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The newest design by Daniel Foster.

New Mad Hatters Logo

This is the preliminary design for The Mad Hatters' logo courtesy of Daniel Foster.

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Monster Energy Drink

If you have seen our Monster Movie, you will have seen the intense product placement in the scene where Alex opens up the refrigerator and 20 some Monster Energy Drinks are sitting in the door. It turns out that someone that was representing Monster Energy Drinks for the contest liked that and wants to put up the image of Alex and all the drinks on Monster's website. So look out for that, I'm not sure when it will be posted. Hopefully everything works out.

-Josh

Final Cut Pro Workshop

So we went to the Final Cut Pro workshop at the Innovation Space center in Torgersen Hall tonight. We basically went over all the important tools and steps to go through when editing a movie. Too bad we didn't have the class a week earlier and we may have knocked off 3 hours or so to our editing time Saturday night and Sunday morning. It was still good though; next time we edit it'll be no sweat.

-Josh

24-Hour Film Festival

This past weekend the Mad Hatters, in this case Alex Rannals and I, entered a 24-hour Monster Movie film festival at Virginia Tech. We were given a week to work on the costume and 24 hours to actually film the movie. Our monster was the "Monster from Down Under". We were given a list of things to be included in the film and that was about all the guidance we had. We started blamestorming around 9 P.M. walking through the shots and all. I think filming actually started around 11 P.M. Once we finished, Alex and I headed over to the Innovation Center in Torgersen Hall to edit. We had never used Final Cut Pro (editing software) before but managed to figure some things out and finished the film around 8 A.M. Sunday morning.

The movie premiered later that night around 6 P.M. in front of the Virginia Tech Film Club. We ended up getting third place and "Best Costume". Not too bad for our first film.

Check out the short on Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRm_XrLkYBg

-Josh

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