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#FlashbackFriday #FBF Do you remember our Conversation with Ben Wu? Ben Wu, whose short student films have screened at various film festivals and earned honors, including a Silver Medal in the documentary category at the Student Academy Awards (2005), Best Documentary at the Angelus Awards Student Film Festival (2005), and Second Place, Best Student Documentary… …
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Exclusive Interview with Patrick Cady, ASC: Camerawork, Lighting, and Transitioning from DP to Director StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Can you talk about your experience as a cinematographer who has occasionally transitioned to the director’s chair? Patrick Cady, ASC: I’ve been a cinematographer for 20 years now. I was an electrician and Gaffer, and before that I… …
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#FlashbackFriday #FBF Do you remember our Community Spotlight with Adrian Picardi? Picardi Makes Pro Level Actioner with Just One Camera Color manipulation, artful scoring, and trial-and-error. His Final Hit, the third place winner of The Edgewise Media and Panasonic Digital Media Film and Video Shorts 2008 Awards Competition featuring “AMQ,” is a short film… …
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#FlashbackFriday #FBF Do you remember our Community Spotlight with Michael Brettler? Brettler Captures Introspective Tone and Child-Like Whimsy with ‘Levin’ Genuine Characters Trump Student-Level CG Levin: Maladies of Death wins second place in The Edgewise Media and Panasonic Digital Media Film and Video Shorts 2008 Awards Competition featuring “AMQ”. The short film is written… …
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Media Instructor Andrew Hwang talks with StudentFilmmakers Magazine about award-winning student video “Safe Spaces,” created by students from the Wide Angle Youth Media Organization. STUDENTFILMMAKERS: What inspired the story for “Safe Space”? Andrew Hwang: What was funny was that this wasn’t our original idea. The students and I were working on another idea, but I… …
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Exclusive interview conducted Nash Choudhury Peter Stein, ASC has been shooting films in one way or another for over thirty years working on a wide variety of films from horror classics to children’s comedies to incisive documentaries. Beginning his career in cinematography with one of the highest grossing films of 1981, Friday the 13th Part… …
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Interview conducted by Jody Michelle Solis STUDENTFILMMAKERS: What is an example of a shot that you are most proud of? Jerry Franck: Being a perfectionist it is not always easy to enjoy your own work as much as your clients do. When we were shooting a Social Distortion music video there was a shot that… …
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STUDENTFILMMAKERS: Your career as a cinematographer includes a wonderfully diverse body of work. What are some of the differences between filming styles for feature films, TV movies, episodics, and documentaries? Uta Briesewitz, ASC: In feature films for theatrical release you can live more in wide shots since the big screen of a movie theatre… …
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Hiro Narita, ASC has a filmography that includes over seventy-three titles ranging from feature films to episodic television series to documentaries. He is known for his work on “Never Cry Wolf” (1983), “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” (1989), “The Rocketeer” (1991), “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991) and “The Scorpion King” (2002). Narita… …
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Interview Conducted by Jody Michelle Solis StudentFilmmakers Magazine: What is an example of a shot that you are most proud of to date? Eddie Barber: This one L-O-N-G Shot “Mannequin Challenge” that we made for a contest and won $20,000 (for something that was shot in less than a minute)! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-YL5OSJikc) StudentFilmmakers Magazine: Steadipod operating… …
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Interview conducted by Kelcie Des Jardins Tips for Aspiring Cinematographers from Anna Foerster, ASC • It’s easy to get hijacked by technical novelties and it’s good to stay up to date with the fast developing technical stuff. But don’t let that dictate your choices. • Stay physically in shape. Somehow those 16 hour days will… …
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Pictured: Tom Houghton, ASC on the set of “Elementary”. Photo by Elizabeth Fisher. Tom Houghton, ASC shares his insights and talks about working on the set of CBS Studio’s “Elementary.” Interview conducted by Jody Michelle Solis Tom Houghton, ASC is an Emmy nominated director of photography (“Rescue Me,” 2008), whose body of work includes… …
