Expertise
And You May Ask Yourself… Does Color Science Matter?
“Color is one of the most important tools you have.”
Video
How To
Filming on the Front Lines: “Inside Italy’s Covid War”
“What I wanted to do was tell the story, from the beginning, of the psychological impact this was having on the healthcare workers and...
Creative Inspiration
“Tales from the Loop:” Making These Fantasies a Reality
“We didn’t know at the end of all of this whether or not there would be a place that would embrace the kind of...
Creative Inspiration
How “Little America” Captures the Immigrant Experience One Story at a Time
Inspired by true stories, Apple TV+ anthology series uses stylized, dramatized vignettes to go beyond the headlines.
News
Take a (Virtual) Museum Tour (or 50)
“From interactive, 360-degree videos and full 'walk-around' tours with voiceover descriptions to slideshows with zoomable photos”
News
Let Movies Show You How to Social Distance
For the first and last time we can say, “Follow the outstanding example set by Charles Foster Kane”
News
Watch: First Impressions of the SIGMA fp
"It has great low-light performance, very, very low noise in the blacks especially."
News
Watch: The Camera’s Role in Documenting Critical Social Movements
For PBS NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown looks at the power of the camera to shape and shift public perceptions—now and in the past.
Creative Inspiration
Boots Riley’s Bonkers/Brilliant Style on “Sorry to Bother You”
The revolution will be not be telemarketed.
News
Watch: Integrating the Visual Effects Into “Chernobyl”
“ was to be completely story-driven where VFX would provide support for the drama in every shot.”
Creative Inspiration
“Random Acts of Flyness:” Terence Nance Defines a New Visual Language
The HBO series "incorporates and commingles animation, documentary, confession, satire, music video, and magic-realist fantasia."
News
Canon’s C300 Mark III: Super 35mm, Dual Gain Output Sensor, Seriously Customizable
With a dual gain output (DGO) sensor, Canon's new/next camera features a modular design and an interchangeable lens mount optional accessory
News
Philip Bloom Tests the Panasonic S1H at 180fps, Lollipop Tests a Treat Dispenser, Everybody Has a Great Day
“A little bit of fun with the superb Panasonic S1H and a homage to ‘Fantasia’ of course.”
Creative Inspiration
How Documentarian Matthew Wolf Tackled an Archive of 70,000 VHS Tapes for “Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project”
A visionary media critic and public access television host, Marion Stokes sought to create a comprehensive archive of American television that would one day...
News
Watch: “Strong Island,” Yance Ford’s Personal Look Black Lives in America
"Our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives."
News
Watch: It’s Take Your BMPCC 6K to Antarctica Day!
This series has everything: Penguins, Pocket Cinema Cameras, pinnacle icebergs... and that thing when the Drake Passage tries to murder you
News
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.
News
Watch: “From Screening to (Live) Streaming,” Davide Rapp’s (Very Entertaining) Video Essay
“The selected movies scenes acquire a new meaning once re-framed into the contemporary apps and devices.”
Consumption
View the Infinite Wonder of a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room
“A mirror-lined chamber populated with a dazzling and seemingly vast array of LED lights creating a disorienting sense of limitless space”
News
Spend a Few Hours With Roger and James Deakins (and Then Subscribe to Their New Podcast)
Films, formats, philosophies: “I remember what John Huston said — ‘You shoot with your gut, not with your head! I really believe that.’”
Creative Inspiration
All the Filmmaking Contests and Challenges We Can Find (Updated Daily)
Check back, create stuff, maybe win a thing!
News
Watch This Webcast Series: “Working in HDR – From Set to Screen”
Learn about the end-to-end content creation workflow for HDR content and guidelines for success
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Watch: The Scary Precision of ”Parasite”
Exploring the "perfectly calibrated" tempo of Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite"
Expertise
Watch: Alister Chapman Explains Technology Terms (Keep Your Notebook Handy)
“This one is firmly for the geeks.”
How To
Learn the Essentials of Camera Framing Techniques
“You’re looking for a list of the different types of camera shot framing in film,” SC Lannom at StudioBinder says, “but you also want...
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
How “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (and M. David Mullen) Locked Down the Long Take
Series DP David Mullen discusses the cinematography behind the Emmy-winning series, now in its third season on Amazon Prime.
News
Stay Indoors Education (and Inspiration): Cinematographer/Director Philip Bloom’s Live Streams
It’s a wonderful learning opportunity, so join your colleagues, bring your questions and benefit from Bloom’s experience and guidance (and well-placed cats).
Edit
A Timeline of Single-Take Cinematography
Here's a history of films that have used long takes to pack a powerful punch.
How To
“Extraction” Cinematography and That Insane 12-Minute “Continuous” Shot
A 12-minute-long sequence designed to look like one seamless shot that would include several car chases, pile ups, hand-to-hand combat, running through tenements, leaping,...
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
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.”
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Watch: “In VR Meaning Is King” With Gabo Arora
Filmmaker Gabo Arora joins Angela Watercutter to discuss the possibilities yet to come in VR
News
Watch This Fantastic Compilation of Single-Shot Music Videos
“Ain’t no party like a Michel Gondry party ‘cause a Michel Gondry party is continuous!”
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
How to Build the Perfect (or Imperfect) Color Palette for Your Project
"This is the foundation of the look, painting with light and your camera."
How To
Under the Northern Lights: Join Alister Chapman for an Arctic Adventure
"I come up here to Norway to shoot the Aurora every year and I've never seen any other camera show as many faint stars...
News
“Boneyard Ballet:” Let’s See What the Canon C300 Mark III Can Do
Go behind the scenes with cinematographer Steve Holleran
How To
Watch This Cinematography Master Class Series from Cooke Optics
Want to learn from some of your favorite cinematographers about some of your favorite projects?
Consumption
Charlie Brooker: Branching Narratives and “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”
"There were points where in working stuff out, it got like trying to do a Rubik's Cube in your head."
News
Watch: Camera Monitor Basics
B&H’s Doug Guerra shows you how to use a field monitor for video production.
News
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.