As the Solar Eclipse approaches, I figured this would be chance to flex some of the ideas I’ve been working on for a upcoming course on Exposure. Instead of an Exposure triangle, I will be looking at exposure as a path where each step gives us some control over how the image is exposed. So […]
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Here are some easter eggs and other fun things you may have missed in these movie credits. Also make sure to check out our course: “Who’s Who in the Movie Credits” In the “South Park Movie” Saddam Hussein is credited as himself. In the end credits of “Airplane! 2” they added a “worst boy”. “The […]
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It was one of those nights where try as you might, you couldn’t keep yourself off the floor. Using some awkward gymnastics, I managed to drape myself over a sofa arm and found myself looking at the television with my chin skywards. Goodfellas was on, and watching the film upside down lead to a whole […]
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I think every filmmaker at some point gets sucked into the 48 Hour Film Project. If you’re unfamiliar, here’s the jist of it: filmmakers pay an entrance fee and gather a cast and crew together for a weekend shoot. On Friday evening, they are given a genre, a line of dialogue, a character and a […]
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Some inspiring and thought provoking quotes from Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tim Burton and Jim Jarmusch. The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing. Francis Ford Coppola You shouldn’t dream your film, […]
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I started my career before you could capture video on DSLRs. Right out of business school, I started shooting local cable commercials first on a 1/3rd inch chip Sony PD150 at the tail end of the “DV revolution” before graduated to an HDV Sony Z100 and then making my way to full HD 1/2 inch […]
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That’s a wrap for the month of July! Our BlueFX contest for the highest point earner is now closed. The top point earner will receive a bundle of all three Logo Supercharger packages (worth a total of $597) from our friends at BlueFx. Congratulations Mathias Rauh– for coming in on top of July 2017 with 461,000 […]
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While working on a project for a friend, I shot some footage from the back of a pick up truck. I don’t know if you’ve ever spent 3 hours driving around a town strapped to the bed of a pickup truck trying to compose shots on a tripod while we drove by -but it’s a […]
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I recently watched Jon Schnepp’s detailed documentary The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened. Even if you’re not a fan of comic book movies, this really is a must see documentary if you’re interested in the real process of filmmaking. So here’s the premise. We’re going to give one of DC’s most beloved super heroes to […]
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