By Marc Butterfield
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Most sequels have a tough enough job just living up to their first movie, and this one would have had a big enough job just being a sequel to the original Shazam! What director David F. Sandberg’s first movie had was the novelty of the story of a boy having the power to just speak a magic word and finding himself in his now adult “ultimate form”, plus the power of being nearly Superman’s equal (some would argue even more), a fun novelty super hero movie. The story also had the subplot of young Billy Batson’s quest to find his mother after having been in foster homes his whole life, only to realize that the foster home he is in has provided him with the family he really needed by the end of the movie. In the end, he creates the Shazam family,...
Go See It!
Most sequels have a tough enough job just living up to their first movie, and this one would have had a big enough job just being a sequel to the original Shazam! What director David F. Sandberg’s first movie had was the novelty of the story of a boy having the power to just speak a magic word and finding himself in his now adult “ultimate form”, plus the power of being nearly Superman’s equal (some would argue even more), a fun novelty super hero movie. The story also had the subplot of young Billy Batson’s quest to find his mother after having been in foster homes his whole life, only to realize that the foster home he is in has provided him with the family he really needed by the end of the movie. In the end, he creates the Shazam family,...
- 3/19/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tech giant Microsoft has explained why playing the mega-hit music video for popular US-based singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops.
According to Raymond Chen, Senior Software Engineer, they discovered something bizarre. Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop was not playing the video.
“It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen said.
“The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback,” he added.
Chen mentioned that he is sure “they put a digital version of a ‘Do not remove’ sticker on that audio filter.
The mega-hit “Rhythm Nation” was released as the...
According to Raymond Chen, Senior Software Engineer, they discovered something bizarre. Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop was not playing the video.
“It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen said.
“The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback,” he added.
Chen mentioned that he is sure “they put a digital version of a ‘Do not remove’ sticker on that audio filter.
The mega-hit “Rhythm Nation” was released as the...
- 8/21/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Making a movie about kids with superpowers on a budget of $12 million is no easy feat, especially when you're trying to make sure your effects look convincing. But that's exactly what director Josh Trank managed to do when he put together this year's surprise hit, "Chronicle."
One of the biggest surprises in "Chronicle" was how convincing the special effects looked. A new behind-the-scenes video -- courtesy of The Daily -- shows how the special effects team managed to make the flying look so realistic with the help of the visual effects company Rhythm & Hues. Turns out that the biggest problem the team had was trying to make main characters Andrew, Matt and Steve look as realistic as possible while soaring through the air.
"They actually worked with the director to make some decisions about speed. They did some time ramps on the footage to actually kind of speed up in certain areas,...
One of the biggest surprises in "Chronicle" was how convincing the special effects looked. A new behind-the-scenes video -- courtesy of The Daily -- shows how the special effects team managed to make the flying look so realistic with the help of the visual effects company Rhythm & Hues. Turns out that the biggest problem the team had was trying to make main characters Andrew, Matt and Steve look as realistic as possible while soaring through the air.
"They actually worked with the director to make some decisions about speed. They did some time ramps on the footage to actually kind of speed up in certain areas,...
- 4/5/2012
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Splash Page
If you're reading this, you probably love movie-making as much as I do, the process of creating these films we all love. Our friends at SlashFilm have found a fantastic, but altogether way too short, featurette from The Daily looking at behind-the-scenes of the flying shots in Josh Trank's Chronicle, the superpowers found-footage film that was quite a hit earlier this year. It'll be on DVD in May, packed with more of this I'm sure, but in the meantime this is too cool not to watch. The video features Raymond Chen of Rhythm & Hues, one of the big VFX companies, talking about how they created the various flying scenes. Check it out! Here is The Daily's behind-the-scenes featurette for Josh Trank's Chronicle, posted on YouTube: Three high school student friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives begin to spin out of...
- 4/4/2012
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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