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GoPro Hero3: Black Edition vs. Panasonic TS4 – Weapons of Mass Production

Is the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition the king of the action cameras? To find out Kevin Good and the Weapons of Mass Production put it up against an unsuspecting competitor: The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS4. The TS4 is a rugged camera from their stills line, that now shoots HD video to the venerable AVCHD format. How will it stack up against the market-dominating GoPro? Is all the hypearound the GoPro justified? And most importantly: what should you spend your hard-earned yen on?

If you’re really considering one of these cameras, definitely check out the full write-up that has a more in-depth discussion of the tech here.

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The Underwater Realm – The Release and Reception

Through a steady stream of awesome production blogs, we’ve become familiar with Underwater Realm, ambitious team set out to make a film (or series of films) about an underwater civilization. They finally released their films online – and you can view them here:

Philip Bloom interviews the team behind Underwater Realm about how they feel at the completion of the teasers and how they feel about the reception.

Bloom: Now they are finally out there, how do you feel?

DAVE: If you look hard enough, you will find people eager to teach the creative aspects of film – writing, lighting, shooting, cutting, visual effects – and there are a million inspirational messages to keep you going through all of your challenges along the way – but there is one really important area that I don’t think is talked about enough, the scariest part of the creative process by far: putting your work out there!

Bloom: How has it been hearing what people actually think of what essentially has been the last two years of your lives?

EVE: It comes with a load of excitement, and fear! What if people hate them, what if it was all for nothing?!

The first thing to remember with all of this is that it is never EVER for nothing. It doesn’t matter if everyone hates your work – nobody can take the experience and lessons away

RICH: it’s been really interesting watching the release, and seeing all the feedback come in. This is the first time I have put anything out there in a big way – it’s sort of terrifying! To have something this big, and to suddenly be totally at the mercy of the audience.

JEN: obviously Dave, Eve, Shaz, Jon – they have all been here before, they did their first big release when they were still kids. But for a lot of the crew it’s our first time!

Philip Bloom | Read the Full Article

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Five Good Reasons to Write a No-Low Budget Script

Clive Davis-Frayne lays out 5 reasons why you should write a low budget script to keep in your writing portfolio.

1. Writing scripts for No-Low Budget is harder than any other form of screenwriting

It may seem odd to suggest that something being harder to do, could be one of the primary reasons for doing it. However, in the case of screenwriting, it’s one of the best reasons. Show the industry that you can do something difficult and you prove that you’re valuable.

No-low budget screenwriting is difficult precisely because of what you can’t do, which is to create spectacle by spending money. A huge car chase, you can’t afford it. A gun fight, you can’t afford that either. Period costume or expensive prop builds, not in your price bracket. Basically, the lower the budget, the more the drama has to come from the relationships between the characters… or in other words, the success and failure of the project rests totally on the shoulders of the screenwriter. Not only does the writing have to be compelling to carry the story and to hold the audience, on top of that, the core concept of the movie has to be strong enough to persuade an audience to chose to spend ninety-minutes with you, as opposed to the multi-million dollar movie with the big name actors and the mind numbing stunts.

Let me be straight with you, this is the very definition of difficult.

The good news is, if you can can persuade an audience your film is worth the effort, and then give them a great filmatic experience, without spending vast amounts of money in production, then there is very little in this industry that you aren’t capable of achieving. The creation of a high-quality, compelling no-budget drama is, for me, the holy grail of screenwriting.

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Hot Chocolate Tastes Better in an Orange Cup

Want a tasty creamy cup of hot cocoa? The secret is to serve it in an orange or creme colored cup. It has nothing to do with the chemical structure but the color of the serving vessel tricks our brains into thinking we’re drinking a high caliber of chocolate. Now you know which color to pick with the production designer asks which mug to use for the shot.

A creamsicle-colored set of mugs will make your hot chocolate taste and smell sweeter than it would taste served in plain white or stark red, according to European scientists. This adds to the growing set of studies that claim the vessel in which our food is served can have a dramatic effect on the way our senses perceive the food.

In what may have been the easiest volunteer experiment ever, 57 people had to drink hot chocolate served in four different types of cups. They were all plastic and the same size, but were either white, cream, red or orange with white inside. The tasters reported the chocolate tasted better in the cream-colored and orange cups.

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