Bashar Teg's (and Queeq's) KOROVA BLUE MILK BAR

Originally posted by sXe
i agree.. i did NOT know this movie was a comic book, how ever, so i cant compare it to anything. I thought it was just some movie really about some jewish kid mad that people weren't helping others anymore. until a couple weeks ago.

Spoiler:
i suppose they thought the burning would be a little more dramatic for a father and daughter "sleep tight" scene.

one thing i have to ask. what was Red Mist at the end of the movie? the Orange hockey player-like mask, is there a squeal/2nd book??

Spoiler:
There is no sequel comics yet, or a movie...but I believe they have all been hired to write them. Looks like they are going to have Red Mist be the new evil guy, running his fathers business. It's taking away the "realism" of the comics.

Lots of spoilers, shouldn't you guys take it to the Movies Forum?

Originally posted by queeq
Lots of spoilers, shouldn't you guys take it to the Movies Forum?

Why do you think we put it in spoiler tags?

This is not a spoiler free forum.

then they should charge for each spoiler used.

I turned my Dr. Kenzo image into a full-fledged horror movie poster. I just did this today, and already someone has offered to write the story so it can be filmed.

Also, I had one of my friends tell me they can get me into contact with someone in Hollywood that's working on some blockbuster movies and see if they can get me into the business to make movie posters.

This is my foot in the door to a career I've been seriously thinking about the last couple months. I want to direct movies.

Join the club. I'm graduating from Film school next month, and I've got a few projects I want to tackle. One is a script my roommate and I wrote called "Top Secret."

great job graduating from film school!! at the univ i'm goign to they make u take a minor, and i'm probably goign to go for a minor in cinematography or web mastery.

hmm. went through some old albums earlier:

ok that is TOO cute Jen. 🙂

Thanks. 🙂

And Cinematography is great....lots of fun! It fascinates me all the composition techniques and rules that filmmakers use...."rule of thirds" or "how a subject is always just left or right of the center, but never dead in the center" How to frame everything up properly...depth of field....I could go on and on, it's great stuff.

Lot of terminology though, and it's awesome once you have everything down. You can really get something out of it.

Originally posted by Sith Master X
Thanks. 🙂

And Cinematography is great....lots of fun! It fascinates me all the composition techniques and rules that filmmakers use...."rule of thirds" or "how a subject is always just left or right of the center, but never dead in the center" How to frame everything up properly...depth of field....I could go on and on, it's great stuff.

Lot of terminology though, and it's awesome once you have everything down. You can really get something out of it.

I learned rule of thirds a while back while really getting into photography, makes every shot you take that much more interesting. Dead center is so...vanilla.

Is it true though that you learn most of what you need to know in the first few weeks of film school and the rest is all fluff?

I'm did a 4 year program actually, and to be honest, the bulk of the knowledge came in the first 2 years. Afterward, it was basically fluff, liking taking classes I need just for the sake of requirements.

Originally posted by Sith Master X
I'm did a 4 year program actually, and to be honest, the bulk of the knowledge came in the first 2 years. Afterward, it was basically fluff, liking taking classes I need just for the sake of requirements.

I'm doing my own film school...using the internet to learn as much as I can before I get out there. I already know how to diffuse lighting and to make a green screen, etc.

I watch enough movies to know you need a wide establishing shot, a medium shot and then close-ups...but no extreme angles unless called for in context of the movie.

It would be easy to do a 2 shot with your characters just standing there talking to each other, but I would want to do over the shoulder shots, alternating between the characters.

Next on my list is to start building my light boxes and a working camera jib. The problem I'm going to have right now is mics, I can make a boom mic, but I'd also want some wireless mics for those wide shots and big camera movements.

To make it in the film business I can only say one thing: start making them.

I've been a television director and documentary film maker for well over 15 years and still making a living. My advice: make, show, work hard and most of all enjoy what you do... coz no one is waiting for ya!

Originally posted by queeq
To make it in the film business I can only say one thing: start making them.

I've been a television director and documentary film maker for well over 15 years and still making a living. My advice: make, show, work hard and most of all enjoy what you do... coz no one is waiting for ya!

You direct? I never knew that. oh Do you have anything online that we can see?

Originally posted by ~JP~
ok that is TOO cute Jen. 🙂

funny how quickly we grow in just 10-15 years. :/
that was just in 1996

Originally posted by LanceWindu
You direct? I never knew that. oh Do you have anything online that we can see?

I think so... but most of it is in Dutch...or something in French I think...

Queeq, that's awesome. Looks like this place has attracted all the filmmakers. Thought I was the only one. Lance, you'll have a lot of fun with this field. 🙂

Right now I am currently assembling a trailer for a company called Gold Shoe Productions. Should have it done by Sunday (trailers take forever) and I'll have a link to it on Youtube so you can get a taste of what my editing is like.

Throughout college, I wrote and directed my own SW fan film, primarily as a way of learning special effects, compositing and 3D animation. Here's is a before and after screen shot if you'd like to see it. Shows what the shot originally looked like, then how it looked after I applied my ILM magic to it. lol The lightsabers are rough, but they'll be fixed in the end product. They're a little too crisp at the moment.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6962/41117951.png

Here is another shot of a scene I did with Yoda:
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8717/63920898.png

Green screening is lots of fun, but it's a real pain to pull of and make it look convincing. 50 percent of it is getting your ambient lighting to match your CG enviornment.

Here is one last link: showing 3D animation, and Yoda on Dagobah, which wasn't green screened, but shot using a set with tree's, blue lighting and a fog machine. (movie takes place between 3 and 4: The shot with Yoda in the temple in the above link is a flashaback) Sorry for the small pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v610/darthsadistic/4shots.jpg

Originally posted by queeq
I think so... but most of it is in Dutch...or something in French I think...

That's cool, I just wanna see how it looks. 😄

Originally posted by Sith Master X
Queeq, that's awesome. Looks like this place has attracted all the filmmakers. Thought I was the only one. Lance, you'll have a lot of fun with this field. 🙂

Right now I am currently assembling a trailer for a company called Gold Shoe Productions. Should have it done by Sunday (trailers take forever) and I'll have a link to it on Youtube so you can get a taste of what my editing is like.

Throughout college, I wrote and directed my own SW fan film, primarily as a way of learning special effects, compositing and 3D animation. Here's is a before and after screen shot if you'd like to see it. Shows what the shot originally looked like, then how it looked after I applied my ILM magic to it. lol The lightsabers are rough, but they'll be fixed in the end product. They're a little too crisp at the moment.

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6962/41117951.png

Here is another shot of a scene I did with Yoda:
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8717/63920898.png

Green screening is lots of fun, but it's a real pain to pull of and make it look convincing. 50 percent of it is getting your ambient lighting to match your CG enviornment.

Here is one last link: showing 3D animation, and Yoda on Dagobah, which wasn't green screened, but shot using a set with tree's, blue lighting and a fog machine. (movie takes place between 3 and 4: The shot with Yoda in the temple in the above link is a flashaback) Sorry for the small pics.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v610/darthsadistic/4shots.jpg

Oh wow, that's awesome. You did some good work. I agree on the lightsabers, they need to be touched up, but overall wow.

Thanks Lance. And yep, lightsabers will be touched up. I need to apply an effect called "Gaussian Blur" which can be easily accomplished in Adobe Photoshop. I use Adobe After Effects for the effects & green screening, than I chop it all together using Adobe Premiere, which is my favorite editing software by a long shot. Industry standard usually involves using Final Cut Pro on a Mac....but I'm more of a PC guy, and I find Premiere to be a better and more powerful editing program because you can easily integrate between all Adobe Products with Premiere. Final Cut is still good, and if you know Final Cut, you know Premiere and vice versa...they are both practically the same exact thing, but I just prefer Adobe in the end.