1. In this tutorial created for philipbloom.net, Eve talks you through simple to advanced lighting setups that are easy to achieve and produce beautiful results. She explains simply, how to get the most from your existing lights and some quick tips to create a really impressive shot.

2. Learn how to use Christmas lights, builder’s worklights and even your iPhone to add a little something special to your flm and video work!

3.In the last of three lighting tutorials created for philipbloom.net Eve takes us through the three steps of greenscreen work: How to analyse you background plate to ensure a convincing key, How to light your screen and subject to match the background plate and How to take the foreground and background elements and combine them in Adobe After Effects

For more like this, grab yourself a copy of Eve’s lighting guide DVD on their kickstarter page:

Whether you’re done partying or just starting – here’s the most important tip to keep the hangover blues away – hydrate. Drink plenty of fluids that don’t rhyme with “Mild Berkeley”

Was all that just an excuse to post this video?

Yes…

Yes it was…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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7. Top 7 Country Songs That Should Be Movies
Now some of you that know way too much about Country Music to be on this site may say, a couple of these where already made into movies. If you are one of these people, please get off your sister, get that mullet cut and get a job!

6.How to make Work Lights slightly less crappy
LoweRuno Productions shares some modifications he made to his construction work lights to re-purpose the for video use. The results aren’t spectacular but if you absolutely have to use these abominations (as opposed to bare bulbs which are readily available), these modifications can come in handy.

5. Jodi Foster on Travis Bickle as the Anti-Hero in TAXI DRIVER
Jodi Foster discusses the character Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER. Foster discusses Travis Bickle as an “anti-hero,” and the reasons she thinks audiences can identify with him.

4.An Easy Way to Color Grade for Film-Look

Using Red Giant Colorista Free, NewWaveG demonstrates how the “film look” gamma curve we’ve all been trying to emulate may actually be backwards.

3. Behind the scene of a First Person Shooter turn Mountain Dew Ad

In a joint campaign with Modern Warfare 3, McG and master cinematographer Shane Hurlbut put the Canon 5d to the task of capturing the look of a first person shooter for a Mountain Dew Ad.

2. If Saul Bass Designed the Title Sequence…
Between Mad Men and Pan Am, the demand for iconic 60s title sequences has never been stronger. We scoured the internets to find how many legendary films might have looked if their title sequences designed by the legendary Saul Bass:

1.True 3D Projection Tech Makes Images Hove in Mid-Air Without a Screen

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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Black Friday Shopping at it’s best:

An honorable mention for my the Jazz ensemble I play in and our performance of “Blues in Frankie’s Flat”