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    Almer S. Tigelaar 11 / 05 / 2012

    Marvel teased us with the release of this film near the end of various previously released super hero flicks like Captain America and Iron Man 2. This would be the movie that unites all the super heroes from the Marvel universe. Well actually, only those that had not been previously licensed to other studios. Hence, you will not find characters from X-Men, Spiderman, or the Fantastic Four in this movie. Director Joss Whedon brings back fond memories of creative television series like Firefly and Dollhouse, but what does he make of a 220 million blockbuster production?

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  • Hugo

    Almer S. Tigelaar 06 / 03 / 2012

    Hugo is based on a relatively recently released (2007) award winning book by Brian Selznick. It is not surprising that the film rights to the books were quickly sold, and certainly not by the least of directors either: Martin Scorsese. He has a career spanning decades and has directed a string of movies in recent years which I liked, among which are Shutter Island, The Departed and Gangs of New York. However, those were admittedly all in different, less family friendly, genres. So, I went to Hugo hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

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  • How long would it take to read Wikipedia?

    Almer S. Tigelaar 21 / 02 / 2012

    Wikipedia has become the de facto encyclopedia on the Internet. A traditional encyclopedia spans many textbook volumes which would take any normal person ages to read. Few people would likely engage in such an endeavor. However, since Wikipedia is readily accessible: should you take up the challenge?

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Almer S. Tigelaar » Filming

The Pet Detective

Almer S. Tigelaar 14 / 10 / 2011, 09:00

Turn on your speakers or headphones – although this is a silent movie, some of the audio is essential – then sit back and watch it:

This video is the result of a collaboration among many people, see the ending credits for details. A brief history: during the first CMU Filmmaking Club meeting a representative of every group had to draw a random profession from a bag as well as a prop. The profession we picked was “coroner” and our prop was a set of “dog bones”. Admittedly, we stretched the profession a bit when developing our story :) The entire thing had to be without any dialogue, the end result would have to be a silent movie.

The excellent initial script created by our writer was a lot more ambitious than what we ended up actually filming. Nevertheless, it was interesting to cut back so that we could complete this in the short time frame alloted. We had a lot of fun making this together. Special thanks goes to the CMU Filmmaking club for their guidance and the CFA Cluster for providing equipment.

tags: cmu, dog, filmmaking, serialkiller, student,

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