July 8, 2004 -- Movie Outline 1.0 - Screenplay Outlining Software
Attention Screenwriters:
We are pleased to announce that a new selection of Reference Plugins are now available from our web store for only $6-95 each:
Spider-Man (2002) Fantasy Action-Thriller
Seven (1995) Crime Thriller
Ghost (1990) Supernatural Thriller
Pretty Woman (1990) Romantic Comedy
The Terminator (1984) Sci-Fi Action-Thriller
Dead Poets Society (1989) Drama
These Plugins are ONLY viewable through Movie Outline Software.
http://www.movieoutline.com/
What is Movie Outline?
Movie Outline is an innovative Screenplay Outlining Application for both the Amateur and Professional Screenwriter, allowing for simple planning from scene to scene with flexible reorganization of scene order and simultaneous reference to successful Movies of all genres.
By streamlining the creation process of each scene and the outline structure as a whole, Movie Outline gives the Screenwriter the space to think and view the full outline of their story while simultaneously working on individual scenes.
The unique Reference Outline facility gives the Screenwriter the added advantage of assessing their own structure and story pacing in comparison to successful movies in the same genre.
What do the Pros think?
"I've tried various other story planning software but none of them did the trick. Mainly because they weren't designed specifically for the screenwriting process and it felt as if they were constructed by mathematicians with over-complicated unuser-friendly interfaces that only added to the clutter of my mind. All I wanted was a simple way to plan my story structure and organize my creative thoughts. Movie Outline was the solution." Daniel Bronzite - Screenwriter / Director
About Reference Outline Plugins
Different genres of movies require different amounts of scenes. Dramas are typically around 35-40 scenes because they usually have longer scenes than Thrillers, Comedies and Action and Adventure movies which are normally around 45 scenes with more action and less dialogue.
To help plan out your project, Movie Outline allows you to simultaneously refer to produced feature film outline analyses and gauge the progress of your own story in contrast to some of the most successful Hollywood movies. So if you get stuck on scene 15 and wonder if your structure is working, simply select your movie Reference Outline and see what happens at the same time in this example.
By comparing your own character arcs, escalating conflicts, plot points and three act structure with the pros, you will be able to amend mistakes in your own pacing and successfully produce a well-structured screen story!
Key Features
* Simple, user-friendly interface
* Movie Reference Plugins for Simultaneous Comparison
6 Genres Included:
- Die Hard
- Good Will Hunting
- Scream
- There's Something About Mary
- True Romance
- When Harry Met Sally
* Easy Scene Reordering & Organization
* PDF / RTF / TXT Export
* Styled Text & Printing
* Notes Field
* Unlimited Undo / Redo
* Find & Replace
* Spell Check (130,000 word database)
* Tip of the Day - Practical Screenwriting Advice
System Requirements
* Microsoft Windowsยฎ 98/Me/NT/2000/XP operating system.
* 23 MB of free hard disk space.
* 200 MHz CPU or higher.
* Intel Pentium/Celeron Compatible Processor.
* 32 MB of RAM.
* VGA or higher monitor resolution.
* Internet Connection for Download and Product Activation.
Availability
Movie Outline 1.0 is available now and may be downloaded through our
Website at http://www.movieoutline.com/.
Do you love cartoons and animated films? Well, I do and they are my favorite means of entertainment. When I was young, I would always rush home from school to see my favorite animation character on TV. In this modern day and age, animation is much more sophisticated. The painstakingly hand drawings of the last decade has been replaced by computer aided images. Nevertheless, I still like everything whether is the lush colors of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves or the latest state of the art Pixar creation. The creative invention of the animation character is the important thing for me. I like characters that are presented well with good characterization and story.
Top Cat, Yogi Bear, Popeye and other shows gripped my imagination when I was young. The animation character of Top Cat, or TC, as he was known to his friends, is one of my favorites. He ruled over his alleyway, was the king of his gang and ran rings round the local cops. Top Cat introduced me to the concept of anarchy. However, my mother was disappointed when my devotion to Popeye did not lead to a love of spinach.
Tom and Jerry still plays today and is probably the most enduring of the old cartoons. The slapstick that characterizes this show translates into any language. Adults seem to like this sort of animation character as much as the kids do. I also loved the Pink Panther series because he was such a cool dude, and I liked the jazz score that played on his show.
The type of animation character that went against authority, the rebel or anti-hero was my favorite. They were a contrast to the goody two shoes that usually filled a Disney film. However, Disney had great villains too, such as the wonderful Cruella da Ville from 101 Dalmatians. She has got to be the greatest baddie cartoon character of all time. Small children today are still probably afraid of her character.
There are also some great TV animated series around in the present day and age. For example, the Simpsons is an amazing success story. It is remarkable that it has maintained its high standard over many years. Its cultural and political references are entertaining and I think adults get more out of it than kids.
There are animation character shows that are openly aimed at an adult audience. The Family Guy and King of the Hill are good examples. These adult oriented shows have a lot to say about American society. Animators can do a lot of satire with an animation character. They can also make them say things that real people wouldn't dare to say.
Chinese characters seem the most difficult part for foreign friends to learn the Chinese language. In my opinion, the main reason for that may be Chinese characters look very different from their quarter parts in the Roman languages: each character represents not only the pronunciation, but a certain meaning. Many a complaint comes from that Chinese characters are so unlike each other that you have to learn them one by one, and there are so many to memory, and that when encountering a new character, the previous knowledge of other ones helps little, you can neither pronounce it directly nor guess what it means. Actually, there really are some connections between Chinese characters, all composed in a defined way. You are unable to discover that probably because the numbers of the characters you know are too limited, or you didn't learn them in the Chinese perspective.
Chinese characters are the writing system to record the Chinese language. With a history as long as 8,000 years at least, it's perhaps the oldest surviving writing system in the world. An old Chinese legend said that Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie, a historian official under the legendary emperor, Huangdi in 2600 BC. Obviously, the fable cannot possibly be true, for the creation of a great writing system made of so many characters are such a huge project, too huge to be one single person's accomplishment. But perhaps Cangjie really made some contributions in the existing Chinese writing system: instead of the inventor, he might be a collector and collator of scattered Chinese characters in ancient China. Thanks to many a contributor like Cangjie and the common people using and spreading characters, a complete well-developed writing system had finally come to birth. The indisputably evidence is Chinese character inscriptions found on turtle shells dating back to the Shang dynasty (1766-1123 BC), formally called Oracle bone script. Of the 4,600 known Oracle bone logographs, about 1,000 can be identified with later Chinese characters, and the other unidentifiable ones are mostly the names of people, places or clans.
In view of formation, written Chinese is a script of ideograms. Xu Shen, in the Eastern Han Dynasty (121 AD), was a distinguished scholar who had attained unparalleled fame for his etymological dictionary entitled Shuo Wen Jie Zi, whose literal meaning is "explaining written language and parsing words". In Shuo wen, Chinese characters are classified into six categories, namely pictogram, ideograph, logical aggregates, pictophonetic compounds, borrowing and associate transformation. However, the last twos are often omitted, for the characters of these categories have been created before but somehow borrowed to represent another meaning, or detached into separate words. Generally, Chinese characters fall into four categories in view of their origin.
Pictograms (Xiang4 xing2 zi4)
Pictograms are the earliest characters to create, and they usually reflect the shape of physical objects. Examples include the sun, the moon, a woman, fire. From this picture-drawing method, the other character forming principles were subsequently developed. Over a long history, pictograms have evolved from irregular drawing into a definite form, most simplified by losing certain strokes to make ease of writing. Therefore, to see the actual picture of what it represents, you must have a lot of imagination as well as knowledge of the origin of the character and its evolution. However, only a very small portion of Chinese characters falls into this category, not more than 5 percent.
Ideograph (Zhi3 shi4 zi4)
Also called a simple indicative, Ideograph usually describes an abstract concept. It's a combination of indicators, or adds an indicator to a pictograph. For example, a short horizontal bar on top of a circular arc represents an idea of up or on top of. Another example: placing an indicative horizontal bar at the lower part of a pictogram for wood, makes an ideograph for "root". Like pictograms, the number of this category is also small, less than 2 percent.
Logical aggregates (Hui4 yi4 zi1)
It is a combination of pictograms to represent a meaning, rather like telling a little story. A pictograph for person on the left with a pictogram for wood on the right makes a aggregate for "rest". This story-telling formation is relatively easier to learn, yet most of aggregates have been reformed into phonetic compounds, or just replaced by them.
Pictophonetic compounds (Xing2 sheng1 zi4)
Also called semantic-phonetic compounds, just as the name implies, it combines a semantic element with a phonetic element, taking the meaning from one and the phonetics from the other. For instance, the character for ocean with a pronunciation of yang2 is a combination of a semantic classifier which means "water" with the phonetic component yang2, referring to goat or sheep on its own. This last group of characters is the largest in modern Chinese, making up around 90% of all Chinese characters.
The superiority of phonetic-compounds over the first three categories lies in its unique phonetic components, for many an object and concept are hard to express through photographs or ideograms, and its association with the character pronunciation helps Chinese vocabulary extends much faster than logical aggregates. Therefore, most newly created characters take this more scientific formation approach.
However, over the centuries evolution, the Chinese language has undertaken such a great change, that most pictophonetic compounds don't pronounce as its phonetic elements any longer, and the semantic components appear even not relevant to its current meaning. Only when knowing the origin and evolution of the character, you can understand its formation. For example, the phonetic-compound for cargo or goods takes the character for shell as the semantic element, and that's because shells used to be a medium of exchange in ancient China, like the currency.
I do hope the above information can be of some help in your study of Chinese characters. Please tell me what you think about it, so I could be a better help in the future writing. Thank you!
Lily Chao is the author of EaseChinese.com at http://www.easechinese.com, a website providing a collection of reviews and recommendations of Chinese language learning resources, and more. She is also a would-be TCSL (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) teacher, living and studying in Beijing, China.
There are many budding animators and aspiring cartoonists out in the world. These people have different ideas about the characters that inhabit their minds. This includes any person who desires to animate anime characters. While there are many devices that can help you to draw your animated characters you will still need to know how to draw anime characters which will capture the imaginations of your audience.
In order to get good results when you are learning how to draw anime you should have a number of sheets of paper handy. You will also need different types of pencils – which are in a varying state of sharpness – on hand. The final items that you will need when you are practicing how to draw anime are a good eraser and some anime reference material.
Once you have gathered all of these items you need to understand that the reference material and any guidelines that you have found are merely the beginnings in your adventure into drawing anime. The first that you will need to do when you are learning how to draw anime is to think of one image that you want to draw.
Once you have this figure captured clearly in your mind you will need to start drawing a rough sketch. The first step in your learning how to draw anime figures is to draw the outline of the body. At this stage don't worry about defining the figure characteristics. One you have gotten the body shape outline you can start getting the head, arms and legs drawn and attached to the body.
These areas too should be roughly drawn so that you can figure out the exact shape that you want the figure to take. Once you have this shape chosen you will need to slowly create the right body form. Once you are satisfied with this form – just the outline shape – you will need to erase the extra unwanted lines from the anime body.
This step in your how to draw anime learning completed, you will need to shape the arms and the legs so that they resemble the final version of your drawing. As with the body you will need to erase any lines that are not part of the needed anime figure.
Once the outlines to the body and appendages have been neatened, you can start the process of making the figure look more "lifelike". This is accomplished by adding the various features which distinguish a 3 dimensional figure from a 2 dimensional one. After you are satisfied with how the body looks you can start the process of getting the head and the neck into an anime style look and shape.
The final aspect that you will need to learn when you are learning how to draw anime is that of the features. These features are necessary as they are the hallmark of any anime figure. With all of these tools at your disposal you are ready to take on the world of anime.
Coded character set, also known as character set refers to a group or set of characters used by an encoding system. It refers to the mapping from a group of integers to a group of characters. The mapping is generally bijective (i.e. 1:1). There are many standard coded character sets used by programmers in every software application development enterprise. The most widely used is ASCII, with Unicode becoming more common nowadays.
A coded character set generally includes digits, letters, control codes, punctuation and various typographic and mathematical symbols and other characters. Each character in the set is denoted by a unique character code, also called as "code position". For example, the character "A" is denoted by the character code 65. Let us learn more about ASCII and Unicode character set.
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange):
It is a coding standard used for interchanging information. It has definition for 128 characters of which 94 are printable characters 33 are obsolete, non-printing characters that affect text processing. The rapid spread of computer technology throughout the world resulted in development of variations of ASCII, mostly classed as "ASCII extensions".
Unicode:
From a simple offshore software development company to industry leaders like IBM, HP and Microsoft, every enterprise is well-versed with the term Unicode. It is a computer industry standard that provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the language, platform or program is. It is always required by modern programming standards such as JavaScript, XML, CORBA, WML etc. most operating systems and almost all modern browsers support Unicode.
When you outsource software development to a software development company, always make sure that it incorporates Unicode into its applications. Software development services in India take much care about this aspect. It incorporates Unicode into its multi-tiered applications, thereby reducing costs in development of software. Unicode also helps companies to target a single software product across multiple platforms, languages and countries without the need of any re-engineering.
When building almost anything, you need resources like blueprints, 3D models, textures and 3D tutorials. These resources can be found separately on many websites online. But wouldn't it be nice to rely on one site for all these needs? It sure would save you a lot of time and aggravation! Well you're in luck because they do exist! These websites offer resources for people interested in 3D modeling, Animations, Graphics and Designs of any kind. Here are a few examples of the topics I've found in each category on one website in particular.
Tutorials - By definition, a tutorial is a computer assisted instruction, usually divided into sections, on how to use a certain piece of software or another type of process such as design, building, or cooking to name a few
- Animation
- Basics
- Character set up
- Effects
- Lighting
- Materials
- Modeling
- Rendering
Blueprints - A blueprint is usually a paper based production of a technical drawing documenting an architecture or engineering design but they can also be based online as well
- Helicopters
- Modern Aircraft
- Old Era Aircraft
- Cars
- Ships
- Sports Cars
- Tracked Vehicles
Models - A model represents the way in which a construction is built
- Bathrooms
- Casino
- Furniture
- Kitchen Equipment
- Movie Art
- Structures
- Doors
Textures - The feel or look of a surface or a fabric
- Brick
- Buildings
- Nature
- Roads
- Fabric
With all these different facets available on one website you wouldn't need to go anywhere else, you could spend your time more efficiently and allow yourself to find whatever you wanted without opening a bunch of different windows/tabs. Obviously since these websites offer all the options above, it would also make it easier if they had a search engine right on the site, and they do!
These search engines will most likely allow you to search within whatever category you want. For example, if your searching for a blueprint of a Shelby Mustang then you simply enter Shelby Mustang into the search engine on the site, select blueprints, press submit and your results will show up. This is entirely too easy! Most of these sites offer so many different subcategories within the categories that you literally wouldn't have to go anywhere else for anything else. And thats exactly what these sites were designed for!
If you would like to find the sites that are "one stop shops" please visit the following sites:
Auto Desk
Blueprints
Sketch up
Wikipedia
Surrland
Good luck in your search and your project as well!
One facet of a well devised website is its colour scheme. Colour selection is vital in creating the look that the site's owner wants to portray. If the look of the site does not meet the users expectations, then they will leave and most likely never go back to the site. This is time and again the reason why a web site is not doing as well as it should be.
Knowing about colour conception may make life a whole lot easier when deciding on a colour scheme for a site. Knowing which colours may irritate and which could calm is important in giving the user the right impression and experience of the site. Why would you crave to anger a user when you thirst for them to buy from your web-site?
Colour contrast and antithesis is another technique to be aware of. It can be used to point users attention to desired pages of regions within the site.
Below is a list of the most notorious, colours and their emotional connotations.
Green is associated with the environment, peace and jealousy. It is also a very relaxing colour and is gratifying to use for a calming effect.
The colour white conjures up senses of purity, simplicity, emptiness and innocence. If used as the major colour in a web site, it creates a clean and simple feel.
Blue is a colour is greater commonly associated with corporate web-sites as it is a strong colour that is associated with confidence, coldness, depression, water and peace.
The colour red is a very evocative colour and it conjures up images of hell, treasure, fire and warning. It is expediently the better colour to use to lure attention.
White could be used to create contrast by being used as a background colour. The spaces of white in between components of a web page are referred to as negative space. White is linked to cleanliness, peace and light.
Black is a strong colour and is associated with sexiness, intensity and elegance. It is a very popular colour on photography web sites, as black creates heightened contrast with colours within photographs.
Grey can be connected to respect, humility, decay and boredom. It is used a lot to create shiny gradients in web design to give a slick, present-day feel to a web site.
Orange is strongly related to spirituality and healing. It is the colour that symbolises Buddhism and it has a healing punch about it. It is a bold colour that is not as bright as yellow yet not a deep as red.
Brown, especially the lighter shades may be very calming. Beige is also a accepted colour in website design as it gives an earthy and relaxed feel. It may also intimate tradition, poverty and mother earth.
Grey may be linked to elegance, innovation and the future. The lighter side is similar to white in that it is a glorious colour to use on the background of a web-site to create a anticipation of space and modernism.
The psychology of colour can play a massive role in creating a successful web-site. To subliminally create an expectation amongst the end user can be a powerful sales tool. Choosing colours without thought could inadvertently put users off the site. Creating colour combinations that guidebook users to an end goal can generate more sales and make the whole user experience stress free.