Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, November 2007. What You Should Know About Copyright Infringement and Protecting Your Work: Three precepts: access, significant similarities, and the ordinary observer test. by Myrl Schreibman. Pages 48 & 49. Inexperienced filmmakers look to the story, its characters, the shot, and elements that pertain to the visual approach and often forget that … Continue reading “What You Should Know About Copyright Infringement by Myrl Schreibman”

Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, November 2007. Six Important Steps for Prepping Your Mix: Need Some Guidance through the Maze of Options? by Bryant Falk. Pages 42 & 43. Getting ready to mix your project can be a confusing time. So many options these days can lead to an almost paralyzing fear of what is right and … Continue reading “Six Important Steps for Prepping Your Mix: Need Some Guidance through the Maze of Options? by Bryant Falk”

Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, November 2007. James Mangold’s New Film 3:10 to Yuma – An Homage and Contemporary Classic: A look into the genre and filmography of some other Westerns to see. by Dana Dorrity. Pages 36 – 38. James Mangold’s new film 3:10 to Yuma, based on an Elmore Leonard story and a 1957 western … Continue reading “James Mangold’s New Film 3:10 to Yuma – An Homage and Contemporary Classic: A look into the genre and filmography of some other Westerns to see. by Dana Dorrity”

Flashback, throwback interview close-up.   World-Renowned DP Shares His Experiences, Insights, and Discusses the Changing Production Climate, including Digital Technology   Interview conducted by Jacqueline B. Frost Richard Crudo, ASC, President of the American Society of Cinematographers from 2003-2006, has been shooting films for over twenty years. He began his career as an assistant cameraman … Continue reading “Richard Crudo, ASC on ‘Being a Working Cinematographer’”

Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, November 2007. Visual Effects through Color Enhancing Filters: Seeing Red by Ira Tiffen. Pages 14. The painter needs more intense color; he gets a tube of it at the store. The cameraman with the same need gets a filter: a color enhancing filter. Color enhancing filters are for the times when the … Continue reading “Visual Effects through Color Enhancing Filters: Seeing Red by Ira Tiffen”

Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, August 2007. Animated Audio What Comes First: the Animation or the Audio? by Bryant Falk. Pages 54. So you’re making your first animated short or feature – or both! Biggest question of all: What comes first: the animation or the audio? Ready for the answer? Here it comes… It depends. Additionally, there … Continue reading “Animated Audio What Comes First: the Animation or the Audio? by Bryant Falk”

Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, August 2007. Multi-Track Mixing for Location Dialogue:: Two-Track and Four-Track Recording, and Working with HD Video by Fred Ginsburg C.A.S. Ph.D. MBKS. Pages 50 – 52. Did you notice this article is not called stereo sound mixing for film/video? That is because just about everything you record on the set will be … Continue reading “Multi-Track Mixing for Location Dialogue:: Two-Track and Four-Track Recording, and Working with HD Video by Fred Ginsburg C.A.S. Ph.D. MBKS”

Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, August 2007. Negotiating a Broadcast Deal for Your Film: What to Do When You’re in the ‘Land of the Low Licensing Fees for Independents’ by Stacey Parks. Pages 45. I was talking to a filmmaker about the Sundance Channel who has offered her a broadcast deal for her film, but the offer … Continue reading “Negotiating a Broadcast Deal for Your Film: What to Do When You’re in the ‘Land of the Low Licensing Fees for Independents’ by Stacey Parks”