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The boys discuss influential medias in this luckiest of episodes.
- The TGR website gets HACKED by hackers!
- VICE interview with Hackers
- PJ and his wife needed to upgrade to new hosting for their site:
CayenneDiane.com - The old hosting company hotness turned out to not so hot.
- Sean has a complicated relationship with his hosting service.
And the brains behind the sites: wordpress.org - Efram’s upcoming short “Endangered” has a website hosted by Squarespace.
endangeredthemovie.com
squarespace.com
- MAIN TOPIC – What media has influenced or inspired you?
- One listener suggests that vfx artists utilize National Geographic for reference
nationalgeographic.com
- One listener suggests that vfx artists utilize National Geographic for reference
- Efram relates this suggestion to creature design
- Sean compares how filmmakers behind Minority Report met with futurists to create the world of their film:
…with how Star Wars uses fantasy and sometimes silly design to shape their worlds. - SciFi as metaphor and the danger of being too literal in story worlds.
- THX 1138 sets its world so far into the future that anything goes.
- Lucas also uses sound to great effect.
- PJ points out that good directors know how to use sound to help tell the story rather than always relying on expensive visuals.
- Sean describes Ben Burtt’s approach to the lightsaber noise.
- Efram talks about how Ben Burtt redefined sound for movies.
- Tie Fighter Noise – what is it?
- Ben Burtt designs the sounds of The Dark Crystal
- —-BREAK—-
- PJ harkens back to the pre-digital days of Optical Effects
- …to discuss the iconic sounds from Predator.
- PJ’s tired of Crappy Holograms in movies.
- Efram’s beef with the holograms in Jurrassic World.
- Sean references the “Peppers Ghost” trick:
- Our Inspirations:
- Jurrasic Park (original)
- Terminator 2 (mixing practical and digital effects)
- HBO Intro (Making-of)
- Inception (mixing techniques in cool ways)
- The Matrix (introducing bullet-time)
- Fire-breathers bullet time:
- 123D Catch from Autodesk
- Close Encounters
- Poltergeist – Tobe Hooper or Steven Spielberg?
- Jaws – kids
- PJ’s Correction – Sulaco is the ship from Aliens
- PJ also loves Starship Troopers
- Sean was influenced by Outland, cuz it's “High Noon in space”
- Sean loves Logan’s Run
- PJ won’t stop mentioning Equilibrium
- Efram didn’t like Predestination
- …but likes Looper
- We all like time travel movies!
- PJ recommends “Save the Cat”
- Sean recommends “The Power of Myth” Bill Moyer interviews and Joseph Campbell (Hero with a Thousand Faces)
- And the screenwriter’s companion book: “The Writer’s Journey” – Chris Vogel
- Sean also recommends Carl Yung (influenced Joseph Campbell)
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