วันเสาร์ที่ 21 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Avatar Movie Reviewed Here

If you love to escape into other exotic worlds through the medium of film then you will simply love Avatar the movie. That's why I made it a priority to get the Avatar movie reviewed and written up as soon as possible.

We all loved the totally sci-fi fantasy of blockbusters such as the Star Wars series and also more recently the Lord of the Rings trilogy. We sat amazed at captivated as we where given a window into new worlds, occupied by fantastic creatures and civilizations. Rightly so both as of the above titles where pioneers in the use of CGI and special effects, creating a new genre of movie epics.

Well imagine all of the above on steroids and you have Avatar.

The film Avatar was written and produced by award winning director James Cameron aka Iron Jim who already has an impressive string of movies to his name including big films such as Terminator the futuristic blockbuster starring Arnold Schwarzenegger to name but one. He also went on to do the sequels along with of huge hit movies such as Aliens.

The plot of the movie tells the story of an unsuspecting paraplegic ex-soldier who finds himself caught up in the exotic world of Pandora. His initial motives where to replace his brother killed in a robbery and to raise some money in order to get treatment for his own medical condition in order to regain the use of his legs. Although this is soon forgotten about as he takes on the form of an Avatar, his own mind in an alien body. The plot unfolds as he becomes with an indigenous race the Na'vi who are fighting to protect their homelands from corporate destruction.

The film took around 10 years to make and in this humble film-viewers opinion was time well spent. As well as having an interesting storyline the depth and scope of the effects is simply breath taking. In fact in order to even think about taking everything in the film has to be watched on a big screen. The colours are vibrant and you genuinely feel that you are lost completely in another world.

Mission accomplished the Avatar movie has been reviewed and I give it a ten out of ten.

วันศุกร์ที่ 20 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Are You Using Your Avatar Correctly to Promote Your Business?

Unless you are a neophyte to Social Media, you already have an avatar for your business. An avatar is the alter-ego of you, the writer; some representation of yourself when you are on the computer and the image that you want to project to the internet world. However, people do not seem to be aware that avatars can be very important and form a first impression of you by your readers. Whatever avatar you put up as your representation is going to define you and your business, so it is extremely important that you carefully choose what you want people to see. If you are not using an appropriate avatar for the correct situation, you could lose your potential reader and ultimately, business from that potential client.

What then would be a good avatar for your business? Here are some suggestions:

Your Head Shot

Obviously, a head shot of you is the simplest and safest avatar you can have. But it doesn't have to be a boring shot of you just staring into the camera. Have some fun with it. Use a prop. Smile or laugh. Remember, your avatar is going to define your personality and make people remember you. Bring your personality into your avatar so that your readers want to get to know you better.

A Body Shot

While a body shot may be more interesting than just a head shot, you have to watch out that you are not too far away so that there is no definition of you. In that case, you may as well not have an avatar! Remember, these pictures are tiny little squares, so if you use a body shot, make sure you can be clearly seen. Again, do something exciting. Use a prop. Dress in what your business does, or be doing something so interesting that your reader has to say, "Oh cool. That person is someone I want to get to know better".

An Illustration/Item or Object

Remember, people want to connect to you, the writer, not with your favorite pair of shoes. If you have an object or illustration as an avatar, people can not see your personality. They will not be able to get a feeling of who you are. Many times, people will remember your avatar but not your name. Therefore, you want that avatar to be you when you start to build your relationship with your reader.

A Logo

There are times when a logo can be perfectly acceptable as an avatar. The key is whether you are your business or whether your business is independent of you. For example, any Fortune 500 company's avatar is not a picture of their CEO, but rather a picture of their well recognized logo. In that case, the business is their logo, not the CEO. But using a logo for a one person law office would not be effective. In that case, the lawyer IS the business. A head or body shot would be much more appropriate an avatar in that situation.

Obviously, these rules would not apply if you are just using Social Media to have fun and maybe just blog about yourself. Then your avatar can be as fun as you want it to be. In that case, you are not trying to build any relationships but rather just sharing. But remember, for business purposes, Social Medias is all about building relationships. Your avatar is the very first step in building those relationships, so choose wisely. Your business could depend upon your choice!

Why did you choose the avatar you have?

วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 19 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Avatar Premiere with Daveyboyz

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วันพุธที่ 18 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

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วันอังคารที่ 17 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

What is the World Plot? Is it the Same As the Avatar Movie?

All the world's a stage

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances

And one man in his time plays many parts.

Shakespeare

Consider Shakespeare's famous lines that the world is but a stage. Then it follows there must be a plot and starring roles for each of us as players.

What is Most Popular Plot For Last Few Millennium?

Look at the most popular plot of any era and any civilization, the one all people rave about and flock to star in. The titles of the movies, the plays, the books may all be different but the story line almost always amounts to: Goodness Triumphs Over Evil. This show has run for the last few millennium, and not only in the cinemas and theatres of the world, but in our homes, no matter how grand or humble hey may be.

What is Underlying Theme of Every Drama?

Go back as far as you want to the first written words in the Indian Vedas, the Upanishads, and you will detect this plot carefully recorded. Indeed, in all religious scriptures, including the Bible and the Koran, you will find the same story line. From the ancient tales that are passed down orally by priests and shamans to modern-day morals, the struggle between good and evil is the underlying theme of every drama and every school of thought throughout the world. All deal with warding off and defeating evil.

Plot Not Restricted to Movie Avatar

Whilst any Hollywood movie, television show, Broadway play or novel is a variation of this plot, violent emotions, hate, jealousy, and envy are not restricted to the world of the Steven Spielberg's or James Cameron's Avatar. Unfortunately, this same story line results in criminal statistics, civil wars and in the history of armed conflicts between countries from Nero to Napoleon, from Hitler to Saddam Hussein, to Osama Bin Laden. The plot fills our asylums and drives people to therapy sessions, bulimia and suicide

Rest Assured Another Sequel Will Follow

Even though life and fiction are full of different dramatic situations, the underlying plot is almost always Goodness Triumphs Over Evil. Should one book or movie end with the bad guys in charge, you can rest assured that another sequel will follow in which the hero wins the day.

Live Happily Ever After

In the movies, on stage and in books, the credits roll across the screen, the curtain comes down, and the book ends. We never see how the protagonists actually live Happily Ever After once the excitement is gone, but it is our hope to live in bliss as well eventually.

Real World Is The Same

The real world out there works in much the same way. The game is rigged. We are not quite the independent agents that we flatter ourselves to be. Time and again we catch ourselves making the same mistakes over and over again. We follow the script, whether we are aware of it or no. We play the roles, and with good reason, or so it seems. We all want to be happy, full of smiles and joy. So it is the happy end that we are after. The hope for that reward keeps us toeing the line.

This script is acted out behind every kitchen sink and in every bedroom in the entire world. It is the manner in which each of us deals with our relationships whether we are ready to admit it or not. Wherever two or more people get together and conflict arises, be it at a picnic, around the campfire, in the sleek boardroom or in front of a dusty conveyor belt the plot is being played out. Of course, you would never say your partner is evil maybe, but bad, yes. The battle is really between two people trying to prove each are innocent, and the other one is the bad guy...classic, century after century.

You are a Duality Also

Just imagine for a while that there is some good and some bad in everybody on this planet, including you. After all, this world full of dualities - night and day, light and dark, positive and negative. Why could you not be a duality also? Imagine that therefore the script you are handed at birth for your own personal growth is the same as for everyone else. You and all other human avatars in the world are to discover the good within you and develop it until you are strong enough to face the evil within you, and triumph over it. Will you win for long? Of course not, as you dark or evil side will use your own force against you, to triumph over you. And when you are going down again for the last time, maybe you will muster up the strength and go for it one more time.

Thirty-Six Variations to the Plot

There have to be some variations and adaptations; otherwise you probably would not want to play on the world stage of planet Earth for very long. You would probably get bored and go look for another game. But once you understand this plot, it can be really exciting, quite an adrenaline booster if you play it consciously.

Actually there are thirty six adaptations and variations to this plot, which are mixed and matched to keep you fully engaged, playing the game with all your might. For now, really grasp that every conflict you have ever had centers around this one basic world plot, Goodness Triumphs Over Evil.

วันจันทร์ที่ 16 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Avatar 3D - The Future of Movie Production?

Well, lets start with the basics. This film is historic. On a personal note I enjoyed the film much more than I thought I would. The wife had to basically drag me to see it and I'm glad she did. I think it lasted about 150 minutes which in other films would drag in but this one it didn't. It seemed to link in perfectly so you weren't waiting for the next piece of action so it gets a big thumbs up for me and I'm equally as excited as there are sequels planned if the film is successful, well its just became the fastest film to gross $1 billion at the box office so its already in profit so get writing Mr Cameron.

Though lets take a step back from the money that it is bringing in and look at the bigger picture. Will this trigger a deluge of 3D films? Surely 3D is the way forward now that the technology "has caught up" as James Cameron eluded to when he said this film was 15 years in the making.

Well there are two sides to every argument and from a laymans point of view, yes it was a great film and superbly conceived and delivered. But can you do that with every film? Can every film be shot in that way? Will the screenplay allow it? In a nutshell I believe only certain types of films deserve and will be shot in 3D in the future. Again money will talk in the future development for this kind of technology but how much better can the picture get? Yes the technology can improve to make it easier to shoot a movie of this type but can the movie goers experience get better?

In my eyes technology will always improve and budgets will always rise but will we ever reach a pinnacle? Will we ever reach a point where we can say, yeah that won't be topped for a while. I.m.o., Avatar is such a film and I believe that it won't be topped. Maybe you're saying well what about the sequels? How can they be any different? Sure the storyline can be developed but the technology that brought us the immaculate conception surely can't be improved to bring us the siblings for want of a better analogy.

I think Avatar has proved to be a benchmark that James Cameron dreamed up all those years ago and now the baby has been born. Will 3D prove to be the future? Possibly yes for some types of film. Will the screenplay be better than what Avatar brought us, doubtful. In my opinion the best thing about 3D is the interaction between viewer and screen and when the interaction is as real as this I believe there can be no topping it. I don't think I will be writing about a better 3D film in the next few years anyway.

วันอาทิตย์ที่ 15 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2553

A Look at Amazing Animation - From Snow White to Avatar

Ever since the first animated full length movie was made in the U.S. (I believe it was Snow White, 1937) the Walt Disney Studios has been the biggest name in family movies. For many years, Disney has taken the stories and legends and turned them into beautiful cartoons for the large screen. Recently, animation stepped from cartoonists and their boards into the computer room and became computer animation. This year, animation took another step and became 3D animation movies. One of these movies is now an academy award winner: Avatar.

Avatar isn't a cartoon; it is a full-fledged movie for adults filled with action packed scenes made through animation. Using computer programs to take real people and place them into the bodies of computer generated people, the company that produced Avatar took the movie public on a magic carpet ride into a make believe world where we will never be able to go. Even without viewing this movie in 3D, the audience was transported to another world. The computer generated people in the animated sequences moved and acted exactly like the people they were supposed to be. The animation of the trees, flowers and other living things on the animated world was amazingly life-like as well. The computer generated people who did not have "real" counterparts in the non-animated world moved and acted as if there were a person standing in front of a green screen making the movements. The entire movie was a marvel and everything about it screamed Academy Award (even though it didn't win best movie) the first instance the picture melted on the screen in front of the audience.

Soon after Avatar won the big awards, Tim Burton brought another 3D movie to the big screen, Alice in Wonderland. Mr. Burton has several interesting movies to his credit where he has used animation but this was his first foray into the big 3D.

Computer animation makes Johnny Depp into the crazy Mad Hatter of Lewis Carroll's wonderful adventure that has taken us down a rabbit hole and through a looking glass into a world of animals and things and their interaction with crazy people. It is difficult to watch this movie without thinking how much computer animation has enhanced it. Computer animation allows the people in the film to do things that there would be no physical translation for in a real film. When little Alice paints the white roses red it is fluidly done and not a freeze frame type section of a movie that has been used in the past to do an impossible thing.

Computer animation is an amazing process. This art of making inanimate objects animate is now taught in film school. Soon it may be possible to do an entire film through the use of computers. What will happen to the "stars" of today when they no longer have to toil on the set; do action stunts; kiss the co star? Will people still watch a movie if there are no actually people involved? It's possible that this time will come sooner than expected.