February 2012
11 posts
WatchLighting 101: Intro to Meters (by Ryan E. Walters)
Handy tips for DPs. He’s very thorough and you’ll learn a lot from watching this video.
xkcd: Valentine Dilemma →
Get a gift on a different day…
Watch(via Shooting People : Independent Filmmakers Network)
Nice! One for Valentine’s I suppose. Really innovative use of imagery, great idea.
Watch(via New Scientist TV: Animation reveals the world’s hidden equations)
Cool for geeks…
How to shoot your movie on Oxford Street (or other... →
Some great advice for shooting in the smoke here.
Sundance 2012 - Una Hora Por Favor Short - Yahoo! →
the light!
Sundance 2012 - Long Distance Information →
January 2012
6 posts
What Makes a Masterpiece? - 4oD - Channel 4 →
This is a great documentary series on the impact of neuroscience advances on the arts. You can get used to the presenter after a while…
“Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don’t belong to them. I’m...”
– Huckleberry Finn
“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to...”
– SL Clemens (Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Tamron and Tokina join Micro Four Thirds: Digital... →
Astrodesign’s new 4k camera uses the micro four thirds standard too. Happy days for hi resolution filmmaking…
Disney Is Selling a Joy Division Mickey Mouse... →
oh wow!
Acad sounds alarm about fragility of digital... →
Indie filmmakers unaware of ephemeral nature of their work on digital.
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
5 posts
Watch(via FUTURESTATES : Digital Antiquities By JP Chan)
Nice no budget sci-fi short. Check it out…
desperados's Channel - YouTube →
Wow! Another expandable video ad!
expendables's Channel - YouTube →
Ha! Web video goes ex-pandable advertising!
September 2011
5 posts
June 2011
2 posts
fetching yarn: Saltburn Shorts →
Watch(via Ben’s Blog » Blog Archive » Calling Cards.)
Funny is money…
May 2011
4 posts
Storyboard Software, Storyboarding Software | Toon... →
Babel Fiche →
Archive documentary project with an arty flavour. Kind of a film-based time capsule. Apparently, microfiche film lasts 500 years. A lot longer than any other medium we are using for data storage at the moment (except paper!)
Joe Cornish interview | littlewhitelies.co.uk →
Attack The Block director talks about cgi and nostalgia (among other things).
April 2011
3 posts
WatchBe The One (by Moby)
Moby’s video for the track from new ep and forthcoming album. As part of the Hello, Future challenge you can download this and two other tracks to create your own video for screening at New Director’s Showcase in Cannes. Go to:
http://www.vimeo.com/saatchiandsaatchi
Watch(via In Freak Accident, 34 Katherine Heigl Films Released At Once | Onion News Network)
March 2011
8 posts
Does TV background music bother you? | Television... →
I heard Brian Cox making his views known on Radio 4 after the news that the BBC have re-edited the sound on his latest series about the cosmos. I agree that we can sometimes be too responsive to the vocal minority that complain but he also pointed out that, working with Danny Boyle on Sunshine, he learnt that a score has failed if the audience notice it. If the music (or indeed any sound or other...
Marginal decisions
Are you sure you always know why you make the decisions you make? Are you confident you are impartial?
I got into a discussion about unconscious bias tonight with a poker player who’d been knocked out of the tournament he was playing. His opponent was very inexperienced and failed to protect his cards from view. In a live game this is heresy. Although he didn’t mean it to gain any...