Whenever a filmmaker stands in front of a screen at their film festival Q&A and says “Filmmaking is war,” I can’t help but see the ghosts of a thousand soldiers and napalmed civilians surrounding him, shaking their spectral heads in scorn. Sure, filmmaking isn’t easy. But “war?” Far from it. It’s a struggle, sure, but…
RED has had an 8K sensor available for sometime in the form of the RED Dragon VV, but the announcement of the Monstro represents a significant step forward in both quality and simplification of the workflow. Here’s the blurb: Today RED announced a new cinematic Full Frame sensor for WEAPON cameras, MONSTRO 8K VV. MONSTRO…
With iOS 11 hot of the production line, mixed reality agency AfterNow has wasted no time leveraging Apple’s ARKit to deliver a free augmented reality tool to help directors compose their scenes. Here’s the blurb… AfterNow is releasing, Blocker, an app for filmmakers leveraging augmented reality, ARKit on iPhone. Taking advantage of the new…
Using Sidney Lumet’s ‘12 Angry Men‘, Andrew Saladino from The Royal Ocean Film Society looks at how blocking and staging can add emotion and density to scenes which may otherwise end up rather dull. For more interesting videos, definitely check out The Royal Ocean Film Society’s YouTube Channel.
The super-talented Craven Moorhaus and Zak Koonce (aka Auralnauts) have created the perfect blueprint for your blockbuster movie trailer. See more at the Auralnauts YouTube Channel.
News that a certain beloved book is being adapted into a movie or even worse, a blockbuster, is concomitantly met with both joy and dismay by the same category of people – the fans. Simply put, with a few exceptions, a movie adaptation will almost always disappoint die-hard fans. This happens because some unspoken elements…
The Masterclass is an annual festival fixture in which a respected film practitioner is invited to talk about their approach and their body of work. Watch Clint Eastwood give the 2017 edition, moderated by legendary film critic Kenneth Turan. Watch Clint Eastwood’s Masterclass at the official Cannes Film Festival website.
There is no doubt that filming at height allows you to create beautiful shots that would be impossible to get with your feet on the ground, but it also comes with an element of danger. You could fall, or you could drop something and it hits a person below. In some cases, you might get…
Go behind the scenes with Guardians’ Director James Gunn and Director of Photography Henry Braham, BSC as they discuss their vision for the movie and the experience they wanted to give viewers. Their desire to display a larger-than-life adventure that is punctuated with intimate human moments made the compact form factor and large sensor size…
Anyone working in the indie scene over the past few years will have noted the paradox that now exists between the exponential increase in the availability of new distribution platforms and the ever-increasing difficulty for indie films to recoup their budgets. This is particularly true for the independent films with budgets that are not large…
