An animated short film memoir on American Healthcare, written January 20th 2010, the day after the election of Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts.

This film was partly inspired by a Spin Magazine article (“License to Ill” written by David Peisn) which (at the time of printing) revealed 44% of musicians were without healthcare.

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On January 20th, a frustrated Micah Moss whipped out his iPhone and drafted the 6-page script for "Recycled Dialogue" using an application called "Screenplay" by Black Mana. Later, he edited future drafts on his desktop computer using the OS X screenwriting program, "Montage" by Mariner, and decided on cardboard and newsprint (culled from real pages of The L.A. Times and L.A. Weekly) as the perfect aesthetic for the film.

Production brought over 200 hours of hand-cutting with box knives, surgical blades and scissors, spray-mounting the newsprint to cardboard, and then scanning these objects digitally, followed by again cutting them out digitally using Adobe "Photoshop" and "Pixelmator" by The Pixelmator Team. These objects would then be resized, rendered and given life through the program "Anime Studio Pro 6.0" by Smith Micro. Voiceover was recorded on an iPhone as well using the high-fidelity condenser "Mikey" microphone by Blue, and the iPhone app "FiRe - Field Recorder" by Audiofile Engineering; this audio was later scrubbed and trimmed using "Apple Garageband '09." The final output was knitted together using "Apple iMovie '09."

Written | Produced | Directed | Animated by Micah Moss

Voiceover Cast:

Leslie Andrews as Dahila & Valley Girl
Manny Negron as Bradley
Gregory Nelson Alford as Squirrel, Big Beaver & SFX
Micah Moss as Crabby McGee & SFX

"Rally" & "Rally Reprise" provided courtesy of Bryan Free

© Micah Moss 2010, U.S. #1-364360561
SAG New Media Production #256916