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Simplicity and Magic in Filmmaking By Michael Goi, ASC, ISC I’ve always been fascinated with magic. From the time I helped form the Magic Club in high school to my first experiments in doing stop motion animation with my Regular 8 film camera, I was obsessed with how to make the audience believe what I… …
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By Marco Schleicher, MA I really like the process of storyboarding. It gives me a clear vision of what I want and what the film should look like. It also helps me to communicate my ideas to other people who are involved. My way of storyboarding is influenced by my former professor Michael Haneke. Like… …
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… Or At Least Avoiding Bad Ones by Mark Kerins At one point or another, we’ve all been to a movie or play where one of the actors gave a performance so laughably terrible that it completely took us out of the story – which just goes to show that bad acting is not the… …
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Production Boards and Scheduling by Myrl Schreibman Presidents Day 2008 found me in a box at the Santa Anita Race Track. I went there with my friend who is president of a major television production company associated with Twentieth Century Fox. We do this from time to time to get away from the bustle… …
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Written by Eddie Tapp Take composition for instance, the one thing that will make a scene easy to look at with leading lines, element structure, rule of odds, light, storytelling and communicating a feeling and demanding that you look at a specific thing. Experience teaches us to just move over this far to get that… …
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Written by William Donaruma What do you do when you write an original musical production, cast it, rehearse it, but can’t perform it? You make a movie out of it. Veronica Mansour wrote a musical theatrical production, “An Old Family Recipe,” with Matt Hawkins directing. It was cast and in rehearsals in late… …
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“Unforgotten” Gold Medal, 48th Student Academy Awards, Animation category Q&A with Sujin Kim Sujin Kim is a visual artist, filmmaker, and tenure-track assistant professor of 3D Animation at Arizona State University. Kim received her MFA in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts. Her experimental films have been exhibited and screened at many film… …
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Pictured: Austin Harris & Shane Stanley Take It on the Road: Behind the Scenes of “Night Train” Written by Shane Stanley I hope this finds everyone healthy and recharged ready to get back in the saddle making 2022 your most productive year yet! I am coming off back-to-back productions and jumping into post- on our… …
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Pictured: For “Apt. 2B” at the NY 48 Hour Film Festival with Catherine Frels, Gregory Isaac, Tracey Conyer Lee, Sean Harris and Tamar Kummel. Speed Filmmaking Do’s and Don’ts Teamwork on a tight timeline By Tamar Kummel I’ve done a dozen or so competition short films. You know the kind you hear about: You… …
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Written by Tony Westman csc, dga, dgc The director turned to me after blocking with actors and stunt performers and said he wanted the scene to have a brooding and threatening feeling at which point he left the set to have a coffee. There I stood along with my operator, 1st AC, key grip, gaffer,… …
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“Adisa” Silver Medal, 48th Student Academy Awards, Narrative (International Film Schools) Exclusive interview conducted by Jody Michelle Solis Kenyan-German short film, “Adisa”, directed by Simon Denda, stars Victoria Mayer, Jackline Wanjiku, Götz Otto, and Robert Agengo. Based on a true story – Susanne, chief diplomat and representative of the European Union, visits a remote village… …
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Give Yourself an Exit Strategy in Post-Production Written By Jared Isham One thing that is frequently left out of the camera work discussion is how it affects you in post-production. With filmmaking, having the ability to make decisions knowing how they will affect things down the road, will put you in a much better position… …
