Maybe it’s just me, but it seems hard to believe that On The Lot is ending. Maybe it’s because everything has come full circle. It’s been over a year since the show was first announced, so I guess you could say it’s finally come full circle. Whatever you have to say about the show, it’s been a good experience nonetheless. No, it didn’t provide the learning experience that HBO’s Project...
| A timelapse of a red iceblock (popsicle) melting in the sun. Shot on a Pentax *ist DS with 50mm F1.4 lens. |
During my tenure at film school I never seemed to be able to fully comprehend taking a light meter reading (thankfully, I became a screenwriting major). While most DIY-ers are shooting digital with internal meters, knowing how to set up a shot using a light meter is a must if you want to move onto professional film making.
First you need to know the terms: “Film speed” is a...
Fellow New Yorkers, let's bask in our temporary respite from the deadly heat (It’s only going to reach 81 degrees this week!) with a film at one of the cool outside venues scattered around the five boroughs.
Some screens are showing the classics, like Psycho at the 2007 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, West Side Story at Movies with a View 2007 at...
Launched in 2000, Withoutabox has evolved into a haven for indy filmmakers and the people who love them.
All told, Withoutabox is a compendium of online tools designed to help the independent film community both socially and economically without the need for the all-powerful Hollywood distributor. At its center is the patented International Film Submission System,...
Filmmaker Magazine recently asked independent filmmaker Jamie Stuart to test drive the new Final Cut Studio 2 on his latest short film. Halfway through post production he wrote up a great piece on the ins-and-outs of the new software suite that can now be found on the mag’s website.
First released six years ago, Final Cut Pro created a new dimension in the world...
Are you ready for a challenging movie-going experience? Channel your inner Thelma Schoonmaker and let ’er rip at Mutable Cinema. Created by Mario Marquez, a Mexican independent producer, Mutable Cinema is a new media installation art piece traveling the globe. Using an interactive software interface, Mutable Cinema challenges players to edit a short film in real...
How to make fake heads
by Erik Beck
Hey, everyone, and welcome to the technical blog for Episode#14 (fake heads). If anyone noticed I called it "episode 13" in the beginning. Sorry about that, sometimes I get confused. So this build was a lot of fun and I hope you guys enjoy the episode. Send in your fake head videos and remember you can submit your project ideas here!
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Opening next month's San Sebastian Film Festival is David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. The director's second foray into the big-budget Hollywood machine, the film stars Viggo Mortensen as a ruthless killer with mob ties and Naomi Watts as the innocent who uncovers some scary truths about the crime family. With IMDB plot keywords including "sex slavery", "half orphan", "KGB"...
As programming director of SF Indie Fest and co-founder of Another Hole In the Head, Bruce Fletcher has recently decided that there may be room for one more film festival in San Francisco. So he created Dead Channels: the San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film, running August 9 - 16.
SF360.org caught up with the mastermind to discuss the fest and it's...
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