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Production history around: Broodiest Flunkey

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  Finally, I am getting to what I consider the ‘first’ film in my journey as an experimental filmmaker: ‘ Broodiest Flunkey ’. This film is a bit rough — it was made as a university project, with a deadline and 3 minute time limit. It was also the first time I had played with many visual effects, and the first time I had shown my work to a live audience. A lot of what I will be saying in this article will be recycled from my university essay, as my memory on a lot of the details has started to fade. I created a timeline for this production, so I will try my best to be chronological in the retelling of the film’s creation. Some of the elements may seem tangential, though that is a lot of my practice in general. My timeline of Broodiest Flunkey (2024) I really like the above, because it shows that learning and developing a project (or even personal development), takes a mix of both consumption (books, media) and action (events, trial runs). It also shows how unexpectedly events morph...