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The everyday viewer probably only notices cinematography when it's flashy, but the fundamentals carry the story.A recent video from StudioBinder Academy is built on Joseph V. Masce...
Blocking is one of those invisible and maybe not-as-glamorous aspects of filmmaking. It's the choreography of where your actors stand, if and when they move, and how the camera fra...
Martin Scorsese has made some of the most meticulously composed images in American movies. I mean, have you seen the Copa tracking shot? What about the stark black-and-white drama...
Movie stunts that look impossible almost always come down to a physical problem someone had to solve, whether that meant building a 330 ft miniature bridge or strapping an actor to...
A lot of people associate point-of-view perspective solely with video games. Yet we filmmakers know it as one of the mighty narrative tools since the early days of cinema. It break...
"Adolescence" pulled off something most productions only pretend to do: four episodes, each filmed as a single continuous take, no stitched cuts hiding in the shadows. The internet...
In The Isolate Thief, Ada Horn (Mackenzie Foy) is stranded at a snowbound Union Army outpost in Oregon after her father dies. She stumbles on a stash of stolen gold and decides to...
Every film student and cinephile remembers where they were the first time they saw the opening tracking shot of Orson Welles’ 1958 noir, Touch of Evil. I feel like professors like...
I've been thinking lately that it had been a while since I filmed a short form project. As in, actually directed the story, actors, and visuals. Right on cue, my buddy and amazing...
Director Jake Schreier tells IndieWire about the joys of long takes and using visuals to create a visceral sense of character.
Someone knocks at the door of your Airbnb in the middle of the night. The internet is down, the phones are dead, and an oil tanker ran itself aground a few scenes earlier. Things a...
Look how far digital filmmaking has come.
Want to shoot high-quality car-to-car footage at a fraction of the price of a typical pro camera rig? Here is how we did it on a budget and with a crew of 2.
There is something almost rebellious about switching off the film lights. No towering HMIs. No glowing softboxes. No cables running across the floor. Just the world as it is: Sunli...
Given the option, most of us would probably jump at the opportunity to shoot something on film stock. There's just something about the color, the depth, the grain, the jitter that...
The quickest way to lose a cinematic point of view on a branded film is to treat the brief as a shot list. The client needs the facility, the product, the team, an interview and th...
If you get on a set and start to discuss shot ideas and camera set-ups with your DP, you might, in the moment, hear them say, "We can't do that. It crosses the line."Not some metap...
Independent filmmaking often means making decisions around time constraints, budget, equipment, and resources. But those decisions also come with important lessons about filmmaking...
Director of photography Sophie Darlington tells IndieWire about crafting visuals that bring viewers as close as possible to seeing a lion pride in action.
The visual language of episodic drama, factual broadcasting, and live studio production has evolved dramatically over the past decade. Historically, capturing wide-angle elevated p...
Recently, I was asked to provide feedback on an unreleased product: a cocktail shaker from a well-known culinary brand. The company asked me to take it for a spin, make a few cockt...
Gustav Danielsson, FSF, earned an Emmy nomination for his work on the stunning "In the Name of the Mother," the fifth episode of HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The episode f...
Eyelines are one of those invisible elements of filmmaking. When they work, you don't notice them at all. When they don't… whew, it's bad, and it's obvious. If you have a scene whe...
The cinematographer behind the acclaimed horror-comedy TV show Widow’s Bay has revealed how he created the series’ distinctive cinematic look. [Read More]
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