{"id":7900,"date":"2013-01-17T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T18:22:01","slug":"atli-orvarssons-hansel-gretel-liquid-puppetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7900","title":{"rendered":"Atli \u00d6rvarsson’s Hansel & Gretel + Liquid Puppetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think Famke is finished with the catwalk.<\/p><\/div>\n

Just uploaded is a podcast interview<\/a> with composer Atli \u00d6rvarsson, \u00a0known as a percussion whiz and his rhythmic breakthrough score\u00a0Vantage Point <\/strong>(2008)<\/strong>, although his knack for epic sounds was already evident in Babylon A.D. <\/strong>(2008).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00d6rvarsson\u2019s latest work is Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters<\/strong> for Tommy Wirkola, director of the Nazi zombie film\u00a0Dead Snow<\/a> <\/strong>(2009), which was more fun in concept\u00a0 and campaign slogan \u2013 \u201cEinz! Zwei! Die!\u201d – than actual execution. Hopefully Wirkola\u2019s big Hollywood production will be tighter in the script department.<\/p>\n

The film opens January 25, while the digital soundtrack album comes out Jan. 22. I\u2019ve uploaded a review<\/a> [M<\/a>] of \u00d6rvarsson\u2019s pretty solid action-supernatural score.<\/p>\n

In my own backyard (still snow free, but roaming with fat bastard squirrels who should be sleeping and not stealing bird feeder fodder like the greedy rodents they are), I decided to make a short-short film to problem solve some aspects of the documentary currently branded BSV 1172<\/strong>. (I do have a proper name, but in case of changes, I\u2019m sticking to the drier variant.)<\/p>\n

The short-short actually came not from deliberate planning, \u00a0but while setting up a messed up tube camera to \u2018correct\u2019 green stains that were making it impossible to capture balanced colours. (See this video<\/a>, around 3:00, for examples of the immutable stains.) While setting up the camera I noticed its other major flaw \u2013 distorted material at the lower frame edge \u2013 was kind of neat, so I drafted a shot list and constructed what\u2019s essentially an editing exercise to figure out layering issues for BSV\u2019s elaborate main title sequence.<\/p>\n

Titled Liquid Puppetry<\/strong>, the short-short will likely clock in at just over 5 minutes, and will feature images entirely generated by a tube camera (‘Newvicon-o-vision-o-rama’) and boxy analogue gear. After axing a sequence, it runs smoother, and besides some lingering tweaking, the picture editing is almost done, leaving just a 5.1 mix for next week, after which it\u2019ll be uploaded to Vimeo.<\/p>\n

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Yup, it's a hippy-trippy-zippy-dippy thingy in wondrous Standard Def.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve frame-grabbed some of the weird imagery (see above), and the publishing date for the short-short will be the last week of January.<\/p>\n

In addition to the deleted footage available on YouTube, the finished short will be accompanied by a lengthy making-of blog at Big Head Amusements<\/a> as to how the images were created, assembled, etc., plus some details on the sound mix which (hopefully) when piped through a 5.1 set-up, will annoy your neighbours, if not convince them half the building\u2019s being dragged into a time vortex.<\/p>\n

Coming next: a review of John Huston\u2019s worst film \u2013 Phobia<\/strong> (1980) \u2013 although you can\u2019t pay me to watch Annie<\/strong> (1982). The sun might come out tomorrow, but if it\u2019s underscored with that goddamn song, someone\u2019s going to get socked.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just uploaded is a soundtrack review of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, the latest film by Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola, which opens January 25. Also up: a podcast interview with Hansel and Gretel composer Atli \u00d6rvarsson, and an update on my current short-short film (er, editing exercise), Liquid Puppetry, filmed in Newvicon-o-vision-o-rama, with teasing frame grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[453,1806,1807,4214,4213,1808],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-23q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}