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Science Fiction No Budget
The second episode of The No Budget Show is up. Continue reading
Childhood Dreams
Interesting how “childhood dreams” sounds so wholesome, but “adolescent fantasies” does not. The words are almost synonymous, but have very different connotations.
Foley
Someone on the Indy Mogul forum posted asking about foley, and I ended up pretty thorough, so I figured I’d post it here, too.
The Monster Smokes!
I don’t know why nobody has remade The Bride of Frankenstein yet.
Space Invaders
I think I never properly gave Space Invaders credit, but I’ve played it a bit lately, and I’ve got to give it props. That’s a game that worked very well within the hardware limitations.
For example, the fewer invaders there are on the screen, the faster they move. This means each level has a natural escalation in difficulty. But it also means the computer always moves one invader per frame, which maintains a consistent load on the processor.
No Budget Show
So, one project I’ve been involved with is bearing fruit. It is called the “No Budget Show.”
The pilot episode is now available for your viewing pleasure through the internet. I primarily served as a camera operator for this episode.
Go to DanWalechuk.com to see it.
Nine more episodes have been shot, and three more are in the pipeline to be shot, so expect them to be squeezed out in good time. Continue reading
Dancing Prisoners
I’m now very curious as to how something like this comes to exist:
Apparently, the CPDRC, (Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center) a prison in the Philippines, does this sort of thing a lot.
A show only movie-makers could love
With On the Lot wrapping up, (and I grudgingly admit I watched that damn show almost every week) I think I’ll sum up what did and did not work for me on that show.
Everything about story structure I learned from Ren and Stimpy
The first thing I ever saw that really got me thinking about story arcs and stuff, was, believe it or not, a Ren and Stimpy cartoon.
In it, Ren and Stimpy are flat broke. Ren dresses up as a mouse, so Stimpy can charge for his services as a mouse catcher. The plan goes well, until the marks ask Stimpy to eat the mouse. Rather than give up the game, Stimpy puts Ren in his mouth and slowly chews. Ren tries to bear this treatment as long as he can, but he finally snaps; he pops out and yells that he is not a mouse, he is a chihuahua. (And pulls out his pedigree to prove it.)
Learning
Three new videos, one about my bike-wheel figrig and the other about the chest-cam.
Plus, a nearly incomprehensible scene from Night of the Sharks.
I also started watching a bunch of videos from these guys who do tips about shooting video. Continue reading