Recently myself and Ben Wigley made a little film to celebrate Broadway Cinema’s 21st birthday.
Happy Birthday Broadway ‘ Cake Film’ HD from Benjamin Wigley on Vimeo.
Broadway had commisioned Swirls Bakery to create a cake in the shape of a cinema seat to celebrate their birthday and asked Ben if he’d make a short “making of” to be played before films that week and in their cafe bar, online etc. We knew we’d like to incorporate film symbology and scenes along with the baking of the cake so decided to rip off homage the work of Vincent Bousserez & Slinkachu. They both use tiny figures of people in real world environments and we thought this would be a nice way to incorporate some iconic film scenes in amongst the baking of the cake.
Once we’d decided on the film scenes we’d like to incorporate/the ones we could figure out how to fit into a load of flour, sugar and cake, the little model figures were purchased online from a model railway website and cut, melted, glued and painted to resemble the characters they were representing.
The actual cake wasn’t to be made for another couple of weeks so we filmed the baking of a mock cake and miniature scenes at my flat (apparently because I have big, bright windows but I suspect because Ben didn’t want his place caked in flour) using a DSLR and a lot of flour. Ben’s wife Megan came over and we filmed her going through the stages of mixing the ingredients and baking a chocolate cake (as we knew the base of the final cake would be chocolate). We then spent most of the day balancing monkeys and little men amongst bits of cake and ingredients to try and represent, as closely as we could, the scenes from the various films.
Some stills from the day
