Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
New York International Children's Film Festival
In order to get the into the NYICFF, we need to get cracking!
This year, the deadline for Student Short Films (that's us) is OCTOBER 15TH.
That's roughly four months.
Requirements:
Film on DVD (PAL or NTSC) -- I don't know what this means.
$25 entry fee
Entry form -- http://gkids.com/images_submit/NYICFF2012EntryFormShort.pdf
Optional:
Promotional material (high res jpgs, reviews, bios, etc)
This year, the deadline for Student Short Films (that's us) is OCTOBER 15TH.
That's roughly four months.
Requirements:
Film on DVD (PAL or NTSC) -- I don't know what this means.
$25 entry fee
Entry form -- http://gkids.com/images_submit/NYICFF2012EntryFormShort.pdf
Optional:
Promotional material (high res jpgs, reviews, bios, etc)
For more information: http://www.gkids.com/?section=submit
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
What's Next?
Hey Y'all,
I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on the stage - set - prop - puppet production. My suggestion would be to use what you have to create some still photographs. Let's see something, folks!
Send me some pics!
I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on the stage - set - prop - puppet production. My suggestion would be to use what you have to create some still photographs. Let's see something, folks!
Send me some pics!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Din Quixote Soundtrack
As presented by Flavorpill:
Don Quixote de la Mancha is a complex figure. He is at once a rational thinker and a raving madman, a deep romantic trying to create a better world and a sympathy-evoking innocent. He sets off on an imagined quest to win glory for his imagined paramour, and spends the novel trying to distinguish between his hallucinations and his reality in an only slightly exaggerated description of the way we all live our lives. His intentions are forever honorable, though they never seem to come to any good, as he is too often waylaid by his own foolishness. There’s some contention that Quixote knows more than he lets on – that his insanity is an act of sorts, but we interpret him in the middle ground: not totally bonkers, but not self-aware enough to be sly about it either. Here’s what we think he would fight windmills, make declarations, and uphold the code of the knight-errant to.
“Desaparecido” – Manu Chao
The sun-drenched tones of Manu Chao would definitely be Don Quixote’s go-to soundtrack for wandering around with Sancho Panza in the Spanish sun.
“I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” — The Beach Boys
A perfect song about trying to find your place in a world that doesn’t make sense to you, sung by a classically optimistic band that would appeal to our hero’s innocent enthusiasm. Plus, maybe he could have a moment of self-realization when he hits the lines “They say I got brains/ But they ain’t doing me no good/ I wish they could…”
“Where Do My Bluebird Fly” — The Tallest Man on Earth
We think Don Quixote would appreciate the almost painful beauty of this song, sorrowful fever dream music for his lonely adventuring.
“(Have You Ever Been To) Electric Ladyland” — Jimi Hendrix
We just want to know what Don Quixote would hallucinate Electric Ladyland to be. We think he’d have fun with this song – after all, every lovable lunatic we know is a Hendrix fan.
“This Year” — The Mountain Goats
Any gentleman who has gone mad with chivalry from reading too many books about knights would also have to be into the hyper-literary Mountain Goats. There’s just no other way.
“I Want to Know What Love Is” — Foreigner
Our hero is a hopeless romantic, for sure, and he’d totally be into cheesy 80s rock songs. But his belief in the rigidity of right and wrong and the purity of love is what keeps him going through beatings and giants, through enchantments and humiliations, so there are worse things.
“Blowin’ In The Wind” — Bob Dylan
While Dylan isn’t necessarily the picture of the chivalrous knight in real life, this classic track would definitely appeal to a wandering adventurer trying to instill some good in the world.
“Such Great Heights” — The Postal Service
All idealistic, semi-dorky lovers dig the Postal Service. Also, this is a song about overcoming obstacles in the face of naysayers, something that we think Quixote would probably identify with.
“Love Vigilantes” (New Order Cover) — Iron & Wine
This song manages to be both chivalrous and super wholesome, but not obnoxious, which is something of a feat. We imagine Don Quixote listening to this track and wishing he had a wife and family of his own.
“Hands of Time” — Ron Sexsmith
In a certain sense, Don Quixote is just an aging man looking for an adventure to help him in the fight against his mortality. Like so much else in Quixote’s story, it’s a losing battle.
Don Quixote de la Mancha is a complex figure. He is at once a rational thinker and a raving madman, a deep romantic trying to create a better world and a sympathy-evoking innocent. He sets off on an imagined quest to win glory for his imagined paramour, and spends the novel trying to distinguish between his hallucinations and his reality in an only slightly exaggerated description of the way we all live our lives. His intentions are forever honorable, though they never seem to come to any good, as he is too often waylaid by his own foolishness. There’s some contention that Quixote knows more than he lets on – that his insanity is an act of sorts, but we interpret him in the middle ground: not totally bonkers, but not self-aware enough to be sly about it either. Here’s what we think he would fight windmills, make declarations, and uphold the code of the knight-errant to.
“Desaparecido” – Manu Chao
The sun-drenched tones of Manu Chao would definitely be Don Quixote’s go-to soundtrack for wandering around with Sancho Panza in the Spanish sun.
“I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” — The Beach Boys
A perfect song about trying to find your place in a world that doesn’t make sense to you, sung by a classically optimistic band that would appeal to our hero’s innocent enthusiasm. Plus, maybe he could have a moment of self-realization when he hits the lines “They say I got brains/ But they ain’t doing me no good/ I wish they could…”
“Where Do My Bluebird Fly” — The Tallest Man on Earth
We think Don Quixote would appreciate the almost painful beauty of this song, sorrowful fever dream music for his lonely adventuring.
“(Have You Ever Been To) Electric Ladyland” — Jimi Hendrix
We just want to know what Don Quixote would hallucinate Electric Ladyland to be. We think he’d have fun with this song – after all, every lovable lunatic we know is a Hendrix fan.
“This Year” — The Mountain Goats
Any gentleman who has gone mad with chivalry from reading too many books about knights would also have to be into the hyper-literary Mountain Goats. There’s just no other way.
“I Want to Know What Love Is” — Foreigner
Our hero is a hopeless romantic, for sure, and he’d totally be into cheesy 80s rock songs. But his belief in the rigidity of right and wrong and the purity of love is what keeps him going through beatings and giants, through enchantments and humiliations, so there are worse things.
“Blowin’ In The Wind” — Bob Dylan
While Dylan isn’t necessarily the picture of the chivalrous knight in real life, this classic track would definitely appeal to a wandering adventurer trying to instill some good in the world.
“Such Great Heights” — The Postal Service
All idealistic, semi-dorky lovers dig the Postal Service. Also, this is a song about overcoming obstacles in the face of naysayers, something that we think Quixote would probably identify with.
“Love Vigilantes” (New Order Cover) — Iron & Wine
This song manages to be both chivalrous and super wholesome, but not obnoxious, which is something of a feat. We imagine Don Quixote listening to this track and wishing he had a wife and family of his own.
“Hands of Time” — Ron Sexsmith
In a certain sense, Don Quixote is just an aging man looking for an adventure to help him in the fight against his mortality. Like so much else in Quixote’s story, it’s a losing battle.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Side Scrolling
There is a clear connection between the flat, side scrolling adventure games and our scrolling sets. This is a great example, and it could be a resource for the science fiction city>
What makes this so successful is the way the vibrant, textured scenery in the middle ground moves against the washed out, more liner scenery in the background. The game's camera mimics the way our eyes would move across a scene: the further away something is, the slower it scrolls across the screen. There are enough objects in the foreground to reinforce a sense of 3 dimensionality, but not so many that is obscures the action.
Synthesize!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Matt King Meeting
Split up into production groups - some script, some sets, some props - meetings more for touching base and seeing what we're all up to.
Mess around, shoot some scenes for funnnn.
borrow camera to test - just let Matt King and he can get it checked out. He'll be in richmond during the summer, so the camera and zoom recorder will both be available.
chroma-key paper (green screen!) - B&H Photo, also Savage (seamless backdrop paper)
stage - big, solid. grid on top for clip lights. power strips on sides to plug stuff in easily, spring clips for the top and side. make it the same ratio as a widescreen (a lot bigger than we need so that we can move the camera without seeing through the edges)Drywall screws by the inch along the top, put several metal conduit lengths between the screws (rigid, won't sag).
Hans Op de Beeck - piece at the hirshhorn, closes on the 27th
http://www.tonyoursler.com/individual_work_slideshow.php?navItem=work&workId=227&startDateStr=Oct.%207,%202010&subSection=Installations&allTextFlg=true&title=Peak - crazy video script
schedule: test camera, see what things look like, but during the school year just prepare and make everything so that during the summer we can relax.
figure out a materials list and dimensions - get our stuff made,
Mess around, shoot some scenes for funnnn.
borrow camera to test - just let Matt King and he can get it checked out. He'll be in richmond during the summer, so the camera and zoom recorder will both be available.
chroma-key paper (green screen!) - B&H Photo, also Savage (seamless backdrop paper)
stage - big, solid. grid on top for clip lights. power strips on sides to plug stuff in easily, spring clips for the top and side. make it the same ratio as a widescreen (a lot bigger than we need so that we can move the camera without seeing through the edges)Drywall screws by the inch along the top, put several metal conduit lengths between the screws (rigid, won't sag).
Hans Op de Beeck - piece at the hirshhorn, closes on the 27th
http://www.tonyoursler.com/individual_work_slideshow.php?navItem=work&workId=227&startDateStr=Oct.%207,%202010&subSection=Installations&allTextFlg=true&title=Peak - crazy video script
schedule: test camera, see what things look like, but during the school year just prepare and make everything so that during the summer we can relax.
figure out a materials list and dimensions - get our stuff made,
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Layered backgrounds
http://www.roadsideprojects.com/portfolio/
Whoah man - this guy has got it down. He creates depth in a very shallow space using paper.
Whoah man - this guy has got it down. He creates depth in a very shallow space using paper.
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