PEEP THIS: Spike Lee’s Creative Dolly Shots
Indiewire posted a nice article by Matt Zoller Seitz and Richard Cruz examining Spike Lee’s creative use of signature dolly shots across his film career. Richard Cruz edited a whole series of them together to create the cool little video essay below. Peep the Spike Video Essay montage below, then check out the clip from Scorsese’s [...]
Continue ReadingSKILLZ: 7 Tips for Shooting Time-Lapse Video
*The following post is excerpted from page 48 of the Image Control chapter of my new book, The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide which is now shipping. Please consider ordering a signed 400-page, 700-illustration, full-color copy directly from me here to help support all the FREE info on this website. Time lapse is a cinematic technique that allows us [...]
Continue ReadingTOOLZ: Black Magic Design Drops a Hot New 2.5K Video Camera for Only $3K!
So as expected, the buzz from the annual NAB Show in Vegas is making it’s way out into the universe as all the video manufacturer’s drop their latest digital goodies. This is the probably the first N.A.B. Show I’ve missed in 6 years, so it’s killing me to have to monitor the developments from afar. [...]
Continue ReadingSPOTLIGHT: Animator, David Pagano, Drops Some (LEGO) Bricks On Ya!
I just want to share the work of yet another one of the many talented and hard-working young filmmakers that I’ve had the fortune to meet while working at NYU film school. He’s one of those rare young film students that’s totally living out their filmmaking dreams just a few short years after graduation doing [...]
Continue ReadingTOOLZ: The Digital Bolex…Back to the Future
I’ve been busy making film education magic the last few weeks, so I’m a little late to the game on reporting this one, but just in case you haven’t heard the buzz on the street, there is yet another potentially game-changing large format video camera about to drop…this one is intriguingly titled “The Digital Bolex”. [...]
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