Creating a gradient wipe in Final Cut Pro

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Vote for Augmented City 3D on Vimeo

“Visionary Cities” is described as “an international moving image competition in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, Vimeo, FilmDirecting4Women.” The competition, hosted on Vimeo, will close voting at the end of this week from five top picks that imagine cities of the future. Through Friday, “Like” one of the videos to register your vote

Augmented City 3D from Alpha Ville on Vimeo.







Augmented City 3D on Vimeo

The Original Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond

Guillaume Reymond, the guy who gave us the human Tetris performance, is back with his latest live action videogame art project -- this time tackling Namco's classic Pac-Man. Created using a stop-motion camera technique, this is the French-Swiss artist's fifth creation for the GAME OVER Project.

Reymond shot the footage over 4 hours with 111 human "pixels" who make up Pac-Man, the board, and the ghosts who chase him down. Seeing it in motion is really neat -- particularly if you love stop-motion and low-fi video. The short was shot and played for the new ProHelvetia's programme GameCulture at the Trafo cinema (Baden, Switzerland) on August 28th 2010.  Watch This: Stop-Motion 'Pac-Man' with Humans - Cinematical

Writing better dialogue on Vimeo

Writing better dialogue from John August on Vimeo.

ScreenwritingU.com - Screenwriting Classes, Videos, Articles and more

This is a great site for aspiring screenwriters. There are classes, videos, tutorials, articles and forums that will be helpful to any amateur screenwriter!

ScreenwritingU.com - Screenwriting Classes, Videos, Articles and more

How to Make Video Look like FilmThe Rev. John Jackman, The Rev. John Jackman, The Rev. John Jackman - StumbleUpon

"A lot of software products claim they can make your video look like film. Some video filmmakers swear by such plug-ins, while others sneer, "If you want it to look like film, then shoot film." Getting video to look like film is a complex and nuanced subject (see "Matching Digital to Film," Oct. '02 DV, for a discussion about blending video and computer elements with film). It's also the kind of topic that lends itself to Internet forum flame wars. Oversimplifications and broad generalizations abound."

How to Make Video Look like FilmThe Rev. John Jackman, The Rev. John Jackman, The Rev. John Jackman - StumbleUpon

Free Webinar - Keeping Organized

A free webinar about Keeping things organized while producing a film.


HOLLYN-wood (Norman, that is) » Keeping Organized – A Free Webinar

The Expendables Movie Review

First, the positives: the action scenes are good. Very good, and at the very least a lot of fun. Just like in Rambo, Stallone unleashes a fury upon an army of unnamed soldiers at the end of The Expendables; people die in piles, blood splatters everywhere and explosions light up the screen. The action scenes are well executed and prove that Stallone and his co-stars still have it in them to deliver excitement.
Unfortunately, that's where the positives end. Everything else is a cluster.
First and foremost, the writing is terrible. The characters spout off one-liners on a regular basis, but the one-liners are neither memorable nor funny. Every dialogue-driven scene, save for one well-written moment with Mickey Rourke (I wouldn't be surprised if he just winged it), is excruciatingly painful. And since the writing is bad, the acting is dreadful.

The Expendables Movie Review