Bottled Opera

"The film took a year and a half to make. This was actually the last idea I came up with the night before we presented our concepts to our staff. I never thought they would choose it and they never asked me to prove I could sing opera. Luckily I had a great voice teacher. Hope you enjoy it!"

- An official brief description of this video

Bottled Opera is an animation created by Rebecca Parham.

Synopsis
An opera singer took a perfume bottle to sing opera properly, but it was possessed.

Story
Before the opera singer starts singing opera, she sprayed perfume into her mouth to amplify the quality of her singing. However, it didn't work out too well, so since she had multiple perfume bottles, she decided to mix them all, test out the mixed bottle and it worked successfully.

The opera started, and she found out the bottle was somehow possessed. The powder coming from the bottle made the opera singer sing different genres and styles of music.

When she became a rockstar, she sang loudly, then sang loudly at the bottle to destroy it. After the destruction of the bottle, the opera singer turned back to normal and sang opera. Once she finished singing opera, the audience did an applause and the opera singer felt satisfied about it.

Characters

 * Marilyn (opera singer)
 * Lady
 * Audience (off-screen)

Production
By the end of the thesis, she decided that she really liked animation and stories. She has a theatrical background, which lends itself to being able to tell a story and putting the animator in a character's position and acting.

It has taken a year and a half to do this film. This was actually the last idea she came up with the night before she presented her concept to the Ringling staff. She never thought they would choose it and they never asked her to prove I could sing opera. Luckily, she had a great voice teacher.

Taking a year and a half is generally a pretty long time for a 2 minute animation. Her newer animations are an average of 3-4 minutes and take more or less a month or two. This is due to the fact that the animation style is much more complex to produce, and the frame by frame process is increased. Her newer animations are more simplistic, and her style nowadays is "keyframes", unlike in her thesis film.

Graduation
This thesis film was intentionally made to be the ultimate animation that she was going to make for the sake of graduating her animation school. After Rebecca released her thesis film, she graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design with the BFA in computer animation and a minor in business of Art and Design in 2013.

Reception
The reception of this video is very positive. After Rebecca's increased recognition after YouTube Rewind, the views, the like to dislike ratio and the positive comments have significantly increased. Some people were also shocked that this animation took a year to take.

Trivia

 * There is a poster of this film in Rebecca's room.
 * It is the only video to be individually available on both YouTube channels and the Vimeo channel.