It’s that time again. I’m teaching a Video Production class this weekend (May 1-2, 2010) at the Northwest Film Forum. We’ll cover things like:
Basic camera operation
Three-point lighting
Cinematic conventions for narrative and documentary storytelling
The lighting demo will be live, using the Film Forum’s lighting gear, and there will be plenty of opportunity for hands-on experimentation [...]
I have two workshops coming up at the Northwest Film Forum:
Basic Video Production
October 31st and November 1st, 10am - 4pm
The ever-so-popular class that covers it all from Aperture to Zebra Stripes. It always fills up, so register early. Or don’t. Your choice.
Scene Building and Montage
November 8th & 9th, 10am - 4pm
An exploration into the visual [...]
My friend John Rodsett (part seasoned executive, part guru, and a university professor besides) brings a new seminar to LA, Miami, and Seattle. He has a great deal of experience in the industry, and several years teaching at the University of Washington and University of Miami. For anyone interested in his unique perspective on building [...]
The folks at Cinemek have released Hitchcock, a new storyboarding app for the iPhone. For those of us who already use our phones when location scouting, this ratchets up the fun a couple notches. Now if only someone would come out with a mobile phone camera with a 35-100mm equivalent analog zoom…
I’ve heard some lamenting lately that ad revenue sharing on YouTube is only open to those producers who consistently crank out the hits. I know more than one producer who feels their videos create good traffic from time to time, but that the YouTube Partnership Program’s criteria put revenue sharing out of reach. Until now [...]
This may be week-old news to some, but thought I would throw it up here. Our team won an audience award at the 2009 Los Angeles 48 Hour Film Project! The short will run in the best-of show this Wednesday, where it may be made eligible for the national run off later in the year. [...]
As mentioned on TechCrunch today, a company in the Netherlands called Yellowbird is debuting a video technology that lets the user pan and tilt through a 360 degree video stream in real time. It may not be totally groundbreaking, but a pretty cool application nonetheless. It’s much like the 360 degree view [...]
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Another no-budget Hollywood success story is brewing. Following in the footsteps of filmmakers like Soderberg and Rodriguez, British Director Marc Price ‘financed’ his film out of pocket, mostly relying on help from friends and volunteers to complete his zombie feature.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/21/Colin/index.html
Like me, you may have never thought you would see the words “$70 zombie movie” and [...]
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