better idea, I will definatly consider it though. Nothing much is set in stone yet, but I would like to start rather soon. One of my goals of this project is to have more interesting and detailed sets. (when I post The case of the missing strawberries, you will see that the sets where just slapped together). Well, I hope I get some good responses because this was a lot of writing :)

Now that I have finished the Case of the Missing Strawberries (which was really just a practice for getting the process of making a brickfilm right) I now want to work on improving some things. Here are some of my specific goals for some of my future films:

• No more cheesy stories
• better animation
• more interesting and detailed sets
• add sound effects

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Here is a test video I made today that covers 2 of these things (animation and sound effects) I used a different and much much better walk cycle and I added footstep sounds. The sound effects fit nicely but I think the footsteps are a bit too heavy. I think over all it was a very successful test.

I am now a co-host on the brand new BrickCast podcast brickcastpodcast.blogspot.com . Here is the first episode. You can listen to the rest on the site. Episode 1

I've decided on Campfire Studios and UniLego has made me a wonderfull logo! check it out:

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I am considering choosing a name to put in front of my future films. I was thinking something like CampFire Studios or Campfire17 or something like that. Why? Because I like campfires that's why. I am open to suggestions but I'm thinking I'm probably going to go with something Campfire themed. Let me know what you think...

Of coarse in order for me to do all this I will need to get a few readers. :)