Student Film Cliches

For the past several years I've volunteered to serve as a judge for a local student film festival. The films have gotten better every year, and it amazed me how much sophistication we're seeing from these high-school aged kids.

Of course, there are the cliche's...

This film was produced as a parody of the many common student film cliches. How many can you spot, and what other one's can you think of? (For example, there's no one walking through a graveyard in this one, which is something I've seen in a lot of student films...)

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Bested, Once Again...

Have a great weekend, everybody!

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Who Wants a Movie?

Oh boy...time to spruce up the demo reel. The competition out there is getting fierce...

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Monday Video Diversion

Busy Monday for me, back to work after attending a Rotary leadership conference. I'm going to be president of my local Rotary club starting this July, and before they hand you the keys to the forbidden ark and teach you the secret handshake they gather up all of the presidents-to-be for a weekend of intense training. I learned a lot about Rotary, and what's expected of me as president, but the best part of the weekend was meeting dozens of other like-minded people, discussing the challenges we were facing in our upcoming presidential year and comparing the various aspects of our clubs. Personal, one-on-one and small-group conversations.

At any rate, I'm back, and will resume more substantive posting tomorrow. In the mean time, enjoy this very funny Lego Star Wars video.

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Star Wars meets Saul Bass

I was recently chatting with a childhood chum of mine about Star Wars, and we agreed that one of the things that makes the film timeless is the orchestral score, composed and conducted by the brilliant John Williams. Just for a moment, imagine Star Wars with a cheesy 70s synth soundtrack - it could have just as easily gone that way, especially with the budget pressure George Lucas was under from the studio.

This, however is just plain brilliant -



If you're unfamiliar with the work of Saul Bass, he's got a wiki here. And if you're looking for some of these groovy fonts, they can be found here.

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Classics Revoiced

A short little diversion today. Ladies and gents, I give you classic movies, voiced by the cast of SpongeBob SquarePants.



True story - Our chief animator, Frank McIntyre, went to RISD with Jay Lender, who worked on the SpongeBob show. Jay was almost cast as the voice of SpongeBob, having done the scratch-track recordings for preproduction animations.

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