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@danielhsia
Updated my directing reel a couple months ago. There’s a couple of shots of the late, brilliant Bill Paxton, a truly talented actor and filmmaker. I was stunned and saddened by the news of his passing. Getting to work with him was a thrill, he challenged me as a storyteller and made me a better director. We’ll miss you Bill.
Theta S 360 camera
Scroll down for links to 360 degree photos. Long version: I went to a Sundance / YouTube conference on 360 / VR video last week and was immediately inspired to play around with the tech. Bought a Ricoh Theta S 360 camera -- it’s like the Flip camera of 360 photos. Fits in your pocket, takes great 360 photos. Snapped some pics at a big dinner for the Committee of 100 on Saturday.
Tumblr won’t let me embed the photos (booooo), but click on the links to view them in the 360 viewer on Theta360.com.
Beverly Wilshire Hotel Ballroom. Constance Wu accepting award.
360 is fun on the red carpet!
Pre-show with Lynn Chen, Janet Yang, Abe Forman-Greenwald
360 degree selfie
In line with friends
Takeaways: 360 photos are fun to view and fun to take, as long as you’re surrounded on all sides by something interesting. Above and below as well, ideally. Exposure differentials are a problem outdoors, especially if you’re in bright sunlight and your subject is in the shade. That’s another thing, technically everything is your subject, since everything shows up in the pic.
Video quality is pretty awful. I shot a couple of videos that I don’t even want to share here, they’re so potato. Ricoh says the Theta S shoots in 1920x1440, but TWIST! This is the number of pixels all the way around the sphere -- effectively, your video will appear to be in SD. I’ve looked online and haven’t seen many user complaints about the video quality, possibly because 1) this is more of a consumer device than a professional one, and 2) owners of the previous Theta say the video quality is “much improved.” Must have been really lousy before!
Biggest headache: Theta S uses a wifi link to smartphone to transfer files, remotely operate the shutter, or start/stop video. My wifi link worked only half the time, and it failed every time I absolutely needed to take a photo or vid without my hand in it.
Vimeo HD trailer for ANNIE UNDOCUMENTED is now up!
Much better picture quality on Vimeo!
Tonight on GOING DEEP, David Rees sings some songs about airplanes. This video is a preview. I encourage you to watch it and then watch the show tonight at 10PM on @NatGeoChannel.
Now here are some observations about the video:
1) It made me smile my dumb head in half.
2) The tumble wing then made the separated halves of my head explode in one-two successive booms.
3) I am writing this without a head.
4) “I am an orphan, this is my private jet” should be its own show.
5) Click through to the actual YouTube page to read some of the most hilariously grouchy comments from people who hate songs.
6) SERIOUSLY EVERYONE, I AM ASKING YOU PERSONALLY: please vote with your eyes and watch this show tonight or pretend to watch it while talking about it on social media so David can make another season.
DO YOUR PART to convince future AI robots that we didn’t just make mistakes all the time.
Thank you.
That is all.
PS: You can catch up with previous episodes HERE.
I always do what Hodgman asks, especially when it involves paper airplanes.
Rehearsing between takes. My wife says I like to direct because it's the only time I can get everyone to do exactly what I want. She's probably right.
#ShanghaiCalling premieres on #STARZ this Fri @ 9p e/p. Follow @shanghailicious & @danielhenney for a live tweet: http://t.co/6k7fzn67Yt
— STARZ Networks (@starz_channel) December 4, 2013
Shanghai Calling on Starz
The movie I wrote and directed is finally making its TV debut. Should I live-tweet it?
"Fade In" multi-language screenwriting software
Using a new screenwriting software called Fade In to write a movie for China. When we did Shanghai Calling we discovered that Final Draft (the most ubiquitous screenwriting software in Hollywood) doesn't support Asian fonts, which was problematic because our movie had American and Chinese cast and crew who needed to read the script in their respective languages. My assistant had to painstakingly compose the Chinese screenplay using Microsoft Word, which nearly drove her crazy because she had to manually adjust the line formatting for each element (scene headings, descriptions, character names, dialogue, etc).
Thankfully, Fade In supports Unicode fonts including Chinese. This seems like a no brainer since 99.9% of composition software allows you to write in multiple languages and alphabets, even on your phone. As you can see from the screenshot above I'm able to insert a Chinese name or phrase whenever I need it, even though I'm writing the movie in English. It's working pretty well so far, my only complaints are:
The font control can get a little buggy sometimes, although closing and relaunching the app seems to solve that problem.
I can't change the font on the title page in the "Written By" or "Contact" fields. Hopefully Fade In can issue a fix for this before I finish this draft (3.5 weeks from now)?
It looks like my translator will be able to do the Chinese script directly inside Fade In (rather than having to switch to another software like Word) which will save us a TON of time. And it could potentially lead to many more screenwriters and producers in China switching to Fade In to write their movies.
[NOTE: In a previous version of this post I incorrectly stated that Fade In was "Java based." It's actually native / C++.]
Best dusk sky I’ve ever seen in Beijing. Helps that it's so clear today.
Hollywood 3.0 Panel @ USC
This Friday, April 26, I'll be a guest panelist at the USC Annenberg School of Communications' "Hollywood 3.0" panel on International Co-Productions. I think my panel is at 2:30PM. Come by with any questions you might have about making your film in China!
Here's the link to the Hollywood 3.0 Facebook page with all of the info.
Fan Mail
I have just discovered several pieces of Tumblr "fan mail" in my inbox. No idea how long it's been sitting there! Apologies if any of you guys have been sitting around waiting for a reply... Will get to it I promise!
I get text messages on my watch now!
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New PBF: “One Time Thing”
Comedy genius.
DEANDRE JORDAN IS THE UNDERTAKER
Made and submitted by a member of the Got ‘Em Family, The Maniacal Jerry Wang, a.k.a. “Dr. Jerry,” a.k.a. “Evil Dr. Jerry.”
Check out the full GIF here.
Everyone emailing me about transparent phones. I gots one already!
The One About Shanghai
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
Shanghai Calling serves up something like a Friends-style perspective on Shanghai for American audiences; writer-director Daniel Hsia’s new romantic comedy omits some of the grittier aspects of living in this city, and its characters are all upwardly mobile urbanites. But this is not to say that I didn’t recognize—and enjoy—the Shanghai that I saw in Hsia’s film (which was shot on location), and I think Americans who have never visited the metropolis will be pleasantly surprised by what they learn while watching it.
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A pleasant thing that happens when your movie finally gets released -- people you don't know see it and then write nice things about it. I gather that Maura Elizabeth Cunningham is a book critic and a former Shanghai expat. Thanks Maura!
BTW, Shanghai Calling is now released in the US. Where to watch.
I have a "publicity cold." This is like the "wrap cold" everyone on a film crew gets when the film wraps, except this came at the end of publicity for Shanghai Calling. I'm congested and hopped up on cold medicine, but this morning I read a review of the film by Clayton Davis of AwardsCircuit.com. He likes the movie and calls it "a distant cousin to Marc Webb's 500 Days of Summer," which just happens to be one of my favorite little movies EVER. So I'm feeling a little better! A little. Maybe. I'm gonna take a nap. You read this review.
