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March 18, 2018
Ellen Barkin: ‘Never Get Into an Elevator Alone With Terry Gilliam’
Terry Gilliam’s decision to refer to #MeToo as being run by “mob rule” continues to go poorly for the Monty Python member and filmmaker, who compared the anti–sexual harassment movement to a group of people “carrying their torches and they are going to burn down Frankenstein’s castle.” After being criticized by the likes of Sarah Silverman and Judd Apatow, he’s received fierce pushback from Ellen Barkin, who tweeted, “My hard won advice: never get into an elevator alone with terry gilliam.”
Barkin, who worked with Gilliam on “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” is also well known for her performances in “Diner,” “Ocean’s Thirteen,” and the TV adaptation of “Animal Kingdom.” She also tweeted that Gilliam is “is the last man to admonish a movement that is trying to protect women from abusive men. #MeToo” and “Terry Gilliam, you talk too much” in response to his interview.
Both messages were preceded by two from January, which also came in response to an interview with Gilliam: “Oh terry gilliam, why couldn’t you keep your mouth shut and stay gone…#1NiteInLa #MeeToo #TIMESUP” and “unfortunately i don’t have the skills to separate a fawning article about a ‘super cool’ director from his actions. #TIMESUP #MeToo”
My hard won advice: never get into an elevator alone with terry gilliam
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) March 17, 2018
.@Variety This interview turns my stomach. terry gilliam is the last man to admonish a movement that is trying to protect women from abusive men. #MeToo https://t.co/jPnFhfB5GQ
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) March 17, 2018
Terry Gilliam, you talk too much. #MeToo
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) March 17, 2018
unfortunately i don’t have the skills to separate a fawning article about a “super cool” director from his actions. #TIMESUP #MeToo
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) January 7, 2018
Source: IndieWire film
March 18, 2018
This Hilarious Spoof Shows How Paul Thomas Anderson Uses Hotdog Shapes to Create Mood
Only a master filmmaker like Paul Thomas Anderson would know how to harness the aesthetic power of the hotdog shape.
When we think of filmmaking, we don’t often think about the science behind the aesthetics, despite its incredibly important role. Take, for instance, the geometry behind many of our favorite compositions: the vectors, the proportions, and yes, even the shapes help communicate different things to audiences that aren’t easy conveyed through words alone.
There are plenty of video essays that explain how geometry and shapes can be used to tell better visual stories, and this video from Clickhole, which explores Paul Thomas Anderson’s use of hot dog shapes to convey mood in his films—is not one of them.
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 17, 2018
Capture Beautifully Disorienting POV Shots with This DIY SnorriCam
Let’s build some DIY SnorriCams!
You know those weird POV shots where everything but your actor seems to be moving? You know what I’m talking about—you rig a camera to your actor, which is also facing them, so when they move around, it looks like they’re completely still while the world around them is moving?
Yeah, that’s what’s known as a “SnorriCam” shot. Though director Darren Aronofsky famously used it in his 2000 psycho drama Requiem for a Dream, many filmmakers use it these days to convey a sense of disorientation, drunkenness, or paranoia.
If you’re still unsure of what I’m talking about, here’s a video that will get you up to speed.
That shot is not only really effective at communicating a sense of disorientation but it is also incredibly fun to do. But how exactly do filmmakers pull it off? Well, in this tutorial, filmmaker Zach Ramelan and cinematographer Karl Janisse explain in great detail how to build one of these SnorriCam rigs from scratch, using some wood, a couple of 750 base plates, straps, grip heads, and Magic Arms. Check it out below:
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 17, 2018
How Filmmakers Use Aspect Ratios to Tell Better Stories
Everything within a frame tells a story…even the frame itself.
Aspect ratios may not be the most exciting or sexy thing to talk about in regards to the aesthetics of cinema, but they are important. As the exhibition of films evolved from early peep-show machines to contemporary movie cineplexes so did the size and shape of the cinematic frame, with the square 1:1:33 ratio stretching to 2:40:1 anamorphic.
But despite the close link between aspect ratios and the time period in which they were used, there are actually many stylistic and narrative reasons filmmakers choose particular aspect ratios, whether it’s to convey a sense of claustrophobia or to add context to the story that’s unfolding within the frame.
In this video from Fandor, Jacob T. Swinney explores the many ways some of the most highly regarded filmmakers have used different aspect ratios as a storytelling device.
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 17, 2018
2018 SXSW Film Festival Announces Audience Awards Winners
The SXSW Film Festival announced the Audience Awards winners from the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic, 24 Beats Per Second, Global, Festival Favorites, and Design Award categories. Headliners will be announced on Monday, March 19. Audience Awards results for all categories were certified by the accounting firm of Maxwell Locke & Ritter. The SXSW Film Awards are presented by FilmStruck.
The Audience Awards follow the previously announced 2018 Jury Awards, which included Grand Jury Winners Thunder Road for Narrative Feature and People’s Republic of Desire for Documentary Feature.
2018 SXSW Film Festival Audience Awards Winners:
Narrative Feature Competition: First Match
Director: Olivia Newman
Documentary Feature Competition: TransMilitary
Directors: Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson
Narrative Spotlight: All Square
Director: John Hyams
Documentary Spotlight: The Dawn Wall
Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
Visions: Profile
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Midnighters: Upgrade
Director: Leigh Whannell
Episodic: Vida
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, So Yong Kim
24 Beats Per Second: Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
Director: Abner Benaim
Global: Virus Tropical
Director: Santiago Caicedo
Festival Favorite: Science Fair
Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
Excellence in Title Design: #19 – Offf Barcelona 2017
Directors: Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallee
As today is the final day of the SXSW Film Festival, additional screenings have been scheduled for this evening for all Audience Awards winners except Headliners.
Saturday, March 17 Audience Awards Screenings
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
3/17/2018, Alamo Ritz 1, 7:30 PM
TransMilitary
3/17/2018, Alamo Lamar A, 4:30 PM
The Dawn Wall
3/17/2018, Stateside Theatre, 5:00 PM
Science Fair
3/17/2018, Alamo Lamar B, 8:15 PM
Upgrade
3/17/2018, Alamo Lamar A, 11:00 PM
First Match
3/17/2018, Alamo Lamar A, 7:30 PM
All Square
3/17/2018, Stateside Theatre, 8:00 PM
Virus Tropical
3/17/2018, Alamo Ritz 2, 5:30 PM
Profile
3/17/2018, Alamo Lamar B, 5:15 PM
Browse the full list of 2018 SXSW Film Festival Announces Jury and Special Awards winners and stay tuned to SXSW News and the SXSW YouTube Channel for continued 2018 event coverage.
Documentary Shorts Award winners for This One’s For The Ladies Gene Graham and Paul Rowley, Documentary Feature Award winner for Garry Winograng: All Things are Photographable Sasha Waters Freyer, Documentary Feature Award winner for People’s Republic of Desire Hao Wu, Violet Lucca, and April Wolfe attends the SXSW Film Awards Show 2018. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
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March 17, 2018
Women Who Lead: Inspirational Leaders at Red Bull Launch Institute
Pictured above from L to R: Ashley Jennings (Spero Labs), Lisa Wang (SheWorx), Lisa Pearson (Umbel), Kerry Rupp (True Wealth Ventures), Melissa Katrincic (Durham Distillery) Photo credit: Drew Anthony Smith / Red Bull Content Pool
Women in business and entrepreneurship commanded the Red Bull Launch Institute stages at SXSW last week. During three days of lectures and workshops, the dominant themes were inescapable: there are challenges unique to women in the startup space, there are powerful support networks to help women in business succeed and there is tremendous female talent at the college level.
Co-founders Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer of the online artist community Witchsy, spoke about their experience and strategy to overcome vendors and associates who would treat them less favorably than a male in their same position. Alongside Amanda Brinkman, creator of the “nasty woman” T-shirt, the trio used their couch panel on women-led startups to encourage college entrepreneurs to learn to work with people early in their careers, seek legal counsel during the business formation period and not to wait until you have a 100 percent ready product to launch.
Several of the students attending Red Bull Launch Institute were approaching the launch stage for their products, like Dayana Hansley, a university studies-business senior at Texas A&M University and creator of the Motley Tool, the Swiss Army knife for first responders. Hansley displayed a prototype of her tool which she expects to have a first-year market potential of more than $2 million. Hansley worked with mentor and Red Bull Launch Institute alumnus Steven Dourmashkin, founder of Specdrums.
Dourmashkin was one of five mentors brought together to coach the student participants during three days in Austin. The mentorship group included Austin, TX local Jane Hervey, founder of the #bossbabesATX monthly event series that amplifies self-identifying women in the creative industry and the arts. Hervey represented one of the many forces providing community and outreach for women.
About Red Bull Launch Institute:
Red Bull Launch Institute gives wings to collegiate entrepreneurs and their ideas. During three days at South by Southwest Interactive Festival, six teams of college students will cultivate their innovative business concepts into reality under the mentorship of industry leaders and fellow entrepreneurs. At Red Bull Launch Institute, students learn during dynamic panel discussions, network and engage in individual team work with dedicated mentors to advance their business plans with the goal of achieving entrepreneurial success.
Content provided by Red Bull
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March 17, 2018
Small LED Shootout: Can You Replace Your Big Studio Lights with Tiny LEDs?
These tiny LEDs really pack a punch.
One of the trickiest and most frustrating tasks on a film set is choosing, setting up, and adjusting all of those big, bright lights. It takes a lot of time, space, and money to work with a professional lighting kit, but what if you were able to scale down the size of your lights without losing output or even one red cent of your lighting budget?
In this video, Caleb Pike of DSLR Video Shooter reviews five small LED lights that not only work really well with low-light cameras, like the a7S II, D5, and GH5, but also won’t force you to deal with a ton of grain. Check it out below:
The five small LEDs Pike demos in the video are the Aputure M9 ($45), the Viltrox L132T ($37), the Aputure H198 ($58), the Came-TV Boltzen B30S ($328), and a pre-release mystery light that he’ll talk about in a future video. (Links to all of these lights are in the video description.) He also uses some 4x4s for diffusion and bounce.
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 17, 2018
‘First and Final Frames’ Is Back to Show Us the Power of Bookending Films
Ready for round three of “First and Final Frames?”
A few years back, video essayist Jacob T. Swinney captured our attention in a big way with a simple video that juxtaposed the first frames of a film with the last, offering little more than gentle music to pair with the side-by-side images. Well, after 2 1/2 years, he’s back with the third installment of his popular “First and Final Frames” series, complete with some of the best films of the year, to give us the chance to explore, once again, the way films are bookended and what can be learned from it.
What can a supercut like this teach us about filmmaking? Well, potentially a lot. Some of these examples reveal how the first frame mirrors the final frame, like in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, indicating that, perhaps, the “end” is just like the “beginning” or that the hero’s journey has come full circle. Other examples, like in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, reveal a stark contrast that shows the audience how much the protagonist’s circumstances have changed. Still, others reveal nothing at all, at least not intentionally.
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 16, 2018
The Showtime House Rocks Rainey Street
Join us at The SHOWTIME House at Clive Bar on Rainey Street for a three-day party to celebrate Original Series SMILF, THE CHI and SHAMELESS.
We kicked things off on Thursday by bringing Southie to South By in honor of SMILF with a kickass lineup of all-female bands, a custom button-making station, and a special appearance by Golden Globe® nominee Frankie Shaw.
On Friday, catch the vibe of THE CHI with performances by Chicago hip-hop artists including Joey Purp and an epic DJ set by DMC from RUN-DMC. Sample some South Side flavor with food from Harold’s Chicken Shack, a fresh sneaker gallery and a Chicago art wall.
Saturday is gonna be SHAMELESS. We’re throwing a St. Patrick’s Gallagher’s Day Party not to be forgotten – or remembered if you’re Frank Gallagher. Join special guest bartenders Steve Howey (Kevin) and Shanola Hampton (V) for drinks, dancing and debauchery.
Showtime will have a complimentary valet bike service near the Showtime House for Austin B-Cycle riders. While on Rainey, stop by the SHOWTIME Swag Shop to get FREE merch all three days. Don’t have Showtime yet? Start your extended 30-day free trial with code “SXSW18” at getshowtime.com.
Sponsored Content and Photo Provided by Showtime
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Source: SxSW Film
March 16, 2018
Couldn’t Make it to Everything? Evernote Has Your Back
As SXSW winds down, the gravity of it all begins to sink in. Whether you’ve been here for just one day, or the entire week, there are always speakers you wish you had seen and session you’re sad you missed. That’s where Evernote comes in.
We’ve attended over 50 sessions across the Workplace, Intelligent Future, and Brands & Marketing tracks, capturing content and providing free professional-quality notes. Over the course of the week, we’ve covered speakers from companies such as Facebook, Google, Airbnb, The Wing, Cisco, Pandora and more.
You can get your hands on content from sessions covering the likes of cryptocurrencies, AI in the workplace, innovation and company policy, the future of CSR, inclusion in tech, self-driving cars, and so much more.
Knowing that everyone captures content in different ways, we’ve included words, photos, session slides and PDFs, all to ensure that you’re able to obtain the full SXSW experience and walk away with rich content, key takeaways, and new knowledge.
Check out the full list of sessions we’ve covered and be sure to follow us on Twitter and Instagram for a behind-the-scenes look at Evernote at SXSW.
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Source: SxSW Film