HOPPER PROPOSAL & DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY
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About This Video
The Hopper Proposal and director's commentary. Model number 6146. A confetti-shower machine Van built for a Twitter job proposal. Patented rolling floor, patented sweeper system, patented pine battens, patented garage track. Balls balloons streamers stars even giant flip-flops. Approximately 4 feet by 8 feet with approximately 6 feet of clearance. The dual-track format layers the original proposal footage with Van's retrospective commentary. I love this thing.
Transcript
so it says 6146 and this is a model I made for a proposal video to get a job for Twitter and I'll show you the proposal video now and then I'll do I'll show it again and
do director's commentary for it what we have here is the latest in Cutting Edge state-of-the-art Hopper technology what sets our Hopper apart
from other lowtech string and bag style Hoppers is our exclusive patented moving shower
system watch as our confetti showers the background subject and foreground with A
continuous steady confetti shower how does it work the secret is in our patented rolling floor and sweeper
system a polished lolium sheet supported by our patented Pine batens easily slides through our patented garage track
three sweepers each patented sweep props on the background subject and foreground
as the floor miraculously slides away beneath our patented hand-driven rollup system
sets up quickly and easily allowing us to dump a variety of props on our subjects
[Music] balls balloons streamers Stars even giant flip-flops our Hopper measures approximately 4 ft by 8 ft with approximately 6 ft of clearance
underneath what are you waiting for by our Hopper [Music] today subject to availability some restrictions apply okay so now we'll watch it with the director's
commentary so I had a chance to do a gig and I made this proposal video for the
Ad Agency as a sort of proof of concept and I got the job and I think the reason I got the job was because I was capable of
building this rig here and it was for Twitter was the client and Twitter was setting up a
booth at uh VidCon in 2016 I think they maybe had just introduced video on
Twitter and the idea was a professional crew would shoot influencers very popular
influencers underneath this rig while we would dump stuff on them and it would be
shot in super slow motion and then broadcast on Twitter so I hired
Christopher missina who's a great cinematographer he's done saf's Brothers movies he did
um heaven knows what he shot that film and we all flew out to Los Angeles
to Anaheim and we did this booth and all these influencers whom at the time I had never heard of came including my brother
who did me solid and sat in our booth and we dumped like Cheerios on them we dumped confetti we dumped candy we
dumped all kinds of stuff shot it in super slow motion on a Alexa a arlex Alexa like cinema camera and then it was
broadcast essentially live on Twitter in that annoying vertical um vertical and I
looked up on Christopher ms's website I looked for the final Twitter Tweet
videos um but I couldn't find them so if anybody could find them send me a link and maybe I can post them up and uh yeah I did it for YouTubers
and I had no idea about the YouTuber world and now I am a YouTuber but the money I made from that gig was
instrumental in me being able to afford to move to Los Angeles like two months later this was done in June and then in like August September I moved to Los Angeles
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Twitter mentions — client for the Hopper rig project at VidCon 2016
- ARRI Alexa uses — cinema camera used to shoot the VidCon Twitter booth in super slow motion
- Cheerios mentions — dumped on influencers as props in the Hopper rig
People Referenced
Christopher Messina, Casey Neistat
Films & Media Referenced
- film shot by cinematographer Christopher Messina, Safdie Brothers film