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Bananas, Taters, and Apeeling Moments

For Julian we picked a banana and for Richard we picked the potato. Richard was a very easily manipulated character, which is why we chose the potato to represent him in our trailer.

The potato is 80% water and 20% solid, just as Richard is 80% what other people want him to be and 20% himself. Also, just as potatoes can be molded into many different forms: mashed, baked, fried, etc., Richard is easily manipulated into being a Greek scholar, a murderer, and a drunk by his peers, and many of his previous career choices reflected what his family and others wanted him to be.

The banana is rigid and smooth on the outside but once you peel back the peel you have an easily smashable and mushy inside. Julian was depicted as a banana due to his actions in the novel; he appears to be a strong, forward, complementing, and kind man when in actuality his true nature is revealed once you peel off his front he puts up; he is truly a coward and lacks courage and moral. Julian’s choice to flee once the murder is revealed to him rather than stay and do anything about it truly reveals his hidden nature and his fright and flight instinctual nature.

During the filming process of the trailer, we had some funny and good times. The cats enjoyed the filming experience almost as much as we did; they followed us the whole time, and we actually had to refilm some parts of our trailer due to the cats’ appearances they made; they really wanted to be stars in our trailer. They were especially concerned with poor Bunny when he made his big splat, and to make him feel better, they proceeded to eat him. Also, dressing up all the characters was really funny and interesting; we had doll clothes to dress them in, and they all looked quite interesting, especially potato Richard who looked like a buff stud in his Ken-doll clothes and with his broad shoulders. Also, the whole time we were filming everything smelled like cheese due to Charles and Camilla. Making the characters and filming the project together was really fun, and we had many silly and funny moments.

In an egg shell

The character known as Bunny is played by Eggburton Shelly Crackson. Sorry, I just had too. Seriously now, all joking aside. We decided to make Bunny an egg for one main reason, we could drop him and he would crack. That was honestly why we chose to make bunny an egg but then we started thinking about it and realized that and egg was actually a good edible representation of bunny's character. First there is the outer shell, this represents the front that bunny put out to others, his persona if you will. Bunny had a hard outside shell that he presented to people and was often very often hard to get through to. The insides however, the yoke, represents Bunny's softer side his weaker innocent side. He also had many changes in character throughout the story, he could be scrambled, hard boiled, and eventualy was just doen over easy. Haaa, I had too.
-Suzanne Vogler

I See the Scenes

Choosing what scenes to shot for the trailer was probably the hardest part of the entire project. We all had different ideas on what was important and how the trailer would flow best. After a few debates and a couple of small dictatorships we gathered our basic flow of events. We knew we wanted to show Richard arriving at the school and his meeting with the greek students, we also wanted to show their connections to each other and some other personal attachments. In every trailer there is a pull in and we used the murder of the farmer and the scene of the bacchanalia as ours. The only scene we really had planned before we even made our foodies was the Bunny death scene becuase it was the general spark of the idea and lit the proverbial oven. Everything else we kind of made up along the way and honestly I think that  was the best thing we could have done.

Cheesy Characters

There were several reasons we chose to represent Charles and Camilla with cheeses. The first is a kind of obvious and albeit, cheesy reason, and that is cheese goes well with wine and since Charles was a bit of a drunk this seemed to fit. Because the two were twins it made since that they both should be cheeses but we still wanted to give them their own characteristics. We chose string cheese for Richard, not only for its pungent smell and personality but also because it can be easy to tare apart and fall apart strip by strip. Camilla was given the base of string cheese but then coated with a slice of American cheese to represent her processed and fake nature, her front so to speak. Add some googly eyes and some old barbie clothes and the two were ready for the camera.

WHAT IN THE FRUIT!

I know that since everyone now knows that we decided to use food to play the main characters of our story, you have two major questions on your mind. Did we eat them afterwards? And, why in the world did we choose to use food? First of all, no we did not eat them afterwards. To be honest, we all had grown 't quite attached to our little edible characters and wouldn't have been able to stomach the thought of eating them. Now on to your next question, why? You see we had already done one presentation where we filmed a live action production and didn't want to do the same thing twice, because let's face it that would be totally lame. So we set down and started brain storming on ways to make our project stand out. Then like a banana peel out of nowhere we fell onto the idea of food puppets. It started with Kalen's sadistic idea to make Bunny an egg so that we could smash him, and Anna's strange obsession with puppet shows. From that wonderfully weird base, we colaborated untill we had a food themed cast that was ripe and ready for the big screen.
-Suzanne Vogler

Blog work Devide

Anna- food symbolism Henry and Francis How we made trailer
Suzanne- Why we chose to use foods food symbolism Bunny
Kalen- Food symbolism Camilla and Charles Why we chose scenes we did
Sarah- Food symbolism Richard and Julian  The fun parts(anything you remember that was funny or fun or just entertaining in the trailer making process.)