Carlito would like to tell you all about his magic hat, which he found at a charity shop.

This is a short video I created for a contest on Zooppa entitled ‘Bring a Child’s Imagination to Life’ where the rules dictated that I had to recruit a child aged 9 or under to be the brains of the operation, only helping them to shoot and put the thing together into a film no longer than two minutes long.

The idea, spoken word content (none of which was scripted or even really planned) and most of the props were all Carlito’s; he turned up all ready to go. I just pointed the camera at him, chipped in to the dialogue where I was prompted, and edited the footage – as you can see it is heavily edited as the talent kept insisting we had a ‘few more minutes’… these film stars can be right divas eh? At some point I’ll do a longer edit so you can see what else came out of the hat. 🙂