SPOON! New album streaming on NPR!
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About half way through The Mystery Zone! It's a bit more mellow than their other albums so far.
GAGH! I lOVE SpOON.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
fourninteyfive
A stale sadness accompanied me as I walked into my Senior Seminar in Film Producation: Narrative class. It was time to leave the refreshing and freeing world of experimental film and go back to the oh so structured world of narrative filmmaking. Don't get me wrong, I love love love love love narrative films, the pre-production and production process and I'm so pumped for this class. It's going to rock. But I thought to myself as we were going over the syllabus, "It's just not the same." Which just means I have to watch more Mekas on my own.
I'm so glad everyone is required to pitch a script. I'm going to finish writing my musical, The Singing Janitor, this weekend and submit it. I checked out a few old 40s musicals from the library to use as inspiration. Michael Curtiz directed Yankee Doodle Dandy! Love him. His use of shadow to fill the frame is beautiful! And his camerawork (and obvious addiction to the dolly) is fabulous! In Yankee Doodle there's so much of the performing onstage that a lot of the major scenes had the feel of early cinema. Like it was just the filming of a stage show, which makes me wonder if it was a choice to pay hommage to the protagonist's life in theater or a necessity to make time in production for all the song and dance numbers.
I was thinking about how to introduce the song sequences in my short and I think I want to do it visually. I want the "normal" world to be in muted colors, like you're looking at an old color photo from a newspaper in the 40s or 50s. And then the "musical" world to have lovely vibrant colors. The only thing is I can't quite use that to justify other characters singing.
Fuck.
And then there's the whole making music for a musical thing.
note to self: add jocelyn and figure out how to follow blogs.
I'm so glad everyone is required to pitch a script. I'm going to finish writing my musical, The Singing Janitor, this weekend and submit it. I checked out a few old 40s musicals from the library to use as inspiration. Michael Curtiz directed Yankee Doodle Dandy! Love him. His use of shadow to fill the frame is beautiful! And his camerawork (and obvious addiction to the dolly) is fabulous! In Yankee Doodle there's so much of the performing onstage that a lot of the major scenes had the feel of early cinema. Like it was just the filming of a stage show, which makes me wonder if it was a choice to pay hommage to the protagonist's life in theater or a necessity to make time in production for all the song and dance numbers.
I was thinking about how to introduce the song sequences in my short and I think I want to do it visually. I want the "normal" world to be in muted colors, like you're looking at an old color photo from a newspaper in the 40s or 50s. And then the "musical" world to have lovely vibrant colors. The only thing is I can't quite use that to justify other characters singing.
Fuck.
And then there's the whole making music for a musical thing.
note to self: add jocelyn and figure out how to follow blogs.
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