I was just reading an interesting article on the Creative Cow website about a new plugin available for After Affects, Adobe Premiere, and Final Cut Pro…this program is called DE:Noise…like to remove the noise.
Well July is nearly over, and I have met my personal deadline of wrapping up shooting by August 1st.
The power and popularity of YouTube has come up in the media once again. Listening to NPR’s Day to Day I learned that there was a Democratic debate last night that was powered by YouTube and CNN. In a similar fashion to audience members asking questions to the candidates by writing their question on a note card, YouTube and CNN has allowed it’s users to record a video question to the candidates. The videos were then voted on by other YouTube members and the best and brightest questions were shown to the candidates and they then gave their response.
I think it’s just fascinating the way this election is using todays popular tools and resources to get their message out there…as far as this debate format goes, the man giving the introductory video stated that this is a great way for these candidates to reach out to a majority of today’s voters.
According to the Podcast I listened to earlier, There was a lot of videos that were uploaded to YouTube that were just nonsense, which is unfortunate to think that the youth of American would use such a powerful and amazing platform to ask stupid questions…I can’t think of an example off hand, but as you can imagine it probably was along the lines of “Do you like Tacos.” These are the same type of people who don’t vote using their head…well the people who did use this tool for it’s intended use will learn the most out of it.
Anyway, don’t take my word on any of this…there are 38 very intelligent questions, each worth checking out…
http://www.youtube.com/debates
The power of YouTube makes anybody a filmmaker, and anybody can get their message out to the entire world with the click of a mouse. Putting the power of YouTube to good use for once is remarkable…We’ve seen enough videos of dramatic squirrels or people falling in holes…it’s about time this tool is put to good use…
From what I understand the YouTube/CNN Republican debate will be in September…
It’s been a big week this week for me personally…my work, my films…my current epic (of 20 minutes) is coming along. 1 week from today I will be well over half finished with principle photography. One of the bigger hurdles I had to get over was getting permission to film in a movie theatre. When i was a student I attempted to gain access to a movie theatre and was turned down. So I was a little nervous as to whether I would get clearance or not. I wrote the script with the Times Cinema in mind…so that was where I started. The times is a one scree theatre that used to show mostly old movies, now they show a mix of old movies and new movies.
I called the Times, and spoke with the manager…much to my surprise he was more then willing to let me shoot my film there. On top of that, he was excited. He wants to help me out any way he can. AND on top of that…he asked if I’d consider showing the movie there when it’s finished…of course it didn’t take much for me to twist my arm on that one.
So that’s very exciting, I will not only be filming in one of my favorite theatres…I will also get to show it there…
The other big news is I finalized arrangements with a friend/professor who has asked me to be a “guest animator” on his short animation. I will be flying to Pennsylvania to animate the first weekend in August. He laughed at the idea of me flying/renting a car to animate in his film (he thought I was driving out). I look forward to the opportunity, it will be good for my resume and the experience will be great. Plus it will be great to visit the town I once lived in for 5 years…
More good news to come I’m sure…
Stay Tuned for more films/flash/photography…
Christian