Posts Tagged ‘filmmaking’
5 Essential Tools for Your Documentary Camera Package
In this writeup, we take a look at five of the best, highest-quality tools and accessories to make your documentary camera package top-notch.
Create Better Establishing Shots with These Photography Techniques
Improve your establishing shots—and lure your audience into the mix—with a few principles of still photography.
Break Genre Rules Like a Master Filmmaker
Genre conventions help film audiences know what to expect, but there’s a fine line between rewarding expectations and making something truly innovative.
Find Inspiration Beyond the Big Screen
Filmmakers can draw inspiration from a number of sources. Check out these recommendations to broaden your horizons.
On Fading to Black: The Hows, The Whens, and The Whys
Fading to black is the smoothest dissolve transition there is, but it’s good for more than just endings. Let’s take a look at what it can do.
The Filmmaker’s Guide to the Establishing Shot
Learn how to set every scene with this in-depth look at the establishing shot.
How Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 Perfected the Art of Color Theory
In this cinematography breakdown we look at how Blade Runner 2049 used color to tell a story through light and sound.
Why Some Special Effects Age Well (and Others Clearly Don’t)
What makes good special effects good and bad special effects bad? Let’s figure it out with a few iconic examples of the best and the worst.
Instead of Film School, Maybe Just Get on Twitter?
Got production questions? Your answer’s only a tweet away! Here’s why Twitter just might be your most valuable resource for all things filmmaking.
5 Reasons Why David Lynch’s Dune Kind of Rules
One writer’s not-so-critical reassessment of a weird, wild sci-fi classic.
The Green Knight: How Cinema Shapes and Changes Folklore
Gather around the fire to hear how filmmakers turn to classic folklore to spin modern tales.
Swan Song: 5 Tips for Building an Actor/Director Relationship
Swan Song director Todd Stephens and star Udo Kier reveal how they worked together to develop a perfect on-screen character.