I just watched “Being The Ricardo’s” and it’s good but not great. I remember the TV movie from the 90s as telling the same story but better. This is a dark melodrama without one laugh in it. Nicole Kidman is pretty amazing, when she’s doing “Lucy” she sounds exactly like the original. Then again Frances Fisher in the TV movie was really good too.
I shot and edited/animated the backgrounds using Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and After Effects.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonynguyenattorney/
I shot these TV spots for Austin/Waco Texas lawyer Vic Feazell.
I used a Canon G20 camera and edited them in Adobe After Effects. I made the graphics in Adobe Photoshop.
mattkprovideo.com/2021/12/20/west-side-story-2021/
I just saw the new WEST SIDE STORY. It will never surpass the original, but its quite good. I don’t get why its a bomb!
The good: This is “Stage 3 Spielberg” not the “dolly up to the actors face” Spielberg from the 80s. Beautiful photography, big wonderful sets ( did they build a fake New York City somewhere?) “Cool Boy” seemed to be on a greenscreen stage. Real Puerto Rican Actors playing Puerto Ricans?!?!? Imagine that! Great dancers, great actors, great singing.
tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pNvg3ckdU
The Bad? If this an update of Shakespeares “Romeo and Juliet,” does anyone remember that THOSE two lead characters are supposed to be around 12 years old? That explains the overdone emotional outbursts (Talking about getting married after the second day they know each other?) The 2 leads are around 18, but putting (most of) them back in High School would make the gangs, the school dance and the overall juvenile delinquency seem more logical.
Rita Morena sings the signature “A Place for Us” and its no longer a love song, but a lament about being Puerto Rican immigrants in a strange land.
I cant put my finger on exactly WHY…. but the memorable energy that the original gave off just isn’t here.
Not good or bad, just different:
Both teen gangs are battling for control of a neighborhood, that ( in this new version) is about to be demolished soon anyway. (Was that historically accurate for the early 1950s?)
The Hispanic actors mostly talk to each other in Spanish with NO subtitles. BUT the actors deliver their lines so well that I could most get the gist of what they were saying
What is the Simon and Garfunkel song “Me and Julio down by the schoolyard” about? What do the lyrics mean?
https://mattkprovideo.com/2021/12/19/what-is-me-julio-about/
The lyrics are:
The mama pajama rolled out of bed, And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout, And he started the investigation
It’s against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law
The mama looked down and spit on the ground Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, “Oy, if I get that boy I’m gonna stick him in the house of detention
Whoa, in a couple of days they come and take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek
It sure sounds like someone was caught doing something naughty with an underage girl?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_Julio_Down_by_the_Schoolyard
Actually it wasnt really a Simon and Garfunkel song, it was a Paul Simon solo song!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon_(album)
Terrible movie that LOOKED really good:
I saw this on HBO in the 80s… the ending left me scratching my head!
Shredder par excellence “MODERN” wows the crowd at Fitzgerald’s bar and live music venue on Dec 5, 2021
MUSE RELAPSE
Hanna Barakat
How to create outlined text using adobe animate (formerly adobe flash).
I typed in text, then went to FRAME and clicked the PLUS button on FILTER.
I added glow, made it black and 500% strength.
mattkprovideo.com/2021/12/03/outline-text-in-adobe-animate/
I created these pro wrestling themed motion graphics with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects:
I didn’t design the “Wrestle Circus” logo, the client did. These are not finished pieces, I crafted them and then the client used them in a larger project.
https://www.facebook.com/WrestleCircus
https://prowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/WrestleCircus
Some other sports themed motion graphics:
