{"id":1408,"date":"2003-04-17T09:32:35","date_gmt":"2003-04-17T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2003-04-17T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2003-04-17T14:32:35","slug":"what-its-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"What it&#8217;s all about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-read my little blurb from yesterday and realized that I should probably write about what the big project is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For a couple years, I&#8217;ve been part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smitheeawards.com\/\">Smithee Awards<\/a>.  Basically, a viewer&#8217;s choice award ceremony for bad movies.  I&#8217;m one of the video editors who assembles the show (the other one has a LiveJournal &#8216;blog with the amazingly appropriate user name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/badmovie\/\">BadMovie<\/a>).  In addition to my video editing duties, I&#8217;m the &#8220;Guru of Graphics.&#8221;  Usually this involves making posters to direct our audience to the room that we&#8217;ve been moved to at the last minute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago, I did a series of title slides for each of our bad movie voting categories.  We&#8217;ve been using them for quite a while and they&#8217;re beginning to seem a little outdated.  Just to give an idea of how old they are, I did the layout using Strata Studio Pro on a Powerbook 180&#8230;  Technology has advanced considerably since then, so I&#8217;ve decided to go with animated titles rather than just still slides&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read on to take a look.  Again, you&#8217;ll probably need the latest version of Quicktime to view the videos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/download\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"quicktime6_required.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/quicktime6_required.gif\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/movies\/01_MLP.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Most Ludicrous Premise\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/01_MLP.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/movies\/02_Obliv.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oblivious\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/02_Obliv.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/movies\/03_Wanna_Run.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wanna Run That By Me Again?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/03_Wanna_Run.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/movies\/04_R.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Let's Up The Rating To R\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/04_R.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-read my little blurb from yesterday and realized that I should probably write about what the big project is&#8230; For a couple years, I&#8217;ve been part of the Smithee Awards. Basically, a viewer&#8217;s choice award ceremony for bad movies. 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