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Showing posts with label Serials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serials. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Republic Studios 75th Anniversary Celebration
Details are here at the website.
Admission is free.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Classic Science Fiction Channel
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Final Chapter!
We've had a lot of fun with this re-imagining of the first of the Indiana Jones movies. I promised Roger I would ask the audience:
1. What did you like?
2. What did you dislike?
3. What can he do differently next time? (and yes, there will be a next time)
Because the adventure is always ... To Be Continued
1. What did you like?
2. What did you dislike?
3. What can he do differently next time? (and yes, there will be a next time)
Because the adventure is always ... To Be Continued
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Chapter 12
For your Friday Fun!
Imagine if you were to get one of these chapters sent to your email box every Friday for free (with ads attached, natch) and then you could go to your local store and pick up the DVD after that 10 or 12 chapter run and see not only the movie version, but the cool extras of how they made the serial in the first place.
Welcome to the future - it's a lot like the past only faster... and it comes to you.
Imagine if you were to get one of these chapters sent to your email box every Friday for free (with ads attached, natch) and then you could go to your local store and pick up the DVD after that 10 or 12 chapter run and see not only the movie version, but the cool extras of how they made the serial in the first place.
Welcome to the future - it's a lot like the past only faster... and it comes to you.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
A DVD Casewrap
(that's the DVD "cover" for you civilians) is a weird thing. It is frustrating and weird every time you undertake to design new key art for one mainly because of the clients. I've been going round and round with a client today over a design because they were saying everything "needs" to be here or there. They were citing "rules" to me (and I know them already so I really want to smash them to bits - the rules not the client, no wait...) that we "had" to follow.
Title treatment at the top.
Tagline at the bottom preferably on the left.
Etc...
Those rules are there for a reason:
1. They are a starting point. Example: Title treatments are generally at the top so they can be seen when on the shelf at the video store. A lot of clients don't understand the rules are the starting point - they think they're the end point. Go no further - "Here there be daemons" and all that.
Bull.
2. Rules are idea generators. Yes, you must put the title at the top, but how can we design around that to make the art have more depth and be more exciting? Example: layering a character in front of the title treatment to give it some depth, making the title itself part of the art. The restrictions actually force you to think outside the casewrap.
Despite what you may think - I like rules. They are made to be broken, and when done right they smash pretty. It's my philosophy that if the conditions which created those rules changes, don't the rules change as well, or at least become obsolete?
More people see artwork for DVDs and movies online than ever before. Same goes for books and comics and other media. So shouldn't people change the "rules" of design to reflect this?
You would think...
Now this also applies to stories and scripts - if you know the rules you've been operating by, then you can take them out back and "Old Yeller" them sumbitches one at a time.
Used to be you had to have a spec for an existing show in your tool kit, and could never send out an original. (Hi Shawna)
Used to be agents never looked at comic book people as writers. (Hi Bendis, Vaughn, et al)
Used to be you couldn't make a tv show without a network. (Hello, YouTube!)
Used to be you couldn't watch movies on your computer. (Hi Revver, Vimeo, Spout)
Used to be comics were only in print (Hi Wowio, ComicMix)
Rules are changing. Stories and how they are told will change with them.
Know your rules and then go out and break them.
And after time goes by, bring the old rules back for a whole new audience unfamiliar with them. (Hello web serials!)
Title treatment at the top.
Tagline at the bottom preferably on the left.
Etc...
Those rules are there for a reason:
1. They are a starting point. Example: Title treatments are generally at the top so they can be seen when on the shelf at the video store. A lot of clients don't understand the rules are the starting point - they think they're the end point. Go no further - "Here there be daemons" and all that.
Bull.
2. Rules are idea generators. Yes, you must put the title at the top, but how can we design around that to make the art have more depth and be more exciting? Example: layering a character in front of the title treatment to give it some depth, making the title itself part of the art. The restrictions actually force you to think outside the casewrap.
Despite what you may think - I like rules. They are made to be broken, and when done right they smash pretty. It's my philosophy that if the conditions which created those rules changes, don't the rules change as well, or at least become obsolete?
More people see artwork for DVDs and movies online than ever before. Same goes for books and comics and other media. So shouldn't people change the "rules" of design to reflect this?
You would think...
Now this also applies to stories and scripts - if you know the rules you've been operating by, then you can take them out back and "Old Yeller" them sumbitches one at a time.
Used to be you had to have a spec for an existing show in your tool kit, and could never send out an original. (Hi Shawna)
Used to be agents never looked at comic book people as writers. (Hi Bendis, Vaughn, et al)
Used to be you couldn't make a tv show without a network. (Hello, YouTube!)
Used to be you couldn't watch movies on your computer. (Hi Revver, Vimeo, Spout)
Used to be comics were only in print (Hi Wowio, ComicMix)
Rules are changing. Stories and how they are told will change with them.
Know your rules and then go out and break them.
And after time goes by, bring the old rules back for a whole new audience unfamiliar with them. (Hello web serials!)
Friday, June 20, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Chapter 10
If you need to catch up, all of the Chapters may be found here on the blog.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Friday, June 06, 2008
Monday, June 02, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Serial
Kids of all ages!
Run, don't walk to your local internet theater featuring the startling serial sensation...
Run, don't walk to your local internet theater featuring the startling serial sensation...
INDIANA JONES!
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The Cliffhanger Action-Adventure That You Demanded!
Brought to you with loving care by those wonderful, whacky folks at Lightning Bug Films! Be here each week to watch another nail-biting chapter in this sensational Spielberg saga.
Friday, March 28, 2008
This Might Be Fun...
But I am looking at all this stuff on the web and wondering why all these films (including some I'm dealing with) feel they have to parody pulp and serials and so forth...
Hmmmm... I have to say I think that's a mistake. Comedy is hard (and not pretty).
Hmmmm... I have to say I think that's a mistake. Comedy is hard (and not pretty).
Monday, March 17, 2008
Happy Easter, Pulpsters!
I get nothing out of this except the joy of seeing you find those cool classic serials we all love to watch.
From our friends at VCI Entertainment:
HAPPY EASTER!!!
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