Lego Minifigures and moving pictures seems to not be really accepted, especially of late on my YouTube platform where I have been in a targeted attack for my own work involving newsgathering with said objects.
Following a post from early in the month, I have been persuaded to do “stories” and “storytelling” with these said objects. But I am. not a filmmaker, I am a card-carrying videographer focusing on Electronic News Gathering or “ENG” or as Connie Chung once described it on the ol KNXT-TV in LA “or the ‘live-look'” since film looked a lot different than broadcast.
To me personally for my application, I use an ENG camera with the edit style of broadcast news, since owning a microwave van or a satellite truck would break the bank, ENG like film, is a type of camera, so I side in the “live-look” with ENG. But unlike Adult Fans of Lego (or as I like to call some of them Asshole Fans of Lego)… I wanted to go beyond stop motion and do other ways like incorporating the ‘figs into the real world.
After feeling the pinch to grow an inch, I decided to take rejected work on what I considered a pre-promo to the promo. Before I go further, the backstory to this particilar short was in late 2022, I was the associate producer of Special Projects & Creative Services to BCOP-TV in minifig world of Copenhagen.
Being in a consolidated role, I could produce special events like parades and election coverage and news stories then promote the living crap in 30 seconds on the station’s air. I produced a special piece called Tuned Out: #MasculinityInCrisis? that had a local narrative to the overall big-picture perception of the Red Pill. four out of eight 2 minute and 30 second pieces did make it to air, but management terminated me as the February Sweeps showed the station’s ratings in distant third, the station logged the top place in all newscasts in TVs that were concurrently tuned to TV for more than 2 decades, and that ratings dominance suddenly changed in the end of the May 2022 Sweeps.
“Sweeps” is a buzzword in the industry to overemblish stories, or aggressively promote stories on newscasts to “hook” them into watching the news during February, May (July typically used for local stations, but not overtly obvious) into November. Our stories have to be a bit eye catchy too, so #TunedOut had lots of stimulation like the “snow” effect from the analog TV days simulating people “tuning out” of society.
This meant I took still images to simulate the promo to the station’s management then they could put resources into producing a full blown promo with miniifig actors, but I was overruled as TunedOut was supposed to air during the November Sweeps, and as a result they pushed me into February.
So I decided to recycle my work in 2024, with the similar idea.
The male minifigure, is an average male, who isn’t in a relationship but doesn’t get any sign a girl likes him because he’s afraid to over assume. The two girls attempt ot hit on him, they’re actually from Vermont, but they’re somewhere near Littleton, New Hampshire. Even for New England standards, the social and cultural differences can vary from the I93 corridor or the border towns between Maine and Vermont. The guy is actually a New Hampshirite but has been seen as a “stiff” by the girls (down between Manchester and Nashua)
As a nab to Quebec and their pretentious attitudes, the girl Gabi assumed he was some “Qubecian stiff” and giggles off. While the guy is wondering what was going on it cuts away to him seeing a video from Courtney Ryan, a traditional conservative YouTuber from Cleveland (also known as a “tradcon”) this video was literally “How to Tell if a Girl Likes You” on his smartphone.
The theme is to take everything I wrote and make short videos, skits or other corny videos you would make and share on YouTube way back when.