Each production gets a certain amount of equipment that I suppose someone deemed was enough to make a film. This is a standard package that has the camera, big and little sticks, dolly, dolly track, assortment of lights, sandbags, apple boxes, c-stands, light stands,...
Video Equipment
Documentary Tools 2.0
I'm a big Web 2.0 fan, so I unsurprisingly relied heavily on various tools to aid in research, notetaking, and organization to manage filmming the Cubicle Documentary. Here's a list of some of the tools that greatly helped me out, and others that I tried but didn't...
5 Ways To Make Video Look Like Film
So you wonder why your home movies and YouTube masterpieces don't quite have the same production value as say, SNL's Lazy Sunday. Well the people that made that get paid to do it, so I would hope it looks good. But there's some tricks you can do to liven up your...
The Film-Look
Despite the popularity of DV, filmmakers seem to always be after that elusive film-look. Though HD and Digital Video keep rapidly advancing, film has set the bar high. While the realistic look of DV is more appropriate for some mediums (documentaries, mockumentaries,...
Children of Men
I know Children of Men is slightly old news, but Emmanuel Lubezki won the ASC award for best cinematography so that makes it current. I'm not surprised but am extremely glad he won. If you haven't seen Children of Men then you (and apparently the Academy) are missing...
This Might Have Been Useful A Month Ago
Our F1s were shot with a Canon XL1, along with the rest of our weekend projects. It's always been called a prosumer camera, and now we have a better idea as to why. >>Geek Speak Warning The main reason is a lack to set focus. The standard XL1 lens has auto-focus...
Film Books
These are a few of the books we're required/recommended to get. Hopefully I'll be able to go into more detail about each one in the future. We were recommended to buy this book last year for Filmmaking I, and now both Filmmaking III and Advanced Cinematography are...
Camera Tests
For the past couple of weeks we've been having camera tests for our F3s in our Cinematography Lab. Camera tests give us a chance to try out different film stocks and techniques so we can get an idea of how we want to shoot our F3. The idea is this is the chance to...
Digital Scores Another Point
Charles' F3, the one that I redeemed myself on, went pretty well last Sunday and Monday. The house we shot at was amazing, all ten cast members arrived on time and were great, and even Goodwood went off without a hitch. Of course a show can't be perfect, which is why...