It took Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta two years to film a remake of Toy Story with real toys.
Filmmakers Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta passing out DVDs at Pixar.
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It took Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta two years, almost to the week, to film a perfect, shot-by-shot remake of Toy Story featuring actual toys. It only took three days for the video to get more than three million views on YouTube.
Toy Story has been Pauley's favorite movie since it came out in 1995. He was three years old at the time. "My parents tell me — I don't remember but they tell me — we went to the theater multiple times to see it. I remember watching it on VHS over and over at home at my Grandma's," Pauley says.
Pauley, now 19 and a film student at the University of Northern Arizona, started the project while he was still in high school. It was shot mostly on weekends during the school year, but in the summer he and Perrotta, now 21, would shoot for a week straight. "Each day we got about one minute of the movie finished," he says.
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They didn't really a have a budget for the film, Pauley says. "We looked to find people that would lend us things out of their own good will."
They found a man with a moving van and told him what they were doing; he let them use the truck for free. The bull terrier that plays Sid's dog and his owner also donated their time.
The actors who play Andy and Sid, Pauley says, "were friends of the family from church. They were always anxious to do videos with me in the past so I asked them."
The other characters (Woody, Buzz, et al) are the official Toy Story versions — except for Sid's mutant toys, which Pauley and Perrotta's brother made by hand. Pauley's house doubled as Andy's house. However, some of the locations had to be cobbled together: Pizza Planet in the film, for example, is actually three separate arcades and pizza places in the Phoenix area.
And the whole thing was shot with a consumer camcorder, "nothing special," Pauley says.
