Posted on May 23, 2012 in Filmmaking 360, Story | No Comments
Making a short documentary about the iconic documentary filmmaker is a tall order in itself. Sarah Klein and Tom Mason sit down with the Atlantic to discuss how they approached the form and how they found b-roll for lofty ideas such as “1+1=3″.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
He was suspicious of directors who had hobbies… he could only love one thing… cinema.
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Posted on May 21, 2012 in IQ Podcasts | No Comments
John Hess covers the life and times of Sessue Hayakawa, Hollywood’s first sex symbol in the silent era and probably the most interesting independent filmmaker you never heard of.
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Posted on May 18, 2012 in Outtakes | No Comments
Draw a bath of rose pedals and lavender oil, climb in and let the soothing voice of Gilbert Godfried take you to another erotic universe.
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Posted on May 17, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments
Bill Hammack takes apart a digital camera and explains how its captures images using a CCD (charge coupled device). He also shares how a single CCD is used with a color filter array to create colored images.
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Posted on May 17, 2012 in Interviews | 1 Comment
Harry Knowles (Ain’t it Cool News) sits down with film legend Douglas Trumbull who created visual effects for films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner.” Together they cover the evolution of film and the state of film projection today.
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Posted on May 17, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create.
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Posted on May 14, 2012 in Directing, Interviews | 1 Comment
Film directors Quentin Tarantino (‘Inglourious Basterds’). Peter Jackson (‘The Lovely Bones’), James Cameron (‘Avatar’), Kathryn Bigelow (‘The Hurt Locker’), Jason Reitman (‘Up in the Air’), and Lee Daniels (‘Precious’) talk about the toughest scenes they’ve had to film for a movie.
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Posted on May 14, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
Barbara Freedman Doyle offers some tips on how anyone entering the film industry can make sure they stop themselves from saying what they really think and stay in the good graces of those with the power to hire.
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Posted on May 14, 2012 in IQ Podcasts | 4 Comments
John Hess experiments with live camera switching, crashes his quadcopter and finds real rocket engines in the scrapyards of LA.
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Posted on May 9, 2012 in Outtakes | 1 Comment
It’s Zombies. It’s feel good male/female duet. It’s big yellow text. Need I say more?
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Posted on May 8, 2012 in Outtakes | No Comments
Walt Disney’s re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese’s classic film “Taxi Driver” follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City.
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Posted on May 7, 2012 in Cinematography, Featured, IQ Podcasts | No Comments
Saturday night we tried an experiment on Facebook where we asked everyone to go outside and take a picture of the “Super Moon,” then send them to us. It was a complete failure. Not one person sent as a picture of their ass. But we did get some great pictures of the the largest satellite orbiting earth, better known as our Moon.
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Posted on May 4, 2012 in Outtakes | No Comments
Star Wars Uncut is a website that asked people around the globe to recreate a scene from the 1977 film. The Director’s cut, as presented below, is the final result.
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Posted on May 3, 2012 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | No Comments
John Micahel Hayes penned many great Hitchcock films including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Here is an interview with Hayes done in the 1960s.
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