Did you ever stop to think about all the filmmaking terms we use nowadays that harken back to the good ol’ days when “films” were actually shot on film? (Uh, wait. They’re still shot on film. Hmm?) Did you ever stop to think about all the filmmaking terms we use nowadays that harken back to […]
Effective Use of Photographs in Video – Beyond the Ken Burns Effect
With the advent of “Fusion,” many photographers are adding video to their repertoire of services. There are few definitions for this term fusion. One of the primary ones is “the combination of stills and video.” (The irony is, filmmakers have been doing this for decades, but ever since HD DSLRs hit the scene, people are […]
Top 5 April Fool’s Videos of 2011
Okay, here are my top five April Fool’s videos from 2011.
Photographers Need to Take Audio More Seriously
In just the past few days I’ve seen some videos created by photographers that, as a filmmaker, caused me to cringe. It’s one of the biggest, if not the biggest issue photographers-turned-filmmakers have. Crappy audio. This is an issue I’ve addressed a number of times before. So I sorta feel like a broken record. But […]
Crossing the 180 #28: Drea Cooper of California is a Place
One of the hottest film series on Vimeo is a set of short documentaries about interesting people in California. California is a Place looks at the lives of a wide variety of characters: from a washed up used car salesman, to a couple of die-hard patriots risking life and limb to protect our borders from […]
Crossing the 180 #27: Jesse Rosten of iPad+Velcro Fame
Have you ever wondered about all the amazing things you could do with your iPad if you just put your mind to it? Well, so did today’s guest, and that wonderment garnered him online video fame, as well as, as far as I know, the only non-commissioned personal video on Apple’s website touting one of […]
Crossing the 180 #26: Ryan Booth
I continue my series of interviews with Vimeo/Canon “Beyond the Still” filmmakers with today’s interview of Chapter 5 winner Ryan Booth. That’s right, today I have on someone who was actually one of the winners. Ryan is somewhat of a Renaissance man. He started out as a history major, then became an audio engineer, then […]
The Challenges of Protecting Your Copyrights Online
Last week Chase Jarvis posted a very intriguing short documentary film about a stolen image from Flickr (the film was created by FStoppers). In short, Noam Galai posted a self-portrait photograph of himself screaming and it was circulated worldwide. It ended up on the cover of magazines, books, spray-painted on walls, used in propaganda brochures, […]
What do you do when clients hate what THEY asked for?
This past Friday I had a sort of “meeting of the minds” with some amazingly talented filmmakers (more on that at a later date). One topic that came up for discussion was dealing with clients who ask you for something, you tell them “that won’t be good,” they tell you to do it anyway, you […]
Crossing the 180 #25 – Kenny Mosher
The Canon/Vimeo Beyond the Still film contest was a groundbreaking experiment in group storytelling. One of the contestants from the first round of finalists was my guest for today, Kenny Mosher of Showdown Visuals. The film he submitted was “Alderwood” and for the longest time it was a favorite to win. Unfortunately, in the 11th […]