Robyn Paterson's Blog, page 37
September 6, 2013
Photoshop Rank- MASTER! The Flying Pirate Ship
Wow! The picture is amazing, but seeing how it was made just puts my levels of appreciation over 9000!
The 10 Commandments of No -Budget Filmmaking with Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap is a Bollywood filmmaker with over 39 credits to his name, and is reputed to be a master of producing high-quality work on the cheap. (He has won 7 film awards, and had 19 nominations, so it’s fair to say he knows what he’s talking about.) He did this short series of talks on no-budget filmmaking for MTV India, and if you’re someone who wants to get into filmmaking and has no money, these are a must watch!
This is the first of the nine clips (they’re missing #10 for whatever rea...
September 5, 2013
Mutli-Person Wand Duel
I stumbled across this multi-person Wand Duel today. Pretty impressive for a bunch of students to pull off.
September 2, 2013
Stupid Indie Tricks: No-Budget Audio Recording for Indie Filmmakers
This is a Hollywood mantra which should also be engraved in the heads of everyone who wants to shoot a film of any kind. It doesn’t matter if it’s a narrative film or a documentary, nothing will turn an audience off from watching your film faster than bad audio.
But, what if all you’ve got to make your whole production is a couple of smartphones?
You’re in luck, because that’s exactly what you need!
Cellphones are designed to capture fairly good quality audio a...
September 1, 2013
The Wand Duel- A Harry Potter Fanfilm Genre
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently watching short films on Youtube, and one of the recent surprises I’ve had is discovering the “Wand Duel” genre. Similar to the “Lightsabre Duel” genre that has been floating around on YouTube for a while, the Wand Duel genre takes the simple premise of the Harry Potter wand duel as presented in the movies and runs with it.
Most are short and to the point, with some being simple…
And others fairly complex…
And still others trying to full short films…
…But...
August 26, 2013
Ken Akamatsu releases a new Manga!
Ken Akamatsu, creator of Love Hina and Negima! has just released a new manga called UQ Holder! which is basically Negima!: The Next Generation. It takes place in the Negima! setting about 10 years after the world became aware of the existence of magic and centers around Negi’s grandson who has been living a sheltered country life and must now go out into the real (future) world.
Having read the first 80-page “chapter” of the story, I have to say that I don’t actually like it that much. It’s re...
Heroes of IP Theft
A slightly amusing and sad situation has popped up surrounding Syfy’s new series Heroes of Cosplay (see above trailer), mostly due to a misunderstanding of copyright law on the parts of several parties.
It seems that the show contains numerous still shots of the cosplayers mixed in with the video, and this is a bit of an issue since those shots are legally owned by the photographers of those shots, who were neither paid nor credited for them. The producers of the show acquired these shots from...
August 21, 2013
The Emperor Voiced by Mark Hamill’s Joker – YouTube
Can’t stop laughing. Really amazing work!
August 19, 2013
Ultra-Cheap Cellphone Stabilizer Ideas
A video I made to try to help beginners who are trying to get better footage from their cellphone cameras. Also my first try at actually making a Youtube video, and using Cyberlink Powerdirector 11, which I found very easy and intuitive to use. The whole process turned out to be pretty fun! (If time consuming!)
Rob
This post is from my blog at robynpaterson.com.
August 9, 2013
Nero Wolfe
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe
It’s so easy in life to stop exploring, especially as you get older. You think “if it’s really good, I would have checked it out by now” and just stick with the things you know instead of poking around looking at new things.
This is one of the reasons I try to constantly challenge myself with new projects that will force me to develop new skills and learn about stuff that I hadn’t really looked into before. For example, right now I am engrossed in working on a murder myst...
