Super 8
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Watch: How to Shoot Super 8 in the 21st Century
This video from DSLRguide covers the very rudimentary basics of shooting Super 8 — over- vs. under-exposure, things to look for when buying a camera, etc. Test footage is included.
by Filmmaker Staff on May 31, 2016 -
Reality, Boxed and “The New China”
Dropkick.sh Our lives are becoming a game of measures and countermeasures, our daily journeys an assortment of micro-decisions as we alternately dispense and protect our most private information. But while some of us may consent to Internet tracking in order to improve our “advertising experience,” none of us wants to be recorded taking a shower or having sex in an Airbnb. Linux and Mac users can download Dropkick.sh, a script that disables the webcams some hosts have installed to keep tabs on their apartment renters. (https://julianoliver.com/output/log_2015-12-18_14-39) Google Cardboard With Oculus Rift slower to take hold in the consumer world and […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 20, 2016 -
Shooting A New Feature on Super 8: Director Matthew Wade on the Three Years It Took to Complete How the Sky Will Melt
Matthew Wade‘s How the Sky Will Melt premieres September 1st on NoBudge.com. In this guest post, he explains the difficulties of shooting a Super 8 feature and completing post-production over the course of the last three years. There are two questions I’ve become all too familiar with since prepping my first feature film, How the Sky Will Melt, three years ago (principal photography took place October 2012). The first and most common were “Are you crazy?” The question is not asked because I want to make a movie, or even a feature length movie, nor even necessarily that I’m choosing […]
by Matthew Wade on Aug 18, 2015 -
Haunted Houses and Hidden Spaces
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld Behind the familiar Internet most of us inhabit skulks the dark net: unlinked, encrypted, password-protected sites and pages serving as forums for everything from marijuana-by-mail sales to mutual suicide webcam pacts. Author Jamie Bartlett is director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Media at the United Kingdom think tank Demos, which makes him well qualified to dive in and find out what the deeper implications of the dark net might be. Some British reviewers have taken issue with Bartlett’s optimistic assessment that these unregulated channels are by and large a good thing; […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Apr 28, 2015 -
Jess + Moss — A Hammer to Nail Review
(Jess + Moss world premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It opens theatrically at the reRun Gastropub in New York City on Friday, February 17, 2012. If you are not in NYC, don’t worry, as it is now available on VOD at the following outlets: YouTube, iTunes, Sundance Now, and Amazon. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) While there are many pressing existential questions, to my mind, this is one of the most significant: can one make a truly effective film about aimlessness and boredom without that film becoming excruciatingly aimless and boring in its own right? […]
by Michael Tully on Feb 16, 2012 -
Gerard Ravel and the Super 8 Festival that Launched J.J. Abrams
In Super 8, writer/director J.J. Abrams (pictured) tells the story of a group of adolescent filmmakers in a small Ohio town whose big dream is to get their film into the fictional Cleveland International Super 8 Film Festival. The film never shows us if their movie makes it — the kids are sidetracked by an alien invasion, after all — but in real life Abrams was part of a real life band of teen filmmakers showcased at a festival titled “The Best Teen Super 8mm Films of ’81.” Held at L.A.’s Nuart Theater in March 1982, it helped launch the […]
by Todd Longwell on Nov 22, 2011 -
SHE AND HIM IN SUPER 8
She and Him, the band comprised of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, have a new video out for their song “Thieves.” It’s in gloriously grainy Super 8 and directed by Norwood Cheek, who is also responsible for L.A.’s Flicker Film Festival. Check out the video below.
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 10, 2010 -
AMOS POE’S WHITE ALBUM
I thought I knew Amos Poe’s first film, but after reading his account of the early days of his career as well as Lower East Side film in general, it turns out that I didn’t. From his piece at Truly Free Film: My first Super 8 film, was a series of shorts made to the Beatles “White” album. I loved that record and came up with short stories or ideas for each song. My friends helped and “acted” in these films. With ”Rocky Racoon” I did single-frame animation, for “Dear Prudence”, I managed to convince the most beautiful girl in […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 11, 2010
