John Williams Documentary

Star Wars – Music by John Williams Rare 1980 Documentary

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/07/john-williams-documentary/

 

A documentary on the amazing John Williams. He scored most of the great movie epics of the last 30 years: Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and all its sequels, Star Wars and all its sequels!

His music is the best part of anything that he has worked on.

Williams score brought the fear and dread of the impending shark attacks in Jaws. He ( and George Lucas) had the great idea to have the music score for Star Wars contradict the pictures.  High Tech futuristic imagery with old style pseudo classical music underneath gave the potentially goofy movie a seriousness and elegance it wouldn’t have had otherwise.

 

Say what you want about the Phantom Menace…. John Williams music score, especially “Duel of the Fates” is excellent!

 

At 14:06 you can see the Carbon Freeze scene from The Empire Strikes Back with the original undubbed voices!

 

 

Best Star Wars Fan Films

Best Star Wars Fan films 

TROOPS! The first and greatest! A mash up ( before that word was in use) of the Tv Show COPS and  the first Star Wars Movie:

directed by Kevin Rubio

 

REBEL SCUM

http://www.bloodbrothercinema.com

https://www.inverse.com/article/10711-star-wars-fan-film-rebel-scum-is-too-good-to-exist

 

DARTH MAUL

 

Speedrun: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Ep #3)

 

Star Wars The Lesser Evil

 

Star Wars Liberation

 

HardWare Wars!

Did I say Troops was the first and best Star Wars Fan Film?  How could I forget this Erne Fosselius shot on film parody from the late 70s?

 

TIE FIGHTER

 

Youtube Update

mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/03/youtube-update/

I finally got around to making banner art for my mattkprovideo youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBkIvPbMFQfvn2U0GvQeZfQ

I copied the banner art off this very website.

I put it into a 2048 by 1152 Adobe Photoshop file.  I had to resize the art several times to make it look right for desktop computer sizing.

Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

Merry Christmas from Artex Funding

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/29/christmas-artex/

 

Drawn in Adobe Flash ( Adobe Animate) then exported as a “.swf” file,

It was a little bigger than 1920 by 1080 so I brought the flash  “.swf” file into Adobe After Effects. I scaled it down about 80 %.  Then I added the website url and phone number, luckily Adobe After Effects had the same font installed as I used in Flash.

I felt the white lettering didn’t stand out enough from the bright white background. So even though it was drawn line art already, I added an adjustment layer with the Stylize > Cartoon filter over everything.  It gave the lines a greater thickness.

Then I added another adjustment layer with the ” CC Snowfall” effect on it. White snowflakes against a white background?  I put the snow effect layer UNDER the cartoon layer- this giving the snowflakes a thin outline.

https://www.lynda.com/After-Effects-tutorials/Adding-snow-using-CC-Snow/104216/108662-4.html

I rendered it all as a  Quicktime H.264  “.mov ” so it could be uploaded easily to Youtube.

 

Then I shared it via Twitter and Google Plus.

 

This is a “Christmas Card”  that ArTex Funding can send out to their clients.