Animative Experience

So here’s a more accurate version of what was required for the movie seven step outline that I sorta didn’t put in the last one.. seeing as it was like, you know, three point thingy. Oh well.

Also! Character bio at the end!

Premise:
Be true to yourself.
People will like you best for who you are, not who you try to be.
Consumerism’s a joke.

Setup:
Josie and the Pussycats are playing at deadend gigs, it doesn’t look like their band is ever going to get anywhere.

Inciting Incident:
De’Jour, the biggest band ever, disappear in a plane crash. Josie decides with life so short that her and the other girls should try their luck at making it big in the City.

Act One Turning Point:
De’Jour’s old manager, on the lookout for a new act to fill their spot comes across Josie and the Pussycats. Without further delay he offers them a record contract that they all but jump on.

Mid-Point:
With a record contract and a number one song, Josie and the Pussycats have become an overnight sensation. Everything seems to be going wonderfully.

Act Two Turning Point:
Josie and the Pussycat’s new manager upon seeing that they might be cottoning onto MegaRecords dastardly plan, sets Josie against the other girls.

Climax:
Discovering that  MegaRecords is putting subliminal messages into her band’s music, Josie runs off to save her friends before it’s too late and stop the record label.

Resolution:
Saving her friends and destroying the machine that was going to play the subliminal message over their concert, Josie and the Pussycats get up and perform to the massive cheering crowd.

Josie’s your typical gung-ho female rocker chick. She’s from a small town where everyone knows everyone else and all’s pretty normal. She has two best friends, Valerie and the dumb blonde (Melody). They’ve been best friends since kindergarten  and all through school. Together they’ve made a band called The Pussycats.
Josie dreams of one day making it big, to become a world famous rock chick. Or you know, at least get a record contract and be able to play to more than the no-interest crowd at a bowling alley.
She’s been in love with Allen M for as long as she can remember, but just can’t seem to be able to say the right thing to him, let alone admit her feelings. She’ll do it one day.

I was going to rewatch this first, but I don’t as such know where the box is that has the right DVDs in it to of done so, soooo.. this is going off memory and the fact I’ve seen the movie about two dozen times.

My fave movie! Or more, the movie I will sit and watch when ever it’s on tv and then want to watch it again on dvd! Repeatedly. I suppose that makes a fave movie, yes?

Sooo my fave movie is! Dot dot dot.

Josie and the Pussycats!

Yes, this failed piece of satire, pure popcorn indulgence movie is my movie of choice! It probably embodies my taste in media in general for me, which is perhaps sad, but there you go. I don’t go to the movies to think, I go to be entertained! Not that having to think is a bad thing and I don’t mind the occasional thinking man’s movie, but yeah. Entertainment and the flashy funness is much more appealing.

So Josie and the Pussycats – A breakdown.

Act 1 Premise –

The movie’s about a group of failing musicians, Josie and the other two. One’s a blonde ditz, the other the more sensible go to girl. Together they make up your generic poprock sort of girlband. They have a manager who gets them gigs to the caliber of a bowling lane for one song where no one cares to listen, yes he’s useful.

Josie’s feeling dejected, that they’re getting no where with their music, that they need to go do something with themselves. She’s tired of her and her bandmates being nobodies. They want to be like DeJour, the BIG big manufactured band of the moment.

Act 2 – Confrontation

DeJour have been in a serious accident, wiped out from the top spot of the merchandising bandwagon their manager is on the lookout for a new band to fill their spot. The greasy manager man spots Josie and the the Pussycats who have been trying to make it big in the city and signs them to a record deal (without hearing their music first).

Taken to the BIG city for their record deal Josie brings her manager, his sister (because she was in the comic books as she says) and the guy she likes from their hometown (Adam Allen) along with the other pussycats to enjoy the rollercoaster ride of fame. Josie and the Pussycats get a series of number one singles, a number one album, mountains of merchandising and all the fame and fans they could of ever asked for. In a week.

Josie and the Pussycats meet the record label owner (pure weirdo) and continue their ride to fame.

There’s something suspicious going on with the record company and the Pussycat’s new manager doesn’t like the spunky pussycat’s attitude (mostly her suspicions of everything happening so easily) and tries to break up the band by telling Josie she doesn’t need the others.

Act 3 – Resolution

Josie discovers the subliminal messages being put under the music she and the Pussycats have been making. She realizes that the record company was making fools of them and goes to make it all up to her friends who she’d almost run out on.

Having made up Josie and the Pussycats try to thwart the evil plans of MegaRecords and their founder (the creepy woman!).

Of course they succeed, with the assistance of DeJour who aren’t dead, but actually managed to get out of the plane okay before it crashed, they just landed outside a Metallica concert and got their backsides handed to them. Anyway! The slimy manager and the record chick are discovered to be the creepy kids from school who everyone picked on and they only wanted to be popular. They’re arrested for trying to sway the youth of America to commercialism and Jossie and the Pussycats end up going on stage after all and rocking out! Without the assistance of the Pussycat earphones with their subliminal messaging of course.

Josie and Adam Allen also end up confessing their love for each other. Yes, there’s a love story in there as well that I forgot to mention.  Anyway, it’s all happy endings and we’re happy at the end!

Why do I like this movie?

Cause pure popcorn fun! Of course. I like the satire aspect of taking the piss out of the whole commercialism of the pop industry and well, fads in general. I like the easy to listen to poprock music (this is a big win for me, yes). I like the story, I like most of the actors and the characters they portray. There’s only really one scene that irks me and it’s when Josie’s running away with Adam Allen to escape her fans and they go into the dolphin room, that’s rather lame. But otherwise I can’t think off the top of my head anything else I particularly dislike.

Really, just a cute little teeny bopper movie to enjoy and that I can watch over and over and over and over and over.

Jossie and the Pussycats!

9 out of 10!

Well here’s a third try at a second post on this thing. 

Yay for faulty computer hardware that means it dies randomly!  But now it’s fixed and now I have no net at home until I get the phoneline/net connected once more.. sooo yay.

Soooooooo anyway. Here’s an actual thing we’re supposed to put up here.

‘Flip 4 Mac’, ‘Telestream’ and ‘Episode Engine’ 

http://www.flip4mac.com/

http://www.telestream.net/

 http://www.telestream.net/products/episode_engine.htm

Okay, to start with it all seems to be about media, how informative. We shall start with Flip4Mac, the ‘about’ page gives us the added bonus of telling us that Telestream is the company that makes the product, so woo to that. It’s a macintosh specific program (not helpful for me considering PC user, so that’s lame).

 We Quote!

"With the new Flip4Mac digital media tools for the Macintosh, Telestream leverages its expertise in media encoding, transcoding and digital workflows to enable an all-Macintosh workflow for media professionals" from http://www.flip4mac.com/about.htm

 Which.. is all well and good, really. 

Onto Telestream a little more specific. Telestream seems to be a big name in data exchanging for various media on multiple platforms. They’ve been around about ten years and their main goal is on helping to cross platform various media sources for your benefit! How nice of them.  

Telestream has been working for ten years over various products to make it easier for users to exchange various media products back and forth over multiple formats, pretty much unlimited in their versatility etc. Seems like a nifty program, now if only there’s PC version it’dbe much better, more reading is required!

http://www.telestream.net/company/company.htm << Good little product/company history link for Telestream

Annnd.. Episode Engine seems to be a similar thing to the Flip4Mac. Sorta..

 It’s a cute little program that sits there watching a folder for streaming media to be able to shared with other people super easy.

 Annnd… I don’t really care to write much more on this right now! I’ve got it up, I’ll look at it uh, later and try typing some more then! Joyous!

 And I still don’t like this thing’s formatting, I must discover how to fix it sort of thing!