Technical Difficulties...

I learn everything from YouTube tutorials. Because of YouTube, I can play "Tong Hua" on the piano, I can create a successful green screen effect on Sony Vegas, and physics are just a little easier for me to wrap my brain around. It's great... Until it's not. Don't you love it when you follow instructions to everything, expect to get awesome results, and then BAM it blows up in your face? I love it too. So much.

Again, back to my little movie project. Some of you may laugh at me for not knowing that there's a better way to render videos than to create HUGE uncompressed files then convert them into awful, pixelated images. Thank you, YouTube, for showing me otherwise. No thank you, YouTube, for giving me false hope while rendering my finished product into an awesome, small, HD file. "An error occurred," you say? 

This guy has always looked like a hard-boiled egg to me.

On a side note, hooray for Marble Hornets finally putting up another post! After weeks of checking every single day for that damned number 64, this post was definitely worth it. I was a little disappointed in #63... Sorry guys, but the only reason people are watching this is because it's scary, not because we love following Tim around. Like a lot of people have commented, the web series has a few low points, but they have definitely gotten back on track with... Oh wait, I won't give anything away :) 

Next post- I mean to get to an actual film sometime soon, so why not start with the best? I have a couple thoughts about Citizen Kane...

Filmmaker's Block

When I was little, I used to wish that I had the ability to grow wings and fly. Either that or have sweet robot-making skills so I could make an army of slaves to do my bidding. I was a strange child.

I guess I've become more practical, because over the years my one wish has become pretty reasonable (to me, anyway). What if I could just survive without sleep? Forever? First of all, my room would be twice as big without any need for a bed. Maybe I could get one of those bowl-shaped chairs and pile my embarrassingly large amount of stuffed animals on it and just cuddle if I was feeling lazy. Second of all, I would actually be productive once in a while. Tonight is just like any other- here I am, it's pretty much midnight, and I've finally mustered the motivation and energy to actually do something. Like editing film. ...Wait what? What is this homework you speak of? Isn't that what lunch periods are for? 

Anyways. Did I mention I'm making a movie? Whoops maybe not. In case you were wondering, you are currently reading the blog of Siena the strange (and senile sometimes), amateur director, screenplay writer, and editor. Not to brag or anything, but I'm also a professional procrastinator. 

Random thought of the day: This is my face when I tried using the "video stabilization effect" from Sony Vegas today-

Voldemort and I also share similarly shaped noses. We're practically siblings.

Shattered Illusions

I'll start with this image and go from there. I spend way too much time looking at Harry Potter memes.

All I see is Harry Potter. Even when I was watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it was just too weird when Tom Felton came on screen without his accent. Obviously, the movie theater where it was showing couldn't handle it either- some time after Felton taunted the apes in the cages, the power in the theater blew, and all of us sitting in our seats had about ten minutes to absorb the shock of seeing a Harry Potter character in another movie. I kid you not. In hindsight, I probably should have looked around the theater for any suspicious looking audience members donning a black cloak and muttering strange words while staring intently at the screen. 

That was a year ago though. For more shattered illusions, see Marble Hornets, then do a little research on the actors involved. Oh dear lord. If you're watching Marble Hornets for the scariness, I highly recommend you don't go looking for the YouTube channel called "troyhasacamera." But if you're stupid like me, watch some of their videos. It reminds me of another Harry Potter meme...

Analogy- Fully functional, caring, & supportive wife: Marble Hornets :: Crazy bitch: troyhasacamera

I personally think that even though troyhasacamera's mini movies are ridiculous and completely random, the editing skills there explain the awesomeness of Marble Hornets. I guess they just got tired of normal acting and horror story plots and just... Did the complete opposite of everything. Sometimes the sound editing is a little too extreme for my taste in the troyhasacamera videos, but the facial expressions and the plots just kill me. At least Marble Hornets will never be scary for me ever again.