#courses in filmmaking

[galleryyuhself]

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[pluvillion]

The King and The Tiger.

saw their pairing from one tweet; made this render as an agreement. "Körangi" is legitimately one of the best partner names i've heard. "König" meaning "king" in German and "Horangi" meaning "Tiger" in Korean. absolute genius, i tell you.

[mutantthedark]

Johnny "Soap" MacTavish

Heyo! I made the first Cod render with SourceFilmmaker! Actually, I learned how to use it last year, I only rendered Team Fortress 2 and Half Life characters. I'll do more someday!

Hope you like it! (๑´• .̫ •ू`๑)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"...my one year anniversary being on testosterone!!! I had a vision of capturing my total gender euphoria [...] My trans and nonbinary body is divine I honor my body as it is now, and as it will be as I continue to become more and more myself..."

[fleshadept]

if any filmmakers follow me for god's sake if you are on a project and you have control over this: get a good DIT. get a DIT with editing experience. get a DIT who knows how to create consistent and intuitive file structures and for the sanity of your editor(s) get a DIT who will do things right the first time so your editors won't have to redo all of that work because it was disorganized and done so badly they have to, for example, resync all the clips for an entire feature film because the proxies weren't set up properly

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Unfortunately for you guys, I just started the paper my foolish professor let me write about studious deracination in James Cameron’s Avatar, so get ready for some some academic posts to start trickling in. Here is a more detailed post of the tiktok I made. 

Today we are going to talk about race as an allegory in Avatar again!!! Avatar (2009) is a pretty blatant representation of indigenous peoples on Earth being colonized. Like, I don’t think anyone disputes that. But why do this and not make a movie about colonization?? Why make them aliens??

By separating these things from our real world, our real history, things we may have bias about, we can view it from a completely fresh lens. There's a deliberate choice to present a different planet and a different species and in that way, they have that allegory for colonization, for racism, for the destruction of our planet, be more evident and sympathetic to everyone viewing it as an example of our planet and these real-world things that are happening. Sometimes it’s easier to approach these issues when you don’t feel like they are targeting you. 

However, I feel like there's an interesting, perhaps not intentional, thing that James Cameron did as well with the second movie and that is addressing colorism. I read a lot of your fanfictions, okay, I read ‘em. Every time they're set in the modern era and our main characters are human there is a conscious choice to have Jake Sully's biological children Tuk and Neteyam be darker skinned, and to have Lo’ak be lighter skinned. We are all picking up on something that is implied in the narrative that I don't think anyone intended to be there. I don’t wanna give James Cameron too much credit in that regard. Let’s talk about that phenomenon. 

So this is studiously deracinating something, it’s a narrative strategy defined by an evacuated racial consciousness that ironizes assumptions of white universalism and uncritical postracialism. So what does that mean? That means by taking race out of the equation in something, the concept of race, it allows you to analyze the same concepts in more of an unbiased way, just as stated above with the first Avatar. It allows you to kind of look at yourself as well, your own biases and how they come into play while you’re reading or watching something. You are fully unaffected by the concept of race in the novel and are more so affected by your own assumptions. 

I think there’s such an interesting example of this in Avatar because of the way we have been perceiving Lo’ak and his outcast status in this movie and the way I’ve seen so many people perceive him as lighter skinned than his siblings. He has more traditionally human features compared to the other Na’vi, and this sets him apart and he is treated differently. I think so many people connect with him without fully realizing why. In Avatar we know that the Na’vi represent the indigenous and people of color, while the humans represent colonizers, majority white people. We take the colorism step without even thinking about it, our own assumptions and biases take us there. Just a thought. :)

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in También la lluvia (2010, dir. Icíar Bollaín)

(these gifs also feature Luis Tosar and the back of Cassandra Ciangherotti's head)

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

[barkingangelbaby]

please clap i finally closed out of 80+ tabs i had open on my phone.. big moment for a dumb guy like me

[kideternity]

Easily one of the pettiest reasons I've gotten mad at a spider man retcon was because one arc tried to tell me via retcon Mysterio was from California. He is absolutely not from fucking California. You are lying to me and everyone else reading this comic. Take that back right fucking now.

[hide-in-imagination]

I swear to fucking god, watching Cinema Therapy videos on YouTube has made me a better writer, you should all check them out, they're great.

[sharkdays]

just got finished touring 8th graders for 3 hours straight!

[livvyofthelake]

your cousin from florida who works in marketing (your dads age. she’s not my age) will come stay the night at your house and it will literally become Bother The Recent College Graduate About Career Prospects Night. i don’t mean to be rude but i am literally going to hide in my room for the rest of the night like peace and love but the next person who asks me what i want to do will be getting strangled

[supercantaloupe]

happy sleepover saturday!!!!! if you could only ever watch one of these for the rest of your life would it be sexy oklahoma or don giovanni (i think it's. aioux? production? your special one, you know)

also!! here is spitfire & the girls

A CRUEL AND VICIOUS CHOICE. they are like two sides of the same coin to me.... Well considering i am literally watching the latter right now,

also OMG what fantastic beasts!! Girls Night

[ask meme]

[iagainstitute]

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[whiskeyswifty]

i know we're in tour mode, but i wonder if anyone else thinks way too much about taylor's obsession with legacy in entertainment and the culture, and then her choice to buy and restore the goldwyn estate in LA... like i think about that A LOT. and the fact that she immediately submitted it for landmark status and put millions of dollars into restoring it like hmmmmmm very rich woman needed a hobby but also psychologically revealing in a way. inch resting to say the least

[tubbytarchia]

ok. hear me out, you know the scene in the piece your animating, the scar and grian one that goes across multiple seasons. the scene whee its grians wings posed dramatic and angsty, lingering shot over scars dead body, right before moving to scar and the camel in season five? Hear me out.

move it down just a little bit , or up, I think that if you have the very wing tips reaching the top line when you use the rule of thirds would further draw the eye.

I've done three semester on filmmaking and one of the things that help dramatiasize a scene is to have something end right on those third lines, trust me here, just, move it a littttttle bit down, having more sky above it might be fun to add somthing small, a very translucent scar looking down perhaps?

It took me so long to quite figure out what you're saying but I think I get it and I think you are right, I will look into it and see if I can adjust the framing a bit if it's not too much work. I'm not adding anything to the sky simply because my artistic ability is lacking and I would probably make it look really stupid lol. Thanks so much for the tip!! I really just yolo my way through animation past basic principles but I would love to study more filmmaking etc myself for stuff like this