Films : doubled up : film stills
doubled up title card
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Another image from the opening sequence when the doubled image breaks up again as Stanley throws his head back and laughs. He is looking at his father.
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Multiple fertilisation – layers of eggs, sperm and splodgy purple painting.
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“…baby number one… that’s my number!”
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Getting out of bed in the night, layered and repeated in After Effects.
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Pouring (powder milk) formula into lined-up bottles.
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Woken up in the night… where the hell am I?
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Baby twins bobbing around – based on footage of them in a Jacuzzi in France.
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Piglets ram raiding a very tired sow. Treated live-action with digital watercolour painted over the top.
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“Archie be quiet OK? I’m reading a story.”
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Wrestling boys against a Rice Krispie and felt pen background (by Archie).
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“...and then it pops.” Bubble-wrap clouds on a airbrushed sky (by Stanley).
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“I’m the winner!!”... the wooden spoon ‘sperms’ make it into the plastic bowl ‘eggs‘.
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My house. Collated in After Effects, includes the Karma Sutra of breast feeding.
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Layers of bottles being filled against babies being fed.
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1 breast pump – although two should be used simultaneously to get the full bovine effect.
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18 vests on the washing line.
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Getting up to visit the doctor, I love the look of this sequence.
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Image of Stan’s face on a mobile, nicely blank and surreal.
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Scan of a walnut. I really enjoyed doing this sequence. I used lots of scanned nuts to mimic the grainy, surreal look of the image you see whilst the foetuses are being scanned with ultrasound.
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Scary skeleton foetuses – you really can see their skulls and inside their bodies during the scans. Multiple pregnancies have to have lots of scans as the normal blood tests done on singletons don’t work.
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Montage of walnut images. In one of the images you can see the foetuses pushing each other – during a scan we actually saw our twins kicking and pushing each other inside my belly.
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Impression of a baby miscarrying, falling through visceral images. It was amazing how many of the twin’s paintings could look like graphic violence.
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Broken egg. I cut out lots of frames and painted over the top of the live action sequences to integrate them into the animated main body of work.
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Me and babies in the swimming pool. Background layered painting colour keyed and layered again.
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Multiple image of Stan wailing – crying because we were holding him up to a mirror!
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Stan trying to breast feed from a fake gerbil in a plastic ball.
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Archie and Stan at two-and-a-half, haemorrhaging numbers from the back of their bikes. This sequence was 6 layers composited in After Effects and Painter.
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Images by Archie and Stanley laid under Archie who replicates himself halfway through the sequence.
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Me heavily pregnant – the size of a woman who had been pregnant for a year (and it felt like it).
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Recurring meatballs. We do eat a lot of these.
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The mad woman in the attic. At times this is how I felt making this film, squeezed into the box room whilst outside chaos reigned!
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Me in studio making film.
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Me hugging Stanley whilst Archie waits… this was probably the hardest sequence to do. It illustrates so clearly that one parent only has two arms for hugging, and that one child must always wait. The guilt is immense!
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My house reprised. Final image. Hopefully this resolves the madwoman in the attic scenario, allowing space for sanity.
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