This is a basic how-to guide from Charlie Brooker.

Happy New Year everybody!

I found a really cool video today. It is a song and music video constructed entirely by splicing together sounds from the movie Terminator 2. For those who don’t know, T2 is probably my favourite movie of all time.

Well happy holidays everyone. I caught this sweet video on YouTube from Sesame Street. Sesame street was certainly not this cool when I was a kid…

Or maybe it was, and I was just too young to know it.

…is not a problem!

Thanks to technology, the screenwriter no longer has to worry about writing scenes that would be prohibitively expensive to film. Well, they do still have to worry about the cost, but locations themselves can be created out of thin air thanks to amazing advances in computer composite-imaging technology. Here is an example of such scenes that were built almost entirely digitally. The video is from Stargate Studios (LA, Vancouver).

This technique is called a “Virtual Backlot.”

I found a new website today called movieclips.com. This could be good.

As I read in this quotd article, a website was able to acquire the licenses for 12,000 movie clips to be streamed and shared in high-quality over the internet. These are all sorts of movies from all sorts of studios in one spot.

Now… I know this isn’t the newest idea around. Plenty of sites like YouTube, Vimeo and others have these movie clips on them. Movieclips.com offers them legally.

There are lots of other good clips on the site too. Check it out! Even though there are “only” 12,000 right now, they are all free to watch and share. This is only a ‘beta’ site. So expect more clips soon if this project takes off.