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Color Reel: Animation of the Colors in Film

Posted on April 16, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments

Color Reel, is an animation that quizzes your knowledge of colors in film.

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Mr. Foley: A Man Stalked By A Personal Soundtrack Team

Posted on April 16, 2012 in Audio, Sound Design | No Comments

Mr Foley is an award winning short film directed by Dublin directing duo Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman aka D.A.D.D.Y. It’s a darkly funny but nightmarish scenario, a man wakes up in hospital with a group of sound artists soundtracking his life.

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“Kara” – MoCap Rendered in Real Time on Sony PS3

Posted on March 9, 2012 in Digital Effects | 3 Comments

Are we crossing the Uncanny Valley?

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ABCinema – The Alphabet in Film

Posted on February 21, 2012 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments

This video by Evan Seitz titled ABCinema contains animations of films starting with each letter of the alphabet to test your movie knowledge. How many titles can you name?

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Heart Stop Beating: The Man Who Has No Pulse

Posted on February 3, 2012 in Off Topic | No Comments

March of 2011, Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat.

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IQ Film Premiere: “Treachery in Three Dimensions”

Posted on January 6, 2012 in Featured | 3 Comments

Some one is converting Hollywood Classics into 3D, Only Private Eye Ronald M. Vorhees can solve the MYSTERY!!

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“The Cinematographer” 1951 Short Documentary

Posted on December 30, 2011 in Cinematography | No Comments

The Cinematographer by Jerry Hopper was a 1951 Short Documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the cameraman in action. This was part of a series produced by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science and distributed in theaters by each of the major studios.

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Terry Gilliam’s 1968 film: “The Christmas Card”

Posted on December 23, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments

Director and Monty Python member Terry Gilliam created this film using his iconic cutout technique for the 1968 British TV series “Do Not Adjust Your Set”.

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Short Film – Sometimes the Best Team for the Job is the Worst Idea Ever

Posted on November 7, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments

In this short produced for the online humor site Cracked.com, Team Tiger Awesome riffs on the cliche of the scrappy military rejects being called into do the impossible.

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Five Tips for Short Filmmakers

Posted on October 31, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment

Actor A.J. Bowen, writer/producer Eric Vespe, and director Kristoffer Aaron Morgan offer up 5 tips for filmmakers getting started on their short films.

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Spike Jonze’s Stop Motion Film: Mourir Auprès de Toi

Posted on October 20, 2011 in General Production | No Comments

Mourir Auprès de Toi is a short film by Spike Jonze, Simon Cahn and handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan. Set inside the famous Parisian bookstore, Shakespeare and Company the animations are a result of 3,000 pieces of hand cut felt by Le-Tan.

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Jim Henson’s 1966 Oscar Nominated Experimental Short Film

Posted on August 26, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 2 Comments

Long before the Muppets Jim Henson wrote, produced, directed and stared in this experimental short “Time Piece.” It is about the effect of time keeping on us all.

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The Future of Story

Posted on July 6, 2011 in Filmmaking 360, Internet, Story | 1 Comment

Jeff Parkin, filmmaker and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Brigham Young University, discusses the power of transmedia stories in reaching wide audiences and his experiences in creating the Webby Award honored webseries, The Book of Jer3miah.

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Buñuel and Dalí’s Surrealist Film “Un Chien Andalou”

Posted on June 21, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment

A. O. Scott looks at a slice of surreal life in Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s short film “Un Chien Andalou.” Mr. Scott praises Buñuel’s filmmaking, saying that he was “among the first to discover that the language of cinema could proceed beyond the boundaries of sense and produce powerful and strange effects and emotions.”

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Cassini Mission: an experimental film shot near Saturn

Posted on June 14, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments

Vimeo user Chris Abbas assembles a beautiful and striking experimental film from the images captured from the Cassini Solstice Mission which entered Saturn’s orbit on June 30th, 2004.

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