One Man Band (film)

One Man Band
Original Poster
Directed by	Andrew Jimenez Mark Andrews
Produced by	Osnat Shurer John Lasseter Brad Bird
Written by	Andrew Jimenez Mark Andrews
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Editing by	Steve Bloom
Studio	Pixar
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	January 31, 2005 June 9, 2006 (with Cars)
Running time	4 minutes, 33 seconds
Country	United States
Language	English

One Man Band is a 2005 Pixar animated short film. The film made its world premiere at the 29th Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France,^[1] and won the Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy.^[2] It was shown with the theatrical release of Cars.

The short was written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews and produced by Osnat Shurer, head of Pixar's Shorts group. The score for the short was written by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for Pixar's animated feature films The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up and Cars 2.

Like many Pixar shorts, the film is completely free of dialogue, instead using music (played by the characters) and pantomime to tell the story.

On January 31, 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation by John Canemaker and Peggy Stern. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2005.

Plot

In this animated short film, we see Bass, a street performer playing a routine tune on a deserted Italian village square one fine afternoon, waiting for a pedestrian to tip him in his rusty iron cup. Soon, he spots Tippy, a humble peasant girl clutching a big gold coin, with the intention of dropping it in the piazza fountain to make a wish. Bass, seizing the opportunity, immediately plays an impromptu track, capturing the young girl's attention. Just when Tippy is about to drop the coin into Bass's cup, a newcomer steps onto the scene. Treble, a suave and flamboyant street performer, plays a more attractive sound, effectively stealing Tippy's attention, much to the anger of Bass. Not to be outdone, Bass ups his ante, with Treble daring to take it even further. As the two rivals unleash their arsenal of musical weapons, trying to vie for the attention (or rather, the tip) of Tippy, the girl cowers in their wild musical cacophony, and in the process, drops her sole gold coin, which falls down a drain and gets lost in the sewers of the village.

Heartbroken, Tippy sheds a single tear, but then angrily demands from Treble and Bass a replacement coin for the one they made her lose. When the two musicians come up empty-handed, Tippy insists she take one of Treble's violins and Bass's iron cup in an attempt to get her money back by playing solo. She then tunes the violin and begins to play it like a true virtuoso, prompting a passing pedestrian to drop a large bag of gold coins into her cup. Elated, Tippy hugs the bag and approaches the fountain, but not before she pulls two coins out of her bag and tempts Treble and Bass. But as they eagerly reach out to grab them, she tosses the coins into the top of the fountain, out of reach, to the dismay of the two one-man-band units. A post-credits scene shows that it is now nighttime, with Treble standing on Bass, trying to reach for the coins in vain. As the two start to fall backwards, the film ends.

The music during the credits is Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen.

Violinists

The violinists who recorded the music for this film are:

• Clayton Haslop ("Treble")
• Mark Robertson ("Tippy")

The score was recorded at the Paramount Scoring Stage in Hollywood, CA. The filmmakers utilized a 38-piece orchestra as well as several soloists, including the ones listed above.^[3]

References

1. ^ Amidi, Amid (June 16, 2005). "One Man Band". CartoonBrew.com. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/one-man-band.html. Retrieved July 31, 2011. 
2. ^ "THE FFF’S WINNERS". FutureFilmFestival.org. January 23, 2008. http://www.futurefilmfestival.org/intl/2008/01/23/the-fffs-winners/. Retrieved July 31, 2011. 
3. ^ Jessen, Taylor (February 24, 2006). "The Coveted Five: 2006’s Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts". Animation World Network. http://www.awn.com/articles/coveted-five-2006-s-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/page/2,1. Retrieved July 31, 2011. 

External links

• Official website
• One Man Band at the Internet Movie Database
• One Man Band at the Big Cartoon DataBase

Preceded by Jack-Jack Attack

Pixar Animation Studios short films 2005

Succeeded by Mater and the Ghostlight