When Robert’s best friend goes missing, he tends to get passionate.

Written, shot, and edited in 48 hours during the Madison 48 Hour Film Project by Backflip Films.
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Written by Ryan Trattles
Directed by Ryan Freng
Cinematography by John Shoemaker
Produced by Peter Simon

Actors: Petey Boy, Ryan Trattles, Ryan Freng, Amanda Shoemaker, John Shoemaker, Clint Freund, Scott Rawson, Aiden Hackl, Grace Hackl, and Treadmark the Cat

Music written and performed by Paul Otteson
In conjunction with the 50/90 songwriters challenge
5090.fawm.org/fawmers/paulotteson/

View the movie in HD here: http://vimeo.com/5700859

This past weekend, I produced a movie during the 48 hour film project in Milwaukee. This is what our team threw together. Go to Vimeo to see it in HD.

Starring:
Laura Klein as Rose Lanvin
Petey Boy as Roger Lanvin
Ryan Trattles as Jake

The concept for the story was brainstormed by the whole team.
Writer: Ryan Trattles
Director: Mark Röethke
Director of Photography: Michael G Buck
Assistant Director: Greg Ritter
Assistant Camera: Jess Ader
Whole Sound Deparment: Max Grill
2nd Camera, Location Manager, all-around best boy: Ryan Erdmann
Production Assistant: Kelsey Abernethy

Bob modeling Splitting Bears

So, I was on a making shirt kick and I wanted to do a big animal stencil. My power animal is obviously a large brown bear, so I found a picture that made a good silhouette and turned into a large stencil. So large in fact that it took up two pages of standard letter sized card stock. While I was deciding exactly where to position the stencil, I thought, “what if I split up the stencil and put them on different parts of the shirt?” I ran it by Abby (she’s my creative adviser) and she thought it would be cool, so I gave it a go.

I am immensely pleased with the way this shirt turned out. It was an instant favorite. It also was a favorite among everyone that saw it. One day an acquaintance of mine commented on how much he enjoyed the shirt. I asked him right there if he’d like to own it. He was apprehensive about taking such a great shirt from my collection. I insisted. I would give all my shirt away for other people to enjoy, but not a lot of people are close to the right size. After some persuading he accepted and now a bunch people I don’t even know get to enjoy seeing the shirt… and Bob gets the joy of wearing it.

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Treeheart

One of the only shirts that I’ve done that has a completely original design or isn’t modeled after something else.

I’m not sure if there was reason for making this shirt or not. But I made it and I’m glad that I did. I’m extremely happy with the way it turned out.

The design is drawn freehand using sharpie markers.

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Scorpion Clan. Bonzai!

From 10/2007 to 08/2008, I play Legend of Five Rings CCG. The game is super awesome and I’d still be playing, but the person I played with the most moved. Anyway, one of the best facets of the game is the community and story that is tied in with everything else. Every deck was from a specific clan. Mine was the Scorpion Clan. So, I made this stencil of that emblem.  Pretty sweet, huh? Even though I don’t play anymore, I still dig the hoodie.

I painted this one kind of funny. That is the order in which I put the layers down. At first glance, it looks like I just put the stencil down and painted black over it. But, I actually made the black circle and then a layer of red. Followed by the stencil. I was trying to get a different color red. I’m not sure that it worked.

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Filmed in its Entirety

Schizopolis is my favorite movie.

When I say that this is the most important motion picture you will ever attend my motivation is not financial gain but a firm belief that the delicate fabric that holds all of us together will be ripped apart unless every man, woman and child in this country sees this film and pays full ticket price not some bargain matinee, cut-rate deal.

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Neat Shirt

This is one of the very fist shirts I designed. In actuality, it is less of a design and more of an experiment. It was craft night and therefore time to make something. I had this hoodie, so I decided to make something… neat. It has been mistaken to say “HEAT”, but that is just not the case.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love novelty effects. That is, I love 3-D, I love blacklights, and I love anything that is glow-in-the-dark. This shirt is made with mostly glow-in-the-dark fabric paint. You probably recognize the color in the letters. But the orane and green also glow.

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Megaman

Megaman II is one of the best NES games of all time and no one can argue against the awesomeness of the man that is Megaman. So, making a shirt to show off my love is obvious.

This design has 4 colors and 3 layers; making it the hardest shirt I’ve ever put together. I thought it would be really easy, seeing that it is just a bunch of big pixels. I was wrong. It was extremely difficult making sure everything lined up. This is my first attempt and if you look close you can tell. I hid it in my drawer for a bunch of months because of my unsatisfaction. I pulled it out a couple of weeks ago and decided that I don’t mind the mistakes. It gives it that grungy look that is partially in right now.

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Green Giraffe on Pink

In the summer of 08, I decided it was time to update my wardrobe. Therefore, I need to make a bunch of new stencils and new shirts. I’m not sure what lead to animal prints, but I love having the siloutte of friendly creatures on my shirts.

The green giraffe instantly became my favorite along with the splittings bears shirt I did at the same time. Not only did I love them, but everyone that saw me with these shirts had questions and comments. People really like animal prints. I can’t explain it. I just know it to be true.It also probably helps that the shirt is pink.

I make stencils by printing a design on cardstock and then cutting it out with an exacto knife. This is the first shirt I made where I had to print onto two pages of cardstock and then line them up in order to get my design. It was important to me to have a large print though. I wanted it to take up a big part of the shirt.

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This is my favorite shirt right now. I dig it because it is a mash up of my two previous favorites. The Giraffe and Splitting Bears. I wanted to make a stenciled shirt for new years eve, but like most things I put it off until the last minute.

So, on Dec. 31st I was trying to figure out what I could make. I dug through my stencil collection and somehow put the top half of a giraffe stencil on the bottom half of a bear stencil. I like how it can easily look like a sea creature.

I didn’t use acrylic paint on this design due to time limitations. Instead, i set the stencil on the shirt and took a sharpie marker to it. I simply made lines all around the edge. It makes a really nice outline and a hint of a fur effect. I’m going to use that technique more often.

I also tried putting the top of the bear with the bottom of the giraffe and it also makes an amazing mash up. It sort of looks like a bear centaur.  I haven’t put it on clothing yet, but I may in the future.

If you like any of the art or designs you see on the site and would like an original for yourself, please contact me and I’ll help make your dreams come true.