Short Film: The Fear of Crossing
Short Film: The Fear of Crossing Pre-Production Why did I choose to do this idea? Initially, I had a few ideas for a short film but the one that stuck in my head from the start was THE FEAR OF CROSSING, the short is an attempt to replicate an accident I suffered when I was a child growing up in my home country of Brazil. At the age of ten or so, I can’t remember the exact year when the accident happened, I was hit by a motorcycle on my way to a bakery shop. For days after the accident I was scared to cross streets, so I did everything I could to avoid cars, buses and traffic in general. I remember going to school and stopping by the red signal for minutes, looking left and right before crossing the street. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to replicate the story and the main challenge with it was the accident part itself. I did not have the means to replicate an accident, so had the idea to use hand drawn animation for the middle part of the film instead (the part where the...
