Filmmaking
Filmmaking
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SHANE HURLBUT’S HDSLR CAMERA PROTOCOL
D.P. Shane Hurlbut has been active in both HDSRL shooting and also, through his blog, HDSLR instruction. Check out this recent video outlining a D.P.’s camera protocol when shooting with these cameras. Hurlbut Visuals Camera Protocol from Shane Hurlbut, ASC on Vimeo. (Hat tip: Photocine News.)
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BANKSY STORYBOARDS AND DIRECTS “THE SIMPSONS”
Artist Banksy, whose Exit to the Gift Shop is one of the best films of the year, storyboarded and directed the opening “couch gag” sequence of tonight’s The Simpsons. It references the fact that much of the Simpsons animation is outsourced to South Korea. Check it out.
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Vimeo Announces Vimeo Awards Winners
The Vimeo Festival + Awards has announced the winners of its first annual competition last night in New York. From the press release: A distinguished panel of judges — including M.I.A., David Lynch, Roman Coppola, Ted Hope, Lucy Walker, and Morgan Spurlock, to name a few — chose the winners from more than 6,500 entries submitted from around the world. Legendary cult Director David Lynch, who judged the Experimental Category of the Festival commented, “The quality of films I watched for the Vimeo Festival was A Number One.” Roman Coppola, film Director and founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, […]
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BRUCE STERLING @VIMEO FESTIVAL
Characteristically witty and provocative, sometimes curmudgeonly so, author Bruce Sterling closed out this weekend’s Vimeo Festival in New York City with a 50-minute talk titled “Vernacular Video” that began by asking, “Why is Andrea Allen funny?” (Here I will confess that I didn’t know who Andrea Allen is. If you’re like me, I will point you to her Vimeo page and quote Sterling, who called her a “perky, approachable and outgoing 20-something person” who can sometimes look “pensive and deep.” More to the point, she is the Community Manager at Vimeo who started as a user, just like you and […]
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TRAILER WATCH: “BLUE VALENTINE”
Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine opens December 31 and stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Here’s the first trailer from the Weinstein Company.
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“BLUE VALENTINE” GETS NC-17
In news that just makes you scratch your head, according the Mike Fleming at Deadline, the MPAA ratings board has given Derek Cianfrance‘s Sundance gem (and Oscar hopeful) Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating. Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple who are on the verge of a divorce, Fleming says the rating was given due to the scene where Gosling and Williams’ characters spend the night in an adult fantasy suite. “They get drunk and their problems intensify when he wants to have sex and she doesn’t, but will to get him off her back. It is […]
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“ZENITH” AND SHOCKS TO THE SYSTEM
Directed by Anonymous (or, maybe, “experiment supervisor” Vladan Nikolic), Zenith is described as a “paranoid sci-fi found object from the future,” and it’s inspired by the notorious Milgram experiment, a real psychology experiment exploring man’s potential for both acquiescence to authority and cruelty. Wrote Michael Atkinson in the Village Voice: “The film they don’t want you to see,” by “Anonymous,” shouts the teaser, prefaced by warnings of legal threats and “illegal” images. Zenith comes off at first blush as merely a spurt of faux-transgression looking for rubberneckers. But it’s actually a densely written, sparsely filmed dystopia, using the wasteyards and […]
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A Free Guide To DSLR Cinematography
If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that Koo’s No Film School is one of my favorite blogs. It has rapidly become a trusted source for new product news and evaluations as Koo looks at what’s new from the point-of-view of the working independent filmmaker. He also comes up with a lot of great finds, like this beautiful footage from d.p. Timur Civan, who put an ancient 1908 Wollensak 35mm F5.0 Cine-Velostigmat hand cranked cinema camera lens on his Canon 5D Mark 2, achieving a vintage, analog look. Check this out: 102 year old lens on 5D mkII – Video […]
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REMEMBERING JOHN LENNON’S LOST, MAYBE GAY WEEKEND
In the bookstores is a new John Lennon bio, Lennon Revealed, and speculation about Lennon’s famous “lost weekend” to Spain with Marianne Faithfull where it’s long been rumored that he had an affair with manager Brian Epstein. In an interview published on the Today show site, author Larry Kane discusses the topic and brings up one of the best independent films of the 1990s. From the piece: Did John Lennon and Brian Epstein have physical sexual relations with each other? It was a question that was on many minds within the Beatles’ circle, and to a lesser degree within the […]
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RICHARD CURTIS’S EXPLODING CHILDREN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Four Weddings and a Funeral director Richard Curtis scripted this commercial promoting a climate change campaign that’s been pulled from theaters in the U.K. due to its…. exploding children. Gillian Anderson did the voiceover, Radiohead provided music, and it also features soccer star Peter Crouch. In their report, The Guardian notes the inspiration of Monty Python, but many people didn’t seem to get the joke. Learn more about the 10:10 campaign that urges people to cut their carbon emissions here.
