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Lighting various ways

Lighting various ways

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.
But what if you don’t [...]

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Music Video for Rachel Williams

Music Video for Rachel Williams

… 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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MobileMe for filmmakers?

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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Stu on clipping Part1

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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Using the Tripod as a crane-like device

Found by the Filmlinker. Video says it all. Cool technique, worth a try.

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Blairwich as a template

Blairwich as a template

Cloverfield
Anne Thompson at Variety.com writes about two Films that seem to be very different. Big-Budget Cloverfield and Low-Budget Paranormal Activity. But they both do it the Blairwich-Way: Take unknown Actors and make it look f’n real.
And besides the Fact that they both use the Blairwich-Theme as an Inspiration they both have something in common. They [...]

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Rodriguez 10 Minute Filmschool

Robert Rodriguez (Desperade, Once upon a time in Mexico, Sin City) is famous for his 10 Minute Schools. This is the (Four)teen Minute Filmschool found at youtube and all over the net:

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The Mystery Box

J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield) about mystery itself and why it fascinates him. At the End there is also a true rebel information about M:I3 which gives you something to think about. How easy it can be to solve Problems.

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