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July 31, 2008The film department at The Art Institute of Dallas will hold its third annual student short film festival on Tuesday. The films are the product of a five-day student video race, in which each three- to five-member team wrote, shot and edited their five-minute film. The only boundary was that they had to use the same prop, line of dialogue, theme and location for the film. The films will show beginning at 6 p.m. at the new Studio Movie Grill at Central and Royal Lane, with an awards ceremony to follow.  Comments (0) Leave comment
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|  E-mail entryThe entry "The Arts Institue of Dallas is makin' movies" has no entry tags. I wrote a post for our technology blog about a press conference being held today by Nasa to (presumably) discuss the discovery of ice on Mars. So, to accompany the post, I attached a trailer for the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger-on-Mars flick Total Recall. This movie came out in 1990, and I was shocked at how amateurish the trailer was: The trailer gives away some major plot points (Arnie shooting his fake wife), but doesn't really tell you what the movie is about. And the pacing is terrible. It's a bunch of disjointed, jumbly clips that seem picked at random. By contrast, consider the trailer for The Dark Knight. This is a masterpiece of design, giving you just enough clues about the basic plot (the Joker is insane and wants to kill Batman and burn Gotham to the ground) without spoiling the best parts. The editing is also superb, and the clips blend seamlessly together while the music weaves a sense of tension and epic combat: The evolution of the trailer is really amazing. Wired, for instance, has made the semi-sarcastic suggestion that Oscar statues should now be awarded for the best movie trailers. Probably not a bad idea, actually. Comments (1) Leave comment
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