The Best FRENCH MOVIES of All Time - a list by TheTruthAboutMovies Primer: How to Get a 'Film Look' with DSLR Footage Want to give your DSLR footage a cinematic look? DSLR filmmaking enthusiast Jake Coppinger made this 11-minute video tutorial to teach you how you can do so. To make your video look like something you’d see on the silver screen in a movie theater, there are a number of simple things you can do in-camera and in-post. Frame Rate Using a frame rate of 24fps or 25fps, since that’s what’s traditionally used in theaters. Shutter Speed Set your shutter speed at double the frame rate (the “180-degree shutter rule”). Picture Style Use a neutral picture style to have more flexibility in post-production. Color Grading Use color grading to convey the mood of your footage visually. RGB Curves A popular cinematic look is to have darker darks and brighter highlights. Three Way Color Corrector One trick is to make your shadows bluer and to warm up your shadows. Aspect Ratio Use the 2.35:1 ultra widescreen aspect ratio that movies use. You can find some of Coppinger’s films over on his website.
14 Brilliant Films You Can Watch in the Time It Takes to Eat Lunch You might have noticed that movies are getting longer these days. A typical Hollywood blockbuster now runs well over two hours, and who has time for all that? On the other hand, a well-made short film offers all of the same pleasures — story, spectacle, heart — and requires less of a time commitment. Plus, unlike with a Hollywood film, there is no formula for what a short film should be, meaning shorts are often richer in both creativity and originality. In honor of short films, and more enriching lunch breaks, we've compiled some of the best under 15-minute movies. 10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Film Editing Editing is a selection process. Sometimes hundreds of hours of footage are captured, and we only end up seeing around two hours of it. It’s also a language that has rules. When done badly it can cause boredom or, even worse, confusion. The importance of editing cannot be underestimated. This article has been written in the hope of inspiring you to return to some of your own favorite scenes, in your own favorite films, so that you can deconstruct and analyze how the film’s editing has helped to engineer a perfect cinematic moment. 1. The Odessa steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin has been paid homage to by both Terry Gilliam (in Brazil) and Brian De Palma (in The Untouchables). In Battleship Potemkin, Eisenstein is trying to foster the idea of an evil Tsarist government. 2. Classical editing must, first and foremost, orientate the audience by creating spatial relationships. As the conversation draws close, two new angles are introduced. 3. Effective editing can be very powerful. 4. 5.
Top 13 Sites For Independent Filmmakers In recent years, the content of the internet has transformed itself from a controlled and manufactured environment to a vast expanse of user generated content. Internet users can log on and create their own subjects, themes, and arguments to the sites they frequent. This idea gave birth to sites like Facebook, and Twitter; as well as creating tools like wikis, forums, and blogs. This new type of social media forged specific online communities where people with similar interests could share and collaborate freely on ideas. Independent filmmakers have an ever-growing presence on social media sites such as twitter, facebook, youtube, and various blogs. Here’s a list of thirteen sites that are excellent resources for independent filmmakers in no particular order. Filmmaker Filmmakers on a tight budget know perfectly well how difficult it is to stay on that budget. View Filmmaker Film Riot Film Riot is a video tutorial site with a comedic twist. Go Into The Story Hope For Film IndieTalk IndieWire
All about the practice of sat kriya, tips, tricks, how to and more | KUNDALINI Yoga Boot Camp, Los Angeles I’ve been doing Sat Kriya daily for several years now and it’s amazing how you intuitively learn little things from the meditation and the changes that you go through. When I first started, my right arm would fall asleep and I’d sweat like hell. When I got up to 31 minutes my legs would fall asleep pretty bad, even with a big pillow between my legs, but eventually the legs got stronger and even if they fell asleep a little it wasn’t so bad. They always got back to normal and it actually greatly improved the circulation in my legs. After some time in the practice though I began to notice great things. My navel was getting much stronger and my hips were opening up. Here are some tips and pointers from my experience… **Always Tune In with the Adi Mantra 3 times before beginning any Kundalini Yoga Kriya or Meditation. How To Do It: Finishing: At the end, inhale completely and hold, squeezing the root lock and the muscles of the back and shoulders for as long as you can.
How To Install Floating windows feature on Any Android Device Android Developers on Xda forum recently ported Halo and X floating windows Mod for all android devices which was extracted from the famous android rom ‘Paranoid Android ROM’. We’ recently installed this mod on Our Google nexus 10, Nexus4 and Htc One and it works flawlessly! So This app has been tested on both, Android Smartphones as well as Android Tablets. Also note that you shouldn’t install this mod on any samsung devices as it will create conflict between samsung’s multi window framework. Note : ROOT ACCESS REQUIRED! What you need : 1. Also, You can download the latest versions of apps from here – Xposed Installer | Halo))) | XHalo floating Windows. Instructions : Watch the video below, on how to install floating windows on Any Android Device! 1. 2. 3. VOILA!!! Here are some screenshots of how you can multitask on android smartphones and tablets : leave comments below if this worked for you, if you have any questions don’t hesitate in posting ’em below!
Quick Tip: Reset Android default apps One of the questions I get a lot is how to reset default apps in the Android platform. This need can come about after trying out a new application, only to find you like the app but do not want it to serve as your default. A perfect example of this is web browsers. Many users will install multiple browser to fill a need that isn't met by the default. That doesn't mean they want the new browser to server as the default browser -- they simply want to use the newly installed browsers for specific sites. However, what happens when you install that new browser and accidentally accept it as the default, pressing Always instead of Just once (Figure A)? Figure A Selecting the default browser on a Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S4. If you've selected a default and want to clear that, the process is actually quite simple. When you've set a default, here's how you clear it: Figure B If you tap Clear data, all settings will be removed from that particular app.
How to run Android apps on any laptop or desktop Android has a large, vibrant ecosystem of applications. From Heartstone to Plex to Twitter, Google Play is home to over 1.5 million mobile apps, according to AppBrain. Wouldn't it be great to run all these apps on your computer, too? Now you can, thanks to Android Runtime for Chrome. What is Android Runtime for Chrome? Simply put, Android Runtime for Chrome (or ARC, for short) is a software package that lets users run Android apps inside their web browsers. Google announced ARC last summer, and initially designed it with Chromebooks in mind. Then earlier this month, Google released an update to ARC, which lets users run Android apps within the Chrome browser on OS X, Linux and Windows as well. By some measure, using ARC is a little like running a Java app in a browser in that it's a virtual environment that lets users run a certain class of apps across multiple platforms. For now, ARC is still in beta, so you may encounter bugs and some apps may not work properly. Running apps