12 Monkeys My Title Sequence

Heres my final title sequence for "12 Monkeys", I had a large amount of problems with this.
First the sound wasnt working in After Effects, second Twas the dna effect I wanted couldnt of been done due too trapcode free trail has demo logo on it, as well as the Uni not having this plugin either.

Did I forget to mention After Effects crashed on me, making me lose some work 5 times (counted), and if I did it at my place on the laptop, then theres the slow student net provided so it takes awhile to watch tutorials.

Overalll i thought this was ok, some parts wanted change for example the font (I only relised the font I downloaded at home, wasnt on the uni computers so by the time it was rendered I gave up fixing it since the deadline was soon)= it took about 30-40 mins to render!!!!

Twelve Monkeys Title Sequence

http://artofthetitle2.com/media/film/1995/12monkeys.mov

The offical title sequence for the movie "Twelve Monkeys" which I will be creating my title sequence on. Though I did think this is very badly done title sequence, for example the colour of the text doesnt stand out that well. I even checked IMBD and its the only title sequence the person has done which was for "Twelve Monkeys"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1932799/

Although I did like the fact at start she had a typing on a type writer explaining the virus which is a good way to help tell story in a title sequence. I also thought the use of movement and the monkeys was done well, since part of the story was about the twelve monkeys and there was alot of running away in the movie, so the movement of the animations suggested alot.
For mine though instead using all the red which is sounding more horror and looking it too, I will do darker red with black making it more virual for example.

Tittle Squence: James Bond Golden Eye

I like this title sequence since it tells the movie really well, what James Bond is mainly about which would be girls, guns, and him traveling around the world as secret agent.
Same as the rest of his movies for example

Dexter Tittle Sequence

Dexter is a series which I have been hearing to be interest, and after watching the title sequence it seems like a very normal everyday man doing everything things. Though the close up's and action shots like cutting and blood,, was used a alot which gave it a very killer/psyco impression.
This is good since I believe that it fits the story of the series well after reading up on it and watching some episodes.

Film Review: Alice In Wonderland

So today I saw Alice in Wonderland for the 3rd time today (2 times in 3D and this time in normal), i really liked the visuals and felt like watching it again, also since my friends kept inviting me i decided to tag along.

Film: Alice in Wonderland

Director: Tim Burton

Writers: Linda Woolverton (Screenplay)
Lewis Carroll (Books)

Site IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/

I really enjoyed the film because the visuals were stunning, creative, and imaginative which fits the original Alice in wonderland. I also thought it fits the type of movies Tim Burton does, where it has a crazy/insanity feel too atmosphere.
Though I did think the storyline lacked, it was a very boring piece which basically
*Spoiler alert don’t read if you don’t want to know*
It really is just like Alice in wonderland when she was a kid "the animated version" where she meets everyone they but the only difference is, she’s older and can’t remember them, then comes up with some really weird creature she has to fight which gets killed quicker than expected.

Though I doubt people will be remembering it for the storyline but more into the stunning visuals and CGI. I liked how it was shot too with a lot of close up's to show the characters emotions for example, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, you had close up's of him smiling showing his insanity.

Overall it was a must watch 8/10

(-2 due to lack of storyline which could have been improved more detail, more action or anything)

Black Ice Day Five Shooting

Final day in which we finished filming our B roll.

Black Ice Day Four shooting

Today was an interesting day for the group that I'm in, we didn't have either the cameraman, light/sound assistant or producer. It was a three person team working with both lights, interviewing the guest speakers, sound- both "Ready Roll" and "Shotgun Mircrophone", as well as camera.
This ended up being overcome by me doing the lighting first before the interviewee's showing up, I then set up "Shotgun Microphone" onto the "Boom Poll" to see if it was working fine, I laid down the "Ready Roll" on the table as a safety measure to make sure we get perfect sound.
After the interviewee's came in I double checked see if lighting was fine in case different height but everything was fine, at the end of the filming we didn't have any problems where we would go over time.

This was also first time I had to do sound in a documentory group, using a "Boom Pole" which can be a very painful job, I had to get comfortable the whole two interviews while being close enough to record the sound but not too close where the "Boom Pole" shows on camera.

Black Ice Day Three shooting

Today I was finally able to do some lighting work in the studio for this group, we had to light up objects such as pens and spinning globe for our b roll.
I really like how the Globe came out though, the lights and spinning gave a really interesting effect, we also did 3 point lighting and used candle light to get an olden day's feel, someone on the desk with an old fasioned ink pen which represented a scientist.

Black Ice Day Two shooting

We did some more filming yesterday of Broll's, such as tramlines and factories,
in which Joe drove us around in his car. Though he did end up going in the wrong direction *TWICE*, I dont drive but im sure your not meant drive on the tram lines.

Well it was a cold day but was prepared this time dressed all warm, and we ended up having no problems filming, although we didnt get footage of a train going by due too they wouldnt let us on platform without a ticket.

Black Ice Day One shooting

Thanks to Lindsey for getting these photos.
Everything went well on day one of filming, we got more then enough film shooting done.

Barking- Final Edit upload

Finally the final edit of Barking has been uploaded, my roles in this was location manager/runner, and lighting.

Malac on Youtube

Finally on Youtube

Anime: Kampfer+Letter Bee

2 new animes I been watching and am enjoying lately are
Kampfer:
I find this storyline so remarkably funny and unique, people are chosen to become female fighters each controling a power or weapon. A boy wakes up one day as a female and after that he ends up being attacked by other kampfers.
Thing i find funny is the boy likes this girl Sakura, but Sakura only likes the guys (female transformation) but doesnt know that there the same person.
Then to make it even more funny the 3 kampfer the guy teams up with end up falling for him and theres always arguements around.





Letter Bee:
Not as interesting of a anime but I give it one thing, it has alot of heart in the storyline which grabs my attention right away feeling for the characters.
A young boy wishes to be a Letter Bee (which is like postman expect has special gun and fights monsters), But his main wish is to find his best friend who was a letter bee but went missing.

Barking- Finally Filmed

Well my group and I filmed the Barking play today and it was a good experience working with professional actors.
At the start things started going wrong and we ended up being late on filming, but we soon turned it around when started filming scenes. As the Location Manager my role on set was just to make sure everyone was safe and perform the the tasks on the risk assessment sheet.

My second role was lighting which we didn't need expect in a few scenes, for example the fridge scene which needed light and green filters to make a spooky feel to it.
And there was some scenes which we needed to pretend it was night so bounced a light off the ceiling to make this feeling while the curtains was closed.

I was also the Runner even though I didn't originally plan to be, or thought was needed, I had to go buy flour for a prop in one our scenes.

All went well and looking forward to the final edits of our filming which will be really good.

Review: 2012

Film: 2012
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser
Site IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/

Music was really important in this movie, the movie consisted of many tension music to set the scene which you knew straight away danger. I also liked the effect they did showing previous dates before 2012, they have text and location which helped make sense of the time line of whats present and past.

The thing I liked about the film was instead making it a full tension film, which would of ruined it, they did have breaks with humor for example they had a crazy guy create a animation of the end of the world and made it pretty funny.

I also thought this movie had a lot of symbolism for example a quake in the store splitting up the couple apart, or when the church had a image of 2 people touching reaching out with fingers, a crack in the middle splitting them apart. Throughout the movie this was done in many ways people breaking apart.

Anyways overall the film was pretty good and would advice people to watch it
Overall: 8/10

Anime:Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Been watching this anime and the storyline is getting really good, interesting, with amazing characters and fights.
Each episode grabs you attention which is a nice quality to have in anything, anyways the anime is about alchemy which is like science/magic to create things but with a exchange rate.
Its basically about two boy who use forbidden science to try to resurrect their mother back from the dead but failing, alchemy operates on the theory of equivalent trade, and breaking the human alchemy taboo carries a heavy prices.
Edd loses his leg, while Al loses his body, but giving Edd gave up his arm to reinsert his brothers soul in a suit of armor.
Then rest story is basically them trying get their original self's back and searching for a Philosopher's Stone which is mythical and which could help them, But their not only ones searching for it.
Well i like everything about this anime, full metal alchemist brotherhood is exactly like full metal alchemist, but a lot of episodes are different with more characters and based of the manga which makes it a lot more interesting to watch.

Review Christmas Carol 3D

Ok todays film, I was going see 9 but decided I watch that tomorrow, instead I saw

Film: Christmas Carol (In 3D).

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Writers: Charles Dickens (Novel) Robert Zemeckis (Screenplay)

Site IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067106/

I completely hated this film it was dull and like nothing new compared to the rest of the Christmas Carol movies. Only thing I enjoyed was it was in 3D and can see everything come at you which was enjoyable, besides that it was like the basic Christmas Carol story. I did find the lighting interesting, everything mainly dark but on happy moments lighted room to represent happiness. Like 2 of the spirits, the first was a flaming candle and the second was a giant man holding a torch with fire. Anyways i thought I would watch it see if anything different compared to rest but it was really boring, least could added something different for example like " Girlfriends of the Past" type version which made it unique yet similar story.

Overall: 3/10 (don't watch unless big fan of 3D)

2nd idea for Film (also test)

Anyways I love history mythology's and lately been playing games/watching animes with Valkyries in them. I also decided to research a bit on them and found out a lot of interesting things about them such as their role in Ragnarok and how they half gods.

So I got inspired with a storyline consisting of Valkyries and the Norse gods.
(completely new idea i have had recently).


Storyline: A legend that is older then the gods tell of a Valkyrie born of human blood who shall gain a power unlike any other, knowing of this knowledge, Odin the king of the gods decides he must control this girl so he then try's to search for her.
At the start the girl doesn't know she has these powers, she later on finds out when a weird symbol tattoo appears on her hand, and later on starts seeing spirits raising from the bodies of dead people.
Valkyries then get sent down by Odin to find this girl then teach her how to control her powers to serve Odin, but the more she starts learning what the gods are like the more her human side see's that what shes doing isn't right (stealing the spirits of fallen people to help serve Odin's cause), so she decides to rebel.


More info: Loki will be in this also since a enermy of Odin, but later own things change where he isnt really good at all, wants power to rule and destroy the world.
Just cause he's very mischief like doesn't mean he's a bad guy just a practical joker like, so he will look nice and normal like. At start he helps the girl valkryie but later on when the girl finds out his motives then she becomes a enermy too.

Odin starts to send out Valkyries to destroy the girl since the girl becomes a threat who may control powers stronger then his and unlike normal En jinn Valkyries.

Girl aged 18, blond or brown hair like, lives in a normal town (20th century), as for Loki he's around the same age and misunderstood/nice.

Name: Valkyrie Legends/ Chosen's Path



(so far what I got in head besides few other details on chars etc but all in notebook)

Ok Own Film Ideas (Test)

These are the two ideas I have had/got lately to do for a film, though I don't know all the details so don't ask me too many things since the ideas are still being planned.
I also decided to just write some information on here to see how they are, but rest are all noted down on my notebooks.

Idea 1: Ok this isn't really new but in my college FMP project I created a short trailer for a movie I made up, the storyline and everything I created myself but decided that in the short time I had I would only create a trailer for it. This consisted of a small script of what shots I needed film and what actions for the trailer but didnt consist of dialog.
I now decided since I have alot more knowledge in films and know more into the softwares like after effects that would be a good idea to improve and deeper thought my origanl idea into a full movie.

If you havent watched my trailer then look it up on www.youtube.com/liteduo , it is about a tournament with a twist, fighters from all over the world, and different worlds come to this tournament (but only those who control the powers of dragons). The winner will win a lot of fame+money but more important, the ultimate power of the king of dragons which not everyone wants these powers for good.
Each fighter has there own unique powers and dragons which is why they get given different small dragon statue as a sign of entry.
Orginally got influenced from shaman king anime and mortal kombat but with my own twist and storyline about dragons.
Dragons Tournament- the name I came up with.

Lately Update on ideas: The main bad guy would control dark powers/dragon, and the good guy the obvious opposite of dark which would be light user, this could be interesting contrast with effects black/white.
But yeah I wanted alot contrast like type powers, water/fire etc to be a key element.

Another thing is that I wanted it to be a new age type film, like city instead of village etc 20th century mainly set in different locations
(email/text where the fight would be and with who)

Also wanted love story in this instead of making it only fantasy which is the genre i prefer, i thought that a love pair in this would improve some deeper background of the characters. As well as making it a cruel fate them fighting eachother in the tournament.

Barking - More information

Ok as a location manager - my main role. I have been thinking of locations to use and thought we would use the same house as the Malac play, since not only is it a good location to set everything up, but we also don't need permission because the house belongs to group members.

Our Filming is mainly in a longue and kitchen which we both have in the house, and safe too with alot space to set lights/equipment.
Another good point is distence is right near the university so dont have waste a lot of time of our filming time and the actors important time.

But this is just a start, I will see if there's more better locations but till then I find the one we have so far very appropriate.

P.s we also found out our actors, whom are real actors not some beginner . This is very impressive and a good way for us to see how it will be like in the future to work with known actors.