Miguel Ángel Labarca's Documents | Scribd. 10 Renowned Directors Offer Their Advice on Filmmaking. As artists, we know that to some extent all our creative ventures are based on what has come before. Although, much like the biological evolution, the utilization of creativity recombines and mutates what has been established, ultimately resulting in work that is uniquely yours. The same can be said about the wisdom of veteran filmmakers. It’s helpful to have a framework on how to approach the filmmaking process based on years of collective experience to build on and incorporate into your own approach to filmmaking. Here I’ve put together a list of videos from 10 well-known directors to help you do just that: I want to start off with an interview with Fritz Lang, director of Metropolis; a film from one of my favorite eras of cinema history: German Expressionism.
Kevin Smith on storytelling and walking the fine line between being reasonable and unreasonable (contains some NSFW language). Sidney Lumet briefly talks about working in film and why he prefers working with prime lenses . Links: Topographical Light Paintings Created by Tracing Entire Rooms with One LED. Helsinki, Finland-based photographer Janne Parviainen has been light painting since 2008, and recently created series of experimental photos showing a technique he calls Light Topography. Using a single LED light for each image, he carefully traces over every surface in the scene while the camera’s shutter is open. Fully tracing a room can take as long as half an hour.
The resulting light outlines provide a trippy look at what each space contains. Some of the photographs remind us of the movie The Matrix: All the photographs in this series were done entirely in-camera, with no special CGI or trickery applied afterward. You can check out the rest of the images in this series in this Flickr set. Light Topography by Janne Parviainen (via Colossal) Image credits: Photographs by Janne Parviainen and used with permission. 20 FREE Online Stock Video Sites! Whether you’re working on a commercial campaign, a corporate video, or a low-budget indie, incorporating stock video into your project can really elevate your final product.
Here are a handful of sites from around the web that just might have the shot you need — for FREE! 1. Videezy Videezy is a fantastic resource for free HD stock video. 2. Looking for explosions, smoke streams, or blood splatters? 3. Movietools is a great resource for background and graphic video elements. 4. Since the mid 90s, Archive.org has been a digital repository for all sorts of digital media. 5.
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