movies the cell phone would end in five minutes

it would be kind of funny. north by northwest would be over in the first five minutes if he'd had a cellphone. of course, ti also doesn't make sense that eh doesn't jsut call his secretary. what kind of mother needs a telegram to remind her her son's taking her to the theater that night?

girl with a pearl earring would be good to divi up

the opening vegetable cutting scene- they're all lit from the same direction. and cut in the same pace.

wow, this is really beautifully lit.

another post from archy - don't know the video he's referring to

Hey Julie!
This morning I was pondering the video you had found.

Indeed it is similar to the Kylie Minogue video in that many of the
same character populate the screen. But the difference is that in the
Kylie Minogue video they are using complex compositing and motion
control, and in the other video I'm thinking it is a clever off-set to
create the tiles. I mean, if you aim the camera at a similar subject,
a large piazza for example, lock it off and let it run for a couple of
minutes, you've got the foundation for the rest of the video. You
could drop the two minute video on to a video channel in Final Cut,
duplicate it, let's say 16 times and stack each copy on the other
creating 16 video channels. Then, mask off each channel so that only a
tile representing a unique 1/16th of the entire image is visible on
any given channel, giving you a 4x4 grid that shows the whole image in
a seamless fashion. Then slightly re-size each image to "break" the
seamless pattern. Then move each video track on the timeline randomly
either forward or backward a random number of frames, let's say
somewhere between 2-20 frames. Now you have a stack of 16 panels all
running slightly out of sync with each other, which makes up a
simplified version of what is presented in the video (the video has a
grid larger than 4x4). Now, with your camera in the exact same
position that you shot the master, go back out in your white painter
suit do the dance multiple times in pre-determined positions on the
piazza. Of course you need a boom-box with the music for playback, but
you can keep it out of frame by placing it outside of where that dance
grid will go in the grid pattern on your time line. Also take a walk
up and down the street a few times. Take all that footage back to the
computer, crop the shots, and replace the corresponding panels with
dancers as desired.

There probably is a more clever way to do this, but off the top of my
head I'm thinking this video shows how cool and CHEAP creativity can
be. In a video where you're using complex compositing and on set
motion control, you need a ton of people and planning. Where as,
shooting a multi-image lock off with lots of random dancers is a
challenge, it could be accomplished by one person in relatively short
order. Kicking the multi-frame painter suit dancer video up a notch
would be introducing camera movement, lets say a slow pan to the left
or the right starting somewhere in the middle of the video to further
blow the viewer's mind. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking it might
even be possible to do it extremely well without motion control, but
you'd need at least two or three other people and you'd have to avoid
a tilt up or down...

Anyway, it's always cool to see something that makes the juices flow.
Thanks again!

Hope all is good in your world.
-A

the dvd menu collection - Close Encounters

has a beautiful menu, very multichannel, referring to the spaceships light grid with which it communicates-
and what i really like is how it has pulsing lights that come up in individual rectangles - i wonder if i can rip this with that one program - well, not at this moment, but anyway, i want to remember it.

there are these great menus, in the mid-to late 90s - the height of DVDs. like gladiator, with its six grid.