Missed Aches
“Enchanting and hilarious!” –June Foray
“The best animated wordplay since Tex Avery's "Symphony in Slang". –Gene Hamm
“Missed Aches demonstrates how the shortcomings of spellcheck can result in some unexpected (and often sexually explicit) double entendres.” –Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times
Missed Aches Synopsis (2009, 4 min., Blu-ray/DVD/BetaSP, 16:9)
“Have you ever worked very horde on a paper for English clash, just to get a very glow raid? Proofreading your peppers is a matter of the the utmost impotence!”
Missed Aches is about lack of proofreading and the horrors of spellcheck. It combines animated characters with moving text. Missed Aches was written and narrated by poet Taylor Mali, who led teams to four championships in the National Poetry Slam (USA). It was made with Adobe Flash and After Effects.
Credits: Directed, produced and animated by Joanna Priestley. Written and narrated by Taylor Mali, based on the poem "The The Impotence of Proofreading". Sound Design by Normand Roger and Pierre Yves Drapeau. Music by Pierre Yves Drapeau with Denis Chartrand and Normand Roger. Text Animation by Brian Kinkley. Character design and animation by Don Flores. Storyboards by Dan Schaeffer. Supported by the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Caldera Institute.
Awards
USA Film Festival: Finalist
Festivals:
BEFILM Underground Film Festival (New York, NY)
Screenings:
REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA) World premiere 4-20-09
Hollywood Theater (Portland, OR) Oregon premiere 4-30-09