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Astra 3D cameras are excellent for a wide range of scenarios, including gesture control, robotics, 3D scanning, and point cloud development. Astra and Astra S are already in market. Sound Quality on a Budget: $1 Lavalier Microphone vs. Professional Lavs. When it comes to sound gear (like many things), you tend to get what you pay for.
Quality microphones and recorders tend to be a little more costly, though there is certainly a price/cost ratio the higher you go. It's usually a pretty good decision to pick something that the pros use, but how much quality can you get away with on the low-end? A Lesson from Lecter: How to Establish Dominance by Using Eyelines & Framing. How do you portray the drama of a power struggle on-camera without making the scene clunky and expositional?
Well, in the case of The Silence of the Lambs, they used eyelines and framing. This video essay comes from the ever-illuminating Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting. Scenes with drama like this aren't unique to thrillers about green FBI agents and cannibal geniuses. Starling and Lecter size each other up, want something from the other, and do what they can to get it (both dramatically and cinematically) in the same way that The interesting thing here is how masterfully this tension and struggle is represented using simple methods, like eyelines, framing, and point of view.
How to Reveal Your Character’s Backstory Wound. By Martha Alderson aka Plot Whisperer A character’s backstory directly impacts her front story by the beliefs and people she was raised with, her education, her emotional development.
Often something in her backstory caused a wound—either physical, psychic, or both. Anything in her past that now directly interferes with a character achieving her dream or goal in the front story is called a backstory wound. Lift Gamma Gain - The Colorist & Color Grading Forum. How DP Sam Levy Got the 'Film' Look Digitally on Noah Bau. 10 Making-Of Documentaries That Are Better Than The Actual Movie. How to Write Great Dialogue: Acclaimed Writer/Director Neil LaBute on 'Dirty Weekend' What does is take to write great dialogue, and is any of it actually "realistic"?
If you were going to describe the spectrum of films where the action of the story is motivated by a will of words, you might describe one end as the improv-oriented mumblecore (Bujalski, Swanberg) and the other as the rhythm of carefully crafted text (Mamet, LaBute.) Neil LaBute is known for the mastery of dialogue in both theater and film, and he sat down with NFS at the Tribeca Film Festival to discuss the craft of dialogue, the changing styles of speaking on screen, and the process of making his latest film, Dirty Weekend. The Art of Cinematography: 8 Essential Documentaries. Eyes On Cinema. Tales of exposure from the grading suite. I had the pleasure of listening to Pablo Garcia Soriano the resident DiT/Colorist at the Sony Digital Motion Picture Center at Pinewood Studios last week talk about grading modern digital cinema video cameras during the WTS event .
The thrust of his talk was about exposure and how getting the exposure right during the shoot makes a huge difference in how much you can grade the footage in post. His main observation was that many people are under exposing the camera and this leads to excessive noise which makes the pictures hard to grade. There isn’t really any real way to reduce the noise in a video camera because nothing you normally do can change the sensitivity of the sensor or the amount of noise it produces. Sure, noise reduction can mask noise, but it doesn’t really get rid of it and it often introduces other artefacts. So the only way to change the all important signal to noise ratio, if you can’t change the noise, is to change the signal. The First and Final Frames of Famous Films Can Teach Us a Lot about Good Filmmaking. A single frame is rarely more important than all of the others in a film, but the first and last can leave one hell of an impression.
In a brand new juxtapositional supercut from Jacob T. Swinney, the prolific video-essayist took 55 contemporary films and sandwiched the first and last few seconds of each against one another. The result is a serene study in how we perceive the meaning of images. Fractals in VFX. Do You Need to Remove Company Logos from Your Film? In another terrific Film Courage video, entertainment attorneys Michael C.
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Here she talks of what it was like to w... Interview with Phil Stilgoe, CEO of Centroid Motion Capture Studios Phil Stilgoe, CEO of Centroid Motion Capture studios shares his precious words of advice for actors looking to work in motion capture. Advanced Stacker PLUS Version 14. History of the Stacking Action You can now purchase the Advanced Stacker PLUS below or in the Store.
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One of the primary practices in this type of editing has always been to cut with the beat of the underlying music. Unfortunately, cutting a good montage, where the editing flows from shot to shot without distracting the viewer in any way, requires quite a bit more than simply aligning cuts to the beat. Easyrig Mini is a Budget Version of One of the Most Interesting Camera Stabilizers Out There.
Filmmakers these days have access to an overwhelming array of camera movement tools. One that often gets overlooked, however, is the Easyrig. In essence, the Easyrig is a nifty overhead cable mechanism that allows you to evenly distribute the weight of a camera throughout your entire upper body. This system greatly reduces the spinal and neck strain that heavy shoulder rigs can cause, especially when they're not balanced properly, and it completely eliminates the arm strain that comes with holding a MōVi or similar stabilizer for more than three minutes at a time.
Our friends over at Story & Heart recently put together a fantastic review/tutorial for the Easyrig Mini, which supports camera systems weighing up to nine pounds. How to prepare your project for a DCP Digital Cinema Package. Producers come to us with their projects in all different sorts of states when they want us to make a DCP for them at the Post Factory in London..
Major films will have a post-production supervisor who will get everything to exactly what we need. But at a more indie film budget, producers sometimes just want to give us their files and we will sort out the rest, which we are only too happy to do. We use the best possible tools to do resizing, scaling, audio conversions and assess what needs to be done for your film. But some producers also want to have the option to save some money and do as much as possible themselves. If you are fairly technically inclined, or can find someone who is, here is what you could do to get your film better prepared. Any one know about Dolby for theatrical screenings? : Discuss : Shooting People. How to Calibrate Your Monitor: 12 Steps. The Final Rewrite: What I've Learned Editing My First Feature 'CENTS' If writing is rewriting, then editing your feature film is really the final rewrite. The editing process is simply an extension of the writing process, only now with visuals and sound (and a lot more technical tools to help, or hinder, the work).
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