I watched Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" (DP: Dante Spinotti) last night for the first time and was struck by a very unconventional, yet effective (I think), cut. In the opening sequence (video below), Dillinger is driven up to the entrance of a prison and escorted out of the car. The scene is established in a long lens medium wide shot (probably 200mm from 150' away...Note: standard 35mm dimensions, not 2/3"). After a few steps/seconds, it cuts to a wide angle lens closeup (24-2mm from with...
This odd music video seems to be based on a true story. The story of massive film festival disappointment was created into a song called Parry's Gripp's Gripe. You can read al the bloody details here. http://www.parrygripp.com/
This has got a nice feeling to it, I wonder how long this LEGO crime thriller is going to be.
Something really funny about watching Star Wars LEGO minifigs talking in French.
Not sure if this is every LEGO this guy has ever built for just madness.
Looks like real stop animation vs CGI. Nice pieces even though they seem to be Ads.
Check out this short film featuring Holly Beck shredding Azucar surf retreat in bocas del toro panama.
Tom Sizemore stars as Father Murray in our feature film Edgar Allen Poe's Morella as adapted, produced & directed by Adam Ropp and Produced and Starring Ford Austin
Film. It just looks better.
Beautifully shot and composited, you will swear this is all real ! Im still in total AWE ! Here is a compositing breakdown for the piece. Here is another film showing the process from modeling to the final compositing and color correct. <>
Pretty awesome. Also by Karen Portaleo/ Highland Bakery (Octopus Cake). "This giant Sushi Cake was made for the filming of a movie here in Atlanta (shhhh..I can't say which movie yet!) "
The last 2 images are a hologram poster that changes as your viewing angle changes.
5/15 - Wizard of Oz - DP Harold Rosson 5/22 - The Thing - DP Dean Cundey
Hot Rod Cameras Website Anyone out there shot with one of these yet?
This short by Philip Bloom was one of the first and most cinematic films shot on Canon's EOS 7D.
French artist Alexandre Dubosc celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival with this stop motion animation of baking a cake in a laboratory-like kitchen.
A bit like our Cinematography World but more specific. A lot of useful how-to's, articles, and films shot on the 7D, as well as active forums. Enjoy!
Here is the movie trailer for the film "Colossus the Forbin Project" Here is the entire movie online, with an amazing vintage sci fi opening title sequence
Do you know your constitutional rights if stopped by the police? Washington Post recently ran an interesting article on "10 Rules", a docudrama produced by the D.C. nonprofit Flex Your Rights.
Here is the Movie Trailer for "Metropia". This looks like a really creative film.
This is a thorough and comprehensive look at each iteration of Alice in Wonderland. It's also a wonderful mini-history of film and special effects and animation.
Gotta love Sam Rockwell in this breakout film by David Bowie's son, renamed Duncan Jones so people will take him seriously I guess. He's got talent, so theres nothing to worry about.
Here is the Movie Trailer for "Inhabited Island" an interesting looking Russian Sci-Fi Film.
This is the movie trailer for "Cargo" This looks like a very interesting german sci-fi film. Here is a trailer with subtitles in english. Official Website Here
Ruth Bernard lived to be well over 100 years old and managed to create some of the most memorable photography in her long lifetime.
This is a quite clever minimalistic movie trailer for an otherwise horribly cheesy film. How long is it going to be before hollywood gives up 3D once and for all? Here is the movie trailer for "Jaws 3D"
I couldn't find the promo trailer for this film, but someone managed to upload the entire thing. Below is the first of 10 parts.
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to create a simple multi-video player in Flash using Actionscript 2. Also learn to have several videos use a single flv player.
Before he did Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson made splatter films...
The spreading of a strong visual concept occurs quite rapidly.
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Third Edition: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution by Harry Box
First Ever User-Generated HD Contest Vimeo and Canon have launched this wonderful contest for filmmakers shooting on Canon's EOS 7D DSLR.
Video: Assemble the RED ONE into a film style camera. Video: Navigate the RED ONE video submenu.
Let it be known that I, Ford Austin got fat as hell and am now trying to work it off in time for my next feature film, MORELLA.
"I really think that everybody’s job who makes film is to trick an audience for two hours into falling into the story and not thinking about their laundry or their dog."
The New York Times magazine posts a fascinating feature on a Chinese cultural phenomenon known as human flesh search engines. Out of China has borne cyberposses, internet vigilantes, who target everybody from twisted individuals violating social norms to government corruption.
Check out these test images on the new RED Mysterium-X for David Fincher's new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (looks a lot like "Shutter Island", eh?). Shot at 2000 ISO at T1.3.
Cinematographer Anna Foerster shot tests for Roland Emmerich's new period film "Anonymous". It's nice to actually see a test shot by a legit DP under controlled circumstances.
When one looks at the history of cinema, says The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, the director-cinematographer dynamic is the key relationship, “as much as the director and the lead actor.” It’s the defining factor, he says, not only for how a film looks but “how it will be perceived as having been directed.”
In this Apple Color tutorial, Richard Harrington along with color expert Robbie Carman create the Pleasantville effect in Apple Color. Using the secondary curves, specifically the saturation curve, to isolate just the yellow in a taxi cab everything else in the video clip can then be desaturated to create this popular effect.
