Filmmaker

Film is a powerful medium. With the right script under your arm and a staff of eager team players, you’re about to begin an exciting ride. The single most important thing that goes into making a successful film is the passion to tell a story. And the best way to tell your stories is with pictures. Filmmaking is visual storytelling in the form of shots that make up scenes and scenes that eventually make up a complete film. As a filmmaker, you have the power to affect people’s emotions, make them see things differently, help them discover new ideas, or just create an escape for them. In a darkened theater, you have an audience’s undivided attention. They’re yours — entertain them, move them, make them laugh, make them cry. You can’t find a more powerful medium to express yourself. Nowadays many studio films are based on comic book superheroes (Hulk, Batman, Spiderman), popular TV shows (Get Smart, Sex in the City), best selling books (the Harry Potter series), high concept (unique ideas that have commercial appeal like Jurassic Park, or Journey to the Center of the Earth), and/or big name stars (Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks). Its easy to become a filmmaker, essential thing required is interest and involvement and understanding and grasping capability.

Melbourne radio joke

This story occurred on Melbourne radio recently.


One of the FM stations has a competition where they ring someone up, ask them three personal questions, ring their
spouse or partner, ask them the same three questions, if the
answers are the same, the couple win a holiday to Bali.
Last week the competition went like this:

Presenter: Gidday its FOX-FM, do you want to play the game? 

Brian: Yeah, sure. 

Presenter: O.K., Question 1 - When was the last time you had sex? 

Brian: Ohhh, maaaate. Ha Ha, well, about 8 o'clock this morning. 

Presenter: And how long did it go for Brian? 

Brian: Orrrrr .... about 10 minutes 

Presenter: 10 minutes? Good one. And where did you do it mate? 

Brian: Ohhhh maaaaate, I can't say that. 

Presenter: There's a holiday to Bali at stake here Brian! 

Brian: O.K. ... O.K. ... On the kitchen table. 

Presenter: (and others in the room - much laughter). Good one 

Brian, now is it O.K. for us to call your wife ? 

Brian: Yeah, alright 

Presenter: Hi Sharelle, how are you ? 

Sharelle: Hi. Good thanks 

Presenter: (Explains competition again) We've got Brian on the other line,say hello. 

Sharelle: Hi Brian. 

Brian: Hi Sharelle 

Presenter: Now Sharelle, we're going to ask you the same three questions we asked Brian and if you give the same answers, you win a trip for two to Bali. 

Brian: Just tell the truth Honey. 

Sharelle: O.K. 

Presenter: Sharelle, when was the last time you had sex? 

Sharelle: Oohhhh, noooooo. I can't say that on radio. 

Brian: Sharelle, it doesn't matter. I've already told them. 

Sharelle: O.K. ... About 8:00 this morning before Brian went to work. 

Presenter: Good, nice start! Next question.
How long did it go for Sharelle? 

Sharelle: (giggling) About 12, maybe 15 minutes. 

Co-Presenter: That's close enough ... Brian was just being a gentleman. 

Presenter: O.K. Sharelle, final question.
Where did you do it? 

Sharelle: Oh no I can't say that. My mum could be listening. No way, no 

Presenter: There's a trip to Bali on the line here. 

Brian: Sharelle, I've already told them so it doesn't matter anyway just tell em. 

Sharelle: Ohhhh .... alright .... Up the arse! 

Instant Radio Silence. Advert. 

Presenter: Sorry if anyone was offended before, we're going live here, and sometimes these things happen. We've given Brian and Sharelle the holiday. Now we'll take a music break.

Chess in seventeenth century

In the Seventeenth Century Chess flourished mostly in Italy, which consequently produced the strongest players. Some of them traveled throughout Europe, challenging the best players of the other countries and for the most part emerging victorious. At that time Chess was in high esteem, especially at the courts of the kings who followed the example of Philip the Second of Spain in honoring the traveling masters and rewarding them liberally for their exhibition matches. Towards the beginning of the Eighteenth Century the game reached a high stage of development in France, England and Germany. The most famous master of the time was the Frenchman, Andre Philidor, who for more than forty years easily maintained his supremacy over all players with whom he came in contact, and whose fame has evolved.  Since then, he has been equaled only by the American Champion, Paul Morphy, and by the German, Emanuel Lasker. During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries the number of players who obtained international fame increased rapidly, and in 1851, due to the efforts of the English Champion Staunton, an international tournament was held in London to determine the championship of Europe. It was won by the German master Anderssen, who maintained his leading place for the following fifteen years, until he was beaten by the youthful Morphy. The latter, at twenty years of age, was the first American master to visit Europe and defeated in brilliant style all European masters whom he met. Morphy withdrew from the game after his return to America and did not try to match himself with the Bohemian Steinitz, who in the meantime had beaten Anderssen, too, and who had come to America.

Newly weds joke

A 75-year-old tycoon and his 22-year-old bride were on their way from the wedding reception to the honeymoon suite at the Plaza.

Suddenly he had a tremendous heart attack.

Paramedics labored furiously over his frail body as the ambulance rushed across town.

The tycoon's pulse remained feeble and erratic, however, one of the medics turned to the young bride.

"How about giving your husband a few words of encouragement?

I think he could use them," he suggested.

"Okay," she agreed with a shrug, leaning toward the stretcher.

"Honey, I hope you perk up real fast.

I'm so horny I'm ready to hop on one of these cute guys in white."

Imaging and radio acquisition (propeller)

Sampling data using the conventional Cartesian technique, with line-by-line sampling of k-space, results in artifacts associated with phase and frequency encoding. Chemical shift results in artifact in the frequency-encoded direction, and motion results in artifact in the phase-encoded direction. Other methods that sample the central and peripheral regions of k-space simultaneously, rather than sequentially in a grid, radio acquisition  can reduce these artifacts. Other patterns or trajectories of k-space sampling include radial, spiral, and PROPELLER imaging. PROPELLER fast spin-echo  is a radial k-space filling technique. A range of ultra-low-resolution images are acquired, one per repetition time, with as many phase-encoding steps as echoes in the echo train length (ETL). Each of these scans corresponds to a different rotational direction within the scan plane. Since the data are collected in a series of rectangular strips, serially rotating around central k-space, central k-space is repeatedly sampled. The data set looks like a freeze-frame photograph of a rotating propeller, with the hub located in the center of k-space. Data reconstruction then combines these different data collections in the image domain and corrects or even rejects (based on relative phase information) data acquisitions that are degraded by motion. The resulting final image is relatively free of motion artifact imaging and radio acquisition. Also, of particular benefit to musculoskeletal imaging, radial scanning produces fully isotropic in-plane resolution with no frequency and phase direction. Consequently, chemical shift radio acquisition and pulsatile flow artifacts are diffused across the whole image plane, so these artifacts are far less discernible than with Cartesian imaging