Category — Sony

It seems the Wachowski brothers, responsible for The Matrix trilogy, are going to start shooting a live action version of “Speed Racer”. And John Goodman & Susan Sarandon are set to star as Speed’s parents according to Pajiba. But wait for it, Emile Hirsch is on tap to play the title role! I thought we learned that Emile isn’t leading man material. Didn’t anyone see The Girl Next Door? Timothy Olyphant is the best thing in that movie and he plays a theif/pimp! I’m just imagining this scenario as something cooked up on “Entourage” or something. Not anything that’s actually happening.

Pajiba also has buzz that Stephen King’s Christine will be remade as well. I would be curious to see a student film remake with a crappy Sony minidv camera. Not some glitzy Hollywood update possibly directed by Eli Roth or some other hack. At least a student would have respect for the genre. Plus he/she would be very limited and thus the effects would be hilariously cheap.

That story & film is pure camp and they should stay that way. I liked the “Futurama” parody with the whole WereCar, but that’s as far as I’ll let it go. Animation can muck with cult movies and stories. There’s no need for full-blown remakes really.

The market has become saturated with hard-disk camcorders for some time. But recently, I’ve been reading up on the HDV camcorder that has an internal memory feature.

Take the Sony DCR-SR62 for example. It boasts having a 35mm equivalent camera mode (whatever that means) & a 30gb memory storage. It has a one-touch disc burning feature, plus a memory stick slot to easily connect the footage to a computer.

On the downside, it only mentions compatibility with Windows, but I’m sure it can be hooked up to an Apple computer too. I don’t think Sony could maintain its hold on the market without having some functionality with Macs.

I’m still a DV tape girl, but with HD perhaps it’s better to put everything on a chip. I could just transfer ito a hard drive from the camera directly. It kinda makes sense. These cameras start at about $569, which is a bit a pricey for a hard-disk camera. But it’s HD, so I guess the price tag isn’t really off the mark.

The YouTube Video Awards were announced this week. I have no idea who the judges were (perhaps the creators of YouTube). I did know 2 videos from the list: the omnipresent OkGo video for “Here We Go Again” & the Ask a Ninja series. That Smosh video wasn’t that funny, but it was succint with the jokes.

I can’t believe that LonelyGirl15 didn’t win, they didn’t even say the runner-ups. Guess with so many videos uploaded daily on the site, it’s hard to keep track. They did say it’s been a “pioneering year for online video” made by ordinary people with low-priced camcorders.

I can’t believe there are so many “Ask a Ninja” videos. All he does is pontificate on subjects from the point of view of a ninja. I’m sure he gets a friend to film him with a Sony camcorder or something and just shoots a bunch of long takes.

Check out this one about Ninja Love.

Zack Snyder, director of Dawn of the Dead, makes his mark on the 2007 movie season today with 300. It’s based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel.

Doesn’t the trailer make it look ridiculously epic? I know it’s based on the Spartan war with the Persians. It’s historical and everything. Still, I expect tons of blood. I mean the whole concept is about them being up against ridiculous odds. The special f/x look pretty sweet. This would probably be hard to make with your everyday sony digital camcorders. Every frame of the movie went through a type of “crush” post-image effect that brings out the black content of the frame. They truly enhanced the movie going experience.

That certainly sounds expensive, I wonder what the budget was. We’ll see if it holds up at the box office.

I was standing at this godawful concert (panic! at the disco)when I first saw this video. It came on this random Helio music channel. I love me some TV on the Radio and this vid definitely hit the spot. I was surrounded by all these mallpunks and emo kids trying to resist the urge to hit someone. And TVOTR just evened things out for me. Helped find my zen place.

The video was directed by Jon Watts. It looks like he shot most it wth a sony digital video camcorder, but then did an effect on it to make it look like a silent movie. Any type of camera’s footage can be manipulated with After Effects and other programs. Using a panasonic camcorder digital effects like Sepia tone could give you a similar style to your images.

I love TVOTR’s motto about just making music and art with friends. They just sorta stumbled together as a band. Tunde, the singer, is also an actor. I saw on Netflix he starred in some indie movie called Jump Tomorrow. And he directed a music video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs too. All the guys in the band are like renaissance men. I guess it’s all art to them.