@obscurefan: I can help you out with that. Throw me a PM with what type of computer you have (PC or Mac), and editing software you use.
If anyone else has any video related questions, especially pertaining to the video features we used to do on Screened, feel free to contact me!
Here's a few of the Mondo Avengers posters they just revealed today. The Iron Man on here is the variant -- I kind of like this one better.
What do you guys think?
@InsidiousTuna: Coonce is with us over on the BB San Francisco side.
Next Wednesday I'll be heading out to Austin for SXSW, and staying for about a week. We're not covering the festival this year as Screened coverage, but I had a great time out there last year and wanted to bring my wife back and check out some movies and music just for fun. I'll probably write a few blog posts and post a few pictures or something.
Anywho, I haven't a good chance to really look over the schedule -- probably going to do that this weekend -- but I wanted to know if anybody has heard anything great about any specific movies or bands playing. Give me a good starting point for planning my schedule.
Sorry about that guys! Didn't mean to tease you with the sweater!
You can check out the Oscars archive stuff here!
The access code is Lucky
35th place! dohhhhhhhhh
It's all right. I changed the password. Not sure what we're doing with it yet, I'll check with Rorie.
Best Picture - "The Descendants"
Best Director - "The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
Actor in a Leading Role - Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Actress in a Leading Role - Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn"
Actor in a Supporting Role - Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
Actress in a Supporting Role - Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
Animated Feature Film - "Rango"
Art Direction - "Hugo"
Cinematography - "The Tree of Life"
Best Original Screenplay - "Midnight in Paris"
Best Adapted Screenplay - "Moneyball"
Film Editing - "Hugo"
Best Visual Effects - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Best Documentary - "Hell and Back Again"
Foreign Language Film - "Footnote" Israel
Costume Design - "Anonymous"
Best Score - "The Artist"
Best Song - "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets"
Short Film (Live Action) - "Time Freak"
Short Film (Animated) - "A Morning Stroll"
Documentary Short Subject - "God Is the Bigger Elvis"
Makeup - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
Sound Editing - "Drive"
Sound Mixing - "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Pixar shorts are always good to study with a class with open dialogue. They're always pretty good with interesting compositions, set design, framing, mis-en-scene kind of stuff, and also telling a story in a concise way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m7dcbIKvlw
Do some Goodfellas' for sequential filmmaking to contrast the 3-act stuff. Also, the editing and camera techniques in that film are fun to analyze, as well as the role of the narrator and perspective storytelling.
Evil Dead also if you want to veer into lower budget horror, and untraditional and horror camera techniques such as zooming, dolly-zoom etc, dutch-angle, etc.
This sounds like fun Andy, good luck with the class.
Like most filmmaking tools, it can often be used as a crutch. I don't want to say it's unnecessary, because it can be used with craft and purpose, but it's also something that's easily leaned on -- just like quick cutting action scenes, slo-mo, etc.
Saving Private Ryan's normandy scene was a good example -- and in the rest of that movie, mainly because there was a juxtaposition of calmness (with a static shots, or a stedicam) followed by immediate chaos that wartime survival could ignite.
I think, to some extent, it worked in Greengrass' Bourne movies because he was constantly on the run, and for the most part, it was a perspective movie, so it helped tell "Bourne's" story, and put you there with him. Where it failed was that, well, it was just used all over the place for the whole movie, even when Bourne was in total control.
So, yeah, I remember times where it worked, but its just too easy of a crutch to lean on.
Exactly. It's fair use when used in an editorial context.
@JoeyF: We could do the chat for weekday meetups. I need to delve into our system a little more, but I think there's also a way to set the chat to launch on a set time if you guys want Sunday.
You guys can set up and IRC channel to be open 24/7. I know IRC might be a little more esoteric to non-computer people, but it's relatively easy to set up once you get the fundamentals down.
There are a number of free client programs for both Mac and PC. I use Colloquy for Mac.
You guys should try that out, this sounds good!
Gary Oldman in this BMW short is pretty damn awesome.
@nintendmoe: I'll forward this to Daniel -- those ads probably shouldn't be there.
Haha, awww so many memories in there. Good job man!
@coldtea: He had a hiccup with Youtube today (ie, they deleted our channel). Just click on Streaming and Progressive and ignore the Youtube selection. It's still there on the older videos, and it still automatically defaults to Youtube. We'll try to get this fixed soon.
We have no plans as of now to bring that back as a regular feature, as it's a little tough with the current situation (Alex being in New York, and Rorie in SF). It might happen every now and then though, more as a "when it feels right" kind of thing.
But, I agree those features are fun.
