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Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer Matthew Libatique Shoots Newest Nikon Ad Campaign
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Jun 02, 2011
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The “Man of Action” spot for the new Nikon D5100 D-SLR features Ashton Kutcher as the hero in an action sequence, ready to go toe-to-toe with the villain when things don’t quite go as planned. Cinematography was directed by
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Sony FS100 Ratings and Dynamic Range
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Jun 01, 2011
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AbelCine ran some tests with the new Sony NEX-FS100 camera to determine its ISO ratings and dynamic range. They say, "We were amazed by the results, especially the ISO 8000 and 16000 results." See their full results over here,
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Short of the Week: Successful Alcoholics
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May 31, 2011
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This aptly-titled short comedy (which played at Sundance) features a highly-functioning alcoholic couple (played by T.J. Miller and Lizzy Caplan) whose funny booze-induced situations belies their serious addiction problem. Says
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24 Amazing Stop Motion Videos
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May 24, 2011
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FilmmakerIQ.com has compiled 24 of their favorite stop motion videos. Watch two below and then go here to sit back and enjoy the rest!
Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION from Carlos Lascano
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Short of the Week: '3 Dreams of Black'
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May 16, 2011
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Short of the Week has selected Chris Milk's latest interactive music video as their featured film this week. Says the site, "The video is broken into three different dreams. The first, a first-person dreamy video (similar to
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LACMA Presents Twenty-Four Hour Screening of Newly Acquired Artwork
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May 12, 2011
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents a 24-hour screening of Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), recently purchased with funds provided by LACMA Trustee Steve Tisch through the 2011 Collectors Committee. It will
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Short of the Week: 'Mr. Stache'
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May 09, 2011
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Short of the Week's pick this week is "Mr. Stache," the crowdpleasing winner of last year's American Express Tribeca Film Festival "My Movie Pitch" contest. In this hipster-happy love story, a man grows a mustache and finds
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Edward Burns: 'If I'm going to fail, I want to fail on my own terms.'
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May 02, 2011
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Edward Burns' latest feature film, Newlyweds, was made for under $9,000. At IndieWIRE and Apple's Meet the Tribeca Filmmaker series last week, the director spoke about his radically low-budget films and how he uses 21st century
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Avid Media Composer 5.5
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by Oliver Peters Apr 29, 2011
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Avid was first out of the gate in the run-up to NAB with its release of the Media Composer 5.5 update for this flagship NLE product line. Avid Media Composer 5.5 (and the associated Symphony and NewsCutter versions) marks a
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Tribute to Courageous, Radical Filmmaker Tim Hetherington
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Apr 27, 2011
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Award-winning photojournalist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tim Hetherington was on-the-job last week, covering the continued bloodshed in Libya, when a pro-Gaddafi attack took his life. The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw has written
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The Top 6 Announcements for Post at NAB
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Apr 26, 2011
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SpliceVine blog has a nice round-up of what they deem the "Top 6 Disruptive Announcements for Post at NAB." According to them, "if you can tame these new tools presented at NAB, you can create content
at a quality and
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Short Film: Idiot with a Tripod
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Apr 21, 2011
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Georg Csarmann of Short of the Week dissects Jamie Stuart's "Idiot with a Tripod," saying of the gorgeous short, "... somehow filmmaker Jamie Stuart managed to capture the events around
him, namely the big snow storm in New
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Edit Suite Design 2011
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Mar 14, 2011
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It’s time to revisit an old subject for a new year – configuring a post production suite. Poke through these past articles
and you’ll get plenty of ideas about how to build the room and what to
put in it. Another great
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Power to the People: The Democratization of Film
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Mar 06, 2011
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The media-publishing World is comprised of four massive tectonic plates
called audio, video, print and software. These plates rest on a fluid
called technology that keeps them in continuous motion. Technology
moves these
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New Dimensions with Sony Vegas Pro 10
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Mar 02, 2011
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