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Aug. 13th, 2011 04:08 pmToday in the library was exceptionally hard going. Not in the least because last night I was out at a works thing so I was very late in getting to bed and the fizzy pop has upset my stomach in a chronic manner. This said, I did have an exceptionally bright moment to the day when I was informed that Stephen King's On Writing was waiting for me in the reserve cupboard. So I got that and also an Isherwood novel out. Just because there always needs to be somehting queer in my reading.
I'm currently trying to work my way around 'bluescreening' Or, to be more specific 'overlaying without a blue screen'. I've just about got my head round the WITH a blue screen, but the practice footage me and SpikyTech made up in work for this purpose is so far showing me that wiping out the brown of a door, and not the person infront of the door, is not so simple a task. If any friends have more experience with this advice is very much appreciated. I've dong key-colours and chroma-keys but I'm struggling to hit any sort of balance because the brown of the door is basically taking away parts of the person infront's hair and face.
So yes, at the rate this is going when we do put our filming work into action we may find ourselved dying a sheet blue and one sheet green and going around with it to give a background. (Actually this won't work- being in a hospital infection control would probably not be happy with that kind of thing even though we wouldn't be filming sick people)
Anyway. Suggestions? Ideas? All greatly appreciated.
In other news
The recent riots in the country what really is there to say? I'm still shocked. But mostly, I vacillate between confused and conspiricy-theory-level suspicious. Because the rioters didn't seem to have a collective reason, other than being (and I know I'm generalising) the new generation of "Angry Young Men" - it's Rebel Without A Cause syndrome only on a more hurtful scale. Maybe it's the credit crunch, maybe it's the cultural poverty- I don't know. People have postulated plenty of things. Our dearly despised Prime Minister has already made the general assumption that the rioters are all either 'On Benefits' or children whose parents are 'On Benefits', and also blamed 'Absent Fathers' as the cause (which is his current thing in truth and he's been harping on about it for ages because he's a heteronormative Tory after all. RARG). I don't know. I can only, along with the rest of us, stare in confusion at the whole mess. I don't know why, I do know that I sincerely doubt making people homeless is going to help matters at all.
On happier things, I'm sure anyone who has been on my blog for the duration knows of my deep and abiding fondness for everything that is Darren Hayes. Well, in recent years I did think that, though I still find his voice marvellous, my teenagey crush days were over. He's on my twitter and life just...goes on. But then I saw THIS INTERVIEW and I couldn't breathe for the sheer- WOW- factor.
Therefore I have determined to buy myself a ticket to go and see him when he goes to Liverpool later this year. I am, of course, furiously canvassing my friends for potential companions, but am determined that I will go alone if needs must! Anybody fancy it?
( Talk Talk Talk music vid, Darren Hayes' latest single PHWOAR)
Because how could anybody resist?
I'm currently trying to work my way around 'bluescreening' Or, to be more specific 'overlaying without a blue screen'. I've just about got my head round the WITH a blue screen, but the practice footage me and SpikyTech made up in work for this purpose is so far showing me that wiping out the brown of a door, and not the person infront of the door, is not so simple a task. If any friends have more experience with this advice is very much appreciated. I've dong key-colours and chroma-keys but I'm struggling to hit any sort of balance because the brown of the door is basically taking away parts of the person infront's hair and face.
So yes, at the rate this is going when we do put our filming work into action we may find ourselved dying a sheet blue and one sheet green and going around with it to give a background. (Actually this won't work- being in a hospital infection control would probably not be happy with that kind of thing even though we wouldn't be filming sick people)
Anyway. Suggestions? Ideas? All greatly appreciated.
In other news
The recent riots in the country what really is there to say? I'm still shocked. But mostly, I vacillate between confused and conspiricy-theory-level suspicious. Because the rioters didn't seem to have a collective reason, other than being (and I know I'm generalising) the new generation of "Angry Young Men" - it's Rebel Without A Cause syndrome only on a more hurtful scale. Maybe it's the credit crunch, maybe it's the cultural poverty- I don't know. People have postulated plenty of things. Our dearly despised Prime Minister has already made the general assumption that the rioters are all either 'On Benefits' or children whose parents are 'On Benefits', and also blamed 'Absent Fathers' as the cause (which is his current thing in truth and he's been harping on about it for ages because he's a heteronormative Tory after all. RARG). I don't know. I can only, along with the rest of us, stare in confusion at the whole mess. I don't know why, I do know that I sincerely doubt making people homeless is going to help matters at all.
On happier things, I'm sure anyone who has been on my blog for the duration knows of my deep and abiding fondness for everything that is Darren Hayes. Well, in recent years I did think that, though I still find his voice marvellous, my teenagey crush days were over. He's on my twitter and life just...goes on. But then I saw THIS INTERVIEW and I couldn't breathe for the sheer- WOW- factor.
Therefore I have determined to buy myself a ticket to go and see him when he goes to Liverpool later this year. I am, of course, furiously canvassing my friends for potential companions, but am determined that I will go alone if needs must! Anybody fancy it?
( Talk Talk Talk music vid, Darren Hayes' latest single PHWOAR)
Because how could anybody resist?
