Dont hug me im scared 6 explained11/9/2023 ![]() JP: I remember when we first started making these. We were shooting in a studio at Canada Water so luckily there were some nearby shops for people to go out on a mission to find all these random things we added to the list. There’s always so much stuff like that – where we forget what we need for a scene or think of stuff on the spot. Which was a fun sequence in terms of it being a bit in the episode where it’s not necessarily descending into something dark like in other songs or veering off into something more strange… but just becoming more stupid.īS: That shot made me think of a typical last minute thing with the art department where we were like, “We need two chef hats quick, go find some! Or make one right now in five minutes”. JP: This was the end of the shepherd’s pie We ‘ve Got to Get Things Ready song. This image was where we ended up, we needed to actually make it look like they’re cooking a shepherd’s pie not like they’ve like murdered someone in their kitchen. We were putting it everywhere – on the clocks, on the walls. Joe was on the other set and I remember hearing Joe over the walkie talkie saying, “We need to rein in the meat”. We got really carried away dressing the set with loads and loads of fake silicone meat. The art director went out of their way to do that, which is a nice touch.īS: Me and Baker were on this set, because we have two sets up and running at the same time. It adds to the weird handmade-ness.īS: The ties they’re wearing all match the colours of the characters, which is pretty cool. We always try to do as much of that as we can even if you can tell it’s quite shonky and fake. You can use it to extend the set and that kind of in camera Gondry style, is the kind of stuff that we love. We also had printouts of that same illustration in the foreground in front of the characters so that when you whipped over them, you’ve got this kind of motion blur, in camera, of the same image, but in the foreground. Because the sets didn’t exist past the size of the screen, we lit the screens with back projection as this illustration. JP: This is probably too technical, but we did this interesting thing where we had to whip pan into the shots. You can go into any different medium – 2D animation, CGI – and be really playful with it. It’s a chance to dive into these other worlds and other styles. So for us, it’s a perfect tool because we were lucky to be working with this format where things don’t need to look real.īecky Sloan: These bits are probably one of the funnest bits about the show. It’s very theatrical and doesn’t lend itself to realism in any way. Which is fun, because it’s quite an old-school technique but it fits. Some of these more stylistic images, where you have the backgrounds become graphic flat backgrounds, we shot them using back projection. Joseph Pelling: Even though this is the first image we’re going to talk about, it’s probably the last thing we shot. Read on for easter eggs, filming techniques and some, er, interesting fan art. With the new Channel 4 season out now, Sloan, Pelling and Terry talk us through a series of snapshots from the series, giving some behind-the-scenes insights into the creation and incredibly crafted detail of the cult series. Think Sesame Street as a warped acid-trip with a healthy dose of Cronenberg-tinged visceral body horror. Expanding on the YouTube shorts, the six half-hour-long episodes amp up the charmingly unhinged reality and surreal situations that Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck find themselves in, learning about everything from jobs to family, death and more. Starring Yellow Guy, Red Guy and Duck as the main puppet protagonists, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared juxtaposes the apparent innocence of colourful kids TV with fever-dream horror, often switching between the two with hilariously unsettling rapidity.įast forward to now – over a decade since the show first etched itself into our minds – and Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is back with a whole Channel 4 series. Taking a satirically educational-cum-existential nightmare format, the short episodes quickly garnered a cult following. ![]() Helmed by creators Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling and Baker Terry – who also voice some of the puppets – the darkly comedic show first launched as a YouTube series back in 2011. ![]() And it’s precisely this premise that Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared takes and runs with. There’s something quite unnerving about a lot of kids TV shows, whether that be the larger than life primary coloured creatures, the bizarrely off-kilter humour, or the often inexplicably surreal scenarios the characters find themselves in.
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