DSLR
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Looking for some filmmaking Inspiration? You won’t have to go far. Get a load of this trailer for MUSGO. Director Gami Orbegoso assembled a seriously bare-bones production crew, a Panasonic GH2 DSLR and four actors on location in the Catalan Pyrenees for 7 days. His budget: $4700 bucks. A great interview followed up the trailer…
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My need for Frenzy-Free Follow-Focus apexed on a job a little while back. I was directing a series of shorts for a client; things were going OK, despite our rental gear proving to be decrepit. What we received on the day was falling apart; what wasn’t falling apart hadn’t arrived– including a working follow-focus rig.…
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“Take something ordinary and make it extraordinary, be obsessed with the subtleties then finish with an unstoppable work ethic.” – Shane Hurlbut, ASC Shane Hurlbut, ASC has been spinning film thru cameras for over 20 years on some massively huge projects, including feature films Terminator Salvation and Act of Valor, and for damn good reason. The man…
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Calculating hard drive and data storage space on a shoot is not my idea of a good time. Complex. Difficult. I don’t want to do the voodoo I’d have to in determining the space we’ll need. Necessary, but Oh, What A Drag.
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George Orwell never saw this coming. Described as a convergence of George Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM and Oliver Stone’s Vietnam war classic PLATOON, director/ vfx supervisor extraordinaire Hasraf Haz Dulull & VFX juggernaut The Foundry have succeeded in pushing the vfx/ animation/ story narrative envelope yet further with their soon to be released short film, FUBAR.…
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Filmmakers the world over are working their ways around technical limitations imposed with low budgets by adopting iPhone and DSLR tech to shoot long-format films. Despite the recent unraveling of the sneaky stuff Steve Job’s & Co. might have/ might not have been up to (like keeping tabs on the whereabouts of several million iPhone…
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The season finale of HOUSE, scheduled to hit the air May 17, was shot with the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR. Director Greg Yaitanes spilled the beans on Twitter, answering a round of queries pertaining to his experiences shooting with the Canon 5D Mark II. PetaPixel.com has posted a number of those tweets from inquiring…
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The advent of the DSLR camera has got the filmmaking world spinning. Though a tremendous enabler of those with little budgets and big dreams, the DSLR as a film camera, as with many recent equipment innovations, comes with a number of drawbacks to be ironed out in the production pipeline before throwing oneself onto the…
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