May 12, 2018

Watch: 7 Ways You Might Be Using Your Camera Wrong

These common mistakes are super frustrating but they’re also 100% avoidable.

We’ve all made some pretty amateur mistakes at the beginning of our filmmaking careers, from not charging your camera before a shoot to not pressing record before “recording”. (I was guilty of that for a weirdly extensive amount of time.) However, there are many other ways that a filmmaker can use their cameras incorrectly, some of which may not be as obvious as leaving your damn lens cap on. David Flores of B&H goes over seven ways you could potentially be misusing your camera in the video below.

Even though Flores’ tips focus more on how to use a camera correctly for photography, they still apply to filmmaking and cinematography.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

May 12, 2018

Are These 5 Dirt Cheap Filmmaking Must-Haves in Your Gear Bag?

Any gear that is under $100 is worth a closer look.

It’s a cruel joke that filmmaking is as creatively gratifying as it is expensive. Well, it is most of the time—expensive, I mean. Sometimes, when the clouds part and the heavens shine down upon us, a piece of equipment reveals its glory to us, its visage a beacon of hope, its price tag a cape of redemption. Good cheap gear and supplies is what I’m talking about here, my fellow broke-ass filmmakers, so what are some items that are not only essential but also reasonably priced? In this video, Chrystopher Rhodes of YCImaging lists five must-haves that won’t burn a hole in your pocket.

Here are the items Rhodes lists in the video:

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Source: NoFilmSchool

May 11, 2018

‘Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Blade Runner’: Vaughn Stein on His Production Design Influences

Starring Margot Robbie, the new noir ‘Terminal’ takes place in a train station where things are not as they seem.

One of the many accomplishments of Terminal, Vaughn Stein’s debut film, is its creation of a convincing and enmeshing dark subworld in which characters thrash around wildly, all wrestling with their own demons. Another of its accomplishments is that the characters never lose their verbal dexterity in the midst of these struggles.

The story of the film is both old and new, something of a rewriting of Alice in Wonderland as an urban noir fantasy, but also a tale about dishonesty and revenge: a political allegory also serving as a human story.

The film takes place in a vast train station and, more specifically, a seedy diner within that train station. Margot Robbie plays Bunny, a stripper, and Annie, a waitress, who are (basically) the same person. Two of Annie’s regulars at the diner where she works are hitmen, hired by a mysterious gentleman to do a hit, the details of which will be revealed to them at the restaurant.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

May 11, 2018

Gamers aren’t convinced by Windows Mixed Reality headsets

The audience for Windows Mixed Reality headsets is shrinking on Steam, despite a steady drop in prices since the platform first debuted. Just 5 percent of all VR users on Steam now use WMR hardware.

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Source: Digital Trends VR

May 10, 2018

Google’s ARCore 1.2 brings social AR experiences to your phone

Google launched an update to ARCore that should help make augmented reality a little more social. On top of that, Google also announced “Vertical Plane Detection,” which will help AR apps detect real-world objects.

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Source: Digital Trends VR