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I haven’t placed up original content in a long time, so here is one. It’s also my first ever timelapse film.

During May and June, Sydney takes Paris’ title of City of Lights. This is the Vivid Festival, a festival of lights, sound and art.

The light installation are projected onto iconic buildings on Macquarie St and then the Sydney Opera House.

Something I’ve learnt when doing this timelapse is that:

1. Timelapse takes long… if you invite friends along, make sure they have something to do, or else they’ll nag you to leave.
2. Shooting at night is hard to focus, even when you digital zoom.
3. Bring extra clothes and an mp3 or video player, it’s gonna be a looooong night.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my timelapse of Vivid Sydney. I might ad some additional shots of sundown as you could see, the first shot was really quick… I only got to the location at 4pm and the Sun was going down already…

More timelapses to come!

Another fan film has emerged on the internet and it’s also a reimagining of a fighting game that’s already been made.

This time, it’s Mortal Kombat. But unlike the Street Fighter fan films that I posted a few weeks ago, this is not a fight demo, but more of a prologue to a feature film.

Directed by Kevin Tancharoen and written by Oren Uziel, the rumour is that these two have approached Warner Bros with this short as a pitch for a reboot of the film that Paul W Anderson made int he 90s.

Check it out, starring Michael Jai White (played Spawn and also the guy that wanted The Joker dead or alive in TDK):

As you can see, the film has a more real world setting with references to Mortal Kombat characters. The style actually reminds me of Max Payne. And I’m guessing the reason for this is the influence of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films.

But don’t dispair, as Tancharoen has been quoted as saying his vision of Mortal Kombat will still have super natural elements, fatalities, and a universe where multiple worlds exist, similar to Harry Potter.

Will we see this film in 2013 as IMDB suggests? Only time will tell. But I’m sure hoping it does!

Outer World Ninja fued duking it out in the Mortal World? SWEEET!

It seems that whenever Patrick Boivin puts up a new vid on youtube, it’s going to be something sweet.

I think the first time I stumbled upon his youtube channel was when he had the Street Fighter game, which I blogged about a long while ago.

Over time, he’s come up with other cool stop motion clips, Iron Man vs Bruce Lee is a hit, but I thought Bumblebee vs General Lee was cooler.

Well, here is his latest creation and this time, it’s in CGI!

Iron Baby, pretty cool eh?!

Time and effort pays off and I reckon Patrick will go pretty far with his dedication and skill.

The latest news in the world of DSLR filming is Adobe has recently released Creative Suite 5. With all new features for every program, the most talked about feature in the film universe is Premiere Pro’s ability to edit H.264 files natively.

Busting Final Cut Studio’s balls.

What does this mean? It means us Canon SLR users can pull footage off our memory cards and edit straight away! This means no more waiting for footage to convert to a more stable codec, which usually takes twice as long as the original footage shot.

That’s right… rub it in Adobe, rub it in…

I’m yet to test out CS5 Premiere Pro, so I’m not sure if editing in H264 would be smooth or not. Then again, I probably can’t, since I’m still stuck with 3 year old technology… base model technology actually… my 13 inch Macbook that doesn’t even have a DVD burner

So, I guess it’s time for an upgrade. What do you think? Macbook Pro 17inch with i7 or a Quad Core 27inch iMac?
Decisions, decisions…

That’s a new idea for Steve Jobs, the iPunch.

On other news, the geek world of the internet has been blessed with not one, but two Street Fighter fan films that doesn’t suck. One by indie filmmaker Chris Cowan testing out his Canon 7D and the other, by Joey Ansah, best known for his bathroom fight scene with Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum.

Here’s both films:

Street Fighter Beginnings End

Street Fighter Legacy

So, what do you think? Pretty sweet action I’d say and if Chris had the budget and connections of Joey, I’m sure the quality of the two would be even closer.

But really, besides from a fight between Ken and Ryu, I’d like to see some story development. Why are they fighting? Why does Ryu wander around like a man with no purpose? Surely if they’ve given so much time in the action sequence, they could’ve added a plot to it. It’s like eating toast with no bread but just the butter.

Oh well, at least it’s still better than the last incarnation of the Street Fighter mythology…

I haven’t seen this, but, why is Chun Li punching? Why does Balrog use a gun? Why is the reason Vega cover his face cause he’s ugly? Why does Chris Klein overacts so much?

Hhmmm, you know what? Maybe I should make a King of Fighters Fan Film, I’ve always wanted to… Oh wait, a feature film is on it’s way! By Hong Kong’s Gordon Chan. Let’s hope he learns from Andrew Lau’s Initial D and make a half decent adaptation.

Oh my… they used the Dark Knight’s score

Ah, you just can’t escape the Hong Kong influenced corniness.

Stumbled upon an Indie feature film being shot in Melbourne called Six Lovers.

Aussie Indie Film: Six Lovers

From the film’s website, the synopsis is:

Nathan loves Lucia, who is having an affair with Lorenzo, who is seeing Tom, who has a relationship with Walter, who’s separated from Marilyn, who wants to save her relationship.
Hearts will break.
One will die.
It’s all on tape.
Are you willing to share your innermost secrets?

Seems like an ensemble drama, so hopefully with a tight script that’s written and directed by Laurent Boulanger and produced by Joel Mielle with a strong cast, the film can go places.

Oh, and the film is being shot on the Canon 7D. Which… from what I read, was used on the set of Iron Man 2!

If you want to follow Six Lover’s progress, head over to their blog by clicking here.