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This week I learned that tutorials get easier.


I want to learn how to alter people's skin pigment in After Effects.


The crap part of this week was the batteries in my smoke detector dying.


On the bright side we got a work day!


Now for the fun bit! Here is the greatest animated hero ever!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyNaQ0_gJ8

8 ways to be brilliant

If you want to come up with some nifty ideas obey these simple rules and you'll be getting eureka moments every fifteen or twenty minutes.
1. Look for inspiration not your field, but other fields.
2. Don't make decisions on a whim. Think it through!
3. Internal motivation. You'll only reach a breakthrough on something you like. In other words, I don't think any of us are going to invent a sport.
4. Start from scratch. It will fire up your imagination.
5. Take risks. Play it safe and you won't come up with anything new.
6. Try new things. It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
7. Connect experiences. You never know what clicks if you don't.
8. Be open to magic. Because your best ideas will hit you like a freight train.


So this won't really change my life. It's a cute little article, these are pretty simple and kinda obvious. Regardless if it helps it helps. But I think we all already do most of these.

Trailers are Marvelous

This thing was about Zede Ponce and the trailer industry. Trailers are often made before the movies. He uses lots of CG in his trailers. Clients often scrap an array of trailers until their satisfied. The titles themselves often are painstaking projects in Maya.


This gives insight into the trailer scene. I honestly didn't know there were companies that made trailers professionally. I thought trailers were made by the editor after the fact. Ultimately learning this industry existed was more exciting than learning about this industry.
Ponce closed up by talking about his idea for an Avengers teaser. There is a reason clients reject ideas. Metal being smelted and molded into their symbol could work for a winter arthouse film, but not a summer blockbuster, let alone a Marvel movie.

Comment!!!

This week we got the specs for the PSA and had a demo on premiere.


I hope to learn further remixing in premiere, because I really want to make some YouTube poops.


I meet Dri this week, finished my audiostory on time, and got the most vital component for my Halloween costume. So pretty good.


I had Fallout 3 freeze on me. Twice. I almost cried.


Bethesda has released some educational materials in the form of animated shorts to keep the Fallout 4 hype train move at the speed of light. Enjoy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?sts=16714&utcoffset=-240&v=Vw21X2jKwCM&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVw21X2jKwCM%26itct%3DCCoQpDAiEwjWisr9r83IAhVUEr4KHT7QD3EyC2M0LXZpZGVvcy11WhhVQ3ZaSGUtU1AzeEM3RGRPazRSaThRQnc%253D&has_verified=1&layout=mobile&client=mv-google

Do it for the Music

Music is the simplest and subtlest way to set a mood for a scene. Music has a very strong ability to manipulate the emotion the audience feels. You could use either a soundtrack, music made for it's own sake. Or a score, music made specifically for your thing. It's more important to have tunes that fit the tone, than strictly related to period. In the movie "The Professional" the main baddie play Beethoven on a walkman while he slaughters a family, creating the mood of a madman indifferent to his actions. Another good example of music's power can be seen in Saints Row 3 during the final mission when given the choice of saving your friends or finishing your enemy, and then "I need a Hero" starts playing prompting most players to save their friends because of the soundtrack. There's also the powerful orchestral score of Die Hard that makes the action more powerful but less tense. The most recent Gatsby film opts to use modern music and jazz to convey the fantasy like descriptions of the 20s high life. Music can also hint at a situation. When you hear the Jaws theme you always know that someone will be eaten. It's also important to know when NOT to have music. This is best at creating tension. Silence is unnerving. If Die Hard had no soundtrack, it'd be a lot less fun.
It's also nice to have subtle ambient background music. Stuff you don't notice, but your brain does.


This is useful to the aspiring filmmaker. It is easy to recognize the importance of music when you look for it. I don't to sound like a jerk, but I already knew this stuff, so while this article is pretty useless for me, others could find it invaluable.

Disney and the 3D Drawing App Thingy

Disney is currently beta testing an app that turns coloring book characters into 3d characters. There was lots of technobable that leads me to believe that this app will work best with preprogrammed pictures and models. If it made a 3d object from a 2d drawing it'd be pretty wonky looking. It's results showed the majority of testers felt invigorated to draw again.


This will be a short lived or survive off premade assets and characters that Disney buys. If it gets advanced enough to bring original characters to life guess what? Disney will own the copyright of your character. I'm not against it but if I were to bet, it'd be a free app that works with special expensive coloring books of Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars variety. Another toy if you will. 

Commently Week

This week we learned that Ms Licata's old classes were demented. The twin towers and dead pigs. My goodness.


I hope we learn how to tint lights in the actual shooting rather than in after effects.


The low end of this week was obliterating my foot with the coffee table. I'm surprised the entire house didn't explode after the immeasurable impact.


As far as good goes, I tried to treat my Fallout 4 hype by watching a video about the making of Fallout 3 video. Then relapsed by watching an interview with the Fallout 4 voice actors. On an unrelated note I also had the most peculiar dream ever. It probably says something about my personality.


Now for the best part! Here is a scene from the masterpiece movie, The Room. The first scene here took over 30 takes. And this was the best: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8wo-QRjsm10

A Movie without Action makes Me a Sad Panda

This jerk thinks action scenes do nothing for characterization and plot. Because they're a jerk. But they do understand a bit of what makes a good action scene. So they're not 100% a jerk. If someone does something, shoe it! Don't quick cut, shakey cam, or pan away! Show the carnage! This cheap techniques aren't fun or exciting. Also they say that you should show emotion and reactions from the characters during the fight. But please for love of movies don't overdo it! This can break the feel as well.


Actions scenes are important in movies, more important than this snob thinks. Mad Max: Fury Road could have had Max explain that the death of his family is causing his sanity to slip to Furiosa during a slower scene, but showing his delusions while he runs, punches, and climbs. An action scene that serves as characterization! How about The Avengers, where most of the story occurs in action scenes! Action scenes are awesome! Unless they're quick cut, shakey cam crap meant to get a PG 13 rating. So follow the guys cinematography advice, but not much else.

VR Movies?!

Technology has advanced to a point where you can watch certain movies with a special expensive helmet! The author watched a yak herder documentary with it and discussed the atmosphere it creates. It requires special cameras that I believe google maps uses in order to film 360 degrees around. You can look anywhere and hear the intimate noises, but you can't move or do anything to the action.


This sounds cool, but it really won't work with most movies. You'd have to get fully created sets and long shots of every actor getting it perfect for the whole duration. There would be no interesting shots or even quick shots. The entire movie would need to be crafted around this tech. This can work, but it won't with most movies. The movies that are made with this will need to make back a big budget, so they'd be save and inoffensive. Nothing from the 70s. Overall it's cool but impractical.