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(Laugh) Hey, welcome to the behind the scenes for 'Transformers,
the Last Knight', homemade style.
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Thanks for watching 'Costume Squad'.
- That's right.
- You got it, out of this thing.
- All right dude, so since you're here and I'm in a suit,
you wanna shoot some homemade movies?
- Yeah.
Let's do it. - Let's do it.
- Grab that camera case.
- We're ready to go. (Music)
- This is the full Optimus Prime costume that I made for
a 'Costume Squad' episode which is not out yet.
But stay tuned and
check the description cuz when it airs we're gonna put a link below.
Pretty awesome, it's all cardboard for the most part.
Now I know this isn't the "Michael Bay" version of Optimus Prime,
this is the classic 80s cartoon version.
That's the one that I wanted to build for the 'Costume Squad' episode, so
we're gonna reuse it for this 'Transformers' episode.
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So since "Dustin" and "John" are here and I'm gonna be in the Optimus Prime suit,
they're gonna help us shoot.
So for this shot, I'm going to be slamming a dummy Bumblebee into my garage door.
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(Laugh) That's awesome.
All right, so now "Mark" is gonna suit up in the Bumblebee costume and
we're gonna do battle.
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"Marcus" here, making Optimus Prime's shield with a trash can lid of course, and
some cardboard and doing all the details with red duct tape.
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- Yeah, there we go.
- All right.
- Hang on tight "Mark Wahlberg".
- Yey ha, let's go for a ride, wee.
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- Yeah, those are great.
- Okay!
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- "Mark" made the entire Bumblebee costume,
he did it all out of cardboard pieces.
He used one of our plastic toy armor chest pieces.
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Some of the pieces are attached to some boots.
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And then he made the hammer out of cardboard.
- So I'm making a helmet, I'm gonna use this ski mask as a base.
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And I'm going to attach yellow and silver pieces of cardboard right onto it.
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And then I have these toy frisbees that I'm using for the side pieces.
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We need some face acting going on, so part of "Mark's" face is exposed in the mask.
And he's gonna be putting some gray face paint on.
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All right, so we've got our friend "Kate" is back.
She was in our 'Deadpool' trailer.
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You showed up and you were like, which one do I play?
And I was like, they're two different people, I didn't realize that.
So you're gonna play two people.
- Yes.
- All right.
(Laugh) It's a lot of just like costume changes really.
Shooting random shots.
- Action, great.
- (Laugh) - Cut.
- Got some fishing line here.
I'm gonna make it rain.
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So here we have our forced perspective shot with our alien element,
miniature in the very foreground right next to the camera.
And there's just enough of a window in there for
us to see "Kate" through in the background.
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For this shot, there is actually a jump cut but it's masked by a flash of white.
So we're gonna repeat that and I'm gonna aim the gun and
then I'm going to put the muzzle flare on the end of the gun and
I'm gonna step on the smoke machines to get a blast of smoke.
Then we're gonna come back in on that shot so it looks like the blast, and
the smoke just appear as I pull the trigger.
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In this shot, we had a big poster of Optimus Prime.
We don't usually do much photoshop but I thought this would be pretty funny to have
a picture of my toy Optimus Prime and basically just made a small scale poster.
And then the machine gun thing.
"Mark" made that out of a toy tank and
then he actually cut up some toothbrushes to make the legs.
The top part just sits loosely on the legs.
The laser beam's site is actually a piece of yarn and
that also functions as the mechanism to turn the head.
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- Yes!
- There's the shot with these, like, space ship things.
I'm not exactly sure what they are but they look just like broccoli to me.
I don't think we've done this before, spray painting food.
Yeah, works pretty well.
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Using some of our handy plastic table covers, we're making explosions.
"Mark" can kind of tuck them underneath, pull them up to create the explosion.
Can't really tell what this is.
It's some kind of ship coming out of the water, so I made that out of a plastic
serving tray, and then I glued a bunch of random cool stuff on there,
and we just shot that right in the bathtub.
(Sound) This is a shot of Optimus Prime frozen on the moon, so
we have the lunar landing here made out of a little bulldozer, some popsicle sticks.
Then we have our toy Optimus Prime that we sprayed with some of that
window frost stuff.
Then there's a ship in the way background and we happen to have this star destroyer
left over from Star Wars so we're gonna have that go by in the background.
And there's some kind of mechanism scooping up Optimus Prime.
And so we have a little toy garden rake.
There are two pens on Optimus Prime's back.
One of the pens has to break off, and so "Mark" actually anchored it
with a fishing string to the table, so when he pushes Optimus Prime,
the pen breaks off, pretty awesome because we're out of hands.
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For this shot, Optimus Prime is floating through outer space.
So we've got a little ball here for our planet.
And then of course our toy Optimus Prime which didn't have a sword or a shield, so
"Mark" made those.
I'm gonna be operating the camera and rotating Optimus Prime.
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So here is the finished Optimus Prime mask.
Because these "Michael Bay" 'Transformers' have so many intricate pieces,
I decided to construct this face entirely out of
pieces of cardboard that I just built on top of a party mask.
So it's a lot of like eyeballing and
sketching out and just breaking down the shapes of the face.
When I draw a certain shape that looks good,
I will trace it onto another piece so that I can make a duplicate for the other side.
Sort of like putting together a 3D puzzle and
I'm making the pieces as I put the puzzle together.
For the side pieces, I used some plastic container lids and then a little
extra detail are the bendy straws on the side which make it look super cool.
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I cut his eyes out of black construction paper and then there's some detail or
something on the inside so I ended up cutting up some black q-tips and
putting them in the eyes to create that effect.
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All right, here we've got our Optimus Prime mask and it is sitting on a tripod.
We've got these lights here blue and red.
And then it starts off blue and then (Noise) turn it red.
- (Laugh) Yes.
- The left one bring it down.
Yeah, it's like every little movement just throws him off center.
It's too tricky to like nail that mark every time.
- So we realized when we were trying to shoot this that with these little lights,
we have to be really exact in the eyes.
So we need to put some kind of diffusion on the inside of the mask so
that these lights will disperse in the eyes a little more evenly.
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- My maker, I do.
- Yeah that was awesome.
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- We have friends coming over for dinner in an hour or two.
- (Laugh) - This stuff doesn't wash out easily.
- Got it, woo!
Hyperventilating (Laugh) - Don't forget, kids, eat your broccoli.
- Hey bumblebee, I got five bucks on you, okay.
Do me proud in there.
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- It's 'Transformers' the Ride.
- We had to lay Optimus Prime down to rest, literally.
- I can't get up.
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- All clean.
And that's how we made it.
Thanks for watching.
Make sure to check out the links below for our video and the comparison video.
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