This amazing Steadicam shot comes from the video of a foreign pop star’s concert. For the sake of always having it available, I wanted to post it here and so that other people can get the opportunity to see how incredibly awesome this shot is.
Filmmaking Tips and Advice
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On Set: Sometimes It’s Good to Be Wrong
Anybody and everybody who has worked on a film set knows the sinking feeling that can happen when the days start to run long. People get cranky, tempers rise and irritations can burst from nowhere.
Tookit DIY: How to Build a Tag Board for a Slate/Clapperboard
Many AC’s create something called a tag board to help them out on set. What’s a tag board? It’s a book-like piece of Plexiglas you slap on the back of the slate that holds camera reports, can have pre-made marks and even hold other essentials like filter, MOS and various Velcro tags. So where do you get one? You don’t. You make it and here’s how.
Top 5 Directors Doing Digital Cinema Filmmaking the Right Way
I want to highlight five directors who have taken the digital format and utilized it for their films, often optimizing the ability of the digital format and taking advantage of it’s pros to deliver a polished product. Each of the five directors listed below shot one or more films using digital cinema cameras and in the process, was breaking new technical ground in the film industry.
The French New Wave: A Cinematic Revolution
The French new wave gave birth to such ideas as “la politique des auteur,” jump cuts and the unimportance of linear structure, if only to name a few. What the French new wave gave, most importantly, was a radical sense of change in cinema that would trickle throughout the world.
Useful Cinematography iPhone Apps to Have On a Film Set
The Apple iPhone is undoubtedly one of the most powerful phones on the market today. Combined with its App Store, it has thousands of capabilities meaning there are plenty of apps to help you become more efficient on set.
Fight Club as a Film and Novel: A Copy of A Copy of A Copy
In a few sentences, I’m going to break the first rule. In actuality, I’m going to break the first two. But it’s hard not to. It’s even harder to believe that it has been 10 full years since the release of David Fincher’s Fight Club and 13 years since Chuck Palahniuk’s novel on which it was based.
Lightsabers, Replicants and Outer Space: A Look into Science Fiction Film
For each movie that could be pointed to as science fiction could also be examined as a drama, an adventure, a comedy, a noir, a horror film, and the list goes on. So, while most certainly nobody would deny that science fiction deserves its own catalog of films and its recognition in the history of film, it could be posited that instead science fiction is a conglomerate of all genres and that there are certain aspects that serve to convince a viewer to deem the film “sci-fi.”
At the ‘Ghosts Don’t Exist’ Movie Premiere for the DC Independent Film Festival
Yesterday was the premiere of Ghosts Don’t Exist, a feature film shot in Leesburg, VA and produced by 19th and Wilson, for which I was 2nd assistant camera (you can read part 1 of that story). The film was shown as the closing selection for the DC Independent Film Festival in the “Twilight Zone” session, sharing the time with two short films.
Top 5 Directors Who Should’ve Stayed Away from Digital Filmmaking
Back in the day, before the REDone and other digital cinema platforms, Hollywood used to make films on, well, film. There are, however, certain directors who have adopted either a completely digital workflow, or many aspects of one. These are the top 5 most guilty directors, and their films, of not just shooting digital, but utilizing it in the wrong ways and not playing to digital cinematography’s strengths.