http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-youtube-red-subscription-20151022-story.html
Youtube has pretty much been around for a good while, but this past Wednesday Youtube began selling a $9.99-a-month subscription, that allows U.S consumers to view videos with out ads, download videos for viewing offline and even keeps videos playing while on another app. This new and improved Youtube Red will also include original shows and movies that can't be found anywhere else. They will also stream Google Play music.
If only about 5% of U.S users sign up to use the new Youtube Red, they can make roughly around $950 million annually. That alone is a lot, now imagine if the percentage goes up, the incoming money they will be receiving will be off the charts. Joey Graceffa, a highly watched Youtube star says, " Youtube Red is an opportunity where we as creators get to make higher quality content for our audience." Since there will be no ads in the new subscription, this will allow Youtube stars to present more to the audience and even gain more money.
The one thing that I think will be an issue is, What if people don't want to pay? Like ads themselves are only about a good minute long and plus they usually have " skip ad" button any way so. . . Will people really want to pay for an ad free service? I mean I guess this would be pretty cool, but honestly I think it'll be a waste of money.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Furious 7 VFX team. . .
http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/furious-7-visual-effects-paul-walker-1201618224/
The Fast and the Furious movies have always been my favorites, so when I saw this article on how the visual effects team for the movie was able to, I guess you can say "re-create" Paul Walkers character I was extremely curious to see as to how they were able to do this. Joe Letteri, Weta Digital senior VFX supervisor, says, " We had to complete a performance- what Paul Walker would have done if he'd been able to continue. And it had to be his performance." Letteri also mentioned that this would not be possible with out close ups. James Wan, the director " Furious 7" , wanted to stay faithful to what they had started and also wanted to include as much of Walker as possible. In order to do this Weta ended up doing a good 350 shots, most of them including Walker's character.
Paul Walker's character was accomplished by filmmakers scanning Walker's brothers Cody and Caleb, as well as John Brotherton, an actor whose similar in build and coloring as Walker. Wan, the director, want precise timing and direction, so all three were attempting to capture what the director had in mind. Martin Hill, the visual effects supervisor, said his first goal was to create a photo-real image that could potentially move and act on screen. They were also working on invincibility, Hill pretty much said they could have placed his face on someone else's body, but he knew people would have known. They ended up going with his first idea , and well in the end people loved it.
It's pretty fascinating on how technology has advanced, like wow they were able to basically re-create a person? That's pretty freakin cool if you ask me!Just to know that this is possible is interesting and helpful if anything like this (heaven forbid) were to happen again. Reading this has brought me to think about: What would they have done if, well our technology wasn't so advanced as it is today?
The Fast and the Furious movies have always been my favorites, so when I saw this article on how the visual effects team for the movie was able to, I guess you can say "re-create" Paul Walkers character I was extremely curious to see as to how they were able to do this. Joe Letteri, Weta Digital senior VFX supervisor, says, " We had to complete a performance- what Paul Walker would have done if he'd been able to continue. And it had to be his performance." Letteri also mentioned that this would not be possible with out close ups. James Wan, the director " Furious 7" , wanted to stay faithful to what they had started and also wanted to include as much of Walker as possible. In order to do this Weta ended up doing a good 350 shots, most of them including Walker's character.
Paul Walker's character was accomplished by filmmakers scanning Walker's brothers Cody and Caleb, as well as John Brotherton, an actor whose similar in build and coloring as Walker. Wan, the director, want precise timing and direction, so all three were attempting to capture what the director had in mind. Martin Hill, the visual effects supervisor, said his first goal was to create a photo-real image that could potentially move and act on screen. They were also working on invincibility, Hill pretty much said they could have placed his face on someone else's body, but he knew people would have known. They ended up going with his first idea , and well in the end people loved it.
It's pretty fascinating on how technology has advanced, like wow they were able to basically re-create a person? That's pretty freakin cool if you ask me!Just to know that this is possible is interesting and helpful if anything like this (heaven forbid) were to happen again. Reading this has brought me to think about: What would they have done if, well our technology wasn't so advanced as it is today?
Thursday, October 8, 2015
#Freeform
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-abc-family-changing-name-20151006-story.html
Family Channel, now known as ABC Family, has been around since 1977 when it was first founded by evangelist Pat Robertson. This channel was first used for religious programming, but was then bought out by Fox Kids in 1998, and was later renamed Fox Family Channel. In 2001, when Disney bought out the network. . . yes again, executives were told to keep the word "family" in it's title, hence why it's now known as ABC Family. Well now guess what ? It's undergoing yet another name change. Starting January or 2016, Abc Family will now be known as wait for it . . . FREEFORM! As someone who enjoys watching a lot of there shows, I'm not so fond of this new name change. I was quite sad to hear they were going to change their name, like WHY??!! I have a feeling they might lose some ratings because I'm going to be quite honest, I think the new name is pretty dumb. . .like really Freeform? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN .-. ? I'm actually wondering who out there is going to like the new change and I wonder if their ratings will go down? I don't know, but I for one will miss the old name.
Family Channel, now known as ABC Family, has been around since 1977 when it was first founded by evangelist Pat Robertson. This channel was first used for religious programming, but was then bought out by Fox Kids in 1998, and was later renamed Fox Family Channel. In 2001, when Disney bought out the network. . . yes again, executives were told to keep the word "family" in it's title, hence why it's now known as ABC Family. Well now guess what ? It's undergoing yet another name change. Starting January or 2016, Abc Family will now be known as wait for it . . . FREEFORM! As someone who enjoys watching a lot of there shows, I'm not so fond of this new name change. I was quite sad to hear they were going to change their name, like WHY??!! I have a feeling they might lose some ratings because I'm going to be quite honest, I think the new name is pretty dumb. . .like really Freeform? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN .-. ? I'm actually wondering who out there is going to like the new change and I wonder if their ratings will go down? I don't know, but I for one will miss the old name.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Pacific Rim 2. . . . ?
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=45533
Hmmm. . . . " As far as i'm concerned, Pacific Rim 2 is not cancelled, just postponed," Del Toro tells Variety. Pacific Rim 2 , said to be coming out August 4, 2017, has been officially hiked from it's release schedule, and certainly wont be coming out anytime soon. Del Toro also mentions that they will be setting a budget and a screenplay together, and then will be presenting it to Universal and Legendary and they will have the final saying in it.
When I came across this article I , to be quite honest, found it a bit sad, because the first one was pretty great and when they said there would be another I got really excited. But now that they basically back-tracked in the making of this film, I don't know if I'm even that excited anymore?
This pretty much shows how sometimes the making of films don't necessarily always go as planned. Sometimes things just happen and the production of a film has to be delayed due to reasons that aren't really expected. Which causes me to think about how many films have been delayed and what causes can lead to a film being delayed? And well how much longer must we wait for this movie to come out because I really want to see how they are able to top the first one.
Hmmm. . . . " As far as i'm concerned, Pacific Rim 2 is not cancelled, just postponed," Del Toro tells Variety. Pacific Rim 2 , said to be coming out August 4, 2017, has been officially hiked from it's release schedule, and certainly wont be coming out anytime soon. Del Toro also mentions that they will be setting a budget and a screenplay together, and then will be presenting it to Universal and Legendary and they will have the final saying in it.
When I came across this article I , to be quite honest, found it a bit sad, because the first one was pretty great and when they said there would be another I got really excited. But now that they basically back-tracked in the making of this film, I don't know if I'm even that excited anymore?
This pretty much shows how sometimes the making of films don't necessarily always go as planned. Sometimes things just happen and the production of a film has to be delayed due to reasons that aren't really expected. Which causes me to think about how many films have been delayed and what causes can lead to a film being delayed? And well how much longer must we wait for this movie to come out because I really want to see how they are able to top the first one.
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