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No Film SchoolCinemaYour Rough Cut Is Stuck in the Hunt, Not the Cut It’s late. You’ve got ninety minutes of interview, a bin of B-roll labeled C0047 through C0212, and a cut due in the morning. You remember a shot of someone laughing by a window.
No Film SchoolCinemaTop 5 TV Detective Tropes (and How to Subvert Them) I'm pretty easy to hook on TV. I like murder, mystery, and a detective at their wits' end trying to pull it all together to find justice.
No Film SchoolCinemaWhat Happens When You Learn Everyone in Your Film is a Liar? Nathan Fielder’s new documentary, You Can See Everything, has exploded box office revenues by giving audiences a ringside seat to the cat-and-mouse game he plays with his central interviewee…
No Film SchoolCinemaHow 'Furious' Editor Katie Ennis Cuts Tension, Pacing, and Complex Female Character Trajectories Episode 106 of Furious was one of my favorites of the season. It had everything: a face-off inside a women’s shelter, a high-stakes elevator ride that functions like an hourglass, and an underlying…
No Film SchoolCinemaA Simple Three-Step System for Lighting Any Shot The reason you'll hear so many directors and DPs say that the gear doesn't matter to filmmaking is that gear doesn't maketh the filmmaker.
No Film SchoolCinemaTouchscreen Editing Support Comes to DaVinci Resolve Along With Other Updates Move over AI, the future of video editing is touchscreen! (That’s a sentence we never thought we’d ever write, but here we are.) In anticipation of the new Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR and its…
No Film SchoolCinemaConvert Your Sony Camcorder’s LCD Into an Eyepiece With This New Optical Viewfinder Add-On We know camcorders aren’t the cutting edge of digital cameras these days. That era might have ended a few decades ago. But they do still serve some important purposes.
No Film SchoolCinemaWhy the Best Filmmakers Fake It Making movies is a wondrous thing. You write something that may feel simple, like a character in a certain type of car pulls up to a stop sign in Beverly Hills, then pulls away.
No Film SchoolCinemaFilm Quote of the Day: The ‘V for Vendetta’ Line That Made November 5th Unforgettable I vividly remember going to Regal Downingtown on opening night to see the new movie written by the Wahchoski siblings and directed by James McTeigue, based on one of my favorite Alan Moore graphic…
No Film SchoolCinemaThe Latest Version of ARRI’s Reference Tool CMD is Here With Some Big Updates for On-Set and Post Workflows ARRI’s Reference Tool, often shortened to ART, combines many of the company’s previous tools into a single package.
No Film SchoolCinemaFilmmakers Will Absolutely Use Touch for MacBook Pro This week Apple released its newest MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR Touch Display. There has been a lot of internet rumbling about whether or not most people will use touch on a laptop.
No Film SchoolCinemaIconic Film Intros: Willy Wonka in 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ Gene Wilder’s iconic performance as the elusive, yet whimsical chocolatier Willy Wonka is upheld by one of the most important buildups and entrances to a character in movie history.
No Film SchoolCinemaActors Who Turned Down Roles That Became Movie Icons When you hear tales of an actor turning down a role that is impossible to imagine without the person who wound up playing them in the role, it can be hard to wrap your head around.
No Film SchoolCinemaThe 10 Best Godzilla Movies Godzilla Minus Zero , which is stomping its way into U.S. theaters on November 6, will be the 39th installment in the long-running giant monster franchise.
No Film SchoolCinemaHow Editor Sofi Marshall Wove Together Black Bear’s Bawdy and Heartwarming Fable 'Wicker' Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s Wicker follows an ostracized Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who commissions and falls in love with a Wicker Husband (Alexander Skarsgård), drawing together…
No Film SchoolCinemaThe Canon First Cut Contest is Back and is Looking for Bigger, Bolder Pitches Ready to bring your biggest, boldest, and most awesome-est short film ideas to life? Canon has announced that the company is bringing back its First Cut Contest for a second go-around, and the…
No Film SchoolCinemaWill Ferrell’s "Anti-Pep Talk" Is the Best Advice for Creative Longevity Look, if you're having a bad day in Hollywood, you probably give yourself the sem pep talk every time: Never give up, keep grinding, and bet on yourself.
No Film SchoolCinemaIf This DP Started Over Today, He'd Only Buy These Four Things Cinematographer Keaton Nye worked his way up the camera department, from PA to AC to camera operator and then DP.
No Film SchoolCinemaHarry Potter: 5 Things the HBO Series Needs to Get Right to Win Over Fans This new Harry Potter series has a lot of things going for it. The idea of a project that can capture much more than the movies is great, and using cutting-edge technology to sell the magic is also…
No Film SchoolCinemaCanon to Boost Slow Motion and Add Other Improvements for These Popular Cinema EOS Cameras As Canon often does, the company is rolling out another batch of firmware updates not just for one camera, but for several all at once.
No Film SchoolCinemaFilm Quote of the Day: The ‘Harry Potter’ Line That Captures the Heart of the Entire Franchise My childhood was shaped by the Harry Potter books and movies; they carried me through primary school and into my last semester of grad school.
No Film SchoolCinemaUpgrade the Built-In Camera Audio for Your Favorite Canon Cameras With This New Add-On Mic While it’s never anyone’s first choice, recording audio for your films or video projects directly from your camera's built-in microphones can be dicey work. Best case, it sounds ok but not great.
No Film SchoolCinemaCanon Rolls Out New Cinema EOS Lens and Videographer Kits for C50 and C80 Cameras Honestly, if you’re in the market for a new camera today, it's probably a pretty stressful situation. There are so many great cameras by so many great companies to choose from.
No Film SchoolCinema"I'm Never Going to Be a Master at This," According to One Director Sarah T. Schwab has directed three features, so why does she say she doesn't know anything? When asked this in a recent video from Film Courage, she laughs and points out that she never went to film…
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