A viral video feel
Yes. It's official, it's a genre. With rules.
That didn't take long -couple a years...
Well more really... but you know -since massive exposure.
It was fun reading Neuromancer and letting such intense vivid images of future flash on the inner screen, living in that future is stranger still. The future becomes the present any time now, no wait, now. Or... now.[shut up -Ed.]
I wonder how long it will really take before moving pictures enters a new paradigm entirely. I've devoted half my life to bring it about after all.
It's close, I can feel it -the walls of reality crumbling away. I believe it will come to fruition as the same time as some vely intelesting expeliments in physics comes to theirs.
Media is just a big mirror, we look at it for answers about who we are, but all we see are other people.[LOL -Ed.]
In film style and genre the walls of reality will certainly crumble, they are crumbling now and have been crumbling for a long time. Soon film-makers will be presented with a toolbox so extensive they'll have problems choosing. Aquisition of images will radically change as cameras soon matches the eye in resolution and speed, then one stops aquiering images per se and instead captures full 3d scans. In post processing algorithms will allow you to pick and choose any object and do whatever with it. Forget about motion mattes and blue screens, that was the technologies of the previous century. This century is going to be about[green screens -giggle Ed.] algorithms and resolution.
Computer processing power is on the move again, after a few years of standstill(a p4 3.2 ghz is still a great gaming processor) CPUs are moving back on the Moore track, but wait -they're going to the leave Moores law in the dust this time. We just got 2 core chips. Now we're getting 4 core and soon 8, 16, 32... the sky is the limit.
This means the kind of radical amount of power to calculate the trajectory of photons in real time, to simulate with every conceivable detail a piece of cloth hanging on the main characters jacket just by putting it there after the fact. To calculate gaps in the coverage and to fill them. All at the flick of a button. Doing things like that now -you've already seen it in movies right? Takes a whole lot of best in their field people with a whole lot of computers and a whole lot of time.
What will this mean?
It will mean that one person, with one average computer, can conceive and produce extremely complex images. You've always wanted more Next Generation episodes? Then make them, have the copmuter make a statiscal database of the episodes that exist and you can extract all characters, voices, objects, sets, lightning techniques(if you're going for the authentic look), sound techniques...
If you're a bad writer, no worries -have the computer write it for you. Tell it to make one intermediary episode between those that already exist, it can extrapolate the character arcs easily.
Yes indeed it is a remix. The remixing of film just as easily as a song is remixed now. There'll be a lot of them. Think Directors Cut is confusing, wait till you see what the fans did.
Back in 1992 or so I was sending a videotape with some concertfootage I had edited back to a friend far far away. I wanted to include a copy of Blade Runner(He was into design -had never seen the film) but had only 20 minutes available on the tape and no extra tape. So I put the highlights together. I made it into a 15 minute short, the best produced short film in history. Funny thing was, he liked the shots and design in the movie -but he also liked the story. My 'skip this' attitude had preserved only the major plot points and somehow they kept on working.
I decided to do the same to Star Wars ep 1,2 and 3 after I'd seen the first one. I never got my hands on the phantom edit but as far as I could tell it was still quite long. I figure they'll be really cool at half an hour each, this way ep123 can condense into a less than 2 hr movie that is the prequel for ep456. And for that matter -you can take the last half hour of ep6 and stick it onto ep5, if you cut half an hour out of ep5 you got a really fast moving film, like ep4.
All Star Wars films except ep4 suffers from a lack good material. If ep4 had been allowed to be three hours long and Lucas had had twice the budget there would have been no episodes, only Star Wars.
The total manipulation of image that soon becomes available will take everything to a whole new place. A big budget Hollywood movie can be made in a weekend as three writers brainstorm around the kitchen table, the computer making the scenes as they come up with them.
Then they might give the film to an interior designer who tweaks the interior, a costume maker who tweaks the clothes, a light guy and a sound guy, a dp -maybe even a director -to get better performances from the 'actors'. They all need only a day or two each.
And if the studio think the movie is hot, they can get stars to act in it, without the inconvenience of actually filming the star. They'll just licence Brad Pitts image and stick it in there.
This has very little to do with linear thinking.
Apart from the remixing and the blockbusters. What about original content? Impossible to predict ofcourse but I think alot of people are gonna make movies that alot of other people think are wicked and weird. Like making electronic music today, an almost seamless -almost fully automated process. Which means that everyone can do it. You need a half an hours worth of training on the equipment and then you're off with nothing but your own musicality standing between you and greatness.
Driving with the yellow dog I95
b
That didn't take long -couple a years...
Well more really... but you know -since massive exposure.
It was fun reading Neuromancer and letting such intense vivid images of future flash on the inner screen, living in that future is stranger still. The future becomes the present any time now, no wait, now. Or... now.[shut up -Ed.]
I wonder how long it will really take before moving pictures enters a new paradigm entirely. I've devoted half my life to bring it about after all.
It's close, I can feel it -the walls of reality crumbling away. I believe it will come to fruition as the same time as some vely intelesting expeliments in physics comes to theirs.
Media is just a big mirror, we look at it for answers about who we are, but all we see are other people.[LOL -Ed.]
In film style and genre the walls of reality will certainly crumble, they are crumbling now and have been crumbling for a long time. Soon film-makers will be presented with a toolbox so extensive they'll have problems choosing. Aquisition of images will radically change as cameras soon matches the eye in resolution and speed, then one stops aquiering images per se and instead captures full 3d scans. In post processing algorithms will allow you to pick and choose any object and do whatever with it. Forget about motion mattes and blue screens, that was the technologies of the previous century. This century is going to be about[green screens -giggle Ed.] algorithms and resolution.
Computer processing power is on the move again, after a few years of standstill(a p4 3.2 ghz is still a great gaming processor) CPUs are moving back on the Moore track, but wait -they're going to the leave Moores law in the dust this time. We just got 2 core chips. Now we're getting 4 core and soon 8, 16, 32... the sky is the limit.
This means the kind of radical amount of power to calculate the trajectory of photons in real time, to simulate with every conceivable detail a piece of cloth hanging on the main characters jacket just by putting it there after the fact. To calculate gaps in the coverage and to fill them. All at the flick of a button. Doing things like that now -you've already seen it in movies right? Takes a whole lot of best in their field people with a whole lot of computers and a whole lot of time.
What will this mean?
It will mean that one person, with one average computer, can conceive and produce extremely complex images. You've always wanted more Next Generation episodes? Then make them, have the copmuter make a statiscal database of the episodes that exist and you can extract all characters, voices, objects, sets, lightning techniques(if you're going for the authentic look), sound techniques...
If you're a bad writer, no worries -have the computer write it for you. Tell it to make one intermediary episode between those that already exist, it can extrapolate the character arcs easily.
Yes indeed it is a remix. The remixing of film just as easily as a song is remixed now. There'll be a lot of them. Think Directors Cut is confusing, wait till you see what the fans did.
Back in 1992 or so I was sending a videotape with some concertfootage I had edited back to a friend far far away. I wanted to include a copy of Blade Runner(He was into design -had never seen the film) but had only 20 minutes available on the tape and no extra tape. So I put the highlights together. I made it into a 15 minute short, the best produced short film in history. Funny thing was, he liked the shots and design in the movie -but he also liked the story. My 'skip this' attitude had preserved only the major plot points and somehow they kept on working.
I decided to do the same to Star Wars ep 1,2 and 3 after I'd seen the first one. I never got my hands on the phantom edit but as far as I could tell it was still quite long. I figure they'll be really cool at half an hour each, this way ep123 can condense into a less than 2 hr movie that is the prequel for ep456. And for that matter -you can take the last half hour of ep6 and stick it onto ep5, if you cut half an hour out of ep5 you got a really fast moving film, like ep4.
All Star Wars films except ep4 suffers from a lack good material. If ep4 had been allowed to be three hours long and Lucas had had twice the budget there would have been no episodes, only Star Wars.
The total manipulation of image that soon becomes available will take everything to a whole new place. A big budget Hollywood movie can be made in a weekend as three writers brainstorm around the kitchen table, the computer making the scenes as they come up with them.
Then they might give the film to an interior designer who tweaks the interior, a costume maker who tweaks the clothes, a light guy and a sound guy, a dp -maybe even a director -to get better performances from the 'actors'. They all need only a day or two each.
And if the studio think the movie is hot, they can get stars to act in it, without the inconvenience of actually filming the star. They'll just licence Brad Pitts image and stick it in there.
This has very little to do with linear thinking.
Apart from the remixing and the blockbusters. What about original content? Impossible to predict ofcourse but I think alot of people are gonna make movies that alot of other people think are wicked and weird. Like making electronic music today, an almost seamless -almost fully automated process. Which means that everyone can do it. You need a half an hours worth of training on the equipment and then you're off with nothing but your own musicality standing between you and greatness.
Driving with the yellow dog I95
b
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