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Who is Ryan, Jessica, Octavio and Chris?
Ryan has been my friend since before I was in Kinder garden. And, I was actually the one who came up with his nickname (ReWrite). The reason for it is his initials are R.W., and in technical terms, that stands for Rewritable. I tried getting him interested in movie making by giving him the idea for Dinner Dash, but he refused to do it on his own. I ended up doing most of it, while he helped throughout the beginning. He left to go home right before the juice comes in, for those of you who saw the clip.
Jessica has been my friend for a little while, considering we just met. She was the voice of Arena in the stop motion "The Detectives Revolution." She will hopefully be joining us in future videos as an array of other characters in a matrix of other random movie plots.
Octavio was a new friend I met in my class back in middle school. We didn't have much in common, but he did enjoy my videos. And he even gave me the idea for Bull's Shirt. In Graduation Remixed, I mentioned his birthday along with Jessica's, (Different Jessica) and he was the one person who wanted to help keep me sane in school. He has yet to be in a gamerboy media film, but is making his own, along with cool flash animations.
Chris is actually my 8th grade computer teacher. I constantly showed him my videos, and he usually enjoyed them. He's even donated equipment to the cause, so I mention him every here and there as a good friend. He did take away my internet connection at the end of the year, but I did kind of deserve it. I probably should have researched about proxy's more.
What was the "Great Rewritten Incident of 2006?"
Back in 2006, my parents went on vacation for a while. In the last week of freedom from them, I got on their computer to mess around. I found their web cam, and started taking pictures with it. After about an hour of taking pictures, I wanted to try making a video with them.
I uploaded the pictures to movie maker and messed with the length of each pic. After a while, I had a small, 6 second video of a man tripping on a paperclip and falling on the camera. It was kind of lame, but it was funny. And it started a whole revolution of videos.
I started making more and more. One was "Chating to Death," where a man finds a DS and plays around on picto-chat. It ended when he got eaten by a bear. It was my most random video I have yet to make. I also made a "Noah's Ark" and some transformers remake. And I even made a video for the flip book story I made called "The Ball" that was originally made in my math class on Post-It notes. And it wasn't an assignment.
Unfortunately, I didn't know that my web cam was rewriting my pictures with each video. Basically, whenever I took a picture, it saved it into a folder under a specific name like "Picture0001". Then I put the pictures in movie maker, and saved the file. But later, when I took more pictures, it wrote over the pictures I had just taken. I got to the remake of Noah's ark before I actually tried watching one of my past videos.
So, I never published Noah's Ark because I had decided to quit on making stop motion for a while. I started using the web cam for the powers of niceness instead of evil. I created a few videos for fake commercials. They weren't to big, and not many people liked them, but they were my first published videos. And GM grew from those commercials.
So I think my first real video online was an ad for invisibility glasses. After that was transporting hats, then possibly "Life: The Highway." Not too sure about it, but it's the best I could get.
How many cameras have I used throughout my video "career"?
From all of my counting, configuring, and even questioning, I have come up with 6 cameras.
That's right. Six cameras. It all started back with the Logitec web cam. It wasn't the best in the world, (for sure) but I have seen worse than that. It didn't have a microphone, and the resolution was bad, but it worked. I made a couple of videos that were online with it. And I even have yet to actually use it for online chat: the REAL reason for a web cam.
Up next, I got out my Lego's. I wanted to make stop motion on the go, even if I couldn't see the picture instantly. I had a wimpy spy camera that took digital pictures that you could upload to the computer to see. So I made a tripod for it out of Lego's, then tried making a video with it. I created a short film that was so horrible, I pushed the memory of it out of my mind, and obviously, out of the camera.
In 8th grade, my history teacher wanted us to do a history day project. We had to do either a power point, a speech, a science board, and because of me, a video on movie maker. I ended up asking Ryan about borrowing his web cam which conveniently had a microphone and better resolution. That was before puberty though, so I had a high voice and looked fat and ugly. Now I just act as if things have changed.
After the history day project, Christmas came. My parents got me a DXG camera that had about 5.1 mega pixels and low color saturation. That's bad. I created a pluthera of videos with that camera. Started with "First with Camera" and ending with "Graduation Remixed." I didn't get the new camera for graduation, but I did get some good pizza at home town buffet.
While I had the DXG, my father asked me to create an Easter video for his message on that Sunday. I didn't finish it in time... or at all, for that matter. But about 150 frames in, I stopped and borrowed my sisters camera. It took pictures better and faster. I never got to the point of actually making a full video with it, or get any of its work online, or on movie maker, but I will be finishing the Easter video when the holiday comes near. Sometime.
And finnaly, the best of them all. The new Aiptec HD DV camera. It has 8 mega pixels, a remote, and can record off the TV. That's good. I started making videos with it after graduation starting with "Bulls Shirt." I don't have an end date yet, but it's probably going to have one. It has slight problems reading the 4 Gig memory card Ryan gave me for my birthday.
What video took more time in doing my hair then if you watched that video over 15 times?
Actually, it was Candy Haven. If you didn't notice, I had 4 different hair styles in it: Short, long, wet and straight. I didn't even think it was possible I would do all of this for a video, but I was forced into most of it.
I started out the video as Shaggy after Halloween with straight hair. A major thank you to my sister's friend Erin for the awesome job she did. It took an hour or two to do that because we decided to stop in between for dinner. My mother even made a comment as I left to UN-straighten my hair.
After I took a quick shower and watched TV till it was dark, I went into my room and recorded from when I was asleep till just before the lollipop song with dry long hair.
In the lollipop song, I had just washed my hair, so it was wet and long. I kept it for that song and changed the clothes to the lyrics.
Finally, in the blitzkrieg bop song, (Hi-Ho, lets go) I had just recorded the two points where I was dancing with a clone outside. That's when my mother interrupted and called me to go get a trim. It took and hour or so because my sister came along and got cut at the last second. Thus I returned with semi-long hair, and recorded the part of me singing the blitzkrieg bop and then on.
What was the hidden facial feature on one of the characters in the stop motion film "Detectives Revolution?"
It was a nose.
That's right, a nose. Near the end, Gamer and Arena are driving away to the lake. If you look at the handsome face of Gamerboy, right as Arena says, "Gamer, you hit someone!" you will see a small angled line representing a nose.
Also, at some points, Dr.Xenon was accidentally given a small amount of facial hair. But now, we think he looks closer to his human counterpart.
Their were 3 books/ book references in Get Smarter. What were they, and where are they from?
The first book was during the time when Zigfried stole Max's backpack. That was the notebook that we use for the scripts. Our "Media Bible" as we are about to start calling it.
The second was in the destruction program Zigrfried used to destroy Target. If you looked above the area he put in the password, the name of the program was called "Operation: Elder Wand." The Elder Wand was an item from the seventh Harry Potter book.
The third was also in the destruction program. After the password was put in, it went to a screen where Zigfried typed a long length of code. The code was written in the book "Digital Fortress" when David first helped decipher it in the NSA and met his soon-to-be girlfriend Susan. This book was planned to be a film GM would make over the summer, but we still have yet to work out the bugs in our green screen, and will have to wait a while until we all can open up our scedules.
What did Gamerboy Media start as?
Originally, it was a fake commercial industry. I had plans ranging from every direction that were mostly fuled on the styling's of Billy Mays. It was because of the "Great Rewritten Incident of 2006" that I stopped making stop motion, and from that, I went into the next big thing. I was going to make all the household items that didn't exist, but my ideas started to branch out more.
After making a few infomercials that to this day, 4 years later, still have less than 50 views, I tried stop motion again. This time, I knew what I was doing, and I managed to make "Life: The Highway." A music video for the song "Life is a Highway." I then made 3 stop motion how-to's, and on January first 2008, a new Gamerboy Media logo. That video actually has over 3000 views at the moment!
Some Fun Facts Abot "Candy Hell"
- The total cost to make the film was $7.80.
- Mr.Mani (the man who played the narrator and gave the line "I got a rock") once played the role of Charlie Brown in a musical.
- My house actually doesn't have an upstairs. The "Neighbors house" was actually a nursery at our local church, and my house was added in the window.
- There was originally going to be an "After-Credits" clip where Limb was a guest on the Dr.Phil show. Dr.Phil was going to be replaced with my own creation, called Dr.Goodbar. I had actually gone onto you tube and looked up other Dr.Phil episodes to find points where he said the lines I needed.
- Nerd was created over the course of two days. First I created a giant ball of clay, then glued nerds to the outside of it. I had to take a break halfway through because I was getting nauseous from the nerd-glue fumes.
- Coco was not actually a coconut candy. She was a white toffee bar. Apparently, coconut candies are always square and cherries are always round. It was a very weird moment when I asked the register at the Sees store "what coconut and cherry candies look exactly alike?"
- In the final scene when Reese and Limb are talking, you can see Eliot (My chihuahua mix) behind Reese scratching his head on the floor. I hadn't realized he was there until after the movie had gotten online.
- This film had 5 new actors, and 2 actors (The sees twins) that still have yet to be seen in person. This means that my entire family (instant) has been heard in one of my films.
- My Father made his first "appearance" in Candy Hell, and my Mother made her first appearance a year before in Candy Haven.
- Twix (Mars) was bought from two young girls from my church who were doing a fundraiser. Every week since I bought the bar, she has asked me if I ate it yet.
