Thread:Dragonboy6491/@comment-25389622-20140907210809/@comment-25389622-20140930225156

Photoshop is incredible. I think I'll have a space on my page for the pictures I make on there. Can you have a gallery on your own page? At the moment they kind of look out of place and it'd be nice if they were all of uniform size and distance apart. I used to do (and may continue with) Stop Motion animation, mainly with Halo figures. A lot of them are pretty crude but the later ones are slightly better. In the more recent ones I played around with After Effects, and I actually started a new project which I didn't actually finish... I may revisit it and post it up. I made some money out of it as well. The one thing I'm annoyed at is my Username, but it doesn't bother me too much. I made the account when I was twelve so I have to go easy on my younger self. 

You're so right about the music. I almost put before about how the music is a good way to lift your spirits without watching the whole film. I've said before that sometimes I listen to the whole soundtrack through when I can't get to sleep (or even when I can ;-) ) and even that is sometimes enough to evoke the emotions of the film. It's so great to listen to music and understand the meaning of it. I barely listen to anything 'mainstream' i.e. that's in the charts (apart from Let It Go, which is the exception. It's not in the charts now though. I kind of prefer it that way; I think it relates to the whole sentimentality of it and not wanting to hear other people play it). A lot of music 'artists' have the music written for them and then are told to sing it. And so long as they look 'good' - whatever 'good' is to the consumer - then they'll just fix up your voice if it's not that great. There's no meaning. I’m not saying that that is the case a lot the time, just a lot of the time. With soundtrack especially, you can understand what's going on and how the characters are related to the piece. I think all of this 'mainstream music' business relates to music companies just wanting to gain more wealth, even if the people they utilize to spread their work are awful role models, singers, etc. I also don't like repetitive songs. I don’t mean like when a piece of music is played different on tracks on an album like Frozen, because that's them reiterating and amplifying already present themes in a slightly different form. And I love how in Let It Go that is the only thing repeated (I know that she says "the cold never bothered me anyway" twice, but that's effective in its message, and saying it once and then again at the end isn’t exactly repetition). Each time the chorus is different. Obviously she says "Let It Go" but that's the point of the song. The lines in between her saying this are different, which I think shows how the makers were wanting to fit in and make you understand this character in a single number. And the effect of the song is huge. 

  I saw a thing on  Yahoo! about 'sexy'  Frozen Halloween costumes (there was even a 'sexy' Olaf... Plus there were more examples like 'sexy' Minions and Mickey Mouse). I'm assuming that  Disney had no part in this, but surely the website selling them needs permission from them. Although I think the line should be drawn slightly earlier, the line should  definitely be  drawn here with regards to commercial and material goods. I also don't understand where things such as  Disney fit in to Halloween. It's not a big thing over here but I know it's bigger in America. I suppose trends change with the time, and Halloween is less about ghouls, ghosts, and witches and more about young people having a good time. Hmm...

<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:16.5pt;">I don’t know; I just get annoyed at the exploitation great works have to endure from a commercial stand point. I can cope with the plethora of stuffed toys, or the flamboyant t-shirts with Elsa and Anna slapped on them, but surely a line is drawn when you take something like Olaf’s colours and features, and manipulate them and turn them into scant attire. That wasn't even the issue that the article raised. It was on about them selling these products to young children and having a bad influence on them. I din't think that, but the point I'm raisng is just how far some will go to squeeze every penny out of a good thing. I don't think anything is taken away from the film: it's immune to this kind of thing :-)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, enough of that… <span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt;line-height:16.5pt;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:16.5pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">I'd love to look over your draft :-) When you say look out for it, do you mean that you'll post it up and then I'll read it? It's fine whatever way you do it. I also started looking into contacting New Scientist, and have homed in on something called Opinion Letters which are published in their issues. I'll need to look into how much you can write and things like that, but I'll let you know about it more when I've drafted a letter :-)