Since its inception, the Sundance Film Festival has been considered the premier platform for independent film, and the 2013 event will be no different with numerous feature length films selected from 4,044 submissions from around the world. While there will be no shortage of diverse topics, styles and themes, four of the films at the 2013 festival...
See life in Brooklyn in super slow-motion thanks to the guys at Variable, who spent 8 hours in the borough with a Phantom Flex. Skateboarding, breakdancing, basketball and fire hydrant block parties all take on a surreal kind of beauty with the high-speed camera. Watch below.
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo creates a destructive gale in his wake in a new spot touting Nike's Mercurial Vapor IX shoes. The one-minute spot is shot in beautiful, detailed slow-motion. Watch below.
Cinematographer David Kruta talks about what it's like to have his first feature, Concussion, premiering at Sundance. He says, "It is intimidating and invigorating arriving in Park City for my first Sundance Film Festival surrounded by nothing but passion; for films, stories, life, friends old and new. Some of the most influential...
Cinematographer David Mullen (Big Love, Smash) gives an in-depth lecture on Innovations in Lighting in this video from AbelCine Expo, including how he uses lighting cheats to create certain effects along with demos of new lighting fixtures.
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Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto talks about how he was able to achieve three different looks for the three very different locations (CIA headquarters, Hollywood and Tehran) of Argo. He says, "As a director of photography, I like working differently from one movie to the next instead of just using one particular style. I like to find a...
This demo video from White Kanga demonstrates the technology that they created that allows for interactive projection mapping on 3D objects. Watch how gestures can control the video "liquid" flowing through a bottle. (via FStoppers)
This year's NAB Technology Summit on Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound, produced in partnership with SMPTE, will be taking place on April 6-7th. The summit will provide an in-depth global view of the new wave of technology coming soon to your local multiplex, with an eye toward how it might later affect the broader media ecosystem.
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Phil Rhodes took the RED Epic Monochrome black-and-white camera on a test run, writing, "This is an Epic, with all of the characteristics of an Epic, the sensitivity and high frame rate options, but built for real black-and-white purists. To most people, the advantages of this camera over simply desaturating a colour image are slight,...
A new sample image from RED's upcoming Dragon sensor shows that the revolutionary sensor is capable of poducing 20 stops of dynamic range. Explains Filmmaker Magazine, "Jim Jannard said that they see 18+ stops, and that the sensor would have about four stops more dynamic range than Red’s current Mysterium-X sensor with less than...
