Using the Lensbaby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the NY Times feature article on Spike Jonze and the making of Where the Wild Things Are
Cameras
Cherries Falling in Slow Motion
Sony EX1 Slow Motion Test from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. I know what's been keeping you up at night. You've been wondering, if you have a Sony EX1, what settings get you the best looking slow motion: shooting 720 60p or 720 30p with S&Q at 60? Well, lose sleep no more...
Dolphin Bay – Video
Dolphin Bay from Joey Daoud on Vimeo. A few weeks back when I went up to the film school to take pictures at their Gala, I was invited to tag along to go swimming with dolphins and film it. Um, awesome. Gabrielle has been swimming with this same pod off the coast of...
Cinematographe, A History [Video]
Found this short, condensed history of the creation of cinematography. For something so short it's pretty thorough. It has a lot of the famous first things ever shot, as well as the original cameras (or pretty good reproductions). Then it kind of becomes a joke when...
Cinematography – Biblio Film School
A while back I started a book recommendation series where I'd recommend what I thought were the best books in each area of filmmaking. Today we're continuing with cinematography books. Unlike the first category of screenwriting, I've read a lot of cinematography books...
Fight Scene in a Barn
Monday was a day off, which was nice. Of course there's not really such a thing as a day off. Today we were back at the pig farm. I think this is where Deliverance originated. Deep in their property I stumbled on bones (hopefully animal) spread all over the place. And...
It’s Dailies, Not Weeklies
In a perfect film set world (real world), you shoot for the day, send the film to the lab that night to be processed, return the next day, shoot some more, and then during lunch (or beginning/end of the day), you watch what you shot the previous day. These are called...
91 Set-Ups in 3 Days
Yes, we got 91 set-ups ((A set-up is essentially a shot. Every time you move the camera, change lenses, change lighting, or film new action, that's a new set-up.)) in 3 days. That's about 30 a day. The 6 day show had 106 set-ups. Bottom line is we got a shit-ton of...
Cinematography Notes
Here are a few notes I dug up from an early cinematography class. They're short and good to keep in mind. Eye first looks at what is moving, then what’s brightest. Film is a 2-Dimensional medium. The idea is to create the appearance of 3 dimensions through...