Posted on December 21, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
Thinking about film school? Regretting not going to film school? Comedian and film school graduate Mikey Gleason tells you everything you need to know to survive in (or skip) film school.
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Posted on December 19, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
Although not the inventor of the expressive close-up, no filmmaker has employed it so prolifically or so effectively as Steven Spielberg. This video essay by Kevin B Lee, focuses on the iconic look of wonder and how Spielberg uses it in his films:
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Posted on December 15, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Interviews | No Comments
Directors Sydney Pollack and Steven Spielberg discuss David Lean’s film, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI. Both men find it a film they return to again and again, and count it among those that have influenced their own work.
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Posted on December 15, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
New York Women in Film and Television presented a free forum at the 49th New York Film Festival about the relationship between experimental filmmaking and the mainstream.
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Posted on December 13, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 3 Comments
MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That’s fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through objects.
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Posted on December 11, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
This True 3D display technology, developed by Burton, uses a laser to creates luminous points of light at desired locations in air or underwater. It works by focusing laser light, to produce plasma excitation from the oxygen and nitrogen in the air.
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Posted on November 30, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
Yesterday we posted an article about how CNN fired editors and photojournalists because amateurs will work for free. Today to be “fair and balanced” we bring you an article on how Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp. and FOX News, basically blackmail artist Charlotte Church into working for free.
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Posted on November 29, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 6 Comments
CNN lays off 50 staff members, claiming that pro-sumer technologies and social media have made some editing and photojournalism positions redundant.
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Posted on November 23, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 2 Comments
Go behind the scenes of the production of a making of a literal epic: Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” – Video Blog part 3 & 4
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Posted on November 23, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography.
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Posted on November 21, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, IQ Podcasts | No Comments
John Hess ponders the irony of American Thanksgiving and the shopping spree that is Black Friday.
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Posted on November 18, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
“A Short History of America” by Robert Crumb, from Crumb, the 1994 documentary by Terry Zwigoff.
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Posted on November 17, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 2 Comments
In this video Dave Dugdale compares the quality of Halogen to Fluorescent lighting for DSLR Video.
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Posted on November 16, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
There is a debate on Reddit about whether this is real or just a troll having some fun. It seems a little too “inside baseball” to be real, but sadly it could be legit. Craigslist is full of these no pay or “pay someday” ads by people who simply expect outrageous things from filmmakers.
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Posted on November 15, 2011 in Featured, Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
Stanley Kubrick made three documentaries early in his career. Created between 1951 – 1953 Kubrick acted as director, writer, cinematographer, and soundman for the shorts. They include the first film he directed and the first color picture he made. They also offer an early insight into legendary filmmaker’s craft.
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