CinematogReel

Now, the 2nd Demo Reel of mine has been posted at YouTube (and thus, at this website), this time for Cinematography. It's worth celebrating with a shout: Hooray!

The thing that always takes awhile with these projects isn't necessarily the choice of what clips to put in 'em, but composing the musical soundtrack for them. I never want the reason the demo reel can't be shown merely to be due to an unoriginal musical piece, and I like to write music! It can just take awhile. This soundtrack was particularly experimental in that there are 7 beats per measure...

Ah hell, here's the 1st Demo Reel, for Directing, to boot!

3rd Site, Part II

So far, with the exception of a single pop-up window that was not a repeat occurrence, this 3rd site experiment is working well. Thus, I've decided to put the "Z site," aka Garett's Moving Ratings [and more], into the new location as well.

This includes the start of my Oscar Predictions for 2009, complete with a new design that works a bit better than last year's did, however creative it was. I've mentioned in a previous News Blog entry some possible nominees for Best Pic, but lately, there's been a LOT of buzz for Kathryn Bigelow, the Director of The Hurt Locker. Not only is she from San Carlos (the town I grew up in), but she also happens to be an ex-wife (prior to Linda Hamilton) of James Cameron (think Titanic).

Anyhow, her film is getting rave reviews, and she herself is getting serious talks about becoming the 4th female to become a Best Director Oscar nominee. Three cheers from a fellow San Carlan!

Lightbox 'n' Logo

To spiffy up the Washington D.C. scrapbook image transfer to GPicturama, I've now tried something I've never done before: utilize the official Lightbox scripts and a Javascript location menu!

Aside from all of THAT, I also created a logo image for all of GPicturama! It's a montage of several previous GPicturama images over the years, including one where you can see the tip of my nose and my glasses so that my identity is added to the logo.

It should be worked into more GPicturama pages in the near future... In the meantime, it's in the main page, the Washington D.C. [set of] page[s], and in the test page I first tried the Lightbox scripting experiment out on from 2002!

Janitorial / 2000+!

This blog has 2 topics. First, I've done some janitorial work with the Media Layer that I'm still in the process of adding to all of the movie pages.

More specifically, I've added some additional pro PNG images to the same concept of the loading spinner & what's in store: signs representing both Under Construction and Caution (the latter is only used thus far for Abrupt's adult oriented content). We'll see how well this experiment works.

On a completely different note (this is the 2nd topic), in the past day on YouTube, Scenes from Being John Malkovich has surpassed 2000 views! It currently has 2016 and counting: it's the first movie from Thomas Productions to achieve this!

It Is Written

This past evening, Slumdog Millionaire and Milk won WGAs for Best Adapted and Original Screenplays, respectively. This continues to confirm Slumdog's destiny of reaching Best Pic status, and that Milk is bound to win at least 1 or 2 significant Oscars as well -- perhaps Sean Penn will get his 2nd? I simply must wait until my Oscar Party on the 22nd for the final results...

While it may not be fate, the new code for the redesigned movie web pages has certainly been written [by yours truly]. I decided that it might look better to put links regarding various available media at the side, rather than have the media occupy half of the page from the getgo. It all now appears in a media layer once the links are clicked...

So far, it's only been officially uploaded into the 2005 movies, Abrupt and The King Who Rained, as an experiment. More should be uploaded soon...

Sugar Kings

First: Tech problem fixed, and news blogs can resume!

Both "Tons of Sugar Cereal" and "The King Who Rained," the latter of which is above this paragraph, are now viewable on YouTube and are each embedded on their respective pages on this site.  Check 'em out!

Also currently in the works: 1/3 of the Demo Reels are completed, and will be uploaded once they all have been created.

Lastly, at Garett's Movie Ratings part of the site, movie reviews are being experimented with...

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1st Day of Quick Links

On this first [hot!] day of summer, it's yet another opportunity to experiment with html.  Thus comes the birth of Quick Links, which is now visible on the the bottom right side of the main page.  We'll see how well it works o'er the next several days...  Try it out!

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All Grayed Out

In the continued and everlasting process of learning about web pages, the concept of layer opacity sprung up just today. It can be a very useful technique when used well, and the idea of graying out a web page while certain layers are shown is one such method.

This is being tested on the page for Photagrizzly Man, specifically the links for More Movies and the Names Database. When either of those links are clicked and the appropriate layer appears, the remainder of the page will be darkened, or "grayed out." Until something new happens within that layer, even clicking the close box, nothing else will be accessible. This is an experiment... Try it out!

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