Bottled Opera

Bottled Opera is an animation created by Rebecca Parham.
== Synopsis ==
An opera singer's performance has many surprises in store.
== Story ==
As an opera singer (Marilyn) is preparing for her show, she sprays throat spray into her mouth to amplify the quality of her singing, until she realizes she has run out of spray. In a rush, she looks around for a solution. She spots other colorful bottles of spray, and has the idea to mix them all together to create one single spray. As she prepares to go onstage, she looks at the multicolored spray reluctantly before shaking it. The spray turns red before the singer sprays it, and it seemingly works well, so she heads out onto the stage.
Off stage, lights flicker and the bottle shakes, but the singer brushes it off as the curtains raise. She begins her performance, and everything seems to be going well until the bottle of spray shakes and changes color. As the bottle changes colors (yellow, blue, green), the singer performs in an array of genres (country, -, rock) before she realizes the bottle of spray is responsible. As she performs in a rock style, she sings loudly at the bottle to destroy it. After the bottle shatters, she returns to singing opera and finishes her performance confidently, basking in the applause.
== 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.
== Gallery ==
BottledOperaPoster.png|The poster, partially being shown.
BottledOperaEnvironment.png|The environment used for the beginning of the animation.
BottledOperaProps.png|Some of the props used for the animation.
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