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In recent time there is great headway in photo industry. Modern technology has changed the entire process of photographing. Gone are the days of analog imaging. We are in the era of digital imaging. However, over and above digital imaging, there is nowadays the use of computer in photographing. Some photo software can be run in computer to make room for all types of image manipulation.
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The man who once forced to Klaus Kinski to take direction at gun point has been shot at during an interview with the BBC. The bizara incident is reported on the excellent cinematical.net Werner Herzog shot with air rifle during interviewPosted Feb 8th 2006 11:02PM by Jay Allen Filed under: Documentary Just in case you haven't gotten your quota of movie-related bizarre today, here's one…
In 2006 we wrote here about this new idea of crowd-source financing to fund films, which had funded a few short films – a couple of years before IndieGoGo and Kickstarter took off. We'd followed the growth of a new website 'craze' called YouTube, that was making the industry sit up sweaty, followed their first feature filmmakers Arin and Susan and written about alternative exhibition as Secret Ci…
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name, has also died at his home in Sri Lanka.Clarke served in the&nbs…
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Swedish Grammy nominated mashup of archive evangelists to Familjen's music.
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The Vadar Sessions
Before Star Wars, James Earl Jones starred…
It has often been said that men age and women mature. However women, like wine, tend to mature in one of two ways. They either ripen into something full-flavoured, with lots of body and a myriad of intriguing flavours or they turn onto an unpleasant, acidic vinegar.
It's further said that there are no good parts in Hollywood for the older woman. Well, one person would take issue with that. She's…
Owen Thomas the producer (and now distributor) of the UK's first DV feature, the acclaimed One Life Stand, directed by May Miles Thomas, offers advice from his foray into DVD distribution on How To Sell Your Film (Not Your Soul)
Six years ago everyone was talking DIY filmmaking - how digital tools would revol…
Hollywood
cult film director and producer, Frank Q Dobbs, has died at 66. Dobbs,
a Texan who loved writing Westerns, became a legend in the Texas film
industry. He died from cancer.
Dobbs
was from Houston, and though he spent a lot of time in Hollywood, he
often preferred to film in his native Texas. An old colleague described
him as a real friend to the Lone Star State. "Frank…
I arrived for once a little early, as the last gold balloons were being lifted into place. I decided to walk the block, attempting to hide my game industry noobiness with some assertive power walking. Ah a river. I will gaze across it with a sense of confidence, a metaphorical eye on the future. All is fine.
So as I was scribbling this blog in a cafe in Bristol, the guy opposite told me "I never…
Allan
Kaprow (August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006) helped to develop the
"Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as
their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the
years, and attempted to integrate art and life by blurring the
separation between life and art, and artist and audience. He has
published extensively and was Profess…
Ever wonder which career opportunities you could pursue with a film and video production degree? Finding a job with great benefits and ideal growth opportunities is important to most people who get a degree in Film & Video Production. Here are five of the top career choices for film and video production professionals.
1. Motion Picture Camera Operator - This career choice could be perfect fo…
When
I was very young I was never as excited by films as I was by going to
the theatre - it wasn't until my teens that I started geeking out on
films. The only only exception to that is Buster Keaton, I
watched anything and everything by that man. The fact that he directed
and wrote and stared in his films was one thing. But that he did his
own stunts - that made him a God…
The low budget digital film making revolution is sweeping the industry like a big brush. But in this case the brush is made of pixels, ones and zeros as opposed to the usual brush construction of celluloid, photosensitive dyes and developing chemicals.
One of the leading exponents of this 'Cinema Electronique' is Dutch auteur Hans Von Looz. His films such as, 'Breaking My Patience', 'The Nutters…
It’s not often that you hear a director
ask an actor, “Can we get a few grunts from you? Can you just get
that grunting? Okay, now how about some heavy breathing? And where’s
Zombie Number Two? We need you!” So begins a hectic day of filming
a five-minute thriller for the Sci-Fi-London 48-hour Film Challenge.
Director Vicki Psarias , who won last…
Some very important occasions in your life only comes ones and that's all. Such happening like your wedding, high school graduation party, a trip to a far country or an abnormal happening that you happen to witness are things you will never love to forget. One important thing that is of great important to help you record such occasions is a camera.
Now, with a camera in hand, the next thing that…
Method acting is a technique used by many leading Hollywood actors. Everybody from De Niro to Hoffman uses it. One of the leading teachers of method acting working today is Arnold Bloomberg of the Bloomberg Academy of Drama in New York. Dr Andrew Cousins, went to learn more.
AC: What is your fundamental approach to acting?
AB: For me acting isn't just about pretending to be somebody else. It's…
As the season finally closes in on us, for those tired of the same
old re-runs on TV or wanting to avoid the family warzone of the living
room and watch TV on a computer under your bed - or better still are
looking for films to share during the post-dinner
web video show-off - I've pulled together some of our favorites of the
year.
In the first bundle I've focussed on anima…
“Our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. As the costs of production and distribution fall, especially online, there is now less need to lump products and consumers into one-size-fits-all containers.&rd…
The first time. I can never forget that. Shunted to the outskirts of
town to watch Robert LePage juggle love and war in his heartstopping
multimedia devised play the Seven Streams of the River Ota,
which would eventually run at 7 hours by the time I last saw it at the
National, years later. Stuart Lee and Richard Herring in pre Jerry
Springer the Opera days chumming with Jenny Eclair…
So, Digital and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has backed MP Clare Perry's calls to create a firewall of Britain to support the seemingly reasonable aim of protecting children from pornography (and potentially keeping adults from materials classified under the Obscene Publications Act). With the web now moving further towards the TV, the suggestion is not much of a surprise.
While it's tempting…
It's taken me a while to gather my thoughts about the Second Open Video Conference which took place at the start of October in New York. It featured a vast mix of people and organisations interested in the future of video online - from tech and web shapers to creatives and lawmakers - there's not many places where you can end up round the table with implementers from the W3C, the Firefox and Safa…
With a new chair this year in the shape of Scotsman, Alex Graham, presiding over a delegate list now 2,500 in number and Aussie Heather Croall still proving to be an assured hand in the Director’s role, Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012 is still on a steady and upward trajectory. Funding and making docs is tough territory but in these financial anni horribili the festival itself succeeded in not only keepi…
Brilliant actor Paul Scoffield, star of A Man for All Seasons, the Crucible and Quiz Show, has also passed away.David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an award-winning English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award&nbs…