Posts tagged cinema

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Posted 2 weeks ago

Video essay explores the style in the television series The Wire.

(Source: mikejones.tv)

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Posted 1 month ago

African Men. Hollywood Stereotypes. There is a new attitude to representations of Africans.

From mamahope.org via BoingBoing

(Source: youtube.com)

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Posted 4 months ago

I don’t know how to explain why this faux trailer about practicing making a film is funny. It just is.

(Source: vimeo.com)

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Posted 6 months ago
Movie posters: faces with glasses Zoom

Movie posters: faces with glasses

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Posted 8 months ago

Help stop the elimination of affordable LED lighting for film, video and photo.

“Litepanels has filed a 337 complaint to block the import of LED lights in the United States used for film, video or photo. This would give them a monopoly and eliminate all other affordable options for filmmakers.”

It seems absurd we waste our time debating the merits of idiotic legal claims like this.

(Source: youtu.be)

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Posted 9 months ago

“…measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.”

(Source: vimeo.com)

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Posted 9 months ago

The Camera that Changed the World on BBC iPlayer.

The Eclair NPR was the first portable 16mm silent reflex camera with coaxial magazine design, 1963-1985. It was the HDSLR or it’s day. It mobilised documentary filmmaking and changed what could be seen on film.

(My apologies if this is not available in your part of the world. Global communications and regional broadcasting are not a good mix. It will take time, but eventually, one decade, perhaps during your grandchildren’s lives, broadcasters will sort out their copyright problems and publish globally. Maybe. Eventually. If they are still in business. On behalf of UK taxpayers, I think we can all agree if you want to watch programs funded with our tax dollars, it’s no skin off our asses. We don’t lose anything. It’s just a problem with copyright and licensing fees. Sorry. (It’s embarassing.)

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Posted 10 months ago

Five shots in this movie trailer for the new George Lucas movie were shot on Canon HDSLRs. Identify the shots and win amazing prizes (like omniscience)!

(The point is no one can tell except the person who shot them, and even then it’s a matter of memory.)

(Source: youtube.com)

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Posted 11 months ago

Great, funny storytelling by John Turturro: Why Sex Scenes Are Difficult to Shoot

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Posted 1 year ago
Piranha (2010) One of my favourites from moviebarcode I haven’t seen the movie, but I can guess it ends with a bloodbath :-) Zoom

Piranha (2010)

One of my favourites from moviebarcode

I haven’t seen the movie, but I can guess it ends with a bloodbath :-)

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Posted 1 year ago

Promo for artofthetitle.com

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Posted 1 year ago

Hitchcock explains a few facets of film editing, including contrasting scale and context. Includes an example of the classic Russian experiment:

Sometime around 1918, Russian director Lev Kuleshov did an experiment that proves this point. (See Kuleshov Experiment) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket. When he showed the film to people they praised the actor’s acting—the hunger in his face when he saw the soup, the delight in the child, and the grief when looking at the dead woman.[2] Of course, the shot of the actor was years before the other shots and he never “saw” any of the items. The simple act of juxtaposing the shots in a sequence made the relationship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing