September 2, 2017

5 Things That Will Make Location Scouting a Little Easier

Scouting locations for your production can be a headache, but these five things will make it a whole lot easier.

Location scouting is something you do to prepare for a production, but it too needs quite a bit of preparation before you ever step foot on a potential spot. You have to assess everything, like the look of the location, its power resources, and noise pollution. You have to make sure the location makes sense to your story. You have to think about literally everything before making a final decision and it’s exhausting. However, Morgan Cooper of Cooper Films tries to make this process less of a guessing game by giving you five location scouting tips in the video below. Check it out:

If you’re a director and/or a cinematographer, Cooper’s five tips are perfect for you (assuming that you’ll be the one out there scouting):

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Source: NoFilmSchool

September 2, 2017

8 Ways to Get Creative with Your Boring Tripod

Tripods may not be super exciting, but they can definitely help you capture shots that are.

Do you know the full potential of your tripod? If you’re not sure, here’s how you can tell if you do or not. Take a look at your tripod—do you see a jib, a handheld camera stabilizer, and a SnorriCam rig? If you don’t, don’t feel bad; envisioning the cinematic possibilities of such an unglamorous piece of gear can be a challenge, but over at Film Riot, Ryan Connolly and his team took up that challenge and came up with eight clever ways to utilize your tripod to make your cinematography more smoother and more creative.

You may have heard of a few of these ideas, especially the rubber band trick, but a lot of these are (hopefully) most likely new to a lot of you.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

September 1, 2017

Canon Adds 3 New Lenses to Its Tilt-Shift Arsenal

Canon’s tilt-shift lenses now cover the spectrum from wide-angle to telephoto.

Canon has three new exciting tilt-shift lenses coming to the marketplace in November 2017. These lenses join the two existing wide-angle tilt-shift lenses from Canon, creating a collection of five phenomenal options. Tilt-shift lenses are used for a wide variety of different situations, including architecture, portraiture, and landscape imagery. The lenses can be manipulated with tilt and shift knobs, giving content creators tight control over depth of field.

Canon has provided consumers with three different focal lengths from which to choose, including 50mm, 90mm, and 135mm. In addition to having macro capabilities, these lenses are also part of Canon’s superior quality L-series.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

September 1, 2017

Watch: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ Gets the Trailer it Deserves for 2017

40 years later, we make contact again.

Steven Spielberg’s 1977 sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind has been revisited and re-released multiple times. Columbia Pictures pushed back the film’s original release from summer 1977 to November 1977 because of production issues, but Spielberg reportedly wanted more time and a summer 1978 release date. Columbia needed a hit in 1977, so November it was. In 1980, Spielberg convinced Columbia to give him more financing to tweak the film, and the Special Edition was released theatrically with additional scenes (including the inside of the mothership, per Columbia Pictures’ re-release marketing request against Spielberg’s wishes) and some cuts to the original.

Sony has released a new 4K digital remastered version of Spielberg’s preferred cut into theatres across the U.S.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

September 1, 2017

Adapting ‘Polina’: ‘We Wanted to Make a Film on Dance That Itself Dances’

Discover how the filmmakers transformed the pages of the graphic novel with movement to explore the journey of a dancer’s life.

Like the spare, elegant graphic novel by Bastien Vivès on which it is based, Polina, the new film from Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj, has an arresting immediacy about it from the start. The film tells the story of a girl (played by Anastasia Shevtsova, herself a dancer with the Russian Mariinsky Theater) who, after studying with a rather repressive ballet teacher as a child, breaks away to study under different masters—most notably Liria, a modern dance choreographer based in Aix-en-Provence, played here with understated force by Juliette Binoche.

As it turns out, Polina’s most important master is herself, as the film shows her gradual trajectory from a confident student into a person who guides other dancers. The route she take to get to that point is not necessarily smooth, and Polina finds herself in numerous locales and circumstances before her “arrival”; at times, the film reads like a distant descendant of Agnes Varda’s Vagabond.

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Source: NoFilmSchool

September 1, 2017

Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive: Prices are lower, but our favorite remains the same

The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are the two big names in the virtual-reality arena, but most people can only afford one. Our comparison tells you which is best when you pit the Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive.

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Source: Digital Trends VR

September 1, 2017

State-of-the-art scanning technique digitizes humans, sticks them in VR

Scientists at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Germany have developed a state-of-the-art scanning technique for capturing realistic images of a person. And you can record models for VR and AR at their studio

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Source: Digital Trends VR

September 1, 2017

Introducing the Unsplash Awards

Introducing the Unsplash Awards

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Sep 01, 2017

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