New Episode of Overshare is up! In which I talk about the most important event in global news today: a 3D documentary starring Justin Bieber.
Please, click to share it on facebook or click here to share it on Twitter!
This one was one of the hardest to do— still not as hard as ep. 2, but getting started on ep. 5 here was supertough— I still haven’t been able to escape the weekly fear of completely failing! It all works out to a certain extent once it’s edited, colour graded, and the sound is mixed, but there is no indication of coherence before that at all. Which is scary, because you only know if it’s worth of putting up in the last 5 minutes of a confusing, repetitive 15-hour task, and a full university course load+a couple of jobs make 15 hours (plus time to do Buddy Guys, our sketch series) a week really valuable and hard to find.
I think I might not have the fear of horrible-ness for next week’s video though, as I already know my subject. NOW the fear is that I might be so comfortable that it isn’t funny. Which creates enough discomfort for it to be good. I overthink most things if you couldn’t tell :)
Overall I can see a lot of place for improvements, but a week ago I wouldn’t have been able to do this in the same amount of time! (Well, I didn’t :P)
New Moon
I just realized I never got around to posting my thoughts on New Moon that I wrote last week. Here they are.
I’m not one to hate on Twilight. While I’ve never really been a fan, I’m forgiving of most of the elements that might annoy a hater - 80% of conversations inexplicably happening in forests, 90% of Taylor Lautner’s screen time featuring him shirtless and in shorts regardless of the weather - but it kinda manages to keep a sort of logic. Yes, the shirtlessness is pretty much because the ladies love it, but the constant transformation into a wolf would admittedly ruin a lot of shirts. Forest conversations are presumably more private than ones in at a diner.
I kinda had to see New Moon, regardless of how I saw the series overall. Director Chris Weitz had no idea he’d be directing this when Twilight One was hitting theatres, meaning he barely had 11-12 months to make what he knew was millions of people’s most anticipated the film of the year. The mere idea of that means I have to give the film some slack and the director some major props. A soundtrack like that doesn’t just create itself.
So my verdict? “Pretty good” was my initial reaction, but it’s quickly moving towards “pretty epic” as the boring bits fade away and some of Alexandre Desplat’s more moving queues settle into my mind. With a comfortable home theatre and Blu-Ray of the film at my disposal, I would re-watch the film as soon as I could, if only because of my odd inability to fully absorb films the first time around. The ideas and possibilities of where the story could go are exciting to me even when, as is most often the case, they aren’t fully explored.
The ideas presented in New Moon, when thought of in the context that millions of tween girls are eating it all up, are pretty scary. But when you remove them from reality as I do with almost every film I see, a lot if it is actually pretty cool. I mean, it would be horrendous if heartbroken 14 year olds started risking their lives in an emo attempt at evoking any sort of ‘feeling again’, but in the context of a mentally unstable protagonist attempting to conjure echos of a lost immortal lover? It’s kind of intense, creepy, and definitely gets a certain emotional response from the audience. And I think some credit has to be given to the audience - how many millions of men have always insisted that violent movies are totally harmless? This is really no different, none of my female friends have yet attempted jumping off a cliff for fun.
So if you’re on the fence, open your mind and jump in. And don’t leave in the first 20 minutes, where pretty much everyone seems to have lost the ability to speak at a normal pace for no reason other than they’re just so emotional. If you can get past stuff like that, just go and enjoy a couple hours at the movies. Or DVD at least. Let’s not get too crazy here.
PS. For a totally great and multiple-perspective review of New Moon, check out the latest episode of The /Filmcast, #77 with Jen Yamato.
A few things about Twilight New Moon
Except for #1 and half of #3, I’m inclined to agree.
1. It was worse than I ever could’ve imagined
2. Edward and Bella are in an abusive relationship, right?
3. None of the actors are taking it seriously
4. Everyone gets a look on their face like they’re about to vomit every time they talk. I think they’re trying to express emotion, but it looks like they’re going to vomit.
5. Can’t wait to see Eclipse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
