I made this film all the way back in 1998, when I was an animation student at Farnham, Surrey.
The idea behind the film was my own frustration at being deaf, and having to keep up in social situations full of hearing people, and the way that hearies just don’t, or can’t understand. It won an award, you know; The Royal Television Society Best Student Animation 1998, Southern Region.
This, having been made back in the days before I corrupted myself with After Effects and hence subsumed into the almighty CG Borg, consisted of just over 3000 individual ink and chalk-pastel drawings. It was then shot at 12 frames per second, onto 16mm film, via a camera mounted onto a special rostrum. Then, due to the usual art school lack of funds, I had to transfer from 16mm film to VHS, and do my final edit and sound dub on that. On VHS! How embarrassing.
The ambient sound was recorded onto a DAT which I had smuggled into a real pub, that I worked at the time.
Pub Conversation from James Merry on Vimeo.
