It’s time for The Audio Edtion here on The Movie Blog
Today, Doug and I are joing via Google IM voice messenger by Shannon Wegner. Shannon is not only the lead vocalist of Whoosh (the band that plays the opening music used on The Audio Edition, but is also an amazing 3d visual effects artist having worked on such films as SIN CITY, Gothica, Good Boy, Spy Kids 2 (the list goes on and on). Together the three of us talk about the summer films that did well and not so well at the box office, Visual Effects films that have stuck with us, Constantine and the chances for a sequel and Shannon talks a little bit about the process of doing 3D effects on a film. All this and a few things more.
You can download all the audio goodness by clicking here.
SHOW NOTES:
- Running time: 38:17
- File Size: 8.7 megs
- The Whoosh Website
- Satellite Animation Studios website
- Cinema Blend’s summer movie boxoffice round up
Great show guys, entertaining as always. I just wanted to take the opportunity to mention the recent Japanese release of the film “Final Fantasy: Advent Children.” While a domestic release isn’t planned until later this year, the film has already begun to circulate in the form of P2P files and bootleg DVDs. I’ve seen it, and the CGI is fantastic, easily rivaling the graphics of the theatrically released “Spirits Within.”
Being both gamers and SFX buffs, I’d be thrilled to hear you take on this production, as well as Shannon’s 2 cents.
Cheers
Great as always!
Donna A.
Just listened to this episode. GREAT episode and Shannon was a great guest. Too bad she can’t afford to watch movies despite her working in the movie industry. But still, I’ll take her over that other girl you sometimes have co-host.
That’s great news John! I eagerly await that installment – and your regular ones as well!;-)
Ehr, when’s the next video edition again John, Doug? ;-)
Thanks for pointing out the iTUnes issue guys. Yes, we currently have a crack team of tech experts from around the world working on the problem (well… Richard is working on it).
I hope to have good news on this front soon.
Thanks again.
~John
Yep. Itunes doesnt work for me either. The 2 XML files linked from the site is linked wrong/written wrong. And movie blog doesnt show up in the itunes directory at all.
You guys really need to address this because there are alot of people who aren’t getting your show because of these easy to fix problems.
Since you jumped on Doug for saying Star Trek for Star Wars, I might as well mention you said Brad Smith instead of Brad Pitt..
Good Audio Edition!
Hey there Lou,
Yes, Shannon has agreed to come back. I think you’re right… having Shannon on… we should have just talked about VFX. I think that’ll be a show in the near future.
I enjoyed it – wish the topic had been restricted to just SFX. Would have loved to here Shannon’s thoughts on all time great SFX shots, what she thought of the work done in the LOTR and Matrix trilogies, and her thoughts on upcoming projects such as Kong and Superman.
Any chance of Shannon coming back to do such a show?
That’s cool, yes, infact it’s not as good as the last one but still nice.
Pretty good audio editions, not as good as the last one but still nice. It’s surely nice to have some guest over there, but personally I’ve always thought that all the best audio editions are made purely by John & Doug. Most of the guest can’t give anything to conversation. Shannon was pretty nice, although she was useless until the end, when she could use her knowledge about visual effects.
And it’s always nice to hear “hello to international friends” :)
Is it just me, or is anyone else unable to subscribe to this through iTunes? It shows up in the directory and all, but most of the time theres an “!” next to the feed. It looks like the feed doesn’t validate properly (http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themovieblog.com%2Faudioedition-podcast.xml) and that might have something to do with it.