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New Kid on the Digital Cinema Block

Posted on 15 September 2008

Move over RED ONE and Silicon Imaging there’s a new kid in town. Ikonoskop a Swedish company known for small form factor 16mm cameras introduces an HD Raw digital film camera the A-cam dII This small file based camera sports a Super 16MM sized CCD sensor with global shutter. That means no jello-cam on fast moving [...] Continue Reading

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Red In the Wild

Posted on 04 September 2007

Red has begun shipping. The first 25 production units, are now out in the wild., and stirring up a frenzy. If you’re looking for footage or image captures you can as always check out Reduser.net for the latest images, info, gripes, and praise. Also check out FX Guides unboxing, and subsequent notes and image captures with unit [...] Continue Reading

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The Revolution Continues…

Posted on 02 August 2007

Speaking of RED, and more importantly the idea of getting high quality, high resolution image acquisition gear at a modest budget, enter Stu Maschwitz, film-maker, technologist, and author of the DV Rebel’s Guide who has taken this concept to the next level. That rig on his shoulder (photo courtesy of Stu’s blog Prolost), is capable of [...] Continue Reading

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Moby Gets It

Posted on 30 July 2007

Artist and composer, Moby, best known for his house music, but no stranger to film and tv production (see his credits here) is getting in on the Indi-film action by offering free music for use indie productions. this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of [...] Continue Reading

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The “Film” Revolution

Posted on 07 November 2006

The internet is always abuzz with hype on the latest and greatest video cameras and software innovations. If it wasn’t for paying work you’d see me blogging daily on bleeding edge digital video technology. As it is, I have to earn a living and so I leave the news gathering for the most part to [...] Continue Reading

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johnaugust.com » As it turns out, I could care less

Posted on 16 October 2006

John August, who I look forward to hearing speak at this week-ends Austin Film Festival had this interesting point of view on the transition from screenwriting to directing: As it turns out, I could care less. “I think part of being a writer, or an actor, is letting yourself feel things without judgment. A director leads [...] Continue Reading

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Evolutionary biology meets screenwriting

Posted on 07 August 2006

Just finishing off my Monday morning blog reading. I love Craig Mazin. First, the writers utopia and now this. Anyone who compares selling a screenplay to sex and evolutionary biology is a genius. I could elaborate, but just go read it, and then get seducing… Continue Reading

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The Anonymous Collaborator

Posted on 07 August 2006

I just finished reading the latest post on John August’s blog, “Test Screening The Movie.” It gave me pause to see that such and accomplished and prolific storyteller has the same stresses, anxieties, and problems my collaborators and I are facing on my latest project.Viewing your film with friends, family, and colleagues is great, and [...] Continue Reading

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Is Digital More Natural?

Posted on 03 August 2006

I missed this years Digital Day at the Directors Guild, due to some business travel. I really enjoyed last years panels, particularly meeting the great Ray Bradbury. I‘ve been so busy I hadn’t thought too much about what I missed until I saw Chris Anderson’s article on “How shooting digitally changes acting,” a panel discussion [...] Continue Reading

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The Digital Revolution: What to Expect from Film’s Second Century

Posted on 27 July 2006

Scott Kirsner has posted an audio file of The Digital Revolution: What to Expect from Film’s Second Century on his excellent blog CinemaTech. The audio file (which is unfortunately in RealAudio format) is about an hour and features Richard Chuang, co-founder of PDI/DreamWorks, Jeff Fino, co-founder of Wild Brain, John Knoll, visual effects supervisor at ILM, [...] Continue Reading

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