Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010 — Posted in Films, University of Music
Do you wish you had a home theater ? Would it be nice to assemble the family around a large screen TV with an impressive sound system? If you have a basement or spare room in your house, you can assemble your very own home theater to enjoy your favorite movies with your friends and family.
In most homes, the basement is used for extra storage. But this can also be used as a great entertainment meeting point. Having a theater right in your home basement makes sense since it is dark enough and isolated from outside life.
You’ll never run out of options when designing your home theater since technology is constantly developing. This enables you to have the newest and most innovative components available. Unlike before where home theater systems were exclusively used by movie stars, today’s models are affordable and can be enjoyed by nearly everyone.
A vital point is the design of the theater room itself. While not everyone can afford high-end consumer electronics, that will not prevent you from creating a intense home theater on a partial budget. With the right design and moderately priced products, you’ll get a better experience than using expensive gear with no design planning.
To make the most out of your home theater, here are various things to remember: Always use a carpet or rug to cover a hard wooden floor. This will prevent sound reflections. Cover your windows with dark treatments to control light and prevent eyestrain.
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Posted by admin on February 22nd, 2010 — Posted in Films, University of Music
To better understand how 3D TV technology works, one must first understand how our eyes work. Our eyes are several centimeters apart from each other and therefore receive the input image from different angles. Our brain uses that information and is smart enough to mesh the two different images into one single view, creating depth, and making what we see 3 dimensional or 3D.
3D TV sets work in somewhat theewhat the way, one way or another they transmit two special images to your eyes in a certain way that it knows your brain will convert the incoming image into 3D after processing it.
Tricking the brain in this way is no easy assignment, and for many years the simple and cheap technology was to use colored glasses that had a large drawback of limiting the number of colors that you could enjoy a movie in.
Today, major TV manufactures such as Sony have improved on the process that with shutter glasses the full spectrum of colors can be enjoyed. Panasonic is one of the manufactures that has now developed an auto stereoscope system that will make it possibleke it possible make 3D viewing possible without the need of uncomfortable glasses at all.
All in all, the 3D TV industry is still in its initial stages, but many leading companies are investing strongly into it in hopes that it will be the next big business. If movies such as Avatar are anything to go by, the chances of success are pretty superior. Now it is up to the industry to improve technology and make it less of a burden, reduce prices, and generate enough content through 3D games, 3D movies, 3D episodes of popular series, and 3D TV channels.
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Posted by admin on April 20th, 2008 — Posted in Films
People relish movies, so why not consider stopping by our capital and discover some of the attractions from the movie? Our capital played a part in loads of truly well known pictures and now, for well over 10 decades, has accepted the top film makers to bring out their films in. This city is considered to be one of the most famous & renowned movie metropoles. There are principle areas for film making situated around the city; a handful of of the best known spots have been filmed again and again. A few of the planet’s best film professionals, from past & present, are also from London. Famed movies have been shot around this city and also frequently get superb reviews.
Our capital is known as the 3 rd most hectic filming spot in the planet. Behind the City of Angles and NY, Westminster borough is thought to be the foremost spot with over 2 thousand days shot in ‘05. In addition to the capital’s films you also have London’s film festivals. The festivals take place annually around the a similar date. They are extremely eclectic, which means there’s one to suit each of us. There are in excess of 60 movie festivals just in the capital & these festivals represent every one of the metropolis’s individual multicultural mixes. These film festivals vary from documentary to anime, digital to conspiracy theories and their number simply continues to grow.
An example of the best considerations concerning the capital’s film culture, are the cinemas themselves. Additional to the worthless hellholes exist unbelievable movie theatres which are sure to help you adore the flick. This metropolis is made up of in excess of five hundred cinemas, these include everything from high-ended cinemas, inc. the Odeon and Vue, that will put on the most recent releases and blockbusters, right over to the small film houses which seem cosy and of course also present masterpieces and of course more artistic movies, perhaps movies which wouldn’t be released in high end movie theatres. Watch trailors for up and coming films at film with Time Out.
There are also movie theatres presently that offer a different experience from your general cinema. You are able to delight in your flick from the comfort of a couch or maybe arm chair; you will also get to request some food from waiters. There appear to be a few of these places throughout the city. Roxy Bar and Screen is thought to be a popular establishment located next door to the excellent Borough Market. The building claims to be a fusion of independent films, a luscious bar area & a restaurant. Electric Cinema which is situated within the Notting Hill district has shown films for a long time and presents a fusion of unusual films accompanying the best of the mainstream. Amid the comfy leather seats, its footstools & the bar located at the rear, everyone will appreciate seeing any screening. The city’s Rex Cinema is located in Soho of the capital & is touted as one of the foremost cinemas to check out. Considering its cosiness and their cocktails to rejoice in, this is a place you have to stop at.
It is forever bound to be hard, determining which flick to watch at the cinema, then again, the ambiance of a nice atmosphere surely enhances your night out.
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Posted by admin on April 5th, 2008 — Posted in Films
The recipient of 25 Golden Globe and 110 Emmy nominations, including seven for Outstanding Drama Series, ER is considered one of the best “reality” dramas in television history. First airing in September 1994, the hour-long NBC trauma ward series vividly depicts the intense stress typical of a hospital emergency room. Created by Michael Crichton, the author of such bestselling books as Jurassic Park and Timeline, ER fulfills Crichton’s vision of an up-close and personal glimpse of the technologies and humans who run America’s ERs…
The ER (Season 3) DVD features a number of dramatic episodes including the season premiere “Dr. Carter, I Presume” in which Carter begins his internship at the ER with a difficult day filling in for Peter as the ER surgery consultant. Meanwhile, several plotlines related to the staffers’ personal lives take twists when Carol runs into Shep and his new girlfriend and Peter runs into an old friend at a barbecue… Other notable episodes from Season 3 include “No Brain, No Gain” in which Peter fights to save the life of a gang member already declared dead by Doug, and “The Long Way Around” in which Carol is held hostage during a robbery at a local store…
Below is a list of episodes included on the ER (Season 3) DVD:
Episode 49 (Dr. Carter, I Presume) Air Date: 09-26-1996
Episode 50 (Let the Games Begin) Air Date: 10-03-1996
Episode 51 (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) Air Date: 10-10-1996
Episode 52 (Last Call) Air Date: 10-17-1996
Episode 53 (Ghosts) Air Date: 10-31-1996
Episode 54 (Fear of Flying) Air Date: 11-07-1996
Episode 55 (No Brain, No Gain) Air Date: 11-14-1996
Episode 56 (Union Station) Air Date: 11-21-1996
Episode 57 (Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies) Air Date: 12-12-1996
Episode 58 (Homeless for the Holidays) Air Date: 12-19-1996
Episode 59 (Night Shift) Air Date: 01-16-1997
Episode 60 (Post Mortem) Air Date: 01-23-1997
Episode 61 (Fortune’s Fools) Air Date: 01-30-1997
Episode 62 (Whose Appy Now?) Air Date: 02-06-1997
Episode 63 (The Long Way Around) Air Date: 02-13-1997
Episode 64 (Faith) Air Date: 02-20-1997
Episode 65 (Tribes) Air Date: 04-10-1997
Episode 66 (You Bet Your Life) Air Date: 04-17-1997
Episode 67 (Calling Dr. Hathaway) Air Date: 04-24-1997
Episode 68 (Random Acts) Air Date: 05-01-1997
Episode 69 (Make a Wish) Air Date: 05-08-1997
Episode 70 (One More for the Road) Air Date: 05-15-1997
Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the ER (Season 3) DVD.
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Posted by admin on March 29th, 2008 — Posted in Films
Plot points are linear links that make up the chain of traditional Aristotelian 3-act dramatic structure. This classic structure worked well in Hollywood for almost a century now. Although young movie makers are forcing the limits of this structure, plot points still rule the day as the “tent poles” that hold up of the circus of our dreams. Here are the plot points of White (1997), a part of the Kieslowski trilogy, as I see them.
White (1997)
Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski (Karol Karol), Julie Delpy (Dominique), Janusz Gajos (Mikolaj)
Directed by: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writers: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
PROTAGONIST KAROL’S DILEMMA: He loves his wife Dominique but cannot satisfy her sexually.
PROTAGONIST’S DESIRE: To be happy with Dominique.
HIS CHIEF OBSTACLE: His impotency and poverty.
ESTABLISHING SHOT: A red suitcase is moving along on a conveyor belt.
INCITING INCIDENT: Dominique divorces Karol at a court in Paris.
PLOT POINT 1: Karol has himself shipped back to Poland inside the same red suitcase.
MID POINT EVENT: By cunning and a daring real estate deal, Karol becomes a successful and wealthy businessman.
PLOT POINT 2: Karol arranges his own fake death and leaves all his wealth to Dominique so she would come visit him from Paris.
3rd ACT RESOLUTION: Dominique ends up in jail for aiding and abetting Karol’s fake death. Karol stands in the street outside her jail cell and the two reaffirm their problematic love despite the physical distance between them.
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Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008 — Posted in Films
In the world of cartoons what we see when we view the finished product is just that, finished. What we don’t see are all the things that go into making a cartoon. Those inside the industry itself claim that if everyone knew exactly how a cartoon was made it would totally take out the fantasy aspect of it and cartoons as a form of entertainment would lose a lot of its charm. The same could probably be said with many live action movies, especially science fiction and fantasy. So you may not want to read what’s about to come next. It may ruin Bugs Bunny for you for life.
Contrary to what you see and believe, moving animations don’t move. They are simply a series of still images shown at such a fast rate that they give the impression of movement. Some feature length films may have tens of thousands of these animated stills. Making a cartoon is a massive undertaking, even with today’s advanced computer technology.
However, taking just the basic process of the simplest cartoons, the kind we saw in the 50s and 60s growing up as a child, what you are about to read is how these basic cartoons are put together. This is the process that you don’t see.
The first thing that is done is that the story itself is developed as what is called a “storyboard”. This is literally a giant sized comic strip. As the story is developed the artist adds new drawings to this storyboard. Sometimes the entire story is known beforehand and other times it is developed as they go along. These drawings are pinned into a cork board so it is very easy to make changes as they go along.
After the storyboard is laid out, backgrounds are made for the cartoon. These are painted on cardboard with either tempera, acrylic or sometimes even oil paints. These backgrounds are where the characters of the cartoon will be performing their movements and are extremely large to allow for all the motion that may be required. The camera will then move across the background as the characters move across it.
Before the drawing of the characters even begins, the voices of the characters are recorded on tape and then transferred to magnetic film. The film is fed through a sound reader and every syllable is recorded on an exposure sheet. This is required in order to perform the synchronization between the sound and the picture. Each frame of film must be synchronized separately. This is extremely time consuming.
Finally after all this, the hard work begins. Yes, it gets harder. Every second of film consists of 24 frames with as many as 24 different drawings. That means that an hour animated film can contain as many as 86,400 drawings. Taking these frames, they are fed through a projector to make sure that the movement of each character for each second is smooth. If there are any problems, certain drawings may have to be redone. Note that these drawings are all in black and white.
If the movements of the frames passes the quality control test, it is at that time that color is added to all these drawings, all done by hand. In order to create the final product the drawings are copied onto plastic sheets called cels. They trace the lines in ink and the colors are then added on the reverse side of the cels. This has to be done so that you get completely even colors when viewing from the front. They are then superimposed onto the backgrounds.
The actual filming is done on what is called an animation stand. Many times the picture will be divided into several levels which are separated by about 12 inches. Each part of the background is on a different level so that a 3 dimensional effect can be achieved.
Finally, the film is fed back through a projector which is showing each filmed board at a very fast rate. This gives the cartoon the feeling of motion.
Next time you watch a cartoon, see if you can pick any of this out. If the cartoon is well done, you won’t be able to.
Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Cartoons
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