If You Give A Mouse A Cookie: The Gritty Reboot

If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, it's too late...

Creating a twisted adaptation of the children's story "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" by Laura Numeroff was a ton of fun. We had just purchased a DJI Ronin (3-axis camera gimbal stabilizer) only days before this shoot, and decided to give ourselves a crash course… by designing a video that would consist of one continuous take. After hours of rehearsal on set, we knocked out the shoot over the course of the day, finishing just before sundown. If you’ve ever held a fully-kitted gimbal stabilizer, you’ll know the pain of shooting with one for an entire day. Thankfully, this project won us a Best Cinematography award at the Bleedingham horror film festival… which helped offset the back pain. :D

BEHIND THE SCENES

Check out the behind the scenes video for an in-depth look on how we pulled this all together:

CREDITS
Concept: Kyle Reardon
Director of Photography: David Zimmermann
Editor: David Zimmermann
Visual Effects: Gabe Conroy
Color Grading: David Zimmermann
Sound Design: David Zimmermann
Music: Dylan Griffin Kane
Special Effects & Prosthetics: Justin Hammond
Props & Set Decoration by: Jenn Godwin
Production Design: Shelby Allman

CAST
The Tortured: Dylan Griffin Kane
The Mouse: Meagan Karimi-Naser
Cookie Cougher: Steven Hudson
Milk Spitter: Jesse LaTourette
Hair Snipper: David Hudson
Special thanks to Mike Kennard for letting us use his beautiful home—The Eldridge Estate!