The Best of Filmmaker IQ, 2011 (the Wrap)
Posted on December 26, 2011 in IQ Podcasts | 1 Comment
John Hess covers his top 14 featured articles from Filmmaker IQ in 2011 and carries on his Resolution to never make another New Year’s Resolution.
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40 Filmmaking Podcasts You Should Be Listening To
We’ve scoured the corners of internets and came up with an informative and entertaining list of podcasts covering all aspects of filmmaking: from scriptwriting to special effects, producing to directing, and just plain ol’ yak about our favorite (and least favorite) films.
Top 25 Most Successful Kickstarter Film Pitches
How do you get strangers to give you money for your film on Kickstarter? We’ve rounded up the top 25 successful Kickstarter pitches totaling over 2.2 million crowd funded dollars to get an idea of what works.
30 Amazing Stanley Kubrick Cinemagraphs
Stanley Kubrick was devoted to images, telling his stories as visually as possible. His images have an arresting power that few if any other directors can match.
7 Pro Tips to Surviving the 48 Hour Film Project
The 48 Hour Film Project is a popular filmmaking event that asks teams of filmmakers to write, produce, shoot and edit a short film in the span of 48 hours. As someone that has participated in three events (the last time after I vowed never to do another one again) and shoots on tight schedules for a living, I’ve put together seven pro tips to help you survive this grueling filmmaking stunt.
Exposing a Basic Lighting and Grip Kit
After spending a ton of time researching what camera to buy, you finally made your move and plunked down the cash for that brand new Sony, Canon, Panasonic, JVC, Ikegami, Fisher Price PXL-2000. So now the question is, how do I get the most out of my camera? How do I make good looking movies?
The answer is… light. When you take a picture or shoot a movie, you’re making a record of the light that is reflected off your subject. So ultimately making great pictures is really about how you place, control, shape, and color your light.
10 Copyright Terms Explained: Limitations and Exceptions
What’s difference between an idea an the expression of an idea? What’s the difference between borrowing and stealing? What’s covered under Copyright and what’s not? If you want clear answers to those questions, hire a layer! If you want a basic understanding, keep reading.
20 Lighting Tutorials for Film and Video
Quality lighting is one of the most important elements of any professional looking project. Lighting contributes considerably to the emotional response an audience has watching a motion picture. Today we rounded up 20 Lighting Tutorials to help you go beyond basic exposure into the essence of visual storytelling.
22 DIY DSLR Camera Rigs
DSLR cameras have revolutionized the world of independent filmmaking. One of the most attractive features is their relatively low cost, but once you starting adding rigs and other accessories that cost can go up quick. In an effort to expand your DSLR’s capabilities without shrinking your wallet we put together this DIY DSLR round-up for you.
6 Part Epic Editing Breakdown: Slice by Slice
This feature is a conglomeration of the articles from “The Making of Pitch Black” on the official Pitch Black Short Film Website. The production and post-production was discussed in the Pitch Black Film Group – here we are featuring the discussion of the editing process scene by scene.
25 Greatest Tracking Shots in Movie History
Technically many of these are long shots and not tracking shots, but if I wrote 25 Long Shots you may think I was referring to my bar tab or the 25 girls I hit on while racking up that bill.
Unfortantly many great scenes can no longer be found on the intertubes, such as the “Goodfellas” Copacabana scene. The good news is we found 25 other films where the marketing department didn’t have their heads completely up their legal asses.
10 Strange Filmmaking Terms Explained
So, WTF is a Slurpasaur? Today with the help of Wikipedia we explain that and nine other strange filmmaking terms. Evey industry and profession has its own slang, but the movie industry seems to be a little more creative in their lingo.
101 Movie Cliché Supercuts
To help demonstrate the silliness of the movie clichés, some obsessive-compulsive fanboys have collected those silly things we see over and over in various films into these single massive video montages of overused platitudes. We figured it was only fitting that we create a Super-Mashup of these Epic Supercuts!
First Films: Kubrick, Fellini, Bergman & Cassavetes
In this our second in a series of First Films we look at some of the great avant-garde directors that shaped the visual style for generations of filmmakers.
First Films: Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese & Lucas
This is the beginning of a series of articles on the First Films by great directors. We are starting with what some call the Film School Generation; Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and George Lucas. These four directors have changed the industry and craft of filmmaking forever, but they didn’t start out that way.
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Enlightening. Good job John.