Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Miracle on S. Main St.

A few weeks ago, my friend Daniela and I started work on a short film about Goshen College's ducks. Every year a mother duck has flown into the courtyard of the Newcomer building, laid her eggs, and when she and her ducklings are ready to leave, professors, staff and students help her out of the building, across a busy highway, and down toward the Mill Race. Daniela and I had planned to record this year's crossing, and make a nice YouTube video, but unfortunately, this year was a bit more dramatic. The mother duck didn't wait by the side of the road for us to stop traffic, and instead walked out in front of a semi. Somehow, she and all of her ducklings survived. Our film tells this story. We didn't have any footage of the actual accident, so it gave us an opportunity to add a bit of humor with a simple, badly produced Flash animation.


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