Both my remote and sponge images used the same figures on the same set: Jawa's and R2D2 on Tatooine.
The Set
In my lightbox I built a set out of rocks and sand from my back yard. I was going for a recreation of a rocky canyon on Tatooine.
I tried to contain the sand by using cardboard, and a tile piece at the bottom, but as it turns out I had sand in there for months afterwards anyway. Those figures are also 12" scale. which means those rocks are quite large - and took a lot of care to move into place without risking them falling over and crushing the figures, or damaging the lightbox. However once it was made, it proved to be very effective.
Word: Remote
Remote is simply a reimagining of the scene in A New Hope where the Jawas capture R2. The Jawas use a thing called a restraining bolt on the droids to immobilize them. This shot was mostly getting the framing right in camera, and then adding the remote waves, and the bolt sparks in post.
Word: Sponge
The idea was to have the Jawas cleaning up R2D2 to shine him up for sale. To get this shot I cut up some sponges to be Jawa sized. I then used some foaming hand soap to suds up R2.
As a finishing move, and to add some humour, I had R2 projecting a rubber ducky. It seemed charming to me.
