This website is for those who have never lost their youthful exuberance for knowledge and for those who never will.

Nothing I had and yet profusion:
The Lust for Truth, the pleasure in illusion.
                         from Prelude in the Theater, Goethe's Faust

Ich hatte nichts und doch genug:
Den Drang nach Wahrheit und die Lust am Trug
                           Vorspiel Auf Dem Theater, Goethe's Faust
 
 


Film Study Reviews - Books                June 2006, a brief review of the Text on Color Theory was added to the Studio Reviews, it had some interesting Exercises, which are vital to anyone learning on their own!  If It's Purple Someone is going to die! was added at the  Studio  May 2006, I started to read a Focal Press text with interviews by European Editors, the introduction was well written, but I was too unfamiliar with the films to really be able to review the interviews. European film artists can be intimidating, particularly the Swedes. So, I decided to invent a way to make them less intimidating. Since I've been to Scandanavia, and I dated a scandanavian when I was younger, I'm certain pretending they're naked would not cut it.  I decided to let geography and genes take the lead in making the Swedes less intimidating. Did you ever look at a map of Europe?  The entire country of Sweden looks like a giant phallic symbol (dick) hanging over Germany and Poland (my homeland minus one). OK, that's disgusting. I'm not intimidated anymore. That and this piece of photography will get you a free ride from Kiel to Malmo, it appears to have done it for me. DATA FLOW...can I find any more scandalous ways to get certain activists in Sweden to bring more attention to non-lethal weapons?    Raindance Producer's Lab Lo- to- No Budget Filmmaking, Elliot Grove, Published by Focal Press in Oct 2004, about 400 pages: Raindance Online  This textbook comes with a CD that has some decent free filmmaker's software. It also had a few samples of film shorts and filmmaker's promotional pieces that were nice, if you need samples. I review this as a "4 out of 5 chocolate cookie monster" book, but with apprehensions.  I believe it failed to live up to the title. The text opened with some interesting anecdotal stories about people who actually finished films with no money, "by the seat of their pants". But in the tradition of most of the rest of the people who are writing textbooks, hoping they will be included in classes, he digressed to lots of general information. There is already plenty of that out there.  The few parts I did like included an interview with an editor who had his own reasons for not being keen on digital editing. The text had various apparently honest expressions of opinion about the advantages of different film formats. He also gave specifics about who to contact and how to contact people about using film ends or gaining access to camera packages for low budget films. I write here LOW budget because this book was not really about guerilla filmmaking at the rawest and did not cover NO Budget creative ideas. In that I mean special effects and so forth that can be created in the kitchen. Many of his low budget ideas are dependent on the reader being located in a city where film is being shot on a regular basis.   At my studio "NO BUDGET" means absolutely no budget.  I was really happy that some disgruntled ex-employee of a pharmaceutical company threw out everything from his job including a like new external 48x CDRW in the box! That's no budget. The book's author, Elliot Grove, hails from Pennsylvania Amish Country where he escaped the oppression of his youth by moving to Toronto to start a film career. That is in his own words.  Mr. Grove went from one male dominated and somewhat closed society to another. In that regards this book also was not for female Director/Producers who are still living with the repression and isolation of their lifetimes in an industry that does not take women wanting to write and direct action/adventure films. In fact one WGA mentor online recently suggested that women who want to submit in genres that are still male dominated, i.e. action/adventure, put their initials on the screenplay.  Elliot and I are still a long way from PA, also my home state, but unlike him I still am effected by extreme "oppression", and was not impressed by his rendition of no budget filmmaking. The British don't really do things that differently!  As another filmmaker's reference book this was an excellent read, too generalized in some parts, but nobody can cover all aspects of  filmmaking in one book. As a general reference it gets 4 out of 5 chocolate cookie monsters .  The New Cinematographers, is a nice little picture textbook about what several Cinematographers did to start their own careers  and how they worked with other men (did I use the word men again?) Directors to make the light and film work for their films. In the beginning of this film Studio, I would read every page of every book I was going to review. Now I read less and understand more. I look up cameras that I don't know about and make mental lists of good cheap ideas that were used on sets. There are some good ones in this book.  At best I read one half of the book. This is progress, because as comprehension grows you don't  need to read what everybody is writing  and you have your own ideas. This picture text is comparable somewhat to The American Cinematographer Magazine, except it showed how one Cinematographer's career and skills became what they are as compared to how one film was shot and lit - the ASC magazine. Three Hot Coco's at best!       In APRIL 2005 this Studio once again opened the archives of reviews in the Special Effects Department, which is presently cob webbed and decaying, to Review Movie FX Magazine. A video magazine about special effects.     Joel Asher's Video Series: Directors on Acting is a short video interviewing several directors on subjects concerning what they expect from Actors. As an aspiring Director I found it mediocre at best, yet an aspiring actor might find it otherwise enlightening.


 





Recommended Viewing & Listening October 2005, DVD Commentary on XXX - State of the Union by ILM actually contained educational information for aspiring directors! They described in detail what information they needed communicated to them from the production to enable them to create the computer generated effects in this film.  October 2005, Script Scanners: the following DVD's have "script scanning": Pirates of the Caribbean; Lost - Disc one The Pilot; Alias Season One and Season three both have at least one disc with script scanning.   You can watch the film - or an actor's line delivery and watch thheee shooting script at the same time, only available on your computer.  This is for people too poor to buy the script! I will put up more specifics as I find them!  It seems these hispanic Directors just can't stop talking about themselves! That's good news for aspiring filmmakers & directors.  Although Rodriguez only wants to give us a 15 minute film school, it appears Del Toro has more stamina. He's also a very bad boy, the commentary is rated R for language.  New Line Cinema's Platinum Version of Blade II Disk 2 is a production workshop. What is particularly rare about this workshop is that it isn't some sanitized version of production. I haven't seen a documentary describe in detail the type of lights and filters used to light a particular scene since the Aussi's film production with Kodak, the Master Cinematographer's series on VHS.  This DVD comes at a considerably cheaper cost than the pricey VHS series, reviewed here earlier.  Although I'm too poor to get my hands on it right now, I've read that Del Toro gives  the same performance in the Director's Cut of Hell Boy. My recommendation of these DVD's is strictly for their educational content for filmmakers!  DIRECTOR'S FIRSTS -  To See as they saw it...June 2005 I recently screened Ridley Scott's "Duelists" and Del Toro's "Cronos". Listening to the DVD commentary is very useful to anyone interested in just how hard it is, even for men, to jump start their own careers in filmmaking. Del Toro gave the very best overall advice, make your own path into the business. Having written this I also add this criticism. Both of these productions were independently created by these Directors with their own funding to jumpstart their careers. That's admirable. In contrast, it's regrettable that woman who even have that much financial success before their a first film, are rarely in the position to risk all they own on an independent film.

CENSORSHIP & OTHER SINKING BOATS:

  As a webmaster/creator with advanced to expert knowledge on censorship and technology abuse, the Studio is proposing a new Film Genre called Sci-Real.

      The lawsuit ended in the court in 1993, the "issues" of the suit are an ongoing source of activism for this webmaster. For instance, the recent decision of the Int'l Court at the Hague against the Church of Scientology, who wanted to suppress the online publication of affidavits filed in a civil action, is significant to the operation of this website. 

 
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BEYOND THE FILM STUDIO & SCI-REAL RESEARCH

CENSORSHIP - Hypocrisy JUNE 2005 <
for more on Censorship Ruby Teal Censorship Page.
  This is a comic but truthful aside, for those who wonder what my schedule is when I'm not being subjected to community hazing. 

       In 1988 I filed a human rights complaint with the UN's Human Rights Commission  against the US Government for participating in blacklisting. I cited CNN as a main participant but made it clear that Congress was using the opportunity of the media's organized hazing and blacklisting to get themselves publicity - alot of it. Timed exactly with acts of vviiioolence against me.  Whatever the scandal you think there may be in pac funds this is bigger. 
       Since that time, before, during and after my lawsuit against a news organization, a NY Times Company,  I have been attempting to get the UN to act on my continuing complaint by seeking to bring hidden uses of technology "out" as issues for debate.  I wrote in my lawsuit about how the use of interactive eavesdropping and surveillance technology around the world caused patterns of violence.
  These patterns are discernible.  Some of that violence could have been stopped but for the silence of the US Government.  Individual members of Congress have long used this silence to obtain free publicity for themselves, particularly through CNN.
I personally despise this CNN team, they prey off of people with no hope. 
       In the three times I moved abroad, I grew up in tourism and have always worked with other countries, I was told my government was instigating violence against me with the newspapers, once by  a foreign embassy worker, once by internal affairs officer of a foreign police department after an attempted rape and by numerous other international workers.  These people had nothing to gain by telling me this, and in fact a couple feared retaliation. 

       This is a 5th amendment taking under the United States Constitution, not to mention a form of slavery, in fact the US Constitution is a joke in light of the uses of this technology.  Lastly, this is a form of torture, there is more about that at the new DataMines pages of this website.  This is not an exaggeration, I have lived in total isolation in my country for over 17 years - I've no relationship with my family, although I lived with them, there is extremely abusive use of technology that I have described in detail that has prevented me from getting health care for 17 years and I have a possibly life threatening situation.

      If you can get the TUNE (tune - like something is fishy here)  going in your head the following should be read with a little rythm...go straight to hell boys....go straight to hell boys...

Jury Duty Update May 31, 2005

     My number was not "up" for Jury Duty so I'll be busy, trying to get the hell out of this Virtual Studio Hell and into Production!

     The recording at the Courthouse said Not to bring a newspaper, it will be taken away from you! Hell, I've been asking them to do that for 19 years...get this Press satellite off my back!

     They also said not to wear anything distracting, well you could call a several hundred ton satellite distracting. After 11 years of avoiding Shepard's citations I made my way to the Law Library to prepare for the day of "truth". This state really cannot handle the truth. After about twenty minutes of total stupidity, that legal training kicked in like Martial arts. The legal issues surrounding someone who is literally being followed by a media eavesdropping satellite are mind boggling! So many KEYS, so many hypothetical questions, so little time. 
 

THREE TIERS OF TYRANNY -
  The 2nd half of this website is about extreme prejudice & discrimination.  It's also the groundwork for research that is at the core of SciReal, this Studio's own film genre.  It is also about my personal coming out as someone who has been severely affected by science and technology. 



 
 
 
 




APRIL 2005    April 2005 - I filed a "reply comment" concerning thee request by the U.S. Copyright Office for comments and reply comments about Orphan Works.  You could say I'm an Apted Pupil, which is the next page slated for production at this fake film studio. For now this links to the ever chauvinistic Director's Guild now showing a seminar on Terrorism, that has no women speakers. I remember standing on the border to Nicaragua, before the signing of the peace treaty, wondering if this border guard could imagine how little I feared him or his gun. As I have written many times, it isn't how you can be killed or threatened with death that is terrorism, it is how you can be made to live. Which is a commentary on the disgust I have of the community I live in for their participation in blacklisting.  While America has recently discovered terrorism and it is apparently new to the men of the DGA, it has been a fact of life for me, as an American woman blacklisted, for decades.