Influence of Music Videos MTV was launched in 1981 as a medium for record companies and recording artists to sell music, clothes, movies and more. Today MTV (owned by Viacom) earns over a billion dollars a year in profits. The business of MTV is all about learning...
Month: October 2011
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-8
Does Non-Linear Editing Change Style and Art? Non-Linear editing is done on a computer and offers “random access, non-destructive editing” of the source material, including video and audio. There are a great many advantages to Non-Linear Editing. Two of...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-7
In Editing, Sometimes Less Is More The French word for staging is mise-en-scene. But when applied to film the term mis-en-scene is ambiguous. For some it means all the visuals elements including what is seen on the set and how the camera portrays the scene. For others...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-6
Emerging Alternatives to Continuity Editing: The Director Becomes Editor An early film which demonstrates an alternative to continuity editing is from surrealist Luis Bunuel who directed and edited "Un Chien Andolaou" (An Andalusian Dog) (1929). He worked with fellow...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-5
Documentary Editing - Where Is the Truth? Pare Lorentz, the most influential documentary filmmaker of the Great Depression of the 1930s, defines a documentary film as "a factual film which is dramatic." There are many different definitions of documentary. Rather than...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-4
Talking Pictures When sound technology was added to film, there were a great many new opportunities for creative story-telling. Ironically the advent of sound made some editors less creative. The sound alone could easily carry the story so the director and editor did...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-3
Soviet Filmmakers Advance Editing Filmmaking spread around the world and D.W. Griffith's techniques were widely studied. In the 1920s Soviet filmmakers were fascinated with editing and the theory of film as a communications and propaganda tool. After the 1917 Russian...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-2
Hollywood Style Continuity Editing Film editors, then and now, strive to make one scene flow easily into the next. To do that, it helps to match the details of one shot with the next. When the details don't match, the viewer can lose his way. Consider a woman smoking...
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-1
Introduction Editing is an essential part of making any film or video. As Francis Ford Coppola says, “The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general...
Correct Focus After Taking A Shot
Lytro, Inc. (http://www.lytro.com) unveiled the first Lytro consumer light field camera, introducing a new way to take and experience pictures. Conventional cameras record light rays, but this camera uses a new concept of a light field. A light field completely...
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