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Techniques for the Filmmakers

In addition to my first D90 Post I have some Links for you. On Vimeo there is a Test Shot done with the D90 that shows the rolling shutter. And it looks good if you don’t get crazy with it.

At dpreview i found another Post, with Pictures and Videofootage from the D90, the same way [...]

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Art Adams has written a in depth post about lighting your fill from the key side. He has a lot of diagrams and information about this not-so-normal method of lighting. Definitely a way of Lighting I will explore deeper. And it’s also a really good read about an alwernative lighting Structure.
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There is a great pdf-download at Artbeats.com that shows you how to manage your Audiolevels to have the Audiofiles sound great. They even go that far to level individual Words if they are spoken to soft or to eliminate backgroundsounds.
Admit it: How many of you mix audio by dragging the dialog, music, and sound effects [...]

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David Armano has written up a lot of Marketing Wrongdoings. As a lot of indy-filmmakers try to be as Hollywood/it’s Moviemarketing reading this Stuff can really make your Marketing way better than the Hollywoodstuff. The Post shows the most taken wrongdoings without pointing to the wrongdoers. Or as David says:
This post isn’t meant to [...]

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Ever needed a Day-for-Night Shot? No time to wait for dawn, or no lights to film a real night shot? Maybe you even noticed afterwards that your shot needs to be placed at night, but didn’t get it while filming. It doesn’t matter why, Day-for-Night Shots are a often used phenomenon in filmmaking. And if [...]

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M2G Media had to do a Spot for the all new Nissan Maxima in just 7 days. Besides using a very impressive Photobubble the whole Spot was recorded with the RedOne. At first sight they used it because of the shark and clear imagery, but they also, as the Final Footage needed to be 1080 [...]

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… explained by Art Adams, DP of it.
Art Adams gives us a very deep insight in the making of a music video and he thoughts behind it. He gives us raw and edited footage to compare, shows us how he planed the look for it before shooting and tells us a little bit about [...]

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Just struggled through not getting the latest news, watching the WWDC-Keynote spoiler free and catching up the latest news. SO I’m back in the civilated World to get you my thoughts about it. This Time MobileMe
MobileMe is, as Apple says it, Exchange for the Rest of us. And even more, if you ask me. As [...]

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Scott Kirsner over at Cinematech posted a Videointerview with Slava Rubin of IndieGoGo.
Take a look at it here

You should tahe a look at IndieGoGo as it looks very promissing. Also there are some Projects that have raised their Goals an are produced. One thing to remember when planing the next big thing
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Very interesting Post from Stu about Clipping. A lot of backgroundinformation about why exposing to the right side ist the right choice. and why Clipping is bad.
Wouldn’t sign that thesis fully, but I think you should know what you’ll do when overexposing/clipping the whites. I dit it in various shots in my feature and did [...]

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