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How to do Foley Sound Effects

mmontgomery — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:48:15 +0000

You know you want to learn how to do it. So watch!

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=TYTVeTxRswg[/youtube]

Film Theory on YouTube via Spout Blog

mmontgomery — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:51:51 +0000

I love Spout Blog. There I said it. And, I especially love this entry:

Alan at Burbanked answered this challenge by inserting the Chipmunk into a lesson on Lev Kuleshov’s Montage Effect. Kuleshov, a contemporary of Eisenstein, argued that shot order matters because each image in a film is imbued with meaning by the image that comes before it. So suddenly, the chipmunk’s drama makes sense–-”It’s as if that piping hot soup is just outside his reach.”

Read more on Spot blog to find out how this hamster (below) can teach you a valuable Film Theory lesson.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40[/youtube]

WGA Writers on Strike

mmontgomery — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:02:37 +0000

A special thanks to Andrew Burke for forwarding this video to me today. The benefits of his kindness are two fold: first, it’s funny and second, it saves me from having to write anything lengthy for a blog entry. How’s that for a writer’s strike? Enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w[/youtube]