As you know we are massive fans of Daniel Wallace / Tim Burton’s Big Fish film. One the scenes we attempt to replicate in teaching basic Final Cut techniques is the time freeze scene. This the point in the film with Edward Bloom sees the love of this life, see below.
The foundation of any good film is a great story. In this guest post Daniel Wallace, author of the book ‘Big Fish’, later turned into the Tim Burton film of the same name talks us through his top five tips for writing the classic story.
Cinemagic and Lisburn City Council have launched a week long programme of media and moving image events for schools and young people in the Lisburn area, which will take place from 30th March – 5th April 2009. The initiative is part of a series of events marking the 400th Anniversary of Lisburn.
We recently wrote about the influence music has on the moving image being watched. Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack for Into the Wild is a perfect example of the synergy between the two mediums. Growing up I’ve studied both music and film production and probably now only realise the amount of cross discipline influence that exists in all art forms.
Previously we published a six step guide to rotoscoping. The tutorial covered the back to basic manual production of rotoscope animation, akin to the type used in the famous a-ha ‘Take on me‘ video.
Well back to the musing about the link between and film. Firstly if you are looking for an en-depth study of film or a look at the relationship between twentieth century classics and the charts this is, perhaps the wrong post for you.
The educational value of Blackadder can never be underestimated. Having grown up with a weekly installment of Blackadder’s version of history every Thursday night it not only created the main topic of conversation in school the next day
Rotoscoping was first invented in 1914 by Max Fleischer, who used it in his series “Out of the Inkwell” with his brother Dave Fleischer dressed in a clown outfit as the live-film reference for the character Koko the Clown.
