First of all, yes! And it is coolness. Me and fellow improviser/awesome friend published a video of us doing improv! I hope people enjoy it! Last exclamation mark, for now. I really enjoy doing improv and working on the video for one of the performances was a lot of fun, although I got the boom mike, I had recorded the episode before it arrived into my wide screaming technological arms. I want to do more! Eventually have it arrive to a point where it looks like “something you would see on a tv show on prime time”, with awesome amazing production value. That’s my goal, I want to learn the production side of things and I am learning a lot. Also my amazon.com wishlist continues to increase in size and power. Check out the awesome amazing pretty cool video :
I just bought a shotgun microphone from “Audio-Technica” (atr6550) and it refuses to acknowledge that I have the ability to sing. No matter how many times I try, the microphone seems to record exactly what I sound like. Yes, the devastation was provided free of charge.
Joking aside, I really enjoy the quality of the audio and attached it to my canon eos rebel T2i. I still need to learn how to adjust the audio so it can sound like it is coming from a film. I’m really excited that I am slowly getting the relevant pieces together to make my first “Legit” mini film. My goal is to make a short film that looks like “film students” did it. This is the challenge I give myself, to learn about how all these things work. It’s actually a lot more complicated than it looks. I am working on a project now and hopefully will have something out in the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
Oh and if you wish to hear the quality of the audio, watch the below video… I disabled comments because obviously… well I mean… The point is, the audio sounds great, the person singing is the responsibility of American Idol judges. I’m kidding, I don’t want them to destroy me on live television. Just imagine… Me on stage… Pig’s blood… Telekinetic attacks for everyone! I’m not crazy…
Welcome, you have been selected as my 1 millionth viewer! Congrats! You get nothing, I have a while to go before I reach a million though. I hope that for at least 1 second when you started reading this entry, you received a burst of “OH MY GOD”, but in the good way, like “OH MY GOD, I might have won something!!! But let me continue reading to make sure and see if they provide instructions or details for claiming a prize.
Clarification -> There is no prize. But wait! Maybe reading this is your prize. Yes… it is your prize. You can print this sentence, and this sentence only. Which sentence? The one I mentioned you could print, nothing before or after that.
Anyways, it’s been a while since I have posted a new video. I recently decided to start utilizing youtube in attempts to receive comments and insults (which I will delete). My youtube page is the following link :
http://www.youtube.com/user/legendary85
I am glad you clicked on it. The first video there is just a silly video I recorded on my Nokia Lumia 920, which actually has really good quality recording. I was anxious to get something recorded and upload to youtube. I was very proud of it at first since it was super simple, but then I watched it again… and again… and again… then I uploaded it to youtube. This will be the main ghetto quality video I will use to make future videos better than, a benchmark if you will (or won’t, but you have no choice). I’m writing some sketches now and once I get a handful, I will use my nice people skills to recruit some fellow actors and begin recording them. Most of the videos I have done in Vimeo, have been improvised or planned a few hours before the actual recording. I have three, fifteen minute videos that I actually wrote a screenplay/script for and they ended up being my favorite videos that I’ve made. With that in mind, I am brainstorming my next video idea and this time will apply all the knowledge I learned in the “30$ Film School” book I had. The book actually had a lot of great guidelines to follow, but obviously cannot replace actually going to school for it, but I have a day job and in the unforgettable words of that lady on youtube, “Ain’t nobody got time for that”. Although the Seattle Film School is still something I may try to pursue at a later time, just to learn the proper way.
Ahhhh! And before I forget, since this is my blog, I type how I usually talk so I won’t be writing all like “I have an English essay and let me use the THESAURUS” (Imagine Thesaurus is bold and underlined, but not italic… I could have made it that way, but then the stuff I am writing write right now, will be pointless).
Stay tuned for stuff happening here soon!
So an amazingly flawless friend of mine, (she is flawless because her elbows are moisturized), gave me a link to audition for a chance to be in a trailer for the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. I found out a few days before the deadline and immediately “leveraged” another good friend of mine to assist me in making the video. I didn’t have time to shave my face or do my hair awesome, but I hope that it gives that “variety” look or something.
The requirement of the video was to do a clue for a gay film, director or Actor and I chose “Girls will be Girls” which I think is super hilarious. You can find on youtube the clip I am trying to act out if you search for “Girls will be girls Astrophysicist”. I hope it makes you all laugh as much as I did when watching it. I had alot of fun making this very short video, so many bloopers of hilarity and glory!
JAVIER TORRES – 2012 SLGFF TRAILER CELEBRITY CLUE from Javier Torres on Vimeo.
I have a tendency to over analyze things when I watch a movie. For example, “why is she opening the door? This must mean its a metaphor and the empty room on the other side represents her soul, devoid of joy and fun”. That being said I am not reviewing this movie or telling you if it is “amahzing” with an “h”, because we know the movie is the one of the best Disney movies ever. Nothing like that “The frog princess” and its lack of “wow” moments rubbish. By now you should notice I like using “quotes”, so as a fun mini game with no special “reward”, count how many I end up doing and pat yourself in the back, or is it the knee?
Anyways, I watched the movie a few weeks back and noticed that through my twenty seven year old eyes, the veil hiding the vicious manipulative personality of Belle is violently torn away from my eyes of innocence. Mind you, the last time I saw this was on VHS in 1991. At that age I truly believed in the power of singing your troubles away and if you truly want something bad enough, you will get it. That is why I am a millionaire and was able to write this post on my private island of “If you believe me, then its true”.
I was 7 years old when I first staw this movie and was the kind of kid who knew everything you didn’t know. I had large KMART brand glasses that helped me see bettter I always got the cool toys and as a result of this, my brother and sister would siphon off of my entertaining gifts and still have money to invest in an all new wardrobe. The point is, I am not a little kid anymore and I treat this movie like an adult. Now lets conduct this “He said, “she said” session with a hip hop and jingle jangle of a key that leads to dreams :
The Key (::::::::::============HHHHHHH
The movie starts off by telling you in the form of a musical number that Belle is a weird person who likes to read, be educated and doesn’t want to live a “provincial life” (you thought I forgot about the quotes didnt you, well you were wrong, I remembered). The townsfolk see her as the black sheep who is beautiful and should conform to being a face in the crowd and let a man take care of her. The man is “Gaston”, who eats 12 dozen eggs a day to get large. I assume Belle is maybe 16 years old, how old is Gaston? Let’s say for statuatory reasons, that he is 17 or something. Gaston is fixated on marrying Belle, not matter what it takes, even though he has blond triplets swooning over him in every musical number he sings in. If Gaston wants a brainless girl that is not so difficult, then he could choose one of the triplets or just all three. Anyways, Belle proceeds to show off her ability to read, walk and dodge water with the flick of a wrist while the towns people sing about her.
Fast forwarding to the where we find out that Belle is indeed smarter than my 7 year old self gave her credit for, her father is captured by the beast so she trades places with him. The beast is all like “Roar, here is a room, roar, I’m angry” and Belle is all “I am independant woman who does not have a fear of dying”. Seriously, she doesn’t know what the beast is capable of, what if there other girls who stumbled across this very same castle and were murdered at the hands of the beast? Are we, as viewers supposed to assume that she is the first ever girl to see the beast after his transformation? Belle, please have some “common-non-suicidal-sense”. After the trading of places with her father, is there even a formal introduction of names? We know who Belle is, but what is the beast’s actual name? I doubt the curse legally changed his name to beast…right?
The beast tells Belle that she can go anywhere in the castle except for the west wing. If it were me, and I was forced to live with a monster who could rip me to shreds in seconds, I would probably obey. As we know Belle thinks she is immortal, so she goes anyways and the Beast discovered her. The beast then scares Belle so much that she finally feels the survival instinct of “I could die” so she runs away from the castle into more danger. Wolves welcome Belle for dinner outside the castle. Belle makes amazing use of a twig and mistakes it for an iron clad defense, but she still requires the beast to come save her. After the Beast is done with dispensing with the wolves, he faints. Here is another moment where we catch a glimpse of her true nature, Belle thinks to herself “I AM FREE!!!”, and proceeds towards her horse with the purpose of abandoning her “kidnapper”. After her hesitation, she realizes that her enemy saved her and now they have upgraded to “frenemies” status. She feels like she owes the beast for saving her, but the truth is the Beast is the one who actually created the situation in the first place. Belle has the choice of going back to her hometown that contains books she has already read and conform to the “provincial” life she so very much dislikes, OOOOOOOOOORRRRRrrrr, she can actually have an adventure of her own like in the books she reads. Since she knows the beast risked his life for her, Belle now officially knows she will not be harmed since that defeats the purpose of him saving her. In other words, a transition of power occurred, Belle now has power over the beast. It’s even possible that Belle over heard the furniture talking about how she is the only hope they have of breaking the spell. Now she has an amazing weapon at her disposal, LEVERAGE!
Belle gets a huge bonus due to her choice to stay, A FREAKING LIBRARY. Of course this is a good manipulative tactic on the beast’s side. By giving her something she cannot possibly take home, she is forced to stay if she wants to enjoy her gift, which is not really a gift but more like a metaphorical ball and chain helping to ensure she does not leave again.
Anyways, the cast sings a song and the verses Belle sings about “Oh my god what are these feelings?!” are in my opinion her realizing she cares about the beast BUT AS A PLATONIC FRIEND! She has been through so much that this relationship actually means something to her BUT AS A PLATONIC FRIEND WHO HAS AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF BOOKS THAT SHE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FINISH IN HER LIFETIME, or she might die falling to her death when se tries to get a book from the very top.
Skipping to the near ending, the townspeople find out the beast is real, Gaston leads a mini army of people to destroy the beast that they just learned existed minutes before. Come to think about it, the town got organized really quick and got people to put their lives in danger for no real reason. First of all, I assume the beast does not live very close, otherwise someone else would have seen them and cried wolf, I mean beast. Gaston finds the beast, they fight… sort of… I say sort of, because, the beast real strength should have decapitated Gaston or turned him into omelette (get it? Because he sang earlier that he eats over a dozen eggs a day, disemboweling him would have egg and meat and YAY! END OF THIS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF DOOM). So Gaston gracefully falls to his death and Belle sees the beast “dying” as the last opportunity to break the curse is quickly passing. Belle is now distraught over her new friend that provided her with an amazing story, which is definitely better than any of the ones she will ever read in a book and a never ending library kit. She invokes the power of PLATONIC LOVE, which seems to be enough to break the spell. Belle has her “what did I do, I didn’t mean to break him” moment as he transforms into a well animated and by disney standards “beautiful man” who stares at her face with such intensity that Belle has no choice but to think “BONUS!!!”. She just wanted a friend who she cared about, but now he is a hunk? Screw platonic! He’s mine! He’s beautiful now! He has a freaking library! He’s Beautiful now! He has a huge house! He’s beautiful now! He has staff! He’s beautiful now! After Belle takes 0.00000000000012 seconds to weigh her pros and cons, the beast and Belle fall in love and live happily ever after.
Seriously, would she have fallen in love with him if he was still a beast?
So that’s my alternate point of view of the movie if you choose to over analyze like I did. She may have had feelings for the beast, but I can’t help but think that those very same feelings became infinitely more powerful once she saw the beast’s true form.
No more quotation marks! You did it! If you only found one, then there is something wrong…
So it’s been over a year since my last post to this blog. I know “I am a bad person”, but let’s get over your feelings of unending rage and transform it into a happiness butterfly. I am altering the title of the blog from “Scamandrius Productions Adventures” to “Scamandrius Adventures” so it can be more about random things like ADVENTURE! Every once in a while attempts shall be made to provide visual entertainment from the creativity that randomly escapes my brain via semi compressed to high definition video on vimeo.com
TOPIC CHANGE! So since you clicked this link and the previous paragraph was ambiguous and vague enough to captivate your heart slash curiosity, you need to favorite this blog FOREVER! Yes I said slash instead of “/”, prepare for the awesomeness.
I think that was pretentious enough to create a love/hate relationship with Scamandrius Adventures (this time “/” felt more appropriate). Stay tuned or keep refreshing the page until the next post comes online which I hope is soon.
“Hasta el oblivionaje”
Just made a new video with my sister while on vacation to Puerto Rico. We were just being silly and decided to make a nonsensical photo video.
Go to the below site to check it out!
An ad that always made me laugh in theaters due to the stupid defiant daughter that points out to her mother, her lack of parenting skills. Basically the mother comes home with a pirated dvd and then says she didn’t steal it, but she bought it for a very cheap price. When the son goes out to leave, the mother tells him, he can’t go anywhere since he has to study for a test. The boy responds to his mother that it is not necessary that he study because he got a copy of the test. The mother worried about her son’s new thuggish behavior worries that he “stole” the test. The boy clarifies that he did not steal the test, but he bought it. At this precise moment, the daughter has no fear in indicating with sheer bitchiness “Just like your movie”. The mother is in shock and the ad ends…In real like the girl would have been slapped lol.
Anyways I hope you enjoy it, I made it with my sister when she was here visiting me from Puerto Rico. My next movie should be different in quality since I got a digital SLR camera that is capable of recording High definition video, and this will do better obviously with limited lighting resources.
Check out my Vimeo for the video!
I just finished editing a movie I recorded in February 2010, I have been so busy that I couldn’t find time to finish editing it. I half assed the editing so there are some quips, but I like it anyways, hope everyone enjoys it.
I might be a while before I plan and make the next one.
Check out the video at Vimeo :
http://vimeo.com/13406472
I have not posted in a while! I am still working on my last movie, which needs to be provided to the world immediately. I have been busy with work and volunteering with an american idol similar event and have learned alot from the experience.
HopefullyI get a chance to get some new content to post. I finished a mini screenplay for a short skit involving martial arts. I am not a professional but I will do my best tpo choreograph the bloody and gorey deaths that everyone in the movie shall meet…yay for blood! Ugh that reminds me, I need to purchase blood…
Stay tuned to the blog, hopefully in a week or so I will add the most recent project I have completed recording.