Filmmaking

The holiday season is getting closer and for many, that means extra time to watch moves.  There are probably numerous films on your “to watch list”, but why not use this time to also revisit some good old classics? So on that occasion I have gathered a list of some cinematography candy, searching the internets for

Ryan Koo over at NoFilmSchool made me aware of the great and moving short film by Pietro Malegori, 'Birthday'. The filmmaker him self, describes the film like this: When we lose someone, a part of us dies. The other part hardly comes back. A man and a woman, once parents are mourning the death of their son.

Ok, it's far out of my reality, but one should be allowed to dream. The other day, Sony announced it's F5 & F55 4K cameras, plus an update for the F65. And once again, a camera popped up on my ever growing gear wish list. It is almost daunting to see how fast the technology and the market is changing  and in some ways,

After stirring keynote speeches by Lewis Black and Marc Maron over the past couple of years, Patton Oswalt took to the stage adjacent to the Hyatt lounge  to deliver the third annual keynote for the Just For Laughs Comedy Conference in Montreal. The recent keynote speech on comedy applies equally well if you replace the term

Mr. TSO is a passionate landscape photographer and filmmaker from Norway. And he has shot some amazing time lapse videos, including: The Arctic Light, The Mountain and The Aurora. You can fin all of the on his Mr. TSO, which we’re sure you’ll want to check out after seeing The Mountain down below. It’s great work!

Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag har lastet opp videoen fra Slåttedagen i Beitlandet. Et arrangement på Nergården i Beitlandet av «Færbøgda i lag» i samarbeid med Stjørdal kommune og Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag med Trond Olav og Heidi Beitland som verter. På området hadde arrangeørene flere varme griller der folk kunne grille middagen sin mens de så på de forskjellige

Design, Martin Woutisseth finestblackdesign.blogspot.com/ Music, Romain Trouillet : romain-trouillet.com myspace.com/romaintrouillet Animation made with mixing each Kubrick's movies. Typography, colors, patterns and symbols are re interprating. The old man is watching behind his life, nostalgic and the young one is thinking about his future to write.

If you’re trying to give your digital footage an analog aesthetic by adding grain, you can do it by using any number of filters, or you can go buy a boatload of actual film scans and composite them on top of your footage, which is what the new CineGrain collection offers. I’m guessing this will be

Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators borrow, steal and transform. Kirby Ferguson explores creativity in a world where «everything is a remix.» – TED.com The four-part video series, Everything is a Remix, is made by Kirby Ferguson,

The Rolls-Royce of iPad/iPhone clapboards, the Movie★Slate app for iOS devices, have been out on the market for quite some time now. It is a convenient, all-in-one digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and shot notepad— designed for use in film, television, documentaries, music videos, and interviews. But it just got better, or at least

An absolutely essential read for filmmakers. YOUR FILM WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL is finally out for the world to see, and it’s a FREE download until 10/01/2011SELLING YOUR FILM WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL presented by Prescreen is a series of case studies that dive deep into the real numbers and real details of independent film distribution.

In this video, Darren Aronofsky talks about film school, his early years, and gives advice to aspiring filmmakers. The man behind films like Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan, sits down for a Reel Life, Real Stories interview. He talks about his early years attending graduate film school at AFI, his experiences famously shooting Pi for $20k, and