Posted in Cool Sites, Film tagged cheap, Film, filmmaking, free, independent, low budget, music, production, royalty free, tip
For the financially challed film producer, Good Music often is out of reach. There are many so-so sources for CDs full of royalty free music (we own a huge library of those and hardly ever use it - unless we need something cheesy).
Then there are places where you can preview ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Film, Life, Technology tagged 8mm, burn, burned, burned frame, Film, fire, flash frame, mussorgsky, super8, youtube
One thing I do and will miss when editing video/digital film are those flash frames. The few frames that are exposed when the camera gets up to speed, and when it stops again, the gate is checked, the mag is changed, the film is laced.
As a side line, we do ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology tagged 2k, 3971, 4k, build 16, comparison, digital cinema, Film, future, hd, patience, queue, RED, sd, waiting
It's probably been in the cards for a while, but we have ordered our Red One camera. Sometime before the end of the year (fingers crossed), we'll be able to churn out pictures at such high resolution that they can be used for digital cinema. We'll be able to use ...
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Posted in (Meta)Blogging, Film, Life, Technology tagged company, dougkarr, douglaskarr, embedding, Film, industrial, meat, power, powerful, pr, presentation, production, reading, tool, video, web, webvideo, youtube
Doug writes a very interesting post on how his company lost a bid by not using a video.
While I have to agree that video is a powerful tool, I would like to make some remarks:
For that video to be powerful, it has to be well made. A badly made video ...
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology tagged advice, event, event photography, events, Film, filming, flash, how-to, shooting
Derek Powazek has written a great post on how to work on events. While written for stills cameras, the piece also applies to video shooting. (via) Just replace "flash" with "on-camera light".Talking of which, I try hard to avoid using them. They just kill the lighting mood, and the light ...
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What is a career in TV likely to look like?[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIyg2a72uV4[/youtube]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Career in TV", url: "http://modifoo.com/2007/11/13/career-in-tv.html" });
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