| Ed Wood Star Wars 1 |
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What if Ed Wood directed Star Wars and ran
out of money in the middle of production?
I spent an entire year learning After
Effects, keying, compositing and working on
this short. The goal was to have it done by
the time the final Star Wars film came out,
for the festivals and Comicon.
The rocket effects in this sequence are done
in Bryce, which is a 3d landscape program.
Not made for animation at all. It took two
weeks of tweaking to get the cheesy shots
that you see here today. I have since
purchased Alias Maya and taken the
Introduction to Maya course at UCLA
Extension. Now I know how to do the rocket
stuff, I just haven't had the time to do it
properly.
I'm proud of my hologram and lightsaber
effects, both of which I do the hard way.
The unforseen hours of time involved when I
took on the job of putting in all the special
effects myself, complicated by the arrival of
my first-born son (He is currently running
around my office, shouting "Jamie shaking
Blue Maraca!") resluted in the fact that I
STILL haven't shot a SINGLE ENDING TO ANY OF
THE THREE STORIES. The best I could do was
have Lee Presson, who plays Ed Wood, come
over for some quick greenscreen pickups,
pleading for completion funds. This gave me
an ending that gave the illusion of a
finished film and I was able to show it at
the Star Wars Feeb Fest in 2005. After that,
partial goal achieved, I shelved the film and
enjoyed being a father for a year, keeping my
creativity limited to doing a television
commercial and a couple wedding videos for
friends.
I have posted five sequences here, cut out of
the timeline in my NLE. This is the
unfinished opening of the film. If it was
just a Star Wars fan film, I could show it
almost anywhere. But since I have infringed
on Ed Wood and Tim Burton (and Howard Shore
for the title music) There is no legitimate
contest in which I can enter this film
Someday I may go ahead and edit more and post
them in a serial fashion. For now, though,
other projects loom and need to be conquored.
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Affichage : 26887
Durée : 346 s |
| The Wood Part 1 |
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The story takes place in Inglewood,
California, a suburb of Los Angeles commonly
referred to by its inhabitants as "The Wood."
It begins as a marriage is about to go
underway, but the groom, Roland (Diggs), has
disappeared and it's up to his two best
friends, Mike (Epps) and Slim (Jones), to
find him. Interspersed with scenes of their
search are a series of flashbacks featuring
the three friends during their junior high
and high school years (played in their
younger years by Duane Finley, Sean Nelson,
and Trent Cameron).
Tags : Omar Epps Taye Diggs The Wood Sanaa Lathan |
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Affichage : 4109
Durée : 600 s |
| Cher Knock On Wood |
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This video is dedicated to Tamara....
Art photos of Cher from one of her lost
albums from the 70's plus others, along with
the song, "Knock On Wood" from her lost 1976
album, "I'd Rather Believe In You". By lost
I mean it has never been released on CD. A
little history about this album.
In 1976 Cher was married to Gregg Allman (she
married him right after her divorce from
Sonny Bono was final, on a weekend trip to
Harrah's Las Vegas thanks to Bill Harrah's
kind offer of a free plane trip. She would
file for divorce from Gregg 11 days later and
then recoinciled when she discovered her
pregnancy) and doing the second Sonny and
Cher show after asking Sonny to rejoin her as
she was over wealmed doing her successful
solo variety show CHER on CBS. Cher was VERY
pregnant with her son Elijah Blue Allman
during recording. The photos used on the
album cover were actually taken for another
of her lost Warner Brother's albums, Stars.
Since she was so pregnant she did not wanna
have her picture taken. So here she was doing
a television variety show with her
ex-husband, pregnant by her second husband
and all of this was on television every week!
Cher wore her revealing Bob Mackie gowns,
sang, danced, and did comedy sketches. I
remember one week she was so far along they
had to put her in a bathtub full of bubbles
to hide her expanding tummy. Elijah Blue
Allman was born on July 10, 1976. Elijah,
also known by his stage name Phillip Exeter
Blue I, is the half brother of Chastity Bono,
Delilah Island Allman, and Devon Allman . He
is the lead singer and guitarist for the rock
band Deadsy which consists of Alec Pure on
drums, Dr. Nner on synthesizer, Carlton
Megalodon on Z-tar, and Jens Funke on bass.
At the age of 13, he toured as a guitarist
with Cher on her "Heart of Stone Tour"; he
was given his first guitar by Kiss bassist
Gene Simmons who Cher was dating at the
time.. Deadsy released two albums: 2002's
Commencement and Phantasmagore, which came
out on August 22, 2006.
Elijah has said on MTV in interview on a
program about children of famous rock
musicians that, "I respect The Allman
Brothers Band very much, but I've always been
more into Black Sabbath, David Bowie, and
Metallica."
It was announced in February 2007 that Elijah
is working on a solo record.......
Cher raised Chastity and Elijah as a single
mother....
Cher was on the cover of every tabliod you
can name every single week!
Here is the track listing for the album and
its production and staff credits.
Side 1
Long Distance, Love Affair
I"d Rather Believe In You
I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)
Silver Wings & Golden Rings
Flash Back
Side 2
It's A Cryin' Shame
Early Morning Strangers
Knock On Wood
Spring
Borrowed Time
Produced by Steve Barry & Michael Omartian
Arranged and conducted by Michael Omartian
Musicians
All Keyboard Michael Omartian
Drums Jeff Porcarno
Bass David Hungate, Lee Sklar, Scotty Edwards
Guitars Dean Parks, Ben Benay, Lee Ritenour,
Victor Feldman, Steve Barri
Harmonica Ben Benay
Horns Chuck Findlay, Steve Madaio, Nino
Tempo, Steve Douglas and Lew McCreary
The Sid Sharp Stings
Concertmaster Sid Sharp
Backgroud Vocals
Ginger Blake, Julian Tillman, Maxine
Williard, Jim Haas, Kerry Chater, Michael
Omartian, Stephanie Spring, Gene Nelson,
Michael Price, Dan Walsh
Recorded at ABC Recording Studios Inc.
Engineer Phil Kaye
Assistant engineer Howard Gale
Album Coordinator Karen White
And a special thanks to Elijah, for waiting
until the day after I finished my
album....Cher.
Art Direction by Ed Thrasher
Photograpy By Norman Seeff
This song was later recorded by Ami Stewart
as a dance track and was a BIG hit. Wonder
where Ami Stewart is now?
It's like thunder,
It's like lightening,
The way you love me is frightening...
I better knock...
On Wood!
Baby!
Tags : Cher Diva Actress Singer Bono legend Lost Album Id Rather Believe In You Knock On Wood Ami Stewart 1976 |
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Affichage : 64344
Durée : 207 s |
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