The Mummy: Dragon guano

The third installment of the Mummy series with Brendan Fraser, A trilogy. Some famous trilogies include Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, and the first (or last) 3 Star wars films.
We know that its risky going for a third home run, when it works out, its amazing, but when
it flops to the floor like a dead fish...... well..... just look to The Emperor Tombs dragon thingy....

Surprisingly, according to IMDB, the film won 3 awards.... aha correction, it has been nominated for 3 categories.

-Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Fantasy
Sanja Milkovic Hays


-Best Sound Editing - Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film

- Best Action/Adventure -- Best Performance - Male
Brendan Fraser

I am shocked..... almost appalled. BEST ACTIONSLASHADVENTURE!? come on National Movie Awards raise your standards.

After the first 5 minutes I was sick of the tongue in cheek humor that took stabs at the previous movies and the cheap giggles.

lack of story aside, the movie was being dragged forward by the CGI, one of the shots that impressed me was a fly by with the CGI plane landing in the back ground (awesome placement and motion tracking), and thats about it. we have seen everything before, now its just on a bigger scale.

The detail of the first movie was amazing, the second had the same detail and more characters. Now this one has lost quality and just is annoying to watch.

I think I would have enjoyed it better if it was streamed in youtube by an amature film maker

Watchmen

I just read "Watchmen" last night, and let me tell you..... its amazing.

I tried to block out the bias of "OMG THIS IS TEH B3ST COMIC EVA!!!!!",
and come up with an opinion of my own. I got the Graphic novel from Colin's
brother (thanks man).

In all honesty, upon reading the work I lost some faith in the upcoming movie.
The story is so intricate, that I kinda doubted how well Zack Snyder can re-create
this thing.

I still have high hopes for the film, mainly because you can only do the movie one
way... the way you see it in the GN. Its funny, while I drooled over the comic, I would
imagine the film version in my mind, and how I would shoot it.

My verdict.... well I will make another blog about it.

The Power of Ambience : Article

I just read an article on ambient noise, and it has confirmed what I have been warned about.
Creating a sample of the environment that you are filming in helps a lot in the post production
area.

A personal experience, I was recording a basketball tourny with a colleague, and he mentioned this technique. He told me "Record at least 5 min of ambiance so that when ever there is a "dead space" in the video, you can loop back the recorded audio."

In previous projects that I have done, I have had to clip a random segment of audio (like 3 seconds of audio) and loop it for a good 25 seconds...... It sounded horrible. I will forever use this
technique from now on.

WElcome

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