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11/26/2018

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11/26/2018

Who is crafting the future? Ask the Wall Street Journal. The people selected for WSJ. Magazine's 2018 Innovators -- a group of "visionary, foundation-shaking luminaries" working across a number of fields -- include Ruth E. Carter (Design); David Chang (Food); Nonny de la Pena (Technology); Agnes Gund (Philanthropy); Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron (Architecture); Jonah Hill (Film); Ralph Lauren (Fashion); John Legend (Entertainment); and Pheobe Waller-Bridge (TV). Production company MediaStorm was tasked with creating short video profiles of the award winners.
https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/24225/spotlight-video-profiles-of-great-innovators-fro.html

10/24/2018

Editing is an arduous, time-consuming, and complicated craft that challenges both hemispheres of your brain, but, notes NoFilmSchool, it’s a little easier when you known the types of cuts that you'll use most often in your work. A new tutorial from Filmora breaks down five cuts you need to master, from the match cut and the jump cut to the J and L cuts.

Try Filmora: http://bit.ly/2If9rHu So you have shot your video, and uploaded your clips to your computer - What's next? Video cutting! Cutting out what you d...

10/11/2018

Filmmaker Michael Moore burst onto the nonfiction film scene in 1989 with Roger & Me, a documentary about the the devastating effects of widespread layoffs by General Motors. His latest documentary, Fahrenheit 11/9, is a call to arms — or, rather, to the voting booth — to resist the Trump administration. At Film School Rejects Moore offers documentary tips, including this: Don’t make a documentary — make a film.

Love him or hate him, one of the most (in)famous documentary filmmakers today has some damn good advice to share.

10/02/2018

One of the interesting features of the new Nikon Z6 and Z7 full-frame cameras is their ability to output 10Bit video through the HDMI port for use with external recorders, notes DIY Photography, adding that the 10Bit HDMI output is something that Sony doesn’t offer. Now you can see what video shot this way looks like in the short film Dreaming, which filmmaker Marin Marinov shot using a Nikon Z6 prototype. The film’s daytime shots were captured internally using Nikon’s flat profile. The night shots were made using N-Log with the Atomos Ninja Inferno external recorder.

One of the big features in the new Nikon Z6 and Z7 cameras is their ability to output 10Bit video through the HDMI port for use with external recorders. But we haven’t seen too many samples of video shot this way. Dreaming is a short film by filmmaker Marin Marinov shot using a Nikon Z6 prototype....

09/13/2018

Time lapse. Hyperlapse. Infrared. Even time travel (sort of). In an age when everyone has a camera in their pocket that can also shoot video, photographers and filmmakers are using a gamut of techniques to grab the attention of viewers. Today we've gathered several short videos that have been getting attention on the web for their creative depictions of landscapes and cityscapes. Mwita Chaca's "Welcome to Hong Kong" mixes time lapse, hyperlapse, and real-time footage to capture the city. Photographer Christian Mohrle's 8K time lapse "Infrascapes" was made from 20,000 infrared images. There's also an aerial view of Scotland and a drone flyover of ancient Pompeii
https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/23855/motion-landscapes-and-cityscapes-modern-and-anci.html

09/13/2018

Has the buzz worn off your drone cinematography? If you’re ready to move beyond shooting neat-looking aerial footage and start telling stories with your flying camera, check out a new video from Adorama TV, in which Dirk Dallas of From Where I Drone covers five cinematic drone techniques, from the Reveal and Tilt Reveal to the Top Down, Orbit, and Tilt While Tracking.

www.adorama.com In this tutorial Dirk Dallas of fromwhereidrone.com shows you 5 cinematic drone shots you need to master because they will take your drone fo...

09/12/2018

Want to be a better filmmaker? Use visual references like storyboards and mood boards to make sure everyone working on your project is on the same page. That’s one of the seven tips offered by in a new video from StudioBinder. Another tip: Follow the sun, which is of course the ultimate source of free lighting.

To see Cinematic Light Shaping Part 1.2 & Part 2, along with 100+ other filmmaking tutorials, join us at http://fulltimefilmmaker.com/ To see the FREE 1-Hour...

09/11/2018

Since the 1980s, Super 35 has been the most popular format among filmmakers, but today the industry moving towards larger full-frame sensors. Which one should you use? There’s no right or wrong answer: Format, resolution, color bit depth, frame rate, lenses and camera type are all tools to tell story. notes NoFilmSchool, which looks into how full-frame and Super 35 formats differ and how they affect the story you’re trying to tell.

Let's look at the visual results we get with larger sensors.

09/05/2018

The 2105 action film Hardcore Henry was notable for telling its high-octane story via a first-person perspective. A new video from Cinecom shows you how you can tell stories in the same way. Luckily, today’s small action cams make the job a lot easier. Remember to position your camera approximately where your character’s eyes would be.

https://cinecom.info/Audioblocks - Learn how to film a POV (Point of View) action movie like Hardcore Henry or False Alarm from The Weeknd. First person came...

08/31/2018

Want to make a better time lapse? A new Fstoppers tutorial suggests using 10-stop neutral-density filters. “For us, the most ideal shutter length for time-lapse photography is right around 2 seconds. This is long enough to blur most people, water, and traffic while still keeping your total time-lapse capture time within a reasonable time of 30 minutes or less. With a strong 10 or 15-stop neutral density filter, you can easily create single exposures of 10 seconds up to a full minute for some dramatic effects,” explains Charleston, S.C.-based photographer Patrick Hall.

Full article: In this short photography tutorial, we show you how you can improve your timelapses by taking long shutter exposures and exporting them in Adob...

08/30/2018

The Cerrado covers 25 percent of Brazil's land mass. The savannah is the world's oldest biome, or community of plants and animals, notes Fabio Erdos, a Brazilian documentary filmmaker and photographer whose work focuses mostly on non-profit and foundation projects. In collaboration with the Brazilian chapter of the non-profit ActionAid International, Erdos, a PPD reader, shot a series of three short films for a campaign to protect the Cerrado. The films show a little of the daily life (and struggles) of three traditional communities from the region.
https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/23820/spotlight-in-the-front-line-to-save-the-worlds-o.html