Cinematography

Take My New Location Lighting Course on Lynda.com (For Free!)
- Cinematography, Education, Lighting, Lynda.com
- December 3, 2013
Good production people, many of you have lamented that you'd like to take a filmmaking class or seminar with me, but moving to New York and attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for 4 years isn't exactly convenient for you with your day job, family life and house in another city and all. Well, ...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Anthony Artis, lighting course, lite panels, Location Lighting, Lynda.com, Video Production Techniques
TRICKZ: How to Get Matrix-Style Special FX on a Go Pro Camera Budget
- Cinematography, Experimental, Stunts and Special FX
- May 9, 2013
I love it when people think outside of the box to come up with simple low-budget solutions to complex filmmaking problems. For example, say you want to shoot some cool surreal slo-mo footage like the infamous Matrix bullet-time effect. The Complex Problem: You ain't got no no Matrix special FX so...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Go Pro Hero Cam, Mark Roper, Matrix Effect
TOOLZ: New Freefly Movi Camera Stabilizer Shakes Up the Video Scene – HOT!!!
- Cinematography, Equipment, News
- April 7, 2013
Gotta say, I think this is by far the coolest piece of new gear I've seen in a long time. It's a new camera stabilizer system called the Movi that looks to be considerably easier to use and more versatile than most of the the Steadicam and Glidecam-style stabilizer rigs. It can smoothly capture s...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: camera stabilizer, Freefly Systems, Gyro Camera, Movi, Movi M10, Movi MR, Vince Lafloret
TRICKZ: How to Get Cool Video of a Building… Spinning 360 Degrees!
- Cinematography, Stunts and Special FX
- March 26, 2013
Here's a very cool production tip from the good (and extremely creatively generous) people at Vimeo.com and Candy Glass Productions. It's a pretty straight forward, but very innovative and creative technique for using still photos to create a 360 degree spinning shot of any building. It takes a ...read more
- Anthony
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PEEP THIS: "Inspirata" Inspires This Blog Post
- Cinematography, Experimental, Filmmaker Spotlight
- March 18, 2013
I don't know what this shot on. I don't know the filmmaker, Andrey Milyayev , personally. It doesn't tie in to any larger filmmaking point I want to make. So I have no commentary to add to this video... except to say that it's a beautiful and inspiring short visual journey and I think that mak...read more
- Anthony
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PEEP THIS: The Digital Evolution Will Be Green Screened (Actually, EVERYTHING Will Be)
- Candid Advice, Cinematography, Stunts and Special FX
- February 28, 2013
Thought I'd share this cool video I came across via Doddle that helps shed some light on the current Hollywood discussion du jour about major VFX (Visual Effects) houses going bankrupt. I think it's a fascinating - if scary - development in the ever-expanding "Digital Evolution". Notice I didn't s...read more
- Anthony
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PEEP THIS: The Black Magic Cinema Camera – Release Model In-Action
- Cameras, Cinematography, Equipment
- August 30, 2012
For the last few months I've been blogging about the emergence of the new class of "Super-chip" (my term) video cameras, which I would basically describe as dedicated prosumer video cameras that have image chips that are roughly the equivalent of DSLR imaging chips. One of the most buzzed about cam...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Black Magic Cinema Camera
Check Out My Brand New "Fundamentals of Video" Course on Lynda.com
- Audio, Cinematography, Education, Lighting, Lynda.com
- June 11, 2012
It's been a long minute since I've last put up a blog post, so wanted to come back with a bang. I mentioned awhile back that I would have some big news in the realm of film education and I can now officially share that news- which is my brand-spanking new video course on Lynda.com entitl...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Fundamentals of Video
PEEP THIS: Spike Lee's Creative Dolly Shots
- Cinematography, Experimental
- April 23, 2012
Indiewire posted a nice article by Matt Zoller Seitz and Richard Cruz examining Spike Lee's creative use of signature dolly shots across his film career. Richard Cruz edited a whole series of them together to create the cool little video essay below. Peep the Spike Video Essay montage below, t...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Spike Lee
SKILLZ: 7 Tips for Shooting Time-Lapse Video
- Cinematography, Experimental
- April 19, 2012
*The following post is excerpted from page 48 of the Image Control chapter of my new book, The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide which is now shipping. Please consider ordering a signed 400-page, 700-illustration, full-color copy directly from me here to help support all the FREE inf...read more
- Anthony
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- Tags: Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide, time lapse

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