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
Back in January I dropped a post and put up a trailer for this film that originally screened at Sundance and now it's starting it's official U.S. theatrical tour. If you are in N.Y.C this week then you are fortunate enough to be in the city that's premiering the theatrical release of Terence Na...read more
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
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
*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
This is by far the coolest thing I've seen all month. Filmmaker and visual poet, Vituc, who reps Luxembourg City recently shared this beautiful stop motion experimental film entitled, "Yesterday". It was created using my very favorite photo app, Hipstamatic ($1.99). To be 100% clear, this proj...read more