Remember those guerrilla days? Where you'd throw all caution to the wind to grab that shot before education taught you otherwise. Even if you haven't gone through that phase, learning the hard way that you need to protect yourself on paper can be an
From repelling the sides of bluffs to jumping out of an airplane, if there's a place with deadly risk and a killer view, you can bet that human beings will find a way to document it. And from that newborn need, an advanced 'specialty operator'
If you want super-sharp ultra-fast motion imaging for your next project then there really is only one camera to turn to. The Phantom Flex4K is the ultimate in slow-motion capture. Sporting a super-35mm CMOS with a full resolution of 4096 x 2304,
Credits are a strange phenomenon in the film business. Movies that are directed by Alan Smithee will have had the real director's name removed. Peter Andrews is a pseudonym often used by Steven Soderbergh for crediting the cinematography on films he
One of the first lines in your production budget will be for front of camera performers. Whether you're booking David Duchovny or Dave Debutant your production is going to need to conform to Screen Actors Guild rules and SAG rates. These are the
From The Ladykillers to The Sting, Catch Me If You Can to Hustlers the art of the con is straight from the Hollywood playback. Unfortunately, real life scams and unscrupulous partners are part of everyday film and TV biz. The ploys range from
Video Production can be a pretty broad term when considering all of the many ways one can execute the process. Not every filmmaker grows up wanting to be Spielberg and has dreams of being a top director in Hollywood. Some might have dreams of being
Filmmaking is inherently collaborative and don't let any auteur tell you otherwise. Even Steven Soderbergh needs a team around him to shape the idea, shoot, light, dress, and perform the scene. The Hollywood aphorism that a film is made three times:
The core principles of cinematography are laid down in Genesis. 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the
Budgeting is just about as far from the creative side of production you can get, but if you want to avoid the pitfalls of 'creative' accountancy then you'll want to make sense of every cent.
As film and TV production tentatively resumes it's clear that things will never revert to the way they were before Covid-19. Production is being permitted to start up in countries across the world provided social distancing and sanitization measures
here's a silent war that's been brewing in the tech world for over 4 decades now. Macintosh VS Microsoft — There's other PC brands out there but let's be real, they'd be nowhere without Bill Gates. The mastermind behind 'PC' computers. If you
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