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If HBO’s John Adams is a guide:
Lots of handheld camerawork and tens of thousands of Dutch/canted shots. Surprised and gratified to see modern cinematography storm period drama at the hands of Tom Hanks and HBO.
Shot with a complete disregard for bogus rules and conventions - I’m half way through the DVD - brilliant!
The making […]

WARNING - if you are of a sensitive disposition close your eyes when Colin Farrell says “Or I could be a thief or something”, and keep them closed until you here a loud THWACK.
To my eye cinematographer Ryszard Lenczewski is the most talented cameramen I’ve run across. He works a lens like Keith Jarrett works […]

Variety think “Paul Greengrass’s Bourne Ultimatum advances the art of action filmmaking and will change it forever”.
Others think that the movie debases the art of film, and makes them feel queasy.
Steven Spielberg:
“Quick-cutting is very effective in some movies, like the Bourne pictures, but you sacrifice geography when you go for quick-cutting. Which is fine, […]

Download all the footage (and the soundtrack) from Bruce McDonald’s latest feature and edit it yourself. Compare your version to the released feature and other user versions. Great way to finesse editing skills. Win Final Cut Pro if you are in Canada.

Interactive lighting tutorials from Lowel Lighting - many featuring Lowel’s excellent Rifa soft box.

Shooting a western, so the story goes, John Ford was concerned about the amount of time a cowboy took to leave the saloon, get on his horse, and ride off.
As there was no other coverage, Ford asked the editor to jumpcut the sequence: “Get him on the darn horse”.
The Editor complained, Ford countered: […]

In the days before digital tuners, tuning a violin or guitar was an imprecise science. Tuning the strings to one another is a skill anyone can learn - but tuning the E string precisely to E is not - at least in my experience. So if you have 3 guitars all properly tuned to […]

I first came across Sigur Ros through the cut Staralfur on the soundtrack to The Girl in the Cafe. The band returned to Iceland for a series of concerts last summer and Heima documents the trip. There is a high quality quicktime of the trailer on the EMI website. Inspirational film making. The DVD will […]

Artists in ancient Egypt represented motion by having subjects arms mimic the neck and and tail of some exotic bird. Somehow I guess they figured that the one arm pointing and the other trailing represented forward motion without ambiguity.
Today videographers strive to create narrow depth of field in order to focus our viewer’s […]