Posts by dan from why.movie
08-04-08
core / life master / 2008 / august / welcome to august 4th, 2008 (08-04-08) motivation, progress, plans 3 questions every morning – why am i grateful today? — gosh, I am grateful because I am waking up early and it’s a lovely day with sunlight streaming in. I get to work on my movie…
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core / life master / 2008 / august / today is august 8, 2008 (08-04-08) unrealistic predictions, realistic evaluations, learning curve, speed, completion, rotoscope, team already august 8th. good god. how can i move through these scenes and finish them. it’s terrible that this is taking so much time. there must be a way to…
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core / life master / 2008 / august / today is august 4th, 2008 (08-04-08) plan, rationale, vfx, story, flaws, festivals, unrealistic predictions, learning curve, motivation another day on the red hallway of dog, masking. i almost feel that to go to all this trouble without adding something out the window is ridiculous. but no,…
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core / life master / 2008 / july / july 30 (07-30-08) progress, AE, roto, christina’s cabin, window greetings dan kelly this is a rousing inpirational lecture intended to rouse and inspire me. the only thing that would really – no strike that, getting laid would be wonderful, but there aint no viable options for…
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core / life master / 2008 / july / july 24 (07-24-08) story theory, science fiction i am here before the holy screens to bring it out. i had a dream that i was on the set of my science fiction series, or on the set of another of my producers projects doing pre-production on…
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core / life master / 2008 / july / july 24 still (07-24-08) plans, post, strategy, AE, FCP, order of operations, rebel DV – last night i got a line on free FCP to AE translation software, and while in the process of testing it found a glitch in one of the final cut sequences,…
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core / life master / 2008 / july / july 23 (07-23-08) progress, update email update sent (no pictures) 7-21-08 Brooklyn Ok so this week I’m diving into rotoscoping. That means isolating moving things from the background so that they can be independently manipulated. It’s the red hallway effort, that is changing the lights in…
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core / life master / 2008 / july / 7/16 (7-16-08) plans, AE, ADR it’s time for the all out acquisition of after effects. – i’ve got to lay out the various tasks and identify the specific skills needed to accomplish them – i’ve got a foundation of experience, reviewing and sorting through it all…
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movie plan 1 what’s most important to learn right now? 1.1 what’s most important to learn right now? 1.1.1 acting 1.1.2 camera operation 1.1.3 solid sound recording 1.1.4 taking poeple and objects into new contexts (undressing patricia in grand central) 1.1.5 simulating expensive, illegal or impossible events, situations 1.1.6 realizing images that are in my…
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core / life master / 2008 / july / 7/14 (07-14-08) + core/*life master/ projects/movie plan ((2-06-09) plans, ideas, actions, story theory, important dissertation – what’s most important to learn right now? — acting — camera operation — solid sound recording — taking poeple and objects into new contexts (undressing patricia in grand central) —…
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