Alternate Ending Studios and Top Right Corner teamed with Director Dan Clifton to produce the music video for “Hipstar” by the Axixs, featuring Roy Hamilton III. The video was produced by Neal Bellinger and features Visual FX by Studio Free Radical.
The Axixs is a group made up of Pras Michel (formerly of the Fugees), Selina Carrera and Stefi Nova.
Congratulations to Jyl Ferris of CookingForBachelors.tv for being featured on News 12 Brooklyn! The segment was aired yesterday, January 11th, at around 8PM. We wish Jyl the best!
This post’s title is a mouthful. It seems like there’s some Wordpress users out there that want to create their own contact form that can be embedded into a template file. Plug-ins like contactform7.com don’t support embedding in templates, so I created my own simple script. However, there were some obstacles when dealing with Wordpress.
After plugging in my code for the form on the Top Right Corner Contact Page, tests were starting to fail. Even though the same code worked on plenty of other sites, I discovered that Wordpress does some funny things with $_POST data. From what I read, Wordpress does some cleaning of the data automagically before it gets sent anywhere.
Besides that, I learned that the variable $_POST['name'] is reserved. So, if you’re using $_POST['name'] to store a person’s name, make sure you change it to something like $_POST['fullname'].
Next obstacle. So for whatever reason, PHP’s mail() function wasn’t working for me. I decided to use the phpmailer class included with Wordpress located at /wp-includes/class.phpmailer.php. Some sample code for PHPMAILER is here.
Another problem is that our mail servers are hosted by Gmail. So, to send an email we need to have the right authorization and you need to connect through SSL. My contact page, which is a template, uses this code to send a message posted from the contact form:
include ('./path/to/wp-includes/class-phpmailer.php');
include ('./path/to/wp-includes/class-smtp.php');
$mail=new PHPMailer();
// Let PHPMailer use remote SMTP Server to send Email
$mail->IsSMTP();
// Set the charactor set. The default is 'UTF-8'
$mail->CharSet='UTF-8';
// Add an recipients. You can add more recipients
// by using this method repeatedly.
$mail->AddAddress($to);
// Set the body of the Email.
$mail->Body=$message;
// Set "From" segment of header.
$mail->From=$from;
$mail->AddReplyTo($from, $name);
// Set addresser's name
$mail->FromName=$name;
// Set the title
$mail->Subject=$subject;
// Set the SMTP server.
$mail->Host='smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port= 465;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Username='xxxx@xxxx.com';
$mail->Password='xxxxx';
// Send Email.
$mail->Send();The most important part for Gmail is to set these parameters:
// Set the SMTP server.
$mail->Host='smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port= 465; // Or 587
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Username='xxxx@xxxx.com';
$mail->Password='xxxxx';
So there you have it. That little piece of the puzzle that keeps you up late at night. Leave any questions in the comments.
Just checked out the new Freebord video on youtube. Shot in San Francisco, the video shows a group of people on Freebords with neon tubes strapped to their heads. They moved down San Fran’s hills like snowboarders to fit into formation.
A freelance producer we work with quite a bit, Gian Colombo, had the pleasure of working with an amazing creative team to produce the spot. All in all, a very cool video. We wish them the best!
Last October, Director Dan Clifton and his crew took over suburban Philadelphia to shoot the short film, For All Mankind.Heavily influenced from his upbringing in the area, Dan was excited to return to Philadelphia and produce this project with Top Right Corner.
A dedication to the action films Dan grew up watching, For All Mankind chronicles the story of Johnny Red, a disenfranchised young man who always wanted to be a NASA scientist. After several academic mishaps, Johnny is stuck in his suburban Pennsylvania town. When all other means of impressing the local community fail, Johnny decides to build a functioning time machine. Instead of using correct science, Johnny decides to base all of his research on action-adventure films of the 1980s and 90s.
The movie featured a number of Philadelphia-area actors including Kathy Romano from the Preston and Steve Show, Merrill Reese as narrator, and Terrence Howard as the Mayor of Conshohocken.
For All Mankind Facebook Page
Production Blog: forallmankindmovie.com
For All Mankind on IMDB
The Movie:
Behind the scenes video:
