December 2008
35 posts
Get on the email now for http://filmschoolondemand.com ! so you can get the first-come-first-served discounts… it’s going to be awesome…
I wish Twitter had a feature where you could see the replies that OTHER people were getting.
What an awesome little online-filmmaking tool: Text-to-Film from www.xtranormal.com . Super fun, but a real time vacuum too.
So I’m texting right now using predictive typing - I can never help wondering how they fit all the words in that little phone…
WatchWow. This is awesome.
I just discovered a site called http://www.xtranormal.com/, where you can create your own little animated shorts online through what they call “Text-to-Film”. The video above is me experimenting with it for a few minutes, but it’s definitely a pretty rich tool to get the creative juices flowing!
November 2008
38 posts
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Ben Burtt's Awesome 30 min. Presentation on the... →
Video of Ben Burtt - sound designer of the lightsaber, Darth Vader, and Indiana Jones giving a 30 minute presentation at Pixar on how he crafted the sounds of Wall•E. Includes a great Q&A session as well.
Happy Thanksgiving, American friends. You’re a month late.
After being nominated; finally made the 48hr film comp film a public video: http://tinyurl.com/5pju39
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WatchOk. So. This year, I, along with the six friends and fellow students, decided to compete in the annual 48 hour film competition, Zoomfest. It was the third time for some of us, and the first time for others. The basic idea: teams are given the topic on Friday @ 5PM, and have to hand in a DVD of the completed film by Sunday @ 5. 48 hours to write, plan, shoot, edit, score, and burn a copy of a...
I now understand why apple waits until products are ready to go before announcing anything- cone on, RED!!
BAAAAYYYUUM. We “have been nominated for one or more category” @ the 48hr film fest!!!
Anxious for 48hr film comp nominations + post-secondary choosing, and excited for FilmSchoolOnDemand!
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This is What a Money Printing Liscense Looks Like.
Summit Entertainment Announces TWILIGHT Sequel - NEW MOON
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 — Summit Entertainment announced today that the studio is officially moving forward with the production of NEW MOON, the second installment of its filmed franchise TWILIGHT, the action-packed, modern day vampire love story. The movie will be based on the second novel in author Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series...
WatchPrepShootPost: G-SPEAK SPATIAL OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
Does anyone have any idea as to why David Fincher has a special thanks credit on Wall-E? My guess is he helped get Sigourney Weaver on board
Does anyone have any idea as to why David Fincher has a special thanks credit on Wall-E? My guess is he helped get Sigourney Weaver on board
I WAS falling asleep, but apparently getting mentioned on the Mega64 podcast wakes me right up :)
Got Wall-E on DVD, hard to do homework instead of watching everything on the discs. So pumped to watch The Pixar Story (it’s 1.5 hours!)
Wow, iPod/iPhone has a pretty terrible default Arabic font
Apparently it’s going to cost 99$ for microsoft to fix my xbox. blech.
My 48hr film comp. entry: http://vimeo.com/2209512 . Pass: “soapbox”. Read the description, watch the flick, and let me know what u think.
I’ve learned so much from the sample movies on the Hollywood Camera Work website alone…
A friend brought Hollywood Camera Work to school today! So pumped - I can’t afford it, but I hope to support and buy it for myself one day
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Urgent Help Needed: Democratic Republic of the...
An important message I received that needs to be shared:
Dear Humanitarians, Annabel Wong, Sarina Rehal, and I, Tanja Bergen are all University of British Columbia students. We were working on a school project on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when the recent crisis erupted. We had been researching Canada’s involvement in the DRC and strongly believe that our government, right...
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Just saw Wanted: It’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Star Wars. Or at least that’s what we came up with.
So I figure that if I really want a career in filmmaking, I’ll be better off doing a business degree next year..
Bond felt like both the second film in a trilogy (it is), and the “next step in the series. Props.
Wow I wish my twitterrank wasn’t automatically posted…
Well you big kids have fun with your REDS, I just got a DVX last week and don’t know what all the buttons mean yet…
… let me know when RED has an optical viewfinder and can shoot like film with as close to zero menus to flip through as possible.
New season of ummahfilms is out, already better than the first two!
Anyone have any clue about how one would go about becoming a commercial director?
Wow, I was so sure I would live-tweet the 48 hour film comp., but that was way too intense; couldn’t even get to the web long enough
