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• Director’s Cut vs. Special Edition

  by sonnyboo December 10, 2010
  Fans of movies love to see alternate or longer versions of their favorite movies. There are basically two different types of extended cuts for the most part, a DIRECTOR’S CUT and a SPECIAL EDITION. What is the difference between a “Director’s Cut” and a “Special Edition”?I remember reading the back ...

• Everyone Lies and Misspells

  by sonnyboo December 9, 2010
  My reading habits have not changed. I read a paperback of some kind of pulp fiction, then alternate with some kind of film production book, whether it be a picture based Behind the Scenes, an Illustrated Screenplay, or a text based Making Of. I just finished one of the very few brand new books I bou...

• Multimedia Musings

  by sonnyboo December 8, 2010
  I own the multimedia playing device called the WDTV from Western Digital. I love this thing. I first bought it for the Cowtown Film Series (in 2009) because I hate playing things off an optical disc at a screening in the movie theater. DVD’s and even Blu Rays have inherent flaws in that the videos a...

• Industrial Light + Starz

  by sonnyboo December 7, 2010
  In posting on the forums, I stumbled across a discussion on a Starz documentary on George Lucas’ effects company INDUSTRIAL LIGHT + MAGIC, aka just ILM. This 1 hour HD doc studied how this ambitious company shaped movies over the last 35 years. It was an amazing set of interviews and footage. Starz ...

• Monsters

  by sonnyboo December 6, 2010
  This past Saturday I got to see an indie film from the UK about two U.S. people in Central America called MONSTERS, which is sci fi-lite. The UK director Gareth Edwards is known for making big FX for small $$$. This feature length film shows his abilities in spades.The movie is slow paced, which fo...

• The Progenitor of Processes and Statistics

  by sonnyboo December 5, 2010
  I’m doing an experiment with this new web series. We already met our goal of 1,000 views on YouTube for the first video. I wanted to put the emphasis on the YouTube videos just because the quality has vastly improved on this site in the last 2 years compared to where they were in 2008. It’s just th...

• Passionately Preoccupied

  by sonnyboo November 19, 2010
  These new video blogs are popular with people I know. Maybe it’s the slightly exaggerated “me” or maybe people like seeing cruel and unusual punishment towards an Intern, but they are growing in popularity as we go. Alex’s idea of doing this combined with our team writing coalesce into combination ...

• Top 5 MAKING OF sites (2010)

  by sonnyboo November 16, 2010
  MAKING OFhttp://makingof.com/Natalie Portman is one of the founders of this site with tons of great EPK videos of behind the scenes kind of things.ART OF THE TITLE SEQUENCEhttp://www.artofthetitle.com/Art of the Title Sequence has great info and in depth interviews and videos on the title sequences ...

• a confounded nuisance

  by sonnyboo November 15, 2010
  Friday night I interviewed a childhood hero, actor Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica (both versions). He was doing an acting seminar in Cincinnati and we wanted to do a story for FRAMELINES. He was a really down to earth, nice guy. It turns out we know a few of the same people and that was a ...