Weekly Report 12/16 - Editing Switch [ON] OFF

What I learned: How to give a crash course on the entire class.

What I want to learn: Lighting techniques.

What made me happy: Adobe Suite is now in my ownership.

What made me sad: All the personal projects I've been putting off because I didn't have Premiere have now all fallen into my lap. It's more exciting than saddening. Either way I'm still crying.

I found an interesting article of a video game music composer being interviewed on his career as a composer and he gives some helpful advice on the profession.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/industry-careers-game-music-composer/

I'm starting to lean towards this as what I want to do as a job.

Secrets of the Viral Video Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That there are open internet sites that get paid to advertise videos.
- Sites like these were never "hidden" from the public like I thought.
- Bloggers can be paid to write about advertised videos.

2 opinions:
- I think using YouTube is a better advertising technique because it can continue to introduce people to the product much time after it's release.
- Who ever started this idea must be rolling in the dough right now.

1 question - How many people got their videos into the high millions without advertising?

Gollum's Setup Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That motion capture has changed from just using morph suits with yellow balls.
- King Kong was motion captured.
- That someone actually thought of the idea to make a motion captured talk show.

2 opinions:
- I agree that acting is acting, regardless if its cgi or not.
- I hope that the limits of motion capture will be taken further and will be used more creatively.

1 question - So for Return of the Planet of the Apes they had a bunch of people in these suits?

Weekly Report 12/9 - Adobe Suite Obtained Kinda

What I learned: To research websites before buying very expensive software from them.

What I want to learn: What the other programs are in Adobe Suite like Audition and Encore.

What made me happy: I played computer games most of the weekend and made videos from it.

What made me sad: Having to wait for my Adobe stuff for longer.

Stuffy stuff:

I got bored and made a new song.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/513786

I also made a new video but it isn't very nice cause my friend swears at me in it a lot so I shall not post it.

























Just kidding, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ0oWEdPIhc

Marvel's Phase 2 Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- Rival studios will probably start working together.
- That the Avengers created a new model of combining multiple story plots together from other films.
- They're going to have Aquaman in the Justice League movie.

2 opinions:
- The idea and execution of creating multiple movies to eventually collide into one is cool.
- Seeing who's gonna play Aquaman is gonna be surprising regardless of who it is.

1 question - Why would Whedon make a new show based around the S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Russian Santa Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- There are still animation directors who want to make movies without pop culture references.
- Santa is finally remade with a serious and more interesting character design.
- That directors still aren't afraid to make scary scenes in children's movies.

2 opinions:
- Peter Ramsey is a good director in my book. Serious Santa and scary but meaningful scenes? 10/10.
- I like the naturalistic style of cinematic animation.

1 question - Why does the rabbit and that little yellow man have to look to ridiculous?

Weekly Report 12/2 - The Lack of Owning Premiere is Killing Me

What I learned: For every day you work on your tutorials, you shall receive another tutorial.

What I want to learn: How to get a lot of free cardboard. To make a city. To destroy it. In a monster costume. It's a plan for a project. #dontjudgeme

What made me happy: I'm one step closer to getting Adobe software.

What made me sad: The website is taking it's grand old time accepting my evidence as an eligible student.

Good ol' fashioned hard work:

Toys R Us Demo Disk (PS1) - Game 2 - Legend of Legaia [PART 1]

A new video on my new channel. It's 26 minutes long and is full of funny text-commentary that I've become accustomed to making. It took way too much time to make.

Twilight Romance Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That Edward is the most superior male of all human kind.
- Jeep owners have conflicting relationships with their vampire-loving spouses.
- When men feel that their masculinity is challenged by fantasy creatures, they write poems about it.

2 opinions:
- I actually expected worse.
- I would get a divorce too if my girl was that crayzay.

1 question - What made those people talk about Twilight on a Jeep forum?

Stop Motion SpongeBob Response

3 things I learned from this article:
- That there is a stop motion SpongeBob episode. I seriously need to get with the times.
- Screen Novelties worked on several other Cartoon Network shows.
- People will work on stop motion for 15 hours in one day.

2 opinions:
- That's a lot of fruity pebbles.
- I hope this is better written than the new SpongeBob episodes.

1 question - Why didn't they just use a sponge to make SpongeBob?