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January 2012
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If you didn't catch my earlier post, Spike Lee is about to drop a new self-financed movie shot on a Sony F3 Super 35mm Video Camera entitled, Red Hook Summer , which just premiered at Sundance 2012. Never one to shy away from controversy, when asked a question by audience member, Chris Rock, abou...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee, Sundance
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I know I'm totally dating myself with this post, but 'nuff respect to actor, Robert Hegyes, who just passed away at the age of 60. He is best known and remembered as the Puerto Rican / Jewish character Juan Epstein on the popular 70's sitcom, Welcome Back Kotter, where he played alongside a teen...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Robert Hegyes, Welcome Back Kotter
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Check out this beautiful new time-lapse DSLR video shot in Dubai by Philip Bloom, the quintessential D.P.'s D.P. He shot it with 5 different Canon cameras - 2x Canon 5D Mark IV's 2x Canon 7D's and a Canon 1D Mark IV, plus some specialty time-lapse gear. For more info on how it was captured check o...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Philip Bloom, time lapse
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Tim Cash of The Oregon Filmmaker put together this cool and funny little tutorial for a design to create your own quick and cheap "light board" using standard Christmas lights, which looks like it would make a pretty sweet background for interviews or music videos or any similar project where you ar...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: light board, Tim cash
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Filmmaker Wiley Davis of Bozeman, Montana is my kind of guy - a plain-spoken, practical guerrilla problem-solver who wants to help his fellow filmmakers do things better and cheaper. One of the many accessories that can help you shoot better DSLR footage is a follow focus. However, a quick Google s...read more
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If you are thinking about buying or renting the new Red Epic camera, James Drake, co-owner of 5kInsight.com, gives Dave Dugdale of Learning DSLR Video a nice little hands-on Red Epic video tutorial. Personally, I have yet to shoot with any Red camera myself eventhough I have access to them (...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Red Camera, Red Epic
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So I just came across this remarkable memo courtesy of a tweet by filmmaker Chris Jones of Living Spirit Pictures (also author of one of my favorite filmmaking books not written by me - The Guerrilla Filmmakers Handbook ). The memo - really a mission statement moreso than mere memo - is from Disn...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Jeffrey Katzenberg
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The Huffington Post is running a new series called The Sundance Diaries where a handful of 2012 Sundance filmmakers are guest-blogging their experiences. I wanted to share one of those posts from Stephen Neary, a young man I first met when he was just in high school and touring my area, The Produc...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Dr. Breakfast, Stephen Neary, Sundance
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The Digital Hippo website just posted the first in-depth review of The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide and I couldn't be more pleased. Not just because it's a good review, but moreso because the review cited all the things I was really struggling to get right in crafting the content, tone ...read more
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Stacey Wilson of The Hollywood Reporter just dropped an informative Q&A with director, Spike Lee, who is never one short of an opinion or candid insight on the world of filmmaking. Spike get's right to the heart of the matter discussing why all-Black films rarely get greenlit in Hollywood. My...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Red Hook Summer, Spike Lee