Creative Inspiration
Stay Indoors Inspiration: Take a (Virtual) Museum Tour
“From interactive, 360-degree videos and full 'walk-around' tours with voiceover descriptions to slideshows with zoomable photos”
News and Features
Creative Inspiration
“The Plot Against America:” Philip Roth’s “What If..?” Is David Simon’s “What Now?”
“Staying true to the intent of the book, while also doing the things necessary to make it a viable miniseries, it was kind of...
Video
Russia’s Hermitage Museum: Five Hours, 4K, One Continuous Take
Take a “cinematic journey” with director Axinya Gog and her iPhone 11 Pro.
How To
Stay Indoors Education: Shane Hurlbut’s (Free!) Lighting Workshop
Hurlbut Academy offers its Illumination Tour Workshop, streamed online for free for the next three months
How To
Literally in the Trenches: Analyzing the Camerawork on “1917”
"The dance of the camera and the mechanics all had to be in sync with what the actor was doing," explains “1917” director Sam...
How To
How “Joker” Was Inspired by the Memory of Gritty ’70s Cinema More Than the Films Themselves
"I went back and watched a couple of movies were referencing, thinking that they were going to really give us this template for...
How To
The Impact of Infrared Imagery
Infrared cinematography, Hurlbut Academy explains in its latest tutorial, “is about finding another way to look at the world, about making viewers reassess their...
Creative Inspiration
One Big Score: Capturing the Frenetic Pace of The Safdie Bros.’ “Uncut Gems”
Filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie team with acclaimed cinematographer Darius Khondji for a high stakes thriller set in the Diamond District of New York...
Creative Inspiration
Achieving the Poetic Visuals for “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
“Believe the hype: The film is beautiful and shattering, a paean to the female gaze that’s shot by women, directed by a woman, and...
Product Reviews
Watch: How the Canon C500 Mark II Offers a Cinematic Look (at a Reasonable Price)
From the internal raw codec to the compact, modular design, watch and see what sets this camera apart.
How To
Watch: How to Conduct a Better On-Camera Interview
“One of my favorite things about working in this industry is talking to people and learning their stories.”
Product News and Reviews
FX9: Philip Bloom Evaluates Sony’s Evolutionary Camera
“There’s so much that I absolutely love about it.”
How To
Build the Real-Time Remote Editing Suite You Need Today
"As a narrative feature editor, working in real time with the director is an absolute must."
Creative Inspiration
“The Invisible Man” and How to Make a Modern Monster Movie
Director Leigh Whannell made creative use of the different types of frights you could come up with — the quiet opening of a door,...
How To
What You Can’t See: Negative Space and Cinematography for “The Invisible Man”
“Leigh and I really loved how artificial and austere the motion control camera moves were,” says cinematographer Stefan Duscio
Product News and Reviews
What to Think About When You’re Thinking About a New HDR Monitor
“When picking an HDR monitor, these should be your top considerations.”
Creative Inspiration
American Pastoral: Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow”
“It’s not capturing grand landscapes, but people who have very small lives.”
Resources
“Full Frame” Sensors: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
What do people mean when they refer to “full-frame” when speaking about an image sensor for cinematography?
News and Features
Full Frame, But For Indie Filmmakers? Panasonic’s Lumix S1H Camera
“With the Lumix S1H, Panasonic has used its considerable video experience to bring many of its high-end VariCam features to the Lumix S range.”
Expertise
High Dynamic Range (HDR): Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
De-mystifying this ubiquitous term
Creative Inspiration
First Dispatches from “The French Dispatch”
“Many times he will describe what he wants to shoot and I will think ‘that’s going to be really difficult,’ but somehow we always...
Creative Inspiration
“This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection:” “Subconscious” Storytelling and the Software to Make It Happen
"Being able to complete post production using a single piece of software makes so much more sense to me creatively.”
Product Reviews
Download a Free Beginner’s Guide to DaVinci Resolve 16
The in-depth 400+-page PDF goes over everything from picture editing, audio work in Fairlight, creating special effects in Fusion, and—of course—color correction.
Product Reviews
2020 Best of Show Special Edition Awards Open for Nominations
Honoring and helping to promote outstanding new products introduced this spring.
Creative Inspiration
How “Devs” Creator Alex Garland Fuses Tech, Tension and Apprehension Like Nobody Else
“It’s very clearly the case that technology and technological advances are happening at a rate that we are not able to keep up with.”
How To
The Pretty, Pretty Good… Cinematography on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“We're pretty precise as far as the... planning what's going to happen in the scene and we have really good people that know how...
How To
Work(flows) from Home: What You’ll Need for Remote Collaboration
There are many different ways in which people can and do collaborate remotely. Some methods work quite well. Others are still very much a...
How To
A Study in Contrasts (No, Literally): What Look is the Right One for Your Project?
“Skillful use of contrast requires both artistic creativity and practical technique. You need to understand both if you want to use contrast effectively in...
How To
Watch: What You Need to Start in Documentary Production
In B&H’s event space, documentarian Aaron Lieber offers practical advice on production... and persistence
How To
Remote Post Workflows… or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Edit Sessions from the Sofa
Post production has its own set of challenges when a team is works remotely.
Expertise
Codecs and Compression: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Understanding audio and video signals are encoded into digital files using codecs—shorthand for compression/decompression.
Product Reviews
Watch the Experts Put Sony’s Full Frame FX9 To the Test
Building on the success of the Sony FX7, the Sony PXW-FX9 delivers a lower-end camera with a 17:9 full frame sensor.
How To
Wedding Video Production: Matthew Van Ness Tells You What to Do (and Definitely Not Do)
“Dos” and “don’ts” of wedding video production, post and delivery
Product Reviews
EIZO Intros Pro-Level 4K Monitor for Prosumers
The ColorEdge CS2740 display offers many of the professional level features and quality of EIZO’s ColorEdge CG series.
How To
“College Behind Bars:” How Filmmakers Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein Gained Unprecedented Access for Their Documentary
Four-part PBS documentary series executive produced by Ken Burns follows prisoners through the Bard Prison Initiative, one of the most rigorous and effective prison...
Expertise
Come Together: How Video Can Keep Us Connected
“These new mediums for creativity and communication can, we hope, keep social distancing from making us truly distant.”
How To
Getting That “Joker” Look in DaVinci Resolve 16
In this three-part tutorial, Qazi Waqas of The Post Village details how to duplicate the visual style of Joker using Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve...
Creative Inspiration
Just Your Basic Love Ghost Story: How Claire Mathon Captured the Visuals of “Atlantics”
The “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” cinematographer delivers a dreamy yet vibrant, color-saturated look for Mati Diop’s debut feature.
Creative Inspiration
“Emma.” and How to Make Your Movie a Tasty Treat
“I told all my departments,” explains “Emma.” director Autumn de Wilde, “the colors need to feel edible.”
Product News and Reviews
Sigma fp and Cinema DNG: Production, Post and This Pocket-Sized Camera
“The images had great dynamic range, and colors appeared exactly how I like them.”
News
One Take Wonder: “Victoria,” a Feature Film in a Single Take, Astounds Audiences
Victoria, the two-hour thriller shot entirely in a single take, has received multiple accolades, including an award at the most recent Berlin Film Festival...
How To
OK, So… How Exactly Do You Make an “Instant Movie”?
This “instant movie” was all about demonstrating technologies now available to moviemakers—including the use of cloud storage and playout—that make it possible to greatly...