Weekly Report 11/18 - The Extended Deadline Will Give You Enough Time, She Said....

What I learned: How to make text in After Effects. I know we learned more, but that's the only thing I used so far. Therefore I forgot everything else.

What I want to learn: How to use more video effects in AE.

What made me happy: Getting permission to use my friend's music for the documentary.

What made me sad: I couldn't get my most sought after interview with one of my favorite youtubers.

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I've always known that video games are often used to project cinematic pieces of art, whether it's a rendered CGI cut-scene or in-game recorded footage. But I've never bought my attention to Grand Theft Auto 4's capability of letting players create a real looking cinematic film/video. I'm not sure if these are from means of in-game recording mechanics or its a separate software altogether (not just Fraps), but some users can pull off some borderline professional looking action scenes using the game engine.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

Colorblind Glasses Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That colorblindness could be restored.
- That glasses had the potential to fix colorblindness and not something more medicinal.
- Non-colorblind people can also see better, more full colors with these glasses.

2 opinions:
- 600 dollars for these glasses is pretty insane.
- 400 dollars is even more insane for people who don't even need them.

1 question - I wonder what would happen if I wore multiple colorblind glasses at once...would I see through walls eventually?

iPhone Filmmaking Response

3 things I learned from this article:
-  That this type of production isn't professionally treated like a regular film (i.e the director has to watch the iPhone footage off the actor's phone.)
- A fake documentary has a better chance to be more well received than a real one.
- You're ALLOWED to use low grade cameras to make first-person documentary footage.

2 opinions:
- I'm glad Levinson didn't give actors unrealistic top tier cameras to film their "found footage".
- I'd beat the actor who forgot to press record on their phone.

1 question - Would there be a higher chance of having artifacts in the cell phone footage?

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Weekly Report - 11/11

What I learned: That Will has the most terrible luck.

What I want to learn: More about lighting.

What made me happy: Preforming my second concert with my friend.

What made me sad: A great teacher at my school died this past week.

Its been a while since I've made a video. I finally got around to editing one that's been sitting on my computer for forever so here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_usACFNtcNo

The video does contain some bad language and video game violence. So you've been warned.

Voice Actors Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- Frank Welker voiced more than 700 films and t.v shows.
- No one really cared about voice actors in the past.
- Studios don't have to hire big named actors to do voice work.

2 opinions:
- There's probably more to voice acting than just sitting down and saying lines.
- I think voice acting is more sought after rather than more respected.

1 question - Why do studios hire more big named actors than more talented voice actors?

Disney Purchase of Lucas Films Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- ILM's first film was Rango.
- LucasArts hasn't made a game since The Force Unleashed 2.
- George Lucas is rolling in the most dough as an artist.

2 opinions:
- Its good that Lucas isn't spending all his money on rich people stuff.
- LucasArts should make more games.

1 question - Will Disney allow LucasArts to release Star Wars: 1313?

Weekly Report 11/4 - A Lot of Work I'm Not Doing

What I learned: That this one guy thought he was just going on a fishing trip. But little did he know it was going to be a trip of epic proportions.

What I want to learn: How to get a job for editing. Cause I want money.

What made me happy: Finishing a job off my list: did a solo for my friend's song.

What made me sad: Halloween was on a Wednesday. I got things to do on Wednesday. I mean come on.

MORE:

A song I made called The End

Yea, that's all I got this week. But its a good song. I mean, its just three chords played over and over. But its EMOTIONAL. It makes you FEEL man. Feel emotions. Like hunger and sassy. But those aren't the emotions I was going for. I wanted to use the song in something but I don't have ideas yet. But it'll come to me soon/sometime/eventually/probably not.

Apple CD Drive Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That the new Macs suck for CDs.
- That the Macs were never going to have Blu-ray capabilities.
- That burning music to CDs was widely advertised.

2 opinions:
- This is stupid.
- Burning CDs, those were the good old days.

1 question - How do they get them so slim, even without the CD drives?

Hurricane Sandy Images Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That there were so many people uploading fake images of the hurricane.
- That there were sites that told you if an image was photoshoped
- That people can be fooled by a picture from a movie.

2 opinions:
- I wouldn't trust a shark on the streets of Manhattan.
- That storm in Nebraska looked pretty fun.

1 question - Why couldn't people be more creative with the doctored photos? Like have cows flying in circles and whole houses being bought up in the sky? Wait, that's a tornado. Nevermind.