(Sound) Welcome to frickin Homemade Movies.
We're doing Guardians of the Frickin Galaxy, and
here's how we fricking made it.
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- Okay cool.
- (Laugh) It looks all right, yeah.
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So, I started to do the Guardians of the Galaxy, I think it was the second trailer.
And then ,the this morning I noticed that the new trailer had dropped from
the Super Bowl.
It's much better, it has more stuff that's going to lend itself to Homemade.
Unfortunately, I did do a couple of shots already that are in the second trailer
that are not in the Super Bowl trailer.
But, I want very big, elaborate shots, so I'm just gonna have to scrap.
- The real quick shot of this gold woman, I think it's Ayisha, Ayesha I'm not sure.
But, she has this really tight helmet on.
So, I used this toy army helmet that I got at the 99 cent store.
And now, I'm adding EVA foam details on.
And, I'm gonna spray paint it gold.
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All right, gold lady, her name is Ayesha, I think.
But, we've got her friend Caro.
She was in Aliens.
- I'm back.
Who.
- All right, that's it.
(Laugh) - Yay.
- Gold lady is a wrap.
Okay, we've got Star-Lord and Yondu today.
And here, we've got our friend Lawrence and John.
These guys have been in Homemade Movies like crazy.
Actually, they were in Jurassic World, which I think was our biggest one.
So hopefully, we'll recreate that magic with this one.
So, here's your Mohawk helmet.
- Well, I'm looking to this, man.
- Yeah.
- My giant head.
- (Laugh) This is how the Guardians get ready every day to go out into space.
They do help each other.
- Hurry up, we've got a battle.
- (Laugh) - Hurry up, we got a battle.
- A little "Star-Lord" action over here.
- Yep, Star-Lord, we've got forced perspective trick going on here.
We've got a little miniature foreground element, which is the spaceship.
And then, back there, Star-Lord and Yondu.
Go ahead and act like you're steering.
- (Laugh) - All right,
I'm making the Star-Lord helmet.
And I have to do it in pieces, because we're gonna be doing some stop motion
animation, because the helmet forms over his face.
Of course I have cardboard, headphones just to build off of,
plastic containers, jump rope handle, shot glasses.
One man's trash is another man's Star-Lord helmet.
Got all my pieces of the helmet here.
And, we're gonna do it in stages.
So, there's stage one, we'll put the ear pieces on.
Stage two, we'll put the side pieces on.
Lawrence is gonna be holding totally still and
matching the frame as we go through the shot.
We did this once in Terminator Genesis.
It has kind of like an 80s, 90s music video look, which is fun.
Did find this like pillow plush rocket, which is almost to scale.
This is only like eight bucks, ten bucks or something something like that.
Gonna have to put some baby bib overalls on him.
For the life sized baby Groot,
I actually found this rocket plush figure at the 99 Cent Store.
I'm not gonna use it as Rocket.
I'm gonna cut his head off and use this little tiny planter for Groot's head.
That's not what I wanted.
I forgot, I actually have these hardboard planters which might be a little be easier
to work with.
Using an old t-shirt, just fold the fabric over the figure and
just cut it and glue it on.
I have this fake leather material left over from when we made
Goro on our homemade Mortal Kombat scene.
So, I'm gonna use some of that to add some details to the baby Groot.
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All right, so here we have Star-Lord and Rocket are flying through space.
So, I have this plush Rocket figure that I found on a C-stand right next to Lawrence.
And, they're just gonna stand there and pretend to fly.
And I'm going to move the camera to create their movement.
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Yeah, that was it, right there.
Putting some GI Joes on some fishing string, and
we're gonna hang them in the foreground of the shot.
And then Johnny and our Rocket is gonna be in the background.
There's also the Rocket that flies through the shots.
I'm gonna run some fishing string across the back of the garage.
And then, I'm gonna pull a little foam Rocket that we made.
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(Laugh) - Playing Gomora, Bianca.
- Hey guys.
- She's back.
- I'm back. (Music)
- (Laugh) Yeah, you look real cute.
- I like it.
(Laugh) - This shot, her hair's flowing and
we're never gonna get that with this wig.
So we actually tied fishing line (Laugh) to her hair.
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- Like that, all right?
- (Laugh) It's gonna be huge.
- And there is the two dimensional gun.
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(Laugh) - Do it.
Can you take a picture of me real quick?
- Of course.
- Okay, Drax has arrived.
This is our friend Jim, he's gonna put some face paint on and play Drax.
- How's it going?
- We actually have this shirt here that Mark made with the red details already
painted on.
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Yeah, that was it right there.
Always fun to go in to the back yard.
So he looks like he's kinda just, (Sound) well, he's mething.
- (Laugh) - Totally method acting right now.
- That was awesome!
- (Laugh) That was awesome.
That was awesome!
For miniature Drax I found this WWE.
It's WWE now Mark, did you know that?
- It's not the World's Wildlife Federation.
- (Laugh)
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So here we have our mini Drax, and
he's going to be attacking this big toothy monster looking thing.
I have this Mer-Man from our Homemade He-Man.
And he's got a plunger mouth with teeth on it.
So, what we're gonna do is take the plunger off of here.
We're gonna line this with vampire teeth.
And make the rest of the tentacles and stuff.
Then, in the background we just have some Halloween buckets.
Got some flashing helmet lights in there.
It's like we're making a monster meme, maybe.
- Scary.
- So, we just accidentally did a YouTube collab, apparently with 5SecondFilms.
This is Kelsey Gunn.
- Hi, guys.
- No relations to James Gunn.
- But maybe.
James, I'm willing to be adopted.
- She's gonna be Nebula, so we've got her in a sparkly silver shirt.
- So far, so good.
- Yeah, and then we're gonna put her in a bald cap and do some makeup.
- It's gonna make me gorgeous.
- Yes.
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- That actually looks great.
Homemade great.
- I'm just gonna go out after this.
- Okay, so now she's got the eyepatch on.
And, it's then double-sided taped to her head.
And it's actually working out pretty well.
- Once I kill you, it's gonna be all right.
- It's like we're doing Space Psycho or something.
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- Yeah, that was good, get angry.
- (Laugh) - For Mantis, we got our friend Dawn, and
she's actually back.
She was in our Homemade Sin City, which was quite a while ago.
And so, she's back so.
We're gonna not paint her, but we'll put some little antennas on her head.
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- Perfect.
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- Awesome.
- Movie magic.
- Yes, these are so cute.
(Laugh) I've got the baby Groot here, but he doesn't have a face yet
because I'm gonna be doing stop motion animation for the shot.
This one has some mouth animation going on.
So, I'm gonna be making those mouths out of some construction paper, and
then just taping them on.
And replacing them as I do the shot.
He is attached to a tripod.
He has a wire running through his back that is attached to his head so
I can bend his head to animate that.
And so, we're just gonna basically go through each frame and
set it up, take a picture.
Do the next frame, take a picture.
And, go through the whole shot.
It turns out charming, that's the thing.
It's not perfect, which is cute.
- I'm Groot.
- (Laugh) That works, right?
- (Laugh) Yeah.
- Aw, he's so cute.
We've got little Groot here on some fishing string.
- (Laugh) - For Rocket,
I'm gonna be doing a couple of different things.
One, is I've got this little hand puppet.
He's gonna be used for the talking stuff.
Got to make him some clothes, cuz he's naked right now.
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He doesn't have a tail, so I got this raccoon skin hat.
So here, I'm setting up the shot with Rocket's blasting some guys up
into the air.
I'm gonna be using my hand puppet here.
And then, I've got four GI Joe guys back here that are all hooked up to a string,
so I can pull them.
I'm doing all this stuff by myself, so I've got my monitor flipped around so
I can see what I'm shooting.
Gonna be doing my smoke machine with my foot.
And then, the guys are all on a fishing string,
which I'm gonna pull with my other hand.
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This one, he's got baby Groot on his shoulder.
So I made a little tiny baby "Groot" out of a GI Joe, and
I use a plastic spoon for his head.
So, comically big, but it works.
Welcome to the frikin Guardians of the Galaxy.
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So, we are in the middle of a shot and the lights went out.
And apparently, the power's out from the rain.
So, we're not doing anything until we get the power back.
It's the way it goes, I guess, sometimes.
All right, it's Monday, the rain has kind of stopped.
But we have power, so Mark's here.
And we're gonna start back up with shooting.
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Quick shot where all of these guys raise up their hands.
And rather than rake all of these guys up with fishing string,
we're gonna do a jump cut.
So we're gonna shoot for a little bit with all of their hands down.
Then, we're gonna cut, and we're gonna lift all of their arms up.
So, we'll just jump cut from one together, and
we'll create the illusion that they all lifted up their hands.
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Getting a little hairy there, Mark.
Here we have Star-Lord's ship being chased by a whole horde.
Kind of tricky, but
I think I'm gonna try these happy birthday necklaces that I have.
(Laugh). And
we're gonna attach them to the back of a little toy jet that we have.
And, my thinking is that it's gonna pull the necklaces up with it so
it's gonna look like each one of these beads is like a ship.
- Cool!
- Here we have a very small-scale of Rocket and Star-Lord,
which I made out of a Lego figure and an army figure.
And, Mark is back here operating those guys, and there's a ship flying in.
So, we're gonna have a little cameo from a TIE Fighter.
So, here's my little tiny Gamor miniature I made out of a GI Joe figure.
Here we have "Gamora" flying off of a cliff.
She looks like she's been hit by a ship of some kind.
So, we've got mini Gamora.
And then, we've got our smoke machine back here and
our 2D ship right there with some lights on it.
- It's a Stingray.
- (Laugh) A Stingray.
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This is a tricky one because this plush figure doesn't have much movement in his
arms and stuff.
I had to rig his arm up to a yard stick which, I have attached to this tripod.
I'm hiding the yard stick with this flame made out of construction paper.
The tricky thing is that the gun has to spin in his hands, so
I have the gun on a coat hanger.
And then, Bianca is hiding behind this coat in the background,
and she's actually flipping the gun from back there with a wire.
Let's go in the house and see what's happening.
This is what happens when you make Homemade Movies at your house.
It takes over your house.
Here we've got Lawrence and Johnny putting on makeup in the bathroom.
- What's up?
- Jim's hanging out, waiting for me to set up the shot.
kelsey and Bianca are hanging out.
- Hi.
- (Laugh) - The whole house, the whole house.
(Laugh) - Ahem.
- I'm gonna set up for the big group shot.
And then I think most of you guys will be done.
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- Colorful Johnny's freaking out right now.
- (Laugh) - You guys look awesome.
- (Laugh) - And then,
I'm gonna have this little thing which I'm gonna do in the foreground, so
it's not actually gonna hit you.
And then, you just cheat and fly over.
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(Laugh) - Wow.
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- I've got a baby, and then I got highlights, and my face turned green.
- (Laugh).
Wanted to introduce you guys to the newest Homemade Movies crew member,
our baby Corvus.
- (Laugh) - (Laugh) And she's happy to be here.
Hey sweetheart.
Johnny's getting ready for his Blue-Man group audition.
- Exactly.
- I'm filming a blue day, (Sound).
- I think I went a cup size too big.
- Yep.
(Laugh) - Ant-Man has come over to babysit.
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- This is Andrew from Ant-Man, yeah.
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Like we're doing some weird school portrait.
Aah!
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- Group hug, group group, group hug.
- (Laugh) - Yes.
- Yes.
- Yes. - We'll go practice some
ant-eating now, all right?
- All right, oui, oui.
- Welcome to the fricking Guardians of the Galaxy.
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(Laugh) That is how we made it.
Thanks to everyone who came and helped out.
Sure was a lot of fun, we had a lot of awesome tricks in it and stuff.
Make sure to watch our video in the link below,
as well as the side by side comparison with the original trailer.
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