mkpmedia films

hmm…

UPDATE: Well I WAS going to post “Blog fixed, take THAT, INTERNET!!!” but the admin section is still all weirded up…..

UPDATE: ALL SET FOR MAXIMUM BLOGGAGE. GREAT SUCCESS.

So Michel Gondry has a new movie coming out, called ‘Be Kind, Rewind’.

ANYWAYS, to promote the film, which basically involves Jack Black and Mos Def remaking most of the movies at Mos’ video store when all the tapes get erased, “Gondry will be taking over downtown New York’s Deitch Projects, transforming the Soho art gallery into a “Sweeding movie studio” for the better part of a month starting on January 24th.”

Now I know they’ll never do this in Vancouver due to cost [unless this becomes a moving exhibit], but it would be a pretty dern awesome thing for the National Film Board to set up, right?

Right??

Write. To the NFB. Request it, I s’pose that’s the only way it’ll really happen.

yay for posts that trail off into the distan….

Arrighty,

In stumbling across this video on YouTube [watchitbelow!] from master Wii hacker Johnny Lee (seriously, this dude made Minority Report and the Microsoft Surface more or less real with a laptop and a wiimote), I had an idea. See, the video was about “Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), to track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen”. Basically, he– you know what, just watch the vid:

Awesomeness, right? Well since I pretty much see everything being related to filmmaking, I got thinking: what if this concept was applied to 3D camera tracking?

When, in the post-production of a film, visual effects are added to a moving shot, someone needs to tell the computer where the physical camera is so that it can properly animate it’s camera to match the original footage when placing 3D objects.

So if there were enough cheap cameras on set (maybe even just a couple of wiimotes) to capture a couple of LEDs strapped onto your main camera, couldn’t you just, with the right software, get your camera’s position info during shooting? I’ve always wanted a camera that could do this, but always imagined it with a sensor that recorded some sort of XYZ position in relation to a reference point. I guess that won’t be needed.

Just think if this worked in an ideal environment: Your camera would store info like focal length, shutter, colour, field of view, etc in metadata, and you would have the position of your camera in 3D space. import your footage onto your computer and go wild.

This post might not make too much sense from the tiredness and all setting in, but hopefully it’s given some people more capable than me a starting point for something spectacular.

Oh, and check this. Stu Maschwitz wins.

so since i kickstarted the blog again(still haven’t been thanked by the way). Kashif has been talking to me about starting up the podcast again. Now i was thinking about this and i made a pros and cons list

Pro-making the podcast is fun
Con- podcast isn’t that fun to listen too….at least for me

Pro- you all get to listen to my voice again
Con- I hate my speaking voice(my reading/thought voice is much sexier)

Pro- Its just like listening in on a conversation between me and kashif
Con-Its just like listening in on a conversation between me and kashif

Pro- This way you can rewind and listen a few times to understand our intellectual humour
Con- I just insulted you (haha)

Pro- i wouldn’t have to type as much
Con- i feel obligated to keep making cons

To be honest i don’t know why i’m making this list. it really comes down to kashif cause hes the only one who’ll go “hey lets make that podcast now”

oh well

QOTD(Quote of the day)- Their ships outnumber us, 3:1
                                      Then it is an even fight
Halo 3 

Hi, welcome to what some websites would call a “feature”. This “feature” is really awesome and will teach you lots and lots.

Yay for features!

The first filmmaking video I so generously wish to share is a must watch. Aww, who am I kidding, they’ll ALL be must watches. Or there’d be no point in posting them. So without further ado, here is George Miller, director of the awesometastic Happy Feet and some other movie where Mel Gibson drives a car, talking about what writing and story really are.

We used to be called mkp media films. But that was uncreative, so we renamed ourselves Digital Films. But that bored Ben, so I came up with the awesome name, STUDIO99.

The problem is, so did about 30 billion other people. Which might become a problem when it comes to copyrights [you can’t register a business name if someone else already has it. Otherwise I could be CEO of Apple. It could also become a problem when people search us on google. We wouldn’t really want people to think we were these guys, and DEFINITELY NOT THESE GUYS.

So, as much as it pains me to do, and, as much as it isn’t a problem now, I guess we have to change our name again. Or just shove everything under mkpmedia for a bit.

Updates’ll be here, so long as you are.

Honestly, that’s just a great title for a post. Moving on:

True, I haven’t been posting here at all lately. Nor has Mr. Benjamin Wright [aka’d on the site as Dinnab], but, being in Grade 11, we’ve been really busy getting educated and all. There are square roots to be equalized [I don’t even think that’s a math concept…]

ANYWAYS, Christmas Break from school and all, so more bloggage and filmage comin’ your way. A little something to start you off:

The Comment, a short film made really quickly for our video and film class at Tamanawis Secondary. 4 Hours writing, 3 hours rehearsal + filming, 2 days total production, 1 continuous, seven minute shot. Sure it’s bad, but it’s so bad it’s good. Enjoy.

man… Kashif sucks at posting here…
oh well if anyone ever miss-types a web adress and ends up here they can read what i have to say, and TRUST me. I got LOTS to say ….
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what was that comment from future me?
did you just ask what i’ve been up too since my last post?
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not alot really. Well we filmed some stuff. a few things kinda just died (suprise) and other things were done quickly. only half turned out well, yet none ended up here. maybe i should put them up. well i would if i knew how. for now just go to http://www.youtube.com/user/mkp and you can see whatever you wanna see.
well i’ve gotta go clean for the next 3 days so i’ll come on here now and then to avoid work.

KTHXBAI