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By Gabriel Garcia Rosa My friend Danny Mirabal shared with me this affordable lightweight lighting kit for $198 that we use once in a while when we don’t want to carry heavy equipment. I just wanted to share this affordable kit that can be used in any shoot, particularly in documentaries. This is what you… …
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By William Donaruma The camera operator can be an underappreciated skill on a crew and in schools as if you are the person who just pushes the red button when you are told. If that were true, then why does Roger Deakins always want to operate his camera? It’s because you are the person responsible… …
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Interview conducted by Jody Michelle Solis StudentFilmmakers Magazine interviews Telly and multi-award winning Director of Photography Tom Robotham, who is an inventor of LED lighting. What inspired you to invent the Blender® Light? Tom Robotham: I invented the Blender® Light because I liked the efficiency and portability of battery operated LED lights, but was… …
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by Charlie Balch In-Camera Settings for Two 7Ds The in-camera settings closely resembled the popular “cinestyle” look in which we pulled a more neutral image. By desaturating and bringing down the contrast in our image it allowed us to have much more to work with in post color correction wise. This style was very… …
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by Jack Anderson You’ll be reading the script, and you will notice pretty quickly whether your film will involve kids or animals. No matter how well-behaved they are, kids and animals mean that it will take more time to shoot. What will affect your photography is the way you have to work around them…. …
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by Jack Anderson You’ve got a chance at a job and you’re just reading the script—maybe for the second or third time. You’re preparing yourself for the crucial meeting with the director and maybe the producer. Now might be a good time to bring up a piece of vital advice: Never Say No. I… …
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by Scott Spears So you’ve scraped together a few extra dollars to shoot film, but you’re still a bit tight on cash and somebody says, “Buy short ends!” Now, you’ve heard about them but aren’t sure you want to buy somebody else’s leftovers. Well, here’s the scoop on short ends: it’s film that was… …
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By David Worth Hopefully you will never take the amazing technology that you have at your fingertips today for granted. The reason that you, today’s filmmakers can capture on the RED or the ALEXA or DSLRs and routinely shoot at ASA 800, 2000 or 6400 and beyond, is because of all of the outstanding… …
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by William Donaruma and John Klein NightLights is an independent, Chicago-based film production, which depicts the poigniant story of a young woman, Erin Logan (Shawna Waldron), as she strives to care for her twin brother, Jacob (Stephen Louis Grush), who is severely affected by autism. When the possibilities of love and friendship open up… …
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Filming a Dolly Shot for a Scene of the Television Series, “Mad About You” by Jack Anderson Laying track is a skill, and I recommend that you find a professional grip and have him show you. If that’s not possible, the idea is to have the track all at one level, left to right… …
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by S.D. Katz Now that MiniDV and HDV make shooting and dropping the footage into a timeline a very simple routine there is no reason not to keep a digital sketchbook. Painters and draftsman have always kept notebooks of quick studies from life or the imagination and writers often collect files of ideas for plots,… …
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by M. David Mullen, ASC A “digital intermediate” has become the trendy must-have thing for filmmakers, so much so that they toss around term loosely, trying to sound hip and cutting-edge, making it almost useless as a description of a post-production technique. “Digital” being a vague catch-all these days, the clue as to the meaning… …
