Preface: Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) should direct the film version of the last Harry Potter book. Fact.
Actual story: So pretty much everyone who has thought about the Deathly Hallows movie has probably wondered how the density and epicness of the book could be packed into a film even 3 hours long. Well, in the interests of telling the story properly (read: milking this franchise to the bitter end + double the cash), word is that Warner Brothers is readying for a two part flick a la Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. Personally, that seems like a good idea, especially if del Toro does it. Just saying. (Fact.)
I love me some movie trailers. They’re really like their own short films that I see as trying to tell a story more than just advertising a picture. TV spots are ads. Theatrical trailers are more of an art. Sometimes they can make terrible movies look great and vice versa, but every once in a while I come a cross one that i have to watch over and over again. Little Chenier is one of those.
There’s just something about people speaking English…unconventionally that gets me. Same deal with the trailer for ‘No Country For Old Men’ and Leonardo de Caprio in ‘Blood Diamond’ Anyways, watch the trailer for Little Chenier below:
I’ve been going about the past few weeks with a new take on life
I’ve been seeing things in a whole new perspective. I question things in life that are normally taken for granted(i.e. why does Christmas fall on the 25th if the new year starts on the 1st of January and where did the 6 days go between bc and ad). Voicing these ponderings has not really gotten me any answers other then my own theories. Usually when I ask my questions about life’s not so great mysteries I’ll usually be:
a) Told I’m stupid
b) asked if I’ve been using recreational drugs
c) laughed at because what I said is funny
d) laughed at because they think I’m an idiot
After about a month and a half of this new enlightened state I began discovering things about myself. Such as my “moral line”. Eventually I questioned what had caused this change in my personality, and overall self-being
There’s only one answer to that however
and that is this answer is right here
KARL PILKINGTON
QOTD: i don’t see why we need to bring the wooly mammoth back. We already have elephants and they carry stuff about and all that. theres no need for somthing else to do that- Karl Pilkington
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.
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:
WHAT??!??
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.
Like this:
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.
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.
