http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/ A multi-media forum aimed at aspiring and professional interactive story-tellers, re-mixable film-makers, game developers, VJs and anybody interested in sampling and re-versioning digital stories. Here you will find all the latest news &amp; information on Remixable Films, Live Cinema &amp; Movie MOD'ing, as well as a fragrant variety of tech-tips and bytes &amp; pieces. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:30:41 -0000 Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:46:00 -0000 http://images.remixablefilms.multiply.com/logo http://remixablefilms.multiply.com 100 100 <br> <br> http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?...<br><br> <p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>Light Writing</b> is an emerging form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion" title="Stop motion">stop motion</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation" title="Animation">animation</a> wherein still images captured using the technique known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_painting" title="Light painting">Light painting</a> or light drawing are put in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence" title="Sequence">sequence</a> thereby creating the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion" title="Optical illusion">optical illusion</a> of movement for the viewer.</p><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lightwriting_1.jpg" class="image" title="A still from a recent example of light writing"><img alt="A still from a recent example of light writing" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/13/Lightwriting_1.jpg/180px-Lightwriting_1.jpg" class="thumbimage" border="0" height="120" width="180"></a> A still from a recent example of light writing <br><br><h2>Technique</h2> <p>By sequencing stills taken with 4-30 second <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_%28photography%29" title="Exposure (photography)">exposure</a> as lights are moved in and through the frame this effect creates the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion" title="Optical illusion">optical illusion</a> that the light is moving. Zooms, pans, tilts, and most other motion camera techniques can be applied with standard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion" title="Stop motion">stop motion</a> approaches. The most common technique is to capture multiple second exposures of light moving from one point to another in the frame. As the sequence is built the beginning and ending points of the lights motion can be moved along a given path. When the pictures are put in sequence the light seems to move with classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion" title="Stop motion">stop motion</a> jitter. Most commonly, all of the work is done <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_camera" title="In camera">in camera</a> at pr... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/31/PiKa_PiKa_Light_Graffiti_or_Light_Writing Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:46:00 -0000 Checked out Blinkbox after reading an article praising its business model. "Watch classic movies online, remix scenes and share with your friends." It didn't really live up to the hype. For starters, the videos didn't play at all on my default browser (Firefox 2). This may be something to do with the Microsoft framework the site is built with but pretty clueless for a start-up to not support the reigning open source browser. Secondly, the touted remix capability is simply the ability to add a text message to a pre-edited clip. On the positive side, if you can view the video, the UI is nice and clean and its fun to be able to browse key scenes of classic movies. However, it remains to be seen if blinkbox can convert this into anything that retains eyeballs. I should be the target audience (certainly all the films on the homepage were ones I knew well and would happily revisit/remix. But the proposition is pretty thin at present. Yet another site touting 'interactive' 'web... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/reviews/item/27 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:28:24 -0000 <a href="http://www.ebookhelper.blogspot.com/ " target="_blank"><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh253/aijantha/topdah.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://www.ebookhelper.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh253/aijantha/52trxu4.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/links/item/33/Free_Download_Ebooks Sat, 31 May 2008 12:52:31 -0000 Why bother getting an A/V artist to remix your stuff if there's a site that can the work for you automatically? That's the premise of so-hot-right-now start-up Animato. Select your images and music and let the 'patent pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology' create a MTV-style video for you. Sony and others have been distributing automatic presentation software along with their hardware for years (think instant slideshow) and more recently, companies like Slide have capitalised on this market, supplying a range of widgets for your social networking site de jour, but auto-video creation remains in its infancy. Animoto has been generating considerable buzz in tech circles for its cloud computing backend, which led to a recent cash injection from Amazon, but it remains to be seen whether the aesthetic provided by their system can keep pace with oh-so-fickle audiences and their taste in visual effects. Nothing dates a video more than 'the effects'... What's certain is... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/video/item/18/Animato_scales_up_big_remix_with_the_help_of_Amazon Wed, 28 May 2008 04:46:08 -0000 <p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.opencut.org/images/thumbs/2_thumb.jpg" border="0"></img>It had to happen..Here's a short film competition where budding editors compete to produce the definitive cut of a short film from over 160Gb of rushes. Shot on the RED 1 camera so nice quality material. Go fer it...</p><p><a href="http://www.opencut.org/">http://www.opencut.org/</a></p><p>"OpenCut is a completely open-source film competition designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way. As there is no "one way" to tell a story, so too can stories benefit from being re-edited and re-told from many different vantage points and perspectives.<br><br>The winner of OpenCut 1.0 will receive a brand new AJA IO HD from Silverado. They will also be recognized as the "editor-of-record" at IMDB and will have their cut submitted to multiple film festivals."<br><br><br><br></br></br></br></br></br></br></p><p>Entry costs US$25</p> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/30/Open_Cut_1.0_-_Suzannah Wed, 21 May 2008 00:15:22 -0000 NIN go one step further in their pursuit of a two-way relationship with fans. Re-mixable multi-tracks and releases are nothing new for these guys if you've been following their exploits the last couple of years. What is fairly new though is the polished remix site giving fans access to Logic, Ableton and WAV multitrack originals and remixes. <a href="http://remix.nin.com/">http://remix.nin.com/</a> Oh yes, and their new album The Slip is entirely CC-licensed. While not as immediately satisfying as some of their older work, their trademark murky groove starts to grow on you by the end. The stand-out tracks for me were the last two - The Four Of Us Are Dying and Demon Seed.Some will question whether NIN have used this CC release as an excuse to put out substandard material but I'm not complaining. The experiment continues... <a href="http://theslip.nin.com/">http://theslip.nin.com/</a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/reviews/item/26 Thu, 15 May 2008 07:06:58 -0000 Anyone fancy reviewing this new Flash mashup tool for the group? <a href="http://www.searchles.com/misc/remash">http://www.searchles.com/misc/remash</a> .M. http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/notes/item/44 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:32:35 -0000 It takes two to make a mix... the Powerhouse Museum Sydney joins The US Library of Congress in releasing image collections with no known copyright restrictions onto Flickr.<br><br>While the maximum resolution on offer is 1024 pixels wide at the moment, it is great to see more institutions taking advantage of new forms of distribution and opening up their collections.<br><br><a href="http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices">http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices</a><br> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/29/Flickr_Commons Tue, 8 Apr 2008 04:49:29 -0000 i wanted to make a movie... a spielbergian movie. i have no decent camera. that's why i i tried to learn animation. i made a humble few. i started learning 3d last october, 2007... and here are some of my lucky mistakes... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/photos/album/7/3d_art_by_ron_sapinoso Wed, 5 Mar 2008 03:32:51 -0000 Now that the Mac version of Skype supports public chats I thought I'd explore whether there's any interest in having one for this group. <h1 style="padding: 50px 10px 9px 10px !important;margin: 0 !important;font: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;font-weight: bold !important;color: #999999 !important; background: transparent url(http://download.skype.com/share/publicchat/snippet_head_blue.png) left top no-repeat !important;"><a style="color: #006699 !important;text-decoration: none !important;" href="http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?chat&amp;skypename=lucyvoloi&amp;topic=Re-mixable+films&amp;blob=BKza_XrNCqVpmJbNz5xcEljIxuPt1cxqMBBGS8Nf5Y8Ie3L15uiow8-TL26Zbw">Re-mixable films</a> hosted by <a style="color: #006699 !important;text-decoration: none !important;" href="skype:lucyvoloi?info">lucyvoloi</a>.</h1><p style="margin: 0 10px 10px 10px!important;"><a href="http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?chat&amp;skypename=lucyvoloi&amp;topic=Re-mixable+films&amp;blob=BKza_XrNCqVpmJbNz5xcEljIxuPt1cxqMBBGS8Nf5Y8Ie3L15uiow8-TL26Zbw" style="color: #006699 !important; background: transparent url(http://download.skype.com/share/publicchat/chat_icon.png) left center no-repeat !important;padding-left: 20px !important;display: block !important;">Join now</a></p><hr style="margin: 5px 10px !important;height: 1px !important;background: #cccccc !important;border: none;" /><p style="margin: 0 10px 10px 10px!important;">Chat about what's on your mind. <a href="http://www.skype.com/go/publicchats" style="font-size: 9px; color: #006699 !important;">More about public chats</a>.</p> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/notes/item/43 Mon, 3 Mar 2008 04:02:48 -0000 Thanks to Michel Gondry's latest flick "Be Kind Rewind" fan films are back in the spotlight. Do you think this will create a larger audience for what we've talked about in this group? <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/film-fans-put-themselves-in-the-picture/2008/02/19/1203190819018.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/film-fans-put-themselves-in-the-picture/2008/02/19/1203190819018.html</a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/notes/item/42 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:16:26 -0000 <a href="http://lucyvoloi.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/R7oHDAoKCBoAAFl5adk1"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.lucyvoloi.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R7oHDAoKCBoAAFl5adk1/bluray1.jpg?et=GtnkXd8Ul2uMJxx8qpWuCw&amp;nmid=" border="0"></a><br>So the war's over... apparently. Those of you working with HD have probably read all the announcements about the studios jumping ship but what could be more interesting news is that the HD DVD authoring geeks are moving into the BD-J developer communities.<br><br>What's BD-J? A Java development environment for Blu-Ray which means that you can create far more sophisticated games and interactivity for a Blu-Ray film title. Not to say that all (or even most) of the kinks have been ironed out yet. A few weeks ago, the 'scandal' of non-compliant Blu-Ray players emerged (if you bought early, you lose) and getting the BD-J interactivity to work on the earliest Blu-Ray titles (like Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl) was a matter of potluck.<br><br>But I feel a lot more comfortable now making the prediction that BD-J powered entertainment is going to explode in the next couple of years. We're at the beginning of a new medium. Sony DADC (one of the original members of the Blu-Ray consortium th... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/28/Blu-ray_and_BD-J Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:30:45 -0000 AV-Jam is an application that generates music and video that you can control while it plays. It is collaborative interactive artwork, enabling its subjects to jointly control the music and video using a network of control surfaces connected to a computer. Clever algorithmic processes generate music and video that shape the result by adjusting parameters on the AV-Jam interface. The user is able to jam just like a musician, but without the need for complex instrumental skills. It is particularly aimed at providing access to novice users. Though the AV-Jam system was designed to promote meaningful engagement with media art for people of all ages, it is specifically designed to encourage collaboration between children by facilitating the creation of media rich experiences that might otherwise require more advanced skills of a DV and VJ. <a href="http://www.creativityandcognition.com/betaspace/">http://www.creativityandcognition.com/betaspace/</a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/calendar/item/10039/AV_Jam Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:16:28 -0000 'Videos that mix avant garde edge with pop culture cool' There is a very fun and free remix exhibition on at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. This clip from an Ars Electronic commission where Marclay demos just about every way to muck about with a record. <a href="http://www.acmi.net.au">http://www.acmi.net.au</a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/video/item/17/Replay_Christian_Marclay Tue, 5 Feb 2008 04:57:02 -0000 "Rejoice: the embrace of “openness” by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something we’ll see more of in 2008." So says The Economist.... <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912">http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912</a> Let's hope the same applies for Hollywood as well. Happy new year everyone. Keep on on re-mixing! http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/notes/item/41 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:27:07 -0000 <P>This article in the NY times discusses the vastly increasing costs of storing digital film assets over the old process - chuck your film negatives, annotated scripts, photographs in a cold storage vault. The point being of course that no-one wants to throw away material and the volumes being produced through digital processes are increasing rapidly.</P> <P>All the more material for re-mixing and re-versioning. Who knows, perhaps Hollywood will eventually twig to the idea of letting the fans help with the archiving.</P> <P><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/business/media/23steal.html?_r=1&amp;ex=1356066000&amp;en=0992396878a47c49&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;oref=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/business/media/23steal.html?_r=1&amp;ex=1356066000&amp;en=0992396878a47c49&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss&amp;oref=slogin</A></P> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/27/The_Afterlife_is_expensive_for_movies Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:18:15 -0000 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/26/Tracey_Moffatt/531/">Tracey Moffatt</a> is one of Australia's most successful modern artists. Her 2003 exhibition of photography and films, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, set so-far-unbeaten attendance records. Although primarily known for work she shot herself, for several years Moffatt and her editor collaborator, Garry Hillberg, have been making video collages using Hollywood movies. Yesterday saw the launch of a book <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Moving+Images+of+Tracey+Moffatt">The Moving Images of Tracey Moffatt</a>. I went along to hear her thoughts on what she calls montage, and what we here would describe as mash-ups. Moffatt has made several montages, starting with Lip (2000) which edits scenes of servants 'talking back' to their masters. The most recent one is Doomed (2007) which re-edits disaster movies. My favourite one is <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend/features/gallery/gallery2005/gallery/moffatt1.htm">Love (2003)</a> which edits together romance from 153 films in 21 minutes. The samples are (deliberately) low-fi with multi-generational VHS copies acting as the source for much of the work. This is not just an aesthetic ch... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/reviews/item/25 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:09:12 -0000 Ever thought that the millions of images broadcast on television could one day be an archive of human behaviour? Explore that idea as you step into the multi-sensory excitement of interactive 3D cinema. T_Visionarium's constellation of video-streams responds to your whim, spinning a fascinating narrative web made up of over 20,000 clips from Australian television broadcasts. A kind of visual search-engine using the latest advances in multi-media database technologies and high-volume video-streaming, T_Visionarium assembles clusters of information according to the pathways you choose to explore. Be amazed by the sheer volume of audio-visual information you can commandeer as you are literally surrounded by hundreds of clips moving in three dimensions over a curved screen 30 metres long and three and a half metres high. Developed at the UNSW Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, T_Visionarium opens the door to a whole new future of viewer-image interaction. Experience it to ... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/calendar/item/10038/T_Visionarium_-_interactive_3D_cinema Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:52:27 -0000 Yet another Director's Cut is on its way, from the man who invented them. Disclaimer - I haven't seen this but I'm reviewing the film less than the concept of ongoing re-releases. The SFFMedia blog is debating whether or not this is a cynical or artist move but for my part, why not? Clearly there is an audience for Ridley Scott's movies and why shouldn't the artist himself keep tweaking if there's a market out there. I remember seeing the Director's Cut in 92 and thinking how contemporary it looked. It sounds as if this new reversioning will introduce the story to a whole new audience, perhaps with unnecessary violence and gore (why does Deckard only kill women?) but I'm looking forward to seeing that opening sequence yet again. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://sffmedia.com/content/view/147/37/">http://sffmedia.com/content/view/147/37/</a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/reviews/item/24 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:41:39 -0000 Book a free place online at www.insighteducation.org.uk/Education.htm. Interactivity is a buzzword across all visual media at the moment with new technologies providing opportunities to involve audiences in the creation and production of multi-platform narratives that enter their lives as never before. So, what does interactivity mean and is increased interactivity entirely desirable? How can you use these new tools to your advantage and the advantage of your work? This special industry panel event will include makers, theorists and exhibitors of work in film and video, computer games, theatre and television that has an 'interactive' edge or agenda so that we can explore what the term means for different media and whether it is a new phenomenon or an age-old phenomenon in different guises. We will explore whether 'increased' interactivity is an advance over more 'passive' audience involvement and to what extent the traditional boundaries between cinema, computer games, theatre an... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/calendar/item/10037/Audience_Interactivity_in_Cinema_Games_Theatre_and_TV Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:59:58 -0000 This GDC session from the upcoming Feb 08 conference sounds interesting. Anyone planning to attend who could report back? <a href="https://www.cmpevents.com/GD08/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=6226">https://www.cmpevents.com/GD08/a.asp?option=C&V=11&SessID=6226</a> Mashups, Mods & Machinima: Who Owns the Rights to Your Blood, Sweat & Tears Speaker: Sean Kane (Attorney, Drakeford & Kane LLC) Date/Time: TBD Track: Business and Management Secondary Track: Visual Arts Experience Level: All Session Description This session will initially summarize the nature and differences of mashups, mods and machinima. The body of the presentation will be devoted to examining the copyright laws and other legal issues inherent in each of the above forms. The presentation will answer questions about the rights and responsibilities of content owners versus creators of mashups, mods and machinima. Attendees will learn of the profit potential in exploiting their rights to these new interactive entertainment forms. Specifically, the session will cover ownership rights in t... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/calendar/item/10036/Mashups_Mods_Machinima Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:38:51 -0000 Creative Commons Australia has launched a project to apply the lessons learned from music and video remixing to literature.<br><br><em style="font-style: italic;">Remix My Lit</em> will host quality literature that not only writers, but any creator - poet, musician, filmmaker, graphic novelist, visual artist - can share, remix and reuse legally.<br><br><a href=http://www.remixmylit.com/>http://www.remixmylit.com/</a> <br> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/26/remix_my_lit Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:57:45 -0000 This article in the current issue of Wired is an exciting insight into how dojinshi - nonprofessional self-published manga - is flourishing alongside original work. <a href=http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga>http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-11/ff_manga</a> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/notes/item/40 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:21:15 -0000 <img style="width: 171px; height: 176px;" class="alignright" src="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/images/opensocial.jpg" border="0">The launch of Google's OpenSocial API may prove to be a milestone in the development of the Web. With the notable exception of Facebook, social networks are lining up to express their support for an "open" (will reserve judgment on this) mechanism for linking communities together. <br><br>Myspace has just announced that they are going to adopt this which begs the question - what about the rest of the networks out there? Facebook? The Yahoo family of companies, like Flickr, Jumpcut? Multiply? Certainly this sounds like a golden opportunity for film-makers to link up their audiences and spread them remixable bits around.<br><br><a href="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/">http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/</a><br><br><a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/11/myspace-joins-googles-opensocial.html">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/11/myspace-joins-googles-opensocial.html</a><br><br> http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/journal/item/25/Googles_Open_Social_API Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:07:30 -0000 "this is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short. if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license, with any money that's generated being given to the humane society. i hope that you find what you're looking for, http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/links/item/32/Film_Music_free_from_Moby Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:32:18 -0000 Based in Philadelphia, Lance Weiler has assembled a great collection of tips and tricks for the indie film-maker. I met the guy last week at the London Film Festival. Onto his third feature film project, Lance is a real DIY pioneer having pioneered all kinds of cool stuff. Check it out remixables... http://remixablefilms.multiply.com/links/item/31/workbookproject.com Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:31:52 -0000