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TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION TRAILER

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Here it is folks in all it’s marvelous HD glory. I seriously recommend playing this new Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer in full 1080p  and cranking your audio.

This film is a “Reboot” i.e. none of the original cast are returning. No Shia, No Megan, No Turturro, No Tyrese and No Josh Duhamel.

However it is still directed by Michael Bay and we do have Mr. Mark Wahlberg himself headlining the cast.

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The lead role was suppose to go to The Rock himself Dwayne Johnson but he had to decline due to scheduling conflicts. The film also features a bunch of your typical Bay -esk “Beautiful people” whom looked like they just walked off the set of a p-diddy music video or a Paris fashion runway.

Playing the role of Mark Wahlbergs daughter is up and comer

Nicola Peltz nicola peltz

and playing her boyfriend presumably is another up and comer

Jack Reynor jack reynor

 

Also some big news confirmed with the trailer is that yes  Dinobots will be in this film, which is something that longtime Transformers fans have been speculating about ever since this 4th film was announced.

The film is set for release on June 27th, 2014 in America.

 

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BLOG, editing, Music, Music Video, Uncategorized, video

Cutting E.D.G.E. Cypher

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We shot this little music video last year. It was super low budget, in fact so low there wasn’t one. Decided to shoot in black and white to emulate one of my all time favorite hip hop video’s  (which, BE WARNED does contains explicit lyrics) ‘Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems‘. We also chose black and white because it adds a certain production value. Added some old film scratches and dust and presto.

The entire video is one continuous take. We got it on the second attempt. The sun was setting quick so we were on a time crunch but we got it in the end and everyone was happy with the end result.

 

 

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BLOG, comedy, editing, video

Re-Editing footage to tell a different story.

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No matter how many times I see this clip of Vader being a jerk, I always laugh, it never gets old and I’ve seen it many times.

It’s no wonder the clip currently has nearly 10.5 million hits on YouTube.  The concept is so simple and yet it shows how editing can really change the narrative of a story, turning a very serious dramatic scene into a comedy.  Timing in editing comedy is so crucial, cut too early or a few frames too late and you can miss the beats/punchline and the joke falls flat.  Whereas a cut that is perfectly timed is priceless for instance the scene here where Vader has a stare down with General Veers is a perfect example of this, pausing for effect.  The video has got my creative wheels turning and now I’m thinking of what other famous movie scene’s there might be that I could re-edit to tell a different story. Hmm, I wonder. Any suggestions?

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HERE IT IS!!! The NEW GODZILLA TRAILER and it is CRAZY!

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The more I see and hear about this film the more I’m really interested in seeing it. Last year we had giant robot’s fighting giant monsters and this year, no robots, just one big mutha of a monster.

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This movie features one heck of a great cast, Aaron Taylor-Johnson of “Kick Ass” fame and Elizabeth Olsen, the Olsen twins younger sister. Then of course Mr. Walter White himself Bryan Cranston, who is pretty much gold in my book at the moment. When I see him in the trailer I can’t help but think he’s about to throw some ‘blue sky’ at Godzilla and tell him that “He’s the one who knocks”.

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Godzilla chomps into theaters May 16th in America.

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What do you think?  Are you going to see it when it comes out or wait for the DVD/Blu-Ray? Leave a comment below.

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BLOG, Events, video

Time Lapse of Carrie Bennett’s ‘Flight’ entry at the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival.

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Here is a time lapse we shot on Saturday at the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival. Basically once a year the city of Lake Worth closes off a few streets for the weekend and lets the artists have at it.  I shot the time lapse using a Panasonic HVX 200A,  the camera captured 1 frame every 5 seconds. The frame rate was set to 30 fps (frames per second). I love shooting time lapse it’s such a beautiful medium, watching as the sun moves through the sky really brings the shadows to life. Hope you all enjoy.  Leave your comments.

The music featured in the video is the new U2 song “Invisible (Red)” which is available here on iTunes. It’s SUCH a good song and really flowed with the style of the video.

There were so many incredible artists show casing their talent over the weekend. This years festival followed a ‘Movies’ theme. Below are just a few of the amazing pieces. Remember it’s chalk on concrete and you won’t believe some of the amazing 3D pieces that were there. Like this incredible floating X-Wing below.x wing lake worth

Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr from the film “An Affair To Remember”.

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Dick Dastardly famous for tying blondes to railway tracks.

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The iconic image from the 1902 film “A Trip To The Moon”.

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Robert Downey Jnr.  aka Sherlock Holmes with Jude Law & Rachel McAdams

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Actress Hedy Lamar

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

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‘Flight’ from Carrie Bennett.

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If you would like to see more images here is a newspaper article the Sun Sentinel wrote about the festival. It features the chalk painting shown in the video as well as the general atmosphere of the weekend.

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BLOG, News

Heroes is coming back to NBC for another series!!!

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Hot on the heels of FOX bringing the much beloved ’24′ back to the small screen it now looks like another network ‘NBC’ is following suit with the very popular show ‘Heroes‘ which will be returning to us from the grave.  Heroes had been previously cancelled in 2010 when it’s 4th and final season ended due to low ratings, NBC decided to pull the plug…. until now that is. Heroes, again like ’24′ is also returning as a 13 part mini series. It’s not often we see a show return to a major network after it had been previously cancelled.

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The new show is titled “Heroes : Reborn”. Does that mean that an entirely new cast will be introduced?? There is no word at the moment that any of the old cast will be making a return.

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Below is a teaser  NBC released yesterday and it’s kinda lame to be honest. I understand it’s a ‘teaser’ but NBC could of at least showed us one of the Heroes doing something cool and super-powery for a second or two. Looks like we’ll have to wait until 2015 to see the new show. Your thoughts? Are you happy to see this show return or should it have been left in the grave? Leave a comment.

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Compositing, Music, Visual Effects

“The Wake” audio as a Spectral Waveform.

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I found a project online where a piece of music was animated and I wanted to see if I could do something similar. I took the audio from “The Wake” an instrumental song from Justin Jarvis’s Through The Glass -EP. through the glass ep cover (available for purchase from iTunes here)

and converted it into a spectral waveform. Basically I was kinda wondering, if the audio was a moving visual “thing” what would it look like. With the bass information and then applying some artistic license, I built a bunch of different animated light bands/boxes and glows and mapped them to the audios rhythm.

Trailers

Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

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Here is the new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer which featured on Jimmy Kimmel last night. It’s hard to say how I feel about this film. I know next to nothing about the storyline, history or universe of these characters. It looks to be a fun action sci-fi film but it also looks a little campy. Either way I’m sure I’ll see it this Summer. What are you thoughts?? Will you see it or do you think this could be Marvel Studio’s first big budget flop? Leave a comment.