October 2010
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WatchImagination Station - Kindergarden Film Class - Spring 2010
The Frog that got a tummy ache - Ella Y
The challenge in this one was small things being small and big things being big. How do we make an apple look huge? Use a big red bean bag and pop some leaves on top. Huzzah giant apple. I love low budget film making.
Watch Imagination Station - Documentary - Production Meeting Part 1 - Film inceptions with excerpts
WatchImagination Station Documentary Part 2 - Spring 2010 - Production Meeting film inception with film excerpts.
WatchImagination Station - Kindergarden Film Class - Spring 2010
Riley & Ella O.
After watching a series of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin film excerpts these girls were inspired to do their own silent clown film. I’m a fan of any girl who wants to act like buster keaton.
June 2010
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WatchImagination Station - Spring 2010 - 5 year old film class
CSPORTS by christian
We had a lot of fun trying to shape his love for sports into this film. He is always talking about sports and we really wanted to honor that. So his own acclaimed sports show of course. While we were waiting for class christian would always roll up a piece of paper and start up an imaginary game with whoever wanted...
WatchImagination Station - Kindergarden Film Class - Spring 2010 - SELF DESTRUCTION
This film was born out of our clean up time before class began. Al is my assistant in the class and he would count down for the kids and it was always so fun for them to put urgency into the situation. We had fun filming this in bits and pieces and it’s my first buddy cop movie with the 5 year olds.
May 2010
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WatchSPRING 2010 - Imagination Station - Kindergarden FIlm class
LOST KIDS
I don’t even have to explain this one but It was my favorite film to make with the kids so far. I LOVE LOST!!!!!
WatchImagination Station Fall 2009 - Kindergarden Film Class - The Last Dinosaur
One of my favorite things in the video is that the word cutlery is used.
April 2010
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WatchANIMATION STATION - SPRING 2010 - KINDERGARDEN
Our first 2D animation stop motion project is done and i think it’s pretty adorable what these 5 year olds did.
March 2010
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WatchSpring 2009 Tres Balerinas a film made in my kindergarden film class.
This one is in spanish with subtitles. Have not done a subtitle film since first semester ‘Don’t talk french to strangers’. This film was a little hard to pull off because one ballerina had to be not so good and then improve by the end. Well the girl who made it did not want to be the bad ballerina so...
February 2010
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WatchFall 2009 Only the Butterflies Fly Imagination Station Film.
My tribute to HEATHERS kind of no one actually get’s hurt in this film but the tragedy is there. It’s for sure a 90’s teen high school genre.
We had lots of blue screen flying in this film but all the girls hated filming the flying because it was a little uncomfortable. So i have mounds of footage of them all...
WatchFall 2009 SUPER SECRET DINNER PARTY Imagination Station Film.
By far my favorite of the semester. No blue screen, fun costumes, filming on the streets of new york in superhero costumes. Doesn’t get any better then this. Plus we were able to use one of my bosses houses as a location for the dinner party. Pretty awesome.
This was the fist film i used only imovie free music and sound...
WatchFall 2009 Imagination Station SUPERFISH. This was inspired by a 70’s cop show if kids made it of course. We lacked a lot of content in this film so I made the intro realllllllyyyyy long but i think it’s hilarious.
We used some of the same ideas from FISH & A SHARK with the guppys, fishing poles and hooks. Came out all right, the things that i think are the funniest are the...
WatchSlimy Alien From Outerspace Fall 2009 Imagination Station.
More Twins brother and sister team came up with this great idea.
Reminded me of invader zim. One twin really liked horror stuff and the other really liked the silly aspect of things so i tried to appease both of them with some strange music choices. I like how this one came out felt very epic to me.
WatchFall 2009 Imagination Station Santa Fires the elves.
I liked this recession heavy film we can all relate even tiny adorable santas elves. I had a lot of fun with the details in this film. Finding a deer with horns that shakes it’s head no was a total win. Tippsy the elf was the shiest student i’ve ever had. There were many moments that i lost my mind during the filming of this but...
WatchClass Documentary Fall 2009 Imagination Station By Alex Long my assistant teacher.
I loved that he wanted to do this. He filmed random classes throughout the semester and we decided to do it again this semester and we have gotten some interesting stuff so far.
Imagination Station Fall 2009 Class Film List
The Last Dinosaur
All Powerful Princesses
Slimy Alien from outerspace
Shark vs. Prey
Only the Butterflies Fly
Superfish
Super Secret Dinner Party
Santa Fires the elfs
Tres Ballerinas
Class Documentary by Alex Long
*Currently in the Spring semester and one of the kids wants to make LOST without even seeing the show she described the idea to me and i almost fainted i was so happy. This...
WatchBLOOPERS from Imagination Station. Started collecting the bloopers and putting them together. Here are a few from random imagination Station classes.
WatchSPRING 2009 Cupids Bad Day Imagination Station Films.
The Taco Man girl is back with a more sophisticated film idea this time a story of love and betrayal and a loose cupid. Although still she did not want to be the lead in this movie, come on zoe you can do it.
Filming this took three classes because of all the scenes and our poor cupid had a tough time walking around school dressed like...
WatchSpring 2009 I have to get back to myself Imagination Station Films.
Twins again in the class, awesome town. Finally got my dream of making a time machine, time travel jumping movie with twins. I also had a lot of LOST on the brain while doing this film.
One of the fun parts of this film was we actually got their dad to come in and film with us so we could have an older version of himself...
WatchSpring 2009 Monsters Hide & Seek Imagination Station Films.
Back to my roots of the old black and white films. Great simple idea of a business man playing hide & seek with a bunch of monsters. Loved it!
Decided to through a little mad men style of music on this one it just seemed to lighten it up a bit. Would have gotten more elaborate with the makeup and costumes if we had more...
WatchSPRING 2009 Attack of the shoes Imagination Station Films.
So the horror candy shop film girl are back at it with a 70’s B movie thriller where shoes come alive.
This was a concept i couldn’t figure out how to film and then finally relized i could have them wear green stockings that matched the green screen behind them. Not exactly without flaw you have the problem of the...
WatchSpring 2009 Kookie Pen Theatre Imagination Station.
The kid who made this really wanted something dramatic but fun and funny and had to include a musical element to it. We worked out a deal to make it like masterpiece theatre and he would recreate scenes form films using the kookie pens. KOOKIE PENS we’re all the rage last year in elementary schools.
So yes i included a scene from...
Watch2008 Fall TACO MAN Imagination Station Film. The girl who made this is the waitress and she is cool. I really appreciated that she didn’t want to be the star of this film she was really writting this for simon (max’s little brother from THE BULLY & Max’s toy emporium).
Simon is a ham and a half so i took advantage of that. Although this film has a very drug induced type...
WatchFall 2008 THE FLIES a film made in my 5 year old film class.
A beatles Parody that took me way to long to edit. The research alone was at least a 20 hour job. 2nd attempt at a mockumentary film this one is a long one and i still cut a lot out. I really liked how this all came out especially the end of the film and the fake albums were so much fun to make. We did a word for word of their...
WatchFall 2008 THE LAST CANDY ON EARTH film made in my kindergarden film class.
My first horror film in the kindergarden film classes horray! Written by the two lolipop girls. I thought the idea for this film was brilliant, candy waiting to be bought and eaten. Although separation anxiety sets in and the candy freaks out!
Green Screening this became a problem when our candy colors were too...
WatchFall 2008 THE BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY One of my hippest students ever Lily came up with this one. You may have seen her in a few UCB sketchs (For maude night)
http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/5009
http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/5805
I’m all about getting her into the community asap.
I used a song from Home Movies that finally fit into a film ‘Living like a bug...
Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Imagination Station
Fall 2008 Imagination Station Film List
The Beautiful Butterfly
Just Clowning Around
Doggy Daredevil
The Famous Loose Tooth
The Royal Hiccup
The Team that fell behind
The Flies
The Taco Man
The Last Candy on Earth
SPRING 2009 Imagination Station Class film List
I have to get back to myself
The Magic Book Trip
The Little Ducks
Attack of the Shoes
Animal World
Barbie Can you hear...
WatchSPRING 2008 A FISH AND A SHARK film made in my imagination Station Class.
Another awesome Henry Pearl movie. Also Joe Wengerts favorite kids film i ever made. The idea behind this film was that this event happens daily. A fish gets eatin by the same shark every day and he escapes every day only to get eaten again. Adorbs!
The Shark costume alone was a win. The mom happened to have it...
WatchSPRING 2008 MOVING TO CANDYLAND film made in Imagination Station.
First film i appear in purely to get plot points out and so i could wear my awesome fairy costume.
This film is a little long because of lack of content which i filled with a weird real estate candy house section. I tried to up the anty by doing a few editing tricks with this one. Nothing to crazy but i still think the...
Watch2008 THEY SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME BOB Imagination Station Films.
Oh me gawwwddddddd! How much do i love this film let me gush about it. Max went to jamaica with his family over winter break and decided that he really liked bob marley. Not only did his parents give me actual footage from their trip to use in the fake mockumentary but they dressed him up in dreadlocks then somehow got him...
WatchSPRING 2008 Major Little League Imagination Station Film.
I have a special place in my heart for this film. Sepia Toned, Old timey announcers, Boston Red Sox vs. The Yankees can it get any better?
Al Long plays the announcer in this one, luckily he already looks like a 1950’s newscaster horray for camera ready assistants.
WatchSPRING 2008 The Lost Ice Cream Imagination Station Films. This was one of my favs all semester because the grl who made the film was more animated telling me the idea for her film then she was with anything else. I convinced her to do the movie as a pitch to a big hollywood producer. Then she said sure but we have to have a musical number in it. So i got the sparkly hats and rehearsed a...
WatchFall 2007 THE LAST FOOTBALL GAME film made in my kindergarden film class Imagination Station.
Welcome to weird town. We ran into a few problems executing this film idea. For one the two brothers (twins) had a hard time coming up with any ideas other then “It’s about a football game and whoever wins gets to rule the world.” So i took that idea and ran with it.
Then we...
WatchFall 2007 PENGUIN SCIENTIST film made in Imagination Station. Ah Penguin scientist and Henry Pearl. Get used to this face everyone he is still taking film classes with me and he is also the best kid in the world. I meet a lot of kids and i can say without a doubt that HENRY PEARL is the best one i’ve ever met. Not only is he hilarious (see safe beach for proof) but he is helpful,...
WatchFall 2007 Imagination Station NATURE BARBIE
I liked the idea behind this film barbies learning about real things like trees. Fun fact: a CLINTON was in this film or rather her voice was. I also showed this at schoolnight since there was no children faces in it and LUTZ came up to me afterwards and told me how awesome it was. Mission accomplished (meaning get funny people who are on TV to...
WatchThe Superfriends Movie Fall 2007 Imagination Station
I loved making this movie not only am i a huge superfriends fan but the chance to do a live action cartoon with five year olds, i was sold.
Marcus Bishop Wright played the president in this film Pre obama so progressive. When i showed it to the parents a few of them snickered when he said it’s the president.
First time Marcus played...
Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Imagination Station K film...
Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Imagination Station Film CLass List
Fall 2007 (Teacher Assistant Marcus Bishop-Wright)
The Superfriends Movie
Nature Barbie
Penguine Scientist
The Last Football Game
Oh No Kitty!
Animation Photo Project
Spring 2008 (Teacher Assistant Craig Rowin & Alex Long)
The Lost Ice Cream
Major Little League
The Valentines Day Movie
The Magic Wall
The Fish & The...
WatchFall 2006 SPACE BOYS film made in my kindergarden film class imagination station. First time i ever edited green screen. It’s pretty terrible green screening i won’t lie. But the weirdness of it makes up for it a little. Plus they are in space there can be a green smoke monster attacking them.
Watch2007 The Tale of the Loose Tooth a documentary film made in my imagination Station film class.
I love this film it was my first attempt at a doc style film with the kids. So much fun. The girl who did this films mom is a real documentarian and she loved this film. Her daughter is still mortified by this film. She’ll thank me in her late 20’s.
There is also a little treat at...
Watch2007 KIDS KING ARTHUR a film made in my kindergarden film class. One of my favorites of all time and one of my first in the collection of this semester. There is something to dressing up a bunch of five year olds in armor and going to belvedere castle in central park to film. it’s all about location people!
They were wielding swords and looking important i loved it.
After filming for an hour...
2006 Imagination Station Class film List
This was the first class in 2006 and the films we made. This was a tough class i was still trying to figure out how to make this class work. The first four were my favorites from the class.
2006 Imagination Station
The Bully
The Man who fell off a horse
French Strangers
Kitty Birthday
Space Boys
Hide & Seek
Motorcycle Race 1
The Runaway Skunk
Imagination Station Stands Up!
The 2nd...
Watch2006 KITTY BIRTHDAY a film made in my kindergarden film class. Usually I don’t allow kids to use real animals for their films much cuter to see them dressed as cats and unicorns but i let this one slide. I spent 5 hours in brooklyn filming these tiny kittys with tiny birthday hats on that i made. I actually made this whole set. The tiny balloons i made kept being swatted by the kittys had...
So you want to make a documentary about what i do
So no joke this is the 6th time someone has wanted to make a documentary about what i do. Making kids films, teaching comedy and doing makeumups. I like that there are so many people out there that think i’m interesting enough to do this with.
The real problem is gaining access to the fortress that is public schools.
The school of rock guy had it right, start my own school. If you build...
Watch2009 Commercial SAFE BEACH from 2nd grade TV Pilot class. This was another bad local commercial exercise and it took only ten minutes to film. I really liked the idea behind this commercial and wished we could have gone to a beach to film it. Some of the kids wanted to be in bathing suits for this commercial which would have sold the idea more but…I’m not filming kids with their...