Posted on April 24, 2012 in Sound Design | No Comments
Dan Chung, the DSLR Newshooter talks to Bruce Sharpe of Singular software about the newly improved Plural Eyes – a plug in designed to quickly sync audio files and video files.
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Posted on April 24, 2012 in Lighting | 3 Comments
Tom Antos breaks down how to light using relatively inexpensive Umbrella lights to create a fashion look.
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Posted on April 23, 2012 in General Production | No Comments
Are you really going to shell out hundreds for a machined stabilizer rig for your iPhone? Gene Lythgow demonstrates how to assemble a very quick and basic stabilizer using some devices that may already be in your garage.
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Posted on April 23, 2012 in Story | No Comments
Filmmaker Andrew Stanton (“Toy Story,” “WALL-E”) shares what he knows about storytelling — starting at the end and working back to the beginning.
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Posted on April 23, 2012 in Financing | No Comments
A Bi-Partisan decision by the United States Congress is relaxing some of the federal restrictions on raising funds for business ventures. A general purpose aid to give businesses access to cash may work out for Filmmakers enabling them to solicit up to one million dollars.
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Posted on April 23, 2012 in Story, Structure | No Comments
Dan Harmon drives himself crazy writing the scripts for Community. As the series creator, he’s been hard at work studying story and looking for a common structure. Brian Raftery reports on Dan Harmon’s story philosophy and spends some time with this interesting individual.
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Posted on April 23, 2012 in IQ Podcasts | No Comments
John Hess recounts the NAB convention in Las Vegas, French Babes and how you can (or can’t) future proof your projects.
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Posted on April 19, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
Director Jamie Caliri’s beautiful stop motion animation video for “The Rifle’s Spiral,” a new track by The Shins. Caliri observes: “It’s now more like the years before MTV, when music videos did not have a formula. You can be expressive and idiosyncratic.”
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Posted on April 19, 2012 in Cinematography | No Comments
Watch this video from the Discovery Channel series “How It’s Made” to see how glass goes from a block to a highly polished optical lens. Now you know why they are so expensive.
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Posted on April 19, 2012 in Digital Effects | 2 Comments
“Real Camera Shake,” by VFX BRO, is a preset unlike your traditional camera shake because it uses real world physics rather than a wiggle simulation in After Effects. Use this preset to add shake to your still shots.
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Posted on April 19, 2012 in Cinematography, General Production | 3 Comments
With basic angle aluminum and square tubing, Olivia Speranza created this simple DIY Mini Camera Jib / Crane. She used a GH2 camera, but it can also be used with small Sony NEX5n or NEX-7 cameras.
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Posted on April 19, 2012 in Cinematography | 2 Comments
Super slow motion highlights, from Danish TV show “Dumt & Farligt,” using the Phantom Flex.
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Posted on April 18, 2012 in Cinematography | No Comments
Does the new iteration of the 5d stomp out its older brother? We put to the cameras to a test in a head to head at NAB2012 in a real world duke-it-out test. No charts, no controls and slightly hung-over… which camera will come up on top?
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Posted on April 17, 2012 in Featured, Filmmaking 360 | 3 Comments
IQ’s John Hess puts boots on the ground for NAB 2012 and gives us a quick run down of his impressions.
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Posted on April 17, 2012 in Cinematography | 2 Comments
Helicam Services Oy created this quick demo of their remote control chopper flying a RED Epic. No post-stabilization where applied to the RED clips.
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