We digital filmmakers may drool over the sight of awesome new gear like Canon's EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera, but dealing with the footage that comes out is often a royal pain. The days of "one mag of film equals about 12 minutes" ...READ»
Unless you're Chris Milk and get to regularly collaborate with Google on jaw-dropping video/interactive fusions, adding interactive design to your web filmmaking is a tall order. But it shouldn't have to be that way--which is why ...READ»
Handmade products, despite their growing popularity online, are easy to dismiss as a twee hobby for trust-funded dilettantes (as anyone who frequents Regretsy.com knows), or a ghetto populated by packrat gearheads who'd rather spend ...READ»
In this age of digital wizardry in filmmaking, doing things the hard way is a perversely effective way of standing out. It worked for Nick Gurewitch and his friends, who shot a web comedy series on 16mm celluloid. And it sure seems to ...READ»
Charles Eames is one of the rare people I can cite as a hero in all three of my careers as a science writer, design blogger, and filmmaker. His classic short film "Powers of Ten: A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the ...READ»
People are making movies, commercials, and music videos using nothing but the cameras on their iPhones nowadays, but what about directing live TV? You know, the kind of thing where a guy in headphones yells at a bunch of little ...READ»
"Lawrence of Arabia -- there's a film where certain things in it are just not going to work on your iPhone," Jason Brush says. But what if it could? What if there were a way for filmed narrative storytelling -- aka cinema -- to ...READ»
Wim Wenders has created some of the moodiest, most visually arresting landscapes in film history -- a tone Pauline Kael described perfectly, referring to Wings of Desire, as “dim whimsy” and “spooky spirituality.” Leave it to ...READ»
Is there anything that flowcharts can't do? (Just search our archives: we think not!) Surely making a kick-ass movie requires a nimbleness of creative thought that could never be captured in a rote set of instructions -- we all saw ...READ»
An immersive experience uses state-of-the-art Hollywood visual effects and theme park technology to help soldiers learn what to expect in an IED ambush--and it may save lives.READ»
