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...opening their sets to the public via Web-based video diaries. Singer's video blog, bluetights.net joins several other real-time movie blogs, such as the text-only diary Zach Braff did for his movie Garden State gardenstate.typepad.com and the video journal of the King Kong shoot that Peter Jackson is keeping at kongisking.net These guys are releasing the making of movies as they're making the movie...
...George Lucas and Co. had the bright idea of posting little video postcards online from the set of Episode I. No spoilers, of course, just a few tidbits to chum the waters for hungry fans. Flash forward to the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, when Peter Jackson became friendly with a group of fans who ran a website called theonering.net When Jackson wrapped Rings and started King Kong, the gang from theonering.net launched kongisking.net and Jackson began sending them video-blog entries every few days...
...videos, the benevolent, ursine Jackson wanders around the set, cameraman in tow, amiably accosting stars and grips and caterers alike in his thick New Zealand accent ("conceptual artwork" turns into "con-sip-shull aht-wook") and interviewing them about whatever it is they do. We meet such unsung heroes as Tony Drawbridge, a propmaker who handcrafts fake animal poop, and Ngaire Woods, the production's plane spotter, who sits on a hill with binoculars and watches for passing aircraft that might disrupt a shot. There are some naysayers. "I can't believe they get to see me in costume...
Ultimately, the success of the videos hangs on the personality of the director, and fortunately for King Kong, Jackson's self-deprecation and boyish excitement about his movie are infectious. Singer has delegated more, and the diary focuses less on him. "It's the same reason I like to invite friends to set," says Singer of why he agreed to do bluetights.net "It exposes the amazing technical and sometimes emotional theater that's involved in making films of this type." But is there such a thing as too much information? Does it deplete the movie's magic? On the Superman...
...Jackson said that he thinks that the new leadership will provide a new model for an integrated clinical program...