by Hal Landen Let's consider all the possible ways to finance a start-up video production business. There are loans, bootstrapping, friends and family, grants, Kickstarter, and saving the money yourself. Loans Banks are in the business of loaning money, but they are...
April 25 - 27 every year is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Pinhole photography is photography without a lens. Instead of a lens, there's a tiny hole in the camera box. Light enters the camera through the hole just like it would through a lens. The light forms an...
by Richard Edmund Kele Stanley, an Ohio man, is facing felony charges after flying his remote-controlled drone over an accident scene on April 12, 2014 in Moorefield Township, Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Kele Stanley is charged with misconduct at an...
I recently bought BioShock Infinite for $22 from Amazon. See trailer below. It's my first video game in a long time and I was absolutely stunned by the quality of graphics, animation, music, and story-telling in this game. I was also quite surprised to find a...
It's not hard to keep your film legal if you follow the following guidelines. 1. All music, even a short riff, must be cleared unless it is royalty-free music. Most royalty-free music has a license you should read carefully to understand how you can use it and for how...
One of the principles of good audio recording is to bring the microphone close to the source. That's why audio usually sounds bad when recorded from a smart phone or an on-board camera mic. The mic is simply too far away to record good audio. A lavaliere mic attached...
First, I'd like to share a minor victory with you. Because I have a business phone line, that line is not protected from the Do Not Call List which is reserved for personal phones. I have been flooded with robot calls usually trying to sell me something. These robot...
"This is a Generic Brand Video" includes every corporate video cliche ever used. It's created entirely with stock footage from company Dissolve. This could be a brand video from hundreds of corporate videos. Use the ideas if you like, but of course not the footage...
It looks like a 16mm film camera, but it's a custom-designed housing that includes a Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini Camera Head and an Apple Mac Mini. The camera head produces digital cinema class 2048x1152 resolution. This SI-2K Mini camera head has been used as a second...
Sam Mendes is best known for directing American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award for best director. He also directed the James Bond movie Skyfall (2012) as well as musical stage productions of Cabaret and Oliver! At a recent Manhattan theater event,...
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