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Monday, February 7, 2011

REPORT on: a service to put YOU in PHOTOS with your favorite FILM STARS

REPORT on:  a service to put YOU in PHOTOS with your favorite FILM STARS

             How’d You Like a PHOTO of YOU & a favorite FILM STAR?!


On 9-30-09, I attended a private convention called the “MOTIVATION SHOW”, designed for people / companies who buy & distribute items (such as gifts) & services to thank (& reward) customers, employees, friends & associates.  At the show were two theater companies involved with showing MOVIES to the public--  AMC & REGAL

…  I was especially impressed with a clever advertising ploy utilized by AMC:  they are considering the possible TEST-marketing of a kiosk / booth in certain theaters that would utilize a smart program designed by LVPhotoParty[.com] wherein they use a “green-screen” to shoot live PHOTOS of people & digitally INSERT them into previously-scanned photos of MOVIE venues & STARS, so it looks like you’re there “WITH” the stars & all…

…  Let me explain further:  At the convention, you could see samples of various wonderfully-done CREATIVE artwork from an illustrator who owns dreamphotos.biz, designed for use in taking specialized photos of KIDS (at schools, etc.) & using “green-screens” to juxtapose them “into” the creative artwork, using a special computer program that’s even more expensive than Photoshop… 

…  Thus, you could see samples of a “surfer” kid who’d been very effectively inserted “into” the mouth of a “JAWS”-like Great White Shark [ = see my photos below:  00-a of the screen-manipulation & 00-b of a close-up of the final result]…



…  And, you could see a photo of a a kid who plays the “HEARS No Evil” character “inserted” into a picture recalling the famous ones done with monkeys [= my photo # 00-c]… 



...  And a boy “riding” a BULL in a rodeo [= my 00-d]… 



…  Or a kid as the “Mad Hatter” in a fine “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” drawing [= my photo 00-e]… 



...  Or a kid as a “Mad Scientist” in a “Laboratory” [= my photo # 00-f]…



… This basic “insertion” concept was then used by the illustrator (Steve or Mark from LV) to create special FILM-related photos using the AMC logo on the front of the photo, with a back sheet saying, “AMC Theaters  /  I got this at BOOTH # 3518  /  To order AMC Gift Cards and Discount Tickets go to:   HYPERLINK  http://www.amcnationalsales.com ”…

… The gentlemen previously mentioned took LIVE “green-screen” photos of myself & others, manipulated the “positioning” & size & coloration of the live people, & “combined” that with the previously-scanned movie-related scenes  they already had on the computer. 

…  Thus, you had results like this:  the “live” guy JC (in a fedora hat) walking a “RED CARPET” from a limousine to an AMC theater where “paparazzi” shoot photos of the “live” guy [ = my photo 00-g of the computer screen & 00-h of the “finished” cropped photo]… 




…  Of a “live” guy with MEGAN FOX in a “TRANSFORMERS” scene [ = my photo # 01-b of the “working” screen, & # 02 of ED B. in a “cropped” version of that image]… 



…  Of “live” JC with gun-toting DANIEL CRAIG in a scene from “CASINO ROYALE” [ = my photo # 08-b ]… 



...  And “live” JC with ROBERT PATTINSON as seen in “TWILIGHT” [ = my photo # 09-b below]…


…  Plans have already been developed for how the “booth” would look & work in a planned “TEST” at various theaters (which would allow the “combined” live + film photos to be PRINTED OUT for sale to people at the time the photos are taken)…

…  I offered my thought that it seemed like a MARVELOUS idea, since they were exceptionally well-done & “real”-looking, & would be offered right where people have a clear INTEREST in the basic subject matter (of films & stars)… 

…  Negotiations are still ongoing as to just WHAT theater chain (or chains) would be doing the test-marketing of the impressive & well-done concept… You heard it “first” here!…



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