Arthur Conan Doyle’s crime-solving dynamo Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson have taken many cinematic forms, but on CBS’ incarnation, Elementary, the Edwardian duo is re-imagined in contemporary Manhattan with Jonny Lee Miller as a more excitable young Holmes and Lucy Liu in likely the sexiest interpretation the Watson role to appear on screen.
Illustrator, photographer and director Matt Mahurin has created some of the most iconic images of contemporary American popular culture, using technology to amplify emotional content and sparking the ongoing debate surrounding digital manipulation.
Sydney, Australia, December 1963
TCN Channel 9 has given me a rent-free garage. It’s basic and incredibly hot, but I don’t care as I’m off to London next month.
On Monday, August 13, 2012, at 10 a.m. ET, the Huffington Post launched its live streaming news network. Entitled HuffPost Live, live.huffingtonpost.com delivers 12 hours of live programming daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET.
Resolution is a term that is thrown around with reckless abandon like mashed potatoes at a food fight. Unfortunately, it’s a term that is rarely used properly.
The higher the number of samples taken, the more accurate the digital representation of the original subject.
Last time, I broke down the elements of tungsten light sources; for this second installment of Adventures in Lighting, we’ll take a look at fluorescent fixtures.
Phony Fire Flicker
If you’re looking for a small flickering fire effect but you don’t want to really play with fire, try this tip from Ernie Simmons of Alexander, La.: use a grouping of LED tea lights.
Available in most variety stores, these battery powered lights won’t do much singly but work well when used in groups. You can increase the effect by putting them on shiny aluminum foil.
Few people saw the 3D broadcast of the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, which took place Sept. 6 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. In fact, the experience was limited to a few hundred fans, winners of a contest held by Trojan condoms, who viewed the VMAs as an “enhanced experience” in 3D in the L.A. Live Theater across the street.
The Mindy Project, a biting single-camera comedy from writer/producer Mindy Kaling (The Office), follows Dr. Mindy Lahiri, a woman who manages a successful career as an OB/GYN while she undermines her personal life with romantic comedy-fueled unrealistic expectations.
On Monday, August 13, 2012, at 10 a.m. ET, the Huffington Post launched its live streaming news network. Entitled HuffPost Live, live.huffingtonpost.com delivers 12 hours of live programming daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET.
The capabilities of small-format digital video cameras keep improving. Now even high-speed digital photography is becoming affordable for digital cinematographers.
The Central Park Five, the latest documentary from the Ken Burns family, re-examines the tragic account of five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park nearly a quarter of a century ago. All these years later, it’s still hard to figure how everyone—from the police to the courts to the media—got it so wrong.
One of the fun films of this year is Looper, a sci-fi/time travel adventure by director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom). In the story, the character of Joe—a mob killer—is played by both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis—one as the present day version of Joe and the other as his future self. An ambitious film like this typically requires the work of numerous visual effects companies.
David Vassar and co-producer Sally Kaplan’s two-part PBS television special California Forever tells the story of California’s magnificent state parks, from Yosemite’s genesis in 1864 to the present day.
I love my Apple iPhone. Really love it. I’m never without it—quite literally. I’ve got 266 apps on my phone currently—and no, they’re not all versions of Angry Birds. A large portion of my apps are industry-related, tools used in the scope of filmmaking and cinematography.
Thanks to the proliferation of laptops and tablet computers and wireless internet access, the use of physical portfolios and demo reels to show your wares has been increasingly replaced by digital alternatives. The newest of these is Red Giant Software’s Arsenal, a mobile presentation app that lets you present your creative work to clients on an Apple iPad.
