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DIGITAL
CAMERAS+GEEK=ENTERTAINMENT
With
the advent of digital video cameras, and home-computer-based editing
software, a virtual tsunami of awful, low-rent, dorky videos has flooded
the internet. Here's our contribution of a few buckets worth of the
same. You'll need the Quicktime
Plug-in to view these.
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THE
WB RIPPED OFF MY IDEA!
Way back
in the late 80s, long before there was even a WB network, much less
a SMALLVILLE show, a certain young "filmmaker" and camp
counselor given the task of creating a video project for his summer-camp
charges came up with the template for the hit show. I wrote and oversaw
the production of a video called "Lex Luthor's Evil Plot."
What I've done in presenting the archived footage is provided a sort
of DVD-extras-style "making of" type commentary, to make
sense of the awful stuff. How I was allowed to force children to wear
showercaps and deliver monmaniacal diatribes without getting arrested,
I do not know. BONUS: See me as a 16 year old!
Lost
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THAT'S
NOT A KNIFE....
Okay,
so I found a tutorial on how to create a much-beloved and wonderful
special effect, and I wanted to start teaching myself Adobe Premiere.
(Got a free and legal copy from someone who works at Adobe.) So, in
essence, this is really just an effects test. And oh, how nerdy an
effects test it is.I wanted some passingly clever framing mechanism,
so this is what I came up with.What's more amazing than anything else
is that I was able to find a video clip of the mugger from CROCODILE
DUNDEE with a minimum amount of online searching.
lemme
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ATTACK
OF THE CLONES: ACTORS SPEAK OUT
Writer/Director/Mad
Potentate/Frothing Lunatic George Lucas has issued a statement that
set the nerd community on it's collective ear. The title for the upcoming
EPISODE II of the Star Wars "prequels" will, in fact, be
ATTACK OF THE CLONES. ITCA moved quickly to interview key players
in the Star Wars Universe to gauge their reaction to this ill-advised
title. From writng to..um.."producing", this took me an
hour and a half, so it's kinda rough. But, I think, sorta cute.
lemme
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THE
KENNER SUPER-POWERS PLAYERS IN: DOWNSIZING
I've
still got most of my KENNER DC SUPER-POWERS action figures, gathering
dust in a box. What better way to put them to use, than have them
star in their own web-only movie? This short boasts far better sound
than it should; my ultra-talented music friend, Mike
Shapiro has lent his studio for the voice recording, and has used
his professsional film-scoring talents to add class to an otherwise
classless affair. Noted screenwriter and internet funny-man Brian
Lynch, upon reading the script for the short, admitted to "laughing
out loud." I hope you all do the same.
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