© Copyright 2010 by Entropy Enigneering The Shadow Conspiracy – Charlie Sheen, Linda Hamilton, and Donald Sutherland. What could go wrong? Let me start out by saying that working on a movie, even if you are on the set, does not give you creative control over the script. In other words, it’s not my fault. This was filmed close to home, so we got to go to the set for much of the filming. Some of our graphics are in almost every scene that isn’t a chase scene. I vaguely remember that I wrote about 70 different programs to get all of the graphics on screen for this movie. But then, the great part about movie work is that when the director yells cut, it’s over. No bug  fixing, no tech support, it over. On to the next scene. We couldn’t use red in the graphics cause “Red is the color of blood” so the director decreed. Plot holes aside, it was a lot of fun being part of this movie. One scene called for a spy satellite view of a location in DC, with the satellite zooming in to see the license plate of a parked car. No problem, I sent Dan in a small plane with a camera to get the low altitude shots. With a little Image processing and computer tricks, we created the video from space on down. These days, I could do it using Google Maps, but it would lack the excitement. For one of the chase scenes, we used some of the innovative digital video techniques that were just starting to mostly work most of the time. When Charlie Sheen gets lost in a crowd crossing the street, the real-time computerized playback was from one of our programs. Space Rangers – TV Show We didn’t even know that we worked on this show until we saw it on broadcast TV. One of the screens that the pilot of the space ship was watching, while lying down to fly, looked awfully familiar. Almost like I had written the code for it. After a couple of phone calls, it turned out that I had indeed written the code. It was brought back from the Universal Soldier shoot. Credit might have been nice, but then money might have been nicer. That’s about all I have on TVs and Movies, except perhaps for the Autism Healing movie that I’m currently making.  A documentary may not be quite as exciting as some of these shows, but it has the potential to directly improve the lives of children that desperately need it.