So I wanted to bring to light some favourite directors of mine whom I like to call Lo-Fi directors. These are namely

• Spike Jonze (Where the wild things are, Adaptation),

• Michel Gondry (Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Be kind rewind)

• Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)

Despite any of the shortcomings any of these directors and their films show, there is definitely that element of charm behind the fact that they persue lo-fi techniques to tell their story. Reversing footage, compositing things optically, trick photography, using real sets instead of green screen. I think it’s really important that as directors and filmmakers that we don’t overshadow our films with just a ridiculous amount of high end technology and really find creative ways to express our stories. A common misconception is that ppl think that the audience wants us to make the images on screen we see look “real”. But the reality is ppl just want you to make it look cool. I do miss the days when I watched a movie and had no idea how it was done. Nowadays there is no mystery. It’s all done on computers! ha! well sorta…

Anyways I was going to do a tutorial on how to make that damned transformer but the reality is, it’s gonna take a while. (I mean frig, the rigging alone will just be one lesson). So I am going to have split it into parts. But in the meantime, here’s one I prepared earlier…

PS. Star Trek just came out on DVD and Bluray and man is it ever sweet! I wanna be Spock!!

So I am really really pumped that Wes Anderson has made another movie (he has brought you such gems as The Royal Tennabaums, Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited and the Life Aquatic) and now he is releasing an awesome animation which looks superb. As my friend Ben said “i think my emotion directed towards wes anderson might supersede love.”

In case you didn’t know, our church is running a multimedia extravanganza called “SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE!” and yours truly is heading up the editing (along with trusty editors Matt Eastwood and Jordan Ironside) for this great four week event. It’s all part of our amazing month of August. You can check out:
www.myhillsong.com for the latest!

To help put things in perspective tho, we have to construct all the multimedia content for all 4 weeks of Sunday Night live by the end of this week! And we only got given the footage this week! So we’re in the maddest rush ever! haha but sufficed to say, it will be epic!

ok so I also got a bit bored in the week, and all this talk of the new twilight movie also got me in the photoshop mood. So this is Frank and I having a go at being the new asian characters in the new Twilight movie. I reckon they are tight? what do you reckon?