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How to write a Movie
Don't write excuse notes - Sympathy is like crack cocaine to industry execs. I've had at least one wonderful screenplay of mine maimed by a sympathy-skank. Yes, of course the audience have to relate to your characters, but they don't need to approve of them. If characters are going to do something bad, Hollywood wants you to build in an excuse note. If you look at Thelma and Louise, you'll see it's really just one long excuse note with 20 minutes of fun at the end. Don't write excuse notes - Sympathy is like crack cocaine to industry execs. I've had at least one wonderful screenplay of m... more
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Artbot Mimics Sounds Musically
"The system learns the sounds it can make by trying out its instruments, and then uses its range of sounds to try to reproduce the rhythmic and melodic qualities of sounds such as the voices of visitors."
For this clip, "the source audio is a bit of the soundtrack from the movie Citizen Kane, and the noisemakers are a set of found object percussion machines and an electromagnetically fretted electric guitar." "The system learns the sounds it can make by trying out its instruments, and then uses its range of sounds to try to reproduce th... more
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