It seems that every man and his dog wants to run a film festival these days, which is fantastic in many ways, not least because it provides an even greater number of outlets for filmmakers to get their work in front of an audience. Sadly the multitude of scammers and ethics-lite opportunists who prowl the Internet also…
Chiller-masters John Landis, John Carpenter, and David Cronenberg chat about selling fear on film in this 1982 interview.
Project Greenlight, a HBO filmmaking reality series which originally aired in the early 2000s is coming back. Using tried and tested reality TV techniques, the series aimed to follow a group a filmmakers as they attempted to take their indie projects from genesis to reality. A new series is soon to be produced and HBO have re-enlisted the original…
Underneath the ‘popcorn’ commentary is a great list of sequences worthy of a place in a top 10 editing moments list. Well done CineFix. Check it out:
A bit of eye candy… Game of Thrones Season 4 VFX reel. It’s always interesting to see how real locations and sets can be enhanced with digital elements. Check it out:
The guys at Every Frame a Painting take a close look at the anatomy of a Michael Bay shot. The result is a very interesting watch. Every Frame a Painting says “There are filmmakers we love and then there’s Michael Bay. Even if you dislike him (as I do), Bay has something valuable to teach us about visual perception. This is an…
When setting up a small voice over studio, it is highly important you know your options and evaluate your own budget and financial position to decide just how ambitious you can be with your own studio. You might be a voice over actor, or in need of voice over for any form of media, but setting up the…
How do you go about making a professional commercial within a 5-day timeframe? As a film student (I study at Met Film School in Berlin) I am used to making short films within a limited time and with a small crew, each of us undertaking 2-3 key practical roles to get the production underway. However,…
If you’ve been scratching around with your own projects for the past couple of years, a new competition brought to you by YouTube and D&AD could be the thing to take your directing career to the nest level. Here’s the blurb form the press release: YouTube and D&AD are to launch a brand new award with the aim of discovering…
If you fancy a filmmaking sabbatical to Hungary for autumn 2014 then the scholarship competition at Budapest Film Academy is definitely for you. Submissions are currently being accepted for scholarships in screenwriting, directing, producing, cinematography, editing and sound recording courses. Budapest Film Academy (BFA) and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have joined forces and launched an English and Hungarian language film academy in…
Any filmmaker knows that lighting is one of the most powerful tools in telling a cinematic story. This experimental short “Sparkles and Wine” provides a beautiful and practical demonstration on how changing the lighting on an actor can have a dramatic effect on their appearance.
Motion-capture technologies (and techniques) have come forward in leaps and bounds over the past decade, however one of the main limitations in this very young sector has always been the power to preview the results of a shot in real-time and at a quality which reflects more what the final output will be. Director Kevin Margo has got his hands on some kit from ray-tracing…
