A Christmas Carol

Nobody reads this, so I'm doing this for my own good but I have been doing a lot for school and it's getting pretty crazy.

First, my capstone project, which will be finished in December will be fun because for the first time in school, I'll be able to cover SPORTS. I'm working on a section of a website calledSurvive and Thrive Boston. I'll be contributing/reconstructing the health and fitness section of the website where I will be looking in particular at Old fitness trends that are now becoming new again.

Examples include Yoga, Pilates, basic running and really any type of working out that does NOT involve needing a gym membership or heavy weights/expensive equipment. Sort of a combination of how to get fit without paying a lot, without devoting too much time and without new/fancy equipment.

But recently, I got to cover a media event for Walt Disney's A Christmas Carol that comes out in November. A train and interactive display has travelled across the country and will reach 40 cities and it came to Boston last week. The event is a promotional thing for the movie and it comes with a big, huge winter wonderland that they set up downtown in certain cities. There is also a train exhibition that shows how the movie is made...it LOOKS like animation but its performance capture, meaning that all of the actors actually act in the film but they do it with no stage, no screens but instead all of that is produced through editing etc.... it's awesome.

That blow-up building is an inflatable theater where, inside, you get to watch a never-before-seen trailer for the movie with interviews with the director and Jim Carrey etc...Costume replicas that are used for represenation for the producers...nothing is really used in the film, it's all about motion capture.
Scenes that are developed digitally of REAL streets and scenes in London.
A simulation of what the soundstage looks like for performance capture, the same type of technology that's used in making video games.

That's Bob Gault, the Vice President of Walt Disney Studios Special Events...I got to interview him and he game me a tour of the train cars.

Different stages of the film making process and the layers of 3D.

The train was parked in South Station.

Image of Jim Carrey as Scrooge.

Same thing...but sideways and at a diffferent age--sorry too lazy to fix it.