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...
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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...
What We Learn From The Movies
All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. It’s easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down. Once applied,...
Smallest Camera Dolly
The Pico Flex Dolly is a miniature dolly for DSLRs. Ideal for table top product shots where the camera is inches from the subject. It's on the 4 wheel two axle design like the earlier SpiderTrax Dolly which was designed and built by Emm of cheesycam.com. It's $65 for...
The Difficulty of Editing AVCHD and What to Do About It
AVCHD is an acronym for Advanced Video Coding High Definition. It's a file format for recording and playback of HD video. It is typically stored on flash memory card or hard drives. It is great for recording footage from the camera, but it can be a challenge for...
Let’s Re-Play a 1922 Film Test
Ed Note: This post was first published on VideoUniversity on September 17, 2010. We're bringing it back one more time because frankly we think it deserves another viewing. The comments from my last posting of this video included questions about the historical accuracy...
Errol Morris, One of America’s Greatest Documentary Directors
http://www.errolmorris.com/ Film critic Roger Ebert says that Morris ranks alongside directors like Hitchcock and Fellini. "He's like a magician. You're looking at the left hand which is the subject of the film and the trick is being done over here (on the right...
What Kind of Entrepreneur Are You?
Are you a serial entrepreneur who is always coming up with new ideas and starting new businesses? If so, you may need to recover from failures more often because you take greater risks. But serial entrepreneurs are more likely to experience repeated business...
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