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Taking Advantage of Social Media After an Event Some say Marty should have never gone to the old west or the first two Godfather's were enough but, I disagree. Without them, however, we would never have seen the Doc fall in love or how Michael Corleone...
Taking Advantage of Social Media During an Event As promised, even though it has been a while, here is the second installment of "How to use social media to your advantage for an event."
Sure you could always take the lazy easy way out and just show...
Taking Advantage of Social Media Before an Event So we all know that Social Media has revolutionized the world. It has changed the way we receive our news, get other’s opinions, and connect with people all over the globe. It has also transformed...
This past weekend I participated in the San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience. The point of the project is to write, produce, film, edit etc a short 8 min max film in only 48 hours. The catch? You draw certain criteria at the beginning of the 48 hours that you have to use in your film like: genre, line of dialouge, location and character. I had the wonderful opportunity to act as well as do some voice over for the film. I usually do a lot of behind the camera work, which I also love, but it was really fun to do some in front of the camera stuff as well. I am also proud to say I did the voice over for the Carlita character. This is my first on screen voice over. You may ask… “Why didn’t you just do your own voice?” My reply, “It was funnier that way.”
Team Uncle Dynamite’s entry into the 2010 San Antonio 48hr Film Experience.
Our selections:
Genre: Telenovela
Character: Peril – a character trying to quit smoking
Line: For what it’s worth, I used to be a man.
Location: Nightlife
We also posted the video on Funny or Die. We would love it if you could vote for us. Wouldn’t that be cool if we got to the front page?? I sure think it would.
So, I saw Inception a couple of weeks ago and I REALLY am planning on writing a review soon… but first some stellar parody goodness.
My last post about the forthcoming film “The Social Network,” has really spawned some spectacular parody trailers among the internets.
Here is one about Myspace, “The Other Social Netowrk.”
A very amusing one based on YouTube, “The Video Website.”
But my favorite out of the parodies is the one about Twitter, “The Twit Network.” They even have their own parody of the eerie version of “Creep.” (Call 911! Do they have a Twitter? BWAHAHAHA!!)
The thing about these parodies is that they aren’t too far gone. I mean if they made a movie about the start up of Facebook, Hollywood could certainly make a movie about Twitter. Is it really that off base? Twitter is just as popular as Facebook, so why not? It just goes to show that Hollywood can take anything and dramatize the heck out of it and make it somewhat interesting. Not like that’s a bad thing. People like to be entertained. That’s why we go to the movies. That an the amazing movie theater popcorn. Yummmmmm!
I remember the first time I heard about social networking. A friend of mine said, “I found this new site where you can see your friends profiles, then see who they are friends with and so on.” Sounded fairly interesting, so I checked it out. This was of course the notorious Myspace. I was hooked instantly. It wasn’t long after, that I found out about Facebook, which at the time, was only allowed to those that had a .edu email address. I’m not sure when it happened, but my enthusiasm for MySpace subsided and I become enthralled with Facebook. I could see what all my friends were doing, take silly quizzes and find old high school friends. It was fun! It wasn’t until I landed a job as as social media marketer that I really saw the benefit of Facebook for a business or a brand.
While the story seems over the top, the over dramatized trailer was exceptionally well done. Especially with the eerie choral rendition of Radiohead’s Creep for the backdrop. The first minute of the trailer shows random screen shots of profile pictures and “What’s on your mind” status messages. This goes to show how omnipresent Facebook is and we all can tell what these things are referring to…. fade to Harvard 2003 and poor ol’ Zucky harping on the fact that he just wants to be accepted by the Harvard hipster crowd. Revenge of the Nerds? Anyone? Anyone? So, he creates a website for the college crowd to connect with each other. AND cue drama. 2200 visits in an hour? No, 22,000 visits in an hour. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook! Suing in federal court and Zucky in a hoodie telling it like it is… fade to movie title.
So, we shall see if this movie scores or flops in the box office. There are high hopes considering director, David Fincher, has movies like Fight Club, Se7en, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button under his belt. Hmmm… makes me wonder why Brad Pitt isn’t in this film. Arron Sorkin’s filmography ain’t too shabby either. With a pile of Emmy’s for The West Wing and a few Golden Globe noms for Charlie Wilson’s War, The American President and A Few Good Men, this film should have a better than adequate script. The cast looks pretty decent too. I thoroughly enjoyed Jesse Eisenberg in, the totally under claimed movie, Adventureland. Plus he has the perfect hair to play Zuckerberg. I also love the fact that Rashida Jones is hopping on over to film. She totally kicks butt in two of my favorite NBC shows, The Office and Parks and Recreation and ever since SNL’s D*ck In A Box, Justin Timberlake is a- ok in my book.
From what I can tell by a 2 minute long trailer, the movie looks pretty good. I like Fincher’s directing style, Se7en was phenomenal. Kevin Spacey was oober creepy. Plus, with plot points like: greed, obsession, unpredictability and sex what really could go wrong? I’m hoping a movie about Facebook will keep me enthralled for the whole 2 or so hours, but then again, I am a little obsessed with social networking so that may not be too difficult.
What are your thoughts about the movie? Are you going to see it when it comes out in October? Do you think it’s too soon to make a movie about Facebook?
As you can see in my headline I am a HUGE Beatles fanatic. I randomly came across this today on IMDB. I’m really surprised I haven’t heard of it before. The release date for the film, in the U.S., is October 8, 2010, one day before John Lennon’s birthday. He would have been 70 years old. Nowhere Boy (I keep wanting to write “man” instead of “boy”) is the directorial feature film debut for Sam Taylor- Wood, an English filmmaker. It’s the story of John Lennon’s beginnings in Liverpool, his struggles with his Aunt and Mother, his infamous meeting with Paul McCartney and the formation of The Quarrymen and their transformation into The Beatles.
While I am super excited to see it, I really hope they do John (we’re on a first name basis) justice. I’m always skeptical of bands/ singers that do Beatles covers or movies made about them. Although, I was blown away by Julie Taymor’sAcross the Universe. That was exceptionally done, except for the creepy Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite Scene; which I guess is ok since it was suppose to represent the psychedelic stage of The Beatles.
Anyway, I digress. I will definitely be there opening night for this one.
