500 Days of Summer

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel do a music video for their recent film 500 Days of Summer to "Why do you let me stay here" by She and Him.



Let's start this week off right.

Dan Milligan, Concept Artist

Since I am in a graphic novel class right now, I've been checking out illustrators and storytelling extensively.

Dan Milligan is a concept artist who is really effective in storytelling for films and for advertising. It's really interesting to compare the difference between the two. I think the film storyboards are comparable and helpful to look at when writing a graphic novel. The ad storyboards however are really useful to look at when storyboarding for ID.

Film: Beowulf



Advertisements: AMC

Canon, so Amazing.

Canon has got to be the best camera out there. Some Canons can shoot around 12 frames per sec, which means some crystal clear, sweetly lighted, focused goodness of a video.

Check out this short film by Vincent Laforet, who is a print/photography genius.



Parts of Slumdog Millionare were shot using a Canon too, to create an accurate depiction of the un-noticing crowds of Mumbai. (More on that here.)