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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...
Sir Rildey Scott is nearing 90 years old and still directing movies in his own way. The director, who is never short of opinions, In an interview published by filmmaker Patrick Tom...
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...
There is something so sumptuous about the images Roger Deakins puts on the screen. He's collaborated with some of the best directors of all time, getting his vision onto the big sc...
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...
Sometimes, acting isn’t enough to feel creative on a film set. There is a need to have more control over how the story is captured and told. That has given us the following six fil...
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...
When we talk about directing, we often get caught up in the technical aspects of it, such as camera movement, lighting setups, or the mechanics of a scene. Yet cinema is ultimately...
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...
Avery Dohrmann is a filmmaker who wrote for us back in 2023 about making his debut feature, Our Final Days in Paradise, at 20. He's back with a video essay on visual literacy, and...
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...
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...
Ukrainian camera operator and director of photography Serhii Koshelenko is building a new approach to the visual language of reality The post How Camera Operator Serhii Koshelenko...
For decades, filmmakers have been asking the wrong question.Is 35mm more cinematic than digital? Is 70mm worth the expense? Should we shoot open gate?For me, these debates all over...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chemical Wedding has added a dedicated Vertical Mode to Artemis Director's Viewfinder, bringing its lens, framing and shot-planning tools to vertical production.
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...
The visual is cultivated through visions. It may seem like an oxymoron, but we often tend to overlook the importance of nurturing our ability to see. The perception of experience a...
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...
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...
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