Pinching other people's stuff
Since Out of Time was my first full-length film, I wanted to add a couple of quick references to the brickfilms that inspired me to have a go at creating something of my own. At the start of the film, we see Mike and Geoff sitting in their living room on a quiet Sunday morning. This being a bachelor pad, there are movie posters on the walls. Since Jay Silver had already done posters for his movies, I thought they'd be the ideal choice.
The keened-eyed reader will have noticed that, unusually for a bachelor pad, there's a plant in the room.
Geoff is reading a newspaper. You would expect the newspaper to feature stories about the world of Lego folk, so it seemed appropriate to add some stories that brickfilmers would be familiar with - namely Steve & Dave's brushes with weirdness and the sports news from The Big Game:
This is the original graphic I used for the newspaper:
