The latest cover of Esquire that's coming out, featuring Megan Fox, wasn't shot with a still camera but with the RED ONE, the super inexpensive, super high-def movie camera. Basically Megan acted for 10 minutes, which they filmed on the RED, and then pulled out the...
Projects
Art & Copy – Minds Behind the Greatest Ads
I'm somewhat familiar with the world of advertising, though admittedly most of that knowledge comes from watching Mad Men. Either way I love advertising (well, advertising done well), so I was excited to see that Art & Copy was at Full Frame. Art & Copy...
Photos, Photos, Photos
I never thought I'd see the day, but I've finally gotten a pretty good hold of Photoshop, dare I say an expert intermediate user. But that hasn't come without pain, mainly in my shoulder from hours of sitting, coming up with a "look" for the Haiti photos. I blame it...
Seven Photos that Changed Fashion Recreated
Famous fashion photos recreated | RobertBenson.com Here's a complete special that aired on the BBC. Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion follows photographer Rankin as he tries to recreate 7 iconic images. The series is chopped up into 8 parts, roughly one photo per...
American Teen and How it Was Made [Documentary]
I loved this movie. It was by far my favorite film at Full Frame. I've noted before how I'm on the fence about going into narratives or docs. This proved you can accomplish both. Following four high school seniors, American Teen was like watching all the best high...
The Blacklist Now Playing
HBO Documentaries: Documentary Films Series: The Blacklist: Synopsis Previously mentioned The Blacklist is now playing on HBO. Schedule here. Definitely worth a watch once you think of it as a collection of moving portraits (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the director,...
Catch Documentary Making Live on TWiT Live
TWiT Live - Live Netcasts from TWiT with Leo Laporte and Friends. If you're bored Thursday, I'm interviewing Leo Laporte. But in a documentary first (?), he's going to be broadcasting the interview online through his TWiT Live show. So who will be interviewing who?...
Peter Shankman’s “If I Can Help a Reporter Out” – Awesome Resource
Peter Shankman's "If I Can Help a Reporter Out" This is a very cool site for both sides of the story - the writer/documentarian and source. There's two parts to HARO. The main part is where anyone can sign up for the mailing list. A few times a day you get an email...
The State of the Documentary [Panel]
Below are my notes from the one panel I attended at Full Frame - The State of the Doc. It's a little more cheerful than Mark Gill's outlook on independent cinema, though re-reading this now, some panelists seemed to be predicting what was going to happen. It was...