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Posted in Camera & Eye, Editing, Humor, Life on Aug 1st, 2008
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Save on food
Budget properly for catering. The more so if your crew is underpaid. The more so, the longer the shoot is.
Doesn’t cost much more, but does [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology on Nov 13th, 2007
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 comes from the same angle [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film on Apr 16th, 2007
This weekend I got to see a fun film about the film business, The Last Shot (and don’t let the first 5 minutes of the film misguide you). Joe Devine pretends to be a movie director, and gets Steven Schats to believe that his film will be produced. At one point this dialogue entails between [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology on Apr 10th, 2007
A while ago, I wrote about the Red camera project. Now they have not only released some test films, but also a price list. But first a little note on the test films. Our editing station has two 24-inch monitors. Viewing the 1080p (not i!) resolution film fills out the whole screen. Every single pixel. [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Editing, Technology on Feb 22nd, 2007
Over at the Apple discussion board, I stumbled upon this gem:
I’m a film editor who’s had the privilege to work on $100 movies to $100 million movies.
Story is king. If your story is working, and crafted well, and paced properly, you can get away with almost whatever you want. For instance, when I cut scenes, [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye on Jan 22nd, 2007
Just heard that a programme I did camera on last year is currently airing on CNBC Europe. If you have a chance to see it, please do - and leave comments on the camerawork.
TX/DATE TX/TIME BREAK PROGRAMME BEFORE PROGRAMME AFTER
22/01/2007 11:27:50 CRB NAT POWER LUNCH EUROPE OCT 04 POWER LUNCH EUROPE OCT 04
22/01/2007 11:47:30 [...]