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The Grippers

You ever have trouble with not slipping in the studio? no? too bad I solved the issue.

These shoes have pins on the bottom of them. For optimal studio floor scratching and destruction of electrical cords.

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Blade and Sorcery is an early access VR game. It’s main draw is its physics based combat.

I less want to review the game (which I believe is almost perfect) and I more so want to talk about how it effect our brains.

For as long as video games have been a thing, the media has been blaming it for acts of violence. If Call of Duty existed during the cold war you bet that Fox news would have blamed the Cuban missile crisis on it.

Fair warning, this blog post is very sassy. But I enjoyed writing it.

So, I dislike the super bowl and everything it stands for. This includes the ads. The commercials this year were especially insane and surreal. I chose the ones that exemplified this the most. This assignment reminded me why I will never do any commercial or corporate work. I would rather be broke and dead.

Anyway!

I watched

Drumstick

Doordash

Microsoft Copilot

StateFarm

Popeyes

I’m choosing to tackle Popeyes and Drumsticks because they both disturbed me deeply.

Popeyes

So Ken Jeong is unfrozen (Why was he frozen?) Popeyes is somehow shoe horned into it. Then we go into a montage of the most random assortment of clips to the sound of the song Turn Down for What.

PROS

Ken Jeong is in community. I like community so that’s a pro I guess. That’s why they hire these people.

It’s fast paced, gets to the point quickly.

CONS

It… well it makes zero sense. I’m left with questions, however the questions are not interesting enough for me to remember this commercial.

It hardly shows the actual product in a satisfying light. It also implies drones can give me popeyes. I do not think this is true.

Drumsticks

So Eric Andre is on a plane, somebody asks for a doctor… a doll then raises his hand? Then he gives Eric Andre a drumstick from his suitcase of them and everybody is happy. Eric Andre doesn’t seem like anything is wrong with him. Why did he need a doctor? Why is this doll alive? Everybody on the plane is then ignoring this man in distress and eats the drumsticks.

PROS

Ice Cream is an easy sell.

Eric Andre. I already know him and know him to be funny.

CONS

So… my assumption from this commercial is that this doll is some sort of cosmic being, he brainwashes these people on the plane with some sort of aura. The people then become a collective hivemind of this cosmic god. And I think Eric Andre is unaffected. This is a con because it makes me fear Drumsticks more so then wants them. This commercial is extremely disturbing even if you disregard my Cosmic Being theory.

The editing is jarring and I never get a good look at the product because it keeps cutting back to the creepy doll.

I brainstormed around 20 ideas. All if which where entirely too ambitius for myself. I settled on an old idea that I would like to retool a bit. An adaption of Lewis C Carols Alice in Wonderland.

I believe this would be great way to gain a strong sence of my aesthetic, practice technical abilities on a budget, and include a lot of people from the community.

I hope to gain more directorial skills in making this. Especially with organizing and scheduling a film shoot.

here is a scene from the script I started.

Alice walks through the forest.
ALICE
Cat? CAT!?
Alice appears in a botanical garden. The Rabbit goes around the corner but Alice is to busy looking at the flowers now to notice.
ALICE (CONT’D)
Who made this place?
I’ll describe the flower’s voice as the “Whitest woman you have ever heard”.
Alice looks down at a flower swaying around like a snake.
ROSE
Well. We all did. She did, and she did, you did sorta, I did, and most importantly. Trista.
ALICE
Who?
ROSE
O! M! G! You don’t know Trista!? Girls!
ALICE
You can… talk?
ROSE
Of course I can talk.
ALICE
No. Right. Of course you can talk.
IRIS
If there’s anyone worth talking to.
DAISY
Or about! Other then Trista.
PANSIES
How do you not know Trista?
ALICE
I just… Don’t.
DAISY
What kind of garden do you come from? One where there’s no Trista?
ALICE
Well, I don’t come from any garden…
DAISY
Oh, do you suppose she’s a wildflower?
ALICE
Oh no, I’m not a wildflower. I’m a huma-
ROSE
What kind of flower are you?
ALICE
I’m not a flower. I’m Alice.
DAISY
That’s a pretty name for a flower.
ROSE
She’s not a flower remember?
DAISY
You have wonderful petals Alice!
ALICE
This is my dress. Once again. Not a flower.
Alice pulls up her dress a bit.
DAISY
Hahaha! Just look at those stems!
IRIS
A little… petite.
ROSE BUD
I think she’s very beautiful…
ROSE
Hey Bud… zip it.
ROSE BUD
Rightoroony.
ALICE
I’m not a flower!
ROSE
Girls. Trista is performing in a bit!
IRIS
Oh Alice you have to stay!
The flowers all murmur about Trista.
ALICE
Is she… a performer!
ROSE
She’s a star!!!
A bell is heard. Curtains are pulled. The flowers all go silent.
ALICE
Is thi-
IRIS
Shut up!!!
Alice goes quiet. She watches the performance.
A woman dance onto stage. TRISTA. Dressed in a flower costume.
She does a poppy dance, singing number. As soon as she begins the flowers SCREAM.
Alice looks unimpressed.
It ends. The flowers all look towards Alice.
ROSE
So?
ALICE
I just… It wasn’t bad…
IRIS
Aha! Just as I suspected! She’s nothing but a common mobile vulgarism!
FLOWERS
Oh no!
ALICE
A what now?
IRIS
a weed!
ALICE
I’m not a weed! I’m a person.
DANDELIONS
Spoken like a weed!
ALICE
That doesn’t make any sense! And aren’t Dandelion’s a weed.
The flowers stop.
TULIP
Um…
DANDELIONS
Look. We payed our dues. Get her!!!

Idea brainstorm

Alice in Wonderland Adaption

Neo Noir done in old noir style. So Retroneo Noir? Thats an oxymoron.

Vampire Goodfellas

Man addicted to protesting but not really into the actual causes

New take on Taxi Driver

After Hours like film set in Seattle

High School Wes Anderson

Redo of first movie She’s a Rainbow

Redo of viking movie I made first quarter.

Guerrilla Film making journal.

My first venture into actual film making and not home movies occurred during my senior year of high school. Do to the nature of my high school I was able to create an independent class and get myself credit for making a movie.

I gathered all my friends. Studied my camera (not enough), figured out sound, wrote a script, story boarded, etc.

At the end of the year I released She’s a Rainbow, a coming of age movie about a high school girl trying to find herself after a breakup.

Sadly… re-watching it now is almost impossible. Do to the fact that I used a lot of licensed music, distributing this movie is not in my best interest. I also have a hard time watching it because of how much progress I made. Audio is iffy in the movie, shots are out of focus, time constraints made me cut many scenes, and I did not have that much time to edit. Despite all this I’m proud of what I created. It really shaped who I am now.

When talking about the difficulty level of video games one game always comes up, From Softwares Dark Souls series. A game series so renouned for its difficulty that its often compared to anything remotley difficult (The Dark Souls of research papers, The Dark Souls of road trips, etc.).

I played these games from a young age, and never really thought about the difficulty. Because from afar the Dark Souls series seems to be difficult for the sake of being difficult, however this is not really the case. From Software is just very uncompromising in their vision. They are a Japanese developer that very much ignores standard game design philosophy. Making games that are difficult because they are different. Not because they are unfair.

Since Dark Souls came out From Soft has created a few other games that are very similiar. Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring, to name a few. This has spawned a whole genre of games by other devs trying to copy this style of game called “Souls-Likes”.

Now most if not all these games are not great. They don’t understand what makes these games special. They are hard for the sake of being hard.

One game finally has managed to break this mold, Lies of P. A dark fantasy take on Pinnochio, heavily inspired by the Bloodborne and Dark Souls.

Lies of P manages to fully understand what makes From Soft game great. Level Design, attention to detail, animations, feedback. Lies of P nail all of this while also having its own identity.

List the tools you will need, in the following three categories.
Tools you currently have.

Storytelling

Leadership

Efficiency/Speed

Alan Wrench

Tools you have that need development.

Recognize Focus

Setting up lights

Understanding my camera

Tools you do not have that you need to learn.

Managing a set

Communicating with people.

Networking

• Pet-friendly interstellar vacation

Your post should include.

1. I would like the image to look like the planet from Interstellar with a dog.
2. Used DEEPAI

Interstellar planet from movie by Christopher Nolan but with dog.

I did with dog but all caps.