At this showing, I also happened to see as an extra bonus after the previews that involved Vector and some minions on the moon.

Who is Vector from the “Despicable Me” franchise?  Everyone knows Gru, the main villain, but Vector was a side villain, whose plotline just got resurrected in this short easter egg preview attached to the “Migration” movie to draw extra attendance from movie “geeks” like myself who loved DVD extras or hang around to see if there’s a little bonus clip after the credits.  Illumination studios did a great job on that series, so (to not divulge too much information) if you have not had a chance to see the minion movies…Vector had stolen a shrink ray with plans to shrink the moon and wasn’t referred to in any that followed.  He does see Bob (the floating minion) who is waiting for a ride and attempts to even catapult himself off the moon, but winds up elsewhere and does not get home to where we know if he will reappear anytime soon, be re-discovered later in a future minion movie, or just be a continuing running update gag about his status every once in a while to satisfy curious fans…only the future will tell.

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This was a hilarious short I ran across and just decided to include here… 

Audio And Sound Effect Importance

Audio is extremely important in video production because of all of the emotional strings that can be pulled depending on the chromatic scale and happy, sad or dramatic tone of the music used.  Comedic pieces might have recognizable themes running behind them like in the Benny Hill Show.  Cartoon music might pause right before Wile E. Coyote drops an anvil or pauses in midair to emphasize the moment.  The Queen’s Cartoonists use of sound effects, moods, and tempo demonstrate a wonderful example in this video here and the same principles can be applied to all visual media from TV shows and commercials to movies. 

The music l chose in one of my previous projects was dramatic on purpose because I wanted to add some excitement to the educational topic highlighted as well as our business installations being linked to progress and advances from earth to outer space.  

Bram Stoker carfully chose the music in Dracula’s Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to span from haunting- “The Beginning” | Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) to the “Love Song for a Vampire” video, one of my favorites I chose to include here: 

I always tended to group my songs into themed sets when I would add a recording to a cassette tape in the 80s and divide my CD collection categories in the 90’s and 2000’s in a similar manner.  I would name these tapes or sections things like:

“Playful” and throw songs or CDs in that had childhood games or lyric mentions like “Pop Goes The Weasel” – 3rd Bass (1991), “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Stevie Ray Vaugn, KORN – “Shoots and Ladders,”  or just fun upbeat songs like “Beautiful People” Marilyn Manson, songs I could skip along to like “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats, Sublime’s “Hong Kong Phooey” (or the whole “Saturday Morning: Cartoons’ Greatest Hits” album produced by Ralph Sall or upbeat albums in general.

Favorite genres like jazz would have abums from bands like Cherry Poppin Daddies, Harry Connick Jr, and Squirrel Nut Ziippers…how do you organize your music?

Image Systems In Movies: What Is It?

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There are several movies with an “image system” that come to mind and some I ran across during research.  An image system is a repeated visual technique or image that reappears.  Some are obvious like the red balloon that floats though almost the entire 1956 short film  “The Red Balloon.”

Some are used to highlight the story…in the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” the cameraman uses different shot techniques such as blurring and loss of visuals to illustrate the forgetfulness of losing memory. Other image system examples (in too many movies to mention) range from rear view mirrow views in detective or racing movies to views in windows or the use of many reflections in different mirror angles.

In my favorite movies, such as “Tank girl,” “The Mask,” “Roger Rabbit,” and “Cool World” animations and comic book stills or even a cartoon universe are injected that show the same character in similar iconic attire.  Lori Petty appears in a tank top or pigtails for Harley Quinn in Batman series fame  similar to the character she portrays.  Jim Carry is repeatedly seen in a yellow suit when he is in “Mask” form, and both  Jessica Rabbit reappearing in her iconic red dress and the “Cool World” Holli Wood character and cartoon world keeps blending with reality.

Dystopian sets and panels help connect some of these plots with the stories they were borrowed from and reinforce continuity of the story setting.  Once aware of what image systems are, it is hard to not watch and catch a few director image styles as an “Ah-ha!” moment in future viewing to come.

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Tank Girl | Lori Petty Walked so Harley Quinn Could Run (thecompanion.app)

COLOR – Making Movies Stand Out

Color is a fun yet important setting consideration when deciding how to film a movie.  Color can emphasize all kinds of moods from blue for sadness to red for rage.  “The Matrix” uses a green color palette for coding and a futuristic/tech look.   Movies sometimes just highlight one character by painting it a different color from the rest like the red coated girl in Schindler’s List.  She represents innocence and from the rest of the black and white film, her death  is highlighted this way to show war deaths as meaningless.

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“Schindler’s List” by elycefeliz is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

To highlight the main character, certain movies will also highlight the main character with certain colors.  In “The Mask” Jim Carry’s Character is always seen in green makeup with a yellow suit making it easy to follow the antics going on, and “Kill Bill” put Uma Thurman in an iconic yellow jumpsuit.  “Mad Max beyond Thunderdome” sticks to mostly machine dark colors on top of the desert sand color behind.

Most interesting of all, “Dick Tracy” stuck to a 7 color-palette scheme in the making of the movie. The director and cinematographer went as far as painting the buildings, choosing the cars, and making the suits based on the scheme of primarily red, green, fuscia, orange, cyan, blue, and yellow.  The saturation brings more drama and the audience is not used to seeing a fixed pallete used in that manner, I highly recommend seeing it as a treat to the eye.

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Some are used to highlight the story…in the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” the cameraman uses different shot techniques such as blurring and loss of visuals to illustrate the forgetfulness of losing memory. Other image system examples (in too many movies to mention) range from rear view mirrow views in detective or racing movies to views in windows or the use of many reflections in different mirror angles.

In my favorite movies, such as “Tank girl,” “The Mask,” “Roger Rabbit,” and “Cool World” animations and comic book stills or even a cartoon universe are injected that show the same character in similar iconic attire.  Lori Petty appears in a tank top or pigtails for Harley Quinn in Batman series fame  similar to the character she portrays.  Jim Carry is repeatedly seen in a yellow suit when he is in “Mask” form, and both  Jessica Rabbit reappearing in her iconic red dress and the “Cool World” Holli Wood character and cartoon world keeps blending with reality.

Dystopian sets and panels help connect some of these plots with the stories they were borrowed from and reinforce continuity of the story setting.  Once aware of what image systems are, it is hard to not watch and catch a few director image styles as an “Ah-ha!” moment in future viewing to come.

Please bookmark my site and enjoy these links:

Related article:

Tank Girl | Lori Petty Walked so Harley Quinn Could Run (thecompanion.app)

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According to Wikipedia –  there was called “The Way Things Go” a film from 1987, a Swiss art film from Peter Fischli and David Weiss, that used a fair amount of fun elements to create suspense in a Rube Goldberg Machine style and has gone on to influence many creators and film sequences .   These machines use overly complex ways of getting to an end result that is usually just some ordinary random task.  These always have me on the edge of my seat, wondering if the sequence is going to go as planned since having a long way of accomplishing something can lead to many trial and error fails if any little “cog” in the machine fails like pushing the first domino over and having one be slightly misplaced where the whole chain of domino “designs” fail and someone has to reset up all of them or “help it along” by pushing the next.   Here are some examples of just such a contraption with many different mechanisms:

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In a warehouse only 100 feet long, they created the Rube Goldberg using such materials as tires, trash bags, ladders, soap, oil drums, old shoes, water, and gasoline, with fire and pyrotechnics used as chemical triggers. At the time of this writing their film is only available on pay services like Amazon Prime. This film runs 30 minutes long and has been edited to prevent boredom but we can hope the whole process will be released one day for those “behind the scenes” loving folks.

These fellows went on to create photographs of precariously balanced chairs, vegetables, bottles and other objects stacked pretty high which are especially exciting to me because I know these real circus-style balancing acts were stacked by actual humans fearing the moment something causes a tumble and feeling excited and satisfied with each added stacked piece that DOES balance.  None of this was done via AI or robots capable of calculating gravity and lining up precise placement, but rather, the pure curiosity, experimentation, and anticipation of “I wonder if I can stack this here?”

Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist, engineer. and inventor that went from a humble newspaper route to winning the 
Pulitzer.  The humor involved with making something take way longer than it should (an activity you would think only kids have time for) was a welcome relief throughout the difficult times and eras of the past, and gained popularity with all ages regardless of wealth or occupation as even Henry Ford liked to tinker with machines. Such contraptions have made appearances in “The Goonies,” “Honey I Shrunk the Kids,”  “Back to the Future,” and horror movies like “Saw.” (For his personal history I highly recommend my link to the rube-goldberg.com website in my links below at the end of this read!)

A lot of creativity is involved with stringing sequences of events together whether it is digital storytelling or a chain of events, it is still satisfying when a perpetual motion or sequence does what it is supposed to do, even if it is only animated to some extent.  The Rube Machine has gone on to be used in intros to tv shows, music videos, within movies themselves, and even on Sesame Street for education.   Wes Anderson used it in the Royal Tenenbaums as a creative way to commit suicide using a sequence involving a record player and toucan, Michel Gondry used this in a music video called”This Too Shall Pass” and the great Charlie Chaplin used them also.  Simon Clowes used this in the series “Elementary” (interesting article link below), and even Pee Wee Herman himself used this for comic relief!https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Kzz7eK86yO0?feature=oembed&rel=0

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine – Official Videohttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qybUFnY7Y8w?feature=oembed&rel=0

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As I begin to study film: the Rube Goldbergs highly peaked my interest over the years to the point of where I would run to the living room when I would hear my husband start “Elementary” just for the inro if I didn’t have time to watch the rest. I intend to use digital AI art and photography in the futre so the most inspirational video for me at the moment would be “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel and I also threw “Steam” WARNING GREAT 80’s CLASSIC BUT POSSIBLY NSFW or YOUNGER VIEWERSin here.  While not a Rube Goldberg exactly the song words to lead to image video effects that blend and follow eachother and I DO love effects, and with the new applications and AI class from Peninsula College I may just not need a huge studio with expensive video equipment and software to begin creating my own. Hope you enjoy my work as I progress!

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Cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s Machines Turned Simple Tasks into Epic Spectacles | ArtsyLinks to an external site.

Philly artists recreate gigantic 1973 ‘Rube Goldberg’ orchestra – WHYYLinks to an external site.

Elementary (2012) — Art of the TitleLinks to an external site.

Fischli & Weiss: The groundbreaking way things go (publicdelivery.orgLinks to an external site.

Rube Goldberg – Machines, Creations and Inventions by Rube Goldberg. (rube-goldberg.com)Links to an external site.

The Way Things Go – WikipediaLinks to an external site.

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According to Industrial Light & Magic – Wikipedia, the special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, behind Star Wars is also the same company where brothers John and Thomas Knoll built Photoshop. When Jar Jar Binks came along I just cringed until he finally grew on me. It is amazing what AI can now do but to me there is nothing as satisfying as owning, watching, or something handmade. I appreciate the hours artists put into their crafts everytime I try a new hobby on YouTube and fail at it. I love to look at the little figurines that toy hobbiests and gamers paint as well as extensive model train landscapes, the detail work is sometimes stunning. My jaw dropped when I got the see the minitures from Coraline at the MoPOP Museum in Seattle. Something tiny like origami can look easy, but in reality (when I tried it) my trashcan was overfolwing with wrinkled balls of despair, and I still have a knitting needle with the beginnings for a “simple Hello Kitty scarf” with thread only wrapped about it.

Photoshop has been used in many huge movies since and many easter eggs to Star Wars can be seen in TV, film, songs and parodies. It was even used to insert the droids into Indiana Jones! It will definitely increase in popularity as more and more young people attempt the easier new tools to add “hyperspace Star Wars effect” to their profile pics and give no empathy to the hundreds of layers and hours it used to take to make even the tiniest background edit. I admit it CAN be fun when you are expecting it to wow you like in Jurrassic Park, but now I can see it everywhere I look after learning about all of the little touch ups that can be made and about all of the cinematic effects it now comes with. Be sure to bookmark my site so you can enjoy all 3 of these little gem links!

25 effects in PS to play with:

https://designshack.net/articles/inspiration/film-photoshop-actions/

The droids and Indiana Jones

https://screenrant.com/indiana-jones-raiders-ark-behind-scenes-facts/

I even found a fun rainy-day poster activity:

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Copyright allows the owners of IP to control, set and monitor whether it can be shared or charged for and Reproduction Rights

Reproduction rights are whether credit has to be given or how it can be distibuted example-printed, modified, or downloaded

Copyrights and IP are very important ownership categories that should be respected and ideally no one should “take” another’s work and place or claim it as their own without checking what license it has.  This is like when we all learned in grade school not to plagiarize and give credit where credit is due. This protects the feelings and monetary well-being of the creator.  My responsibility is to appropriately credit everything I borrow and place online for others. I know I can decide how I wish my content to be used by registering it with the patent office or take steps like watermarking or posting lower-quality images until someone requests full access to it and work out the details with them.  Everything online usually has some Metadata with it that can be traced back to the original source.  

Some site content such as Wikipedia have content that has been shared to it and can be modified or updated and most of the content and images are shareable.  This acts like an editable encyclopedia public resource for research, the code and how many times the page has been edited can be found at the top under tools and view history and images can be filtered by type of use in your browser, usually Wiki ones appear first.

The rest of the web content is owned or created by someone and is a challenge to protect just like the little house owned by Arther Dent in the Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams.  Not only does an alien race want to destroy Earth, but they also want to demolish this house to put an intergalactic freeway there and this can be used to symbolize the uphill battle creators face protecting their assets.  When someone violates a copyright, the owner has to sue, write a cease-and-desist notice, work-out a fee for use, or otherwise determine how to respond when they see or are notified their content is being used against their will, in some manner other than intended. Chapter 8 points out that H2G2 (Hitchiker’s Guide) contains contributions too and has been “compiled and recompiled many time over the years, under different editorships.”

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