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By Fred Ginsburg CAS PhD Today’s sound mixer or videographer has a choice of recording location audio to one or multiple recording tracks. In addition to being able to record sound “direct to video” — it is pretty much the norm to also record simultaneously to a dedicated audio recorder (the process known as … Continue reading “Using your recording tracks strategically: a multi-track workflow for location sound recording”
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Q&A with Lance Lundstrom TV/Film/Video production professional with over 20 years of international production experience; owner/creator of RigWheels LLC. What’s new at RigWheels? Can you tell us about your newest kits? Lance Lundstrom: We have a lot of new products this year but the headliner is the Cloud Mount Slingshot vibration isolator. This is… …
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by Karestin Harrison and Tamara L. Honesty The question of why create fake food instead of using real food is frequently asked. The answer is not cut and dry. There are several advantages to creating fake food including cost, storage, and reusability. Depending on the length of the run, creating fake food could be beneficial. … Continue reading “The Fake Food Cookbook: Props You Can’t Eat for Theatre, Film, and TV”
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By William Donaruma A production day, week, month is a marathon, not a sprint and most of us have to carry a lot of stuff. Whether you move anvil cases of camera gear, sandbags, 10Ks or carry a clipboard you are on your feet for 12 hours a day. Those of us on the independent … Continue reading “PRODUCTION TOUGH | “The Only Easy Day was Yesterday””
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Notice how well my Cannon Vixia HF G20 handles this rave scene in a dark club. By Sherri Sheridan How can you plan your film ideas around what HD does best to show us something new? HD frees up the camera both in maneuverability, cost and resolution. 35mm film cameras are huge cumbersome machines that… …
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Capture Intimate Moments for Your Project and Story By Bart Weiss Shooting a film with an iPhone is nothing new. Indeed, when the iPhone was invented Steve Jobs had stills and movies in mind. But there is a difference between audio video recording home movies where you are just mindlessly capturing what is in… …
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By John Klein For most filmmakers, low budgets and minimalist storytelling are a way of life. Limitation breeds creativity, wearing multiple hats, and so on. With rare exception, though, I’m typically afforded at least one or two crew members on the camera and lighting side to make things go more smoothly and to enhance the… …
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By Fred Ginsburg, CAS, Ph.D. As I write this, the Spring 2018 semester has just ended; and many of my current or former students walked proudly down the aisles, diplomas in hand, at my university’s commencement ceremony. That made me want to reflect on what advice I might have for our incoming crop of aspiring … Continue reading “Important Details to Check Out Before You Choose a College”
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Can you tell us about your body of work? Zoran Dragelj: As an independent filmmaker/auteur for over 20 years I’ve been fortunate to work on both film and video productions of various sizes and lengths (from feature films to episodic content to short films and videos). Also, I worked on many different genres, which … Continue reading “FILMMAKERS GLOBAL NETWORK :: Community Spotlight with Zoran Dragelj”
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By Peter John Ross Advances in Distribution There is something special about watching a movie in a theater setting. Most people still see movies on the big screen, so the goal of many aspiring moviemakers is to get their movie seen in the same way. Since those of us in the trenches of indie film … Continue reading “Screening Your Film Independently and Film Festivals”
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By Neil Landau The decisions we make define who we are. Extenuating circumstances, intentional and unintentional ripple effects inform every choice we make. Our decisions define us in terms of our moral compasses and the lines we don’t cross—or say we would never cross—in the complexity of life. As the great playwright, screenwriter and director … Continue reading “Queen Sugar: Between Two Rights? | A look into excellent storytelling”
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Compiled by Howard A. Phillips Technology is the physical embodiment of the solutions to needs, from earning a living to expressing our dreams, anything from our fears or a way to express our achievements. With the constant improvements and upgrades – and at times the radical changes that happen in our technical lives, this seems … Continue reading “Technology and Life with Digital: Life After Film School”
