Shoot Review — VidPro EBRA-121R By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
The only thing lower than my current bank balance was the client's budget. There was no way we could afford a full crew they could barely afford me. The...
Shoot Review — Sony AWS-G500 Anycast Station By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
When my eval unit of the Sony AWS-G500 Anycast content creation system arrived in one rugged briefcase, I had a flashback to 25 years ago. At that time I was a young PH2 photographer's mate videographer in the U.S. Navy. I was stationed with the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group and often deployed at a moment's notice to document naval and U.S. Marine operations...
By Gary Eskow
Once upon a time, an evening's television drama might have centered around a cast of Shakespearean actors performing a classic play. These days, though,...
Future Workflow, Today By Barry Braverman
It's unusual for shooters and other mere mortals to glimpse the future with such clarity and insight. Over the last 30 years, many of us prescient industry professionals could only recognize the great leaps forward after the fact...
The Bay Method By Michael Goldman
Michael Bay freely admits that he broke a few longstanding rules while making The Island for a new studio, DreamWorks, after years partnering with Jerry Bruckheimer at Disney. Among those rules: Never show an unfinished film to studio executives without an audience present, and never screen parts of the movie for the press before it's finalized. Bay says, however, that, while making the movie, he remained committed to his own creative process. ...
HD Stock Rising By Michael Goldman
Veteran director/cinematographer Craig Walters spent much of late 2004 and early 2005 taking four separate trips to the far corners of the world (11 countries in Central and South America, East Africa, the South Pacific, India, and parts of Asia)...
By Michael Goldman
Media.net's HD Screening Room Viewer dailies application went mobile for the first time when producers of Monster-in-Law combined the system with a laptop-controlled...
By Michael Goldman
When director Tom Zuber approached DP Lisa Wiegand to shoot a low-budget (less than $1 million) feature called Little Athens, they first discussed shooting...
Shoot Review — StoryBoard Artist 4 By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Would you like to make better videos? Want to pitch your visual story ideas in a professional way to the powers that be? You can boil it down to one word — preparation. Once you have a story with a good beginning, middle, and end, you have a script. Next, it's time to plan the production shoot. For me and for many video makers, that means stickmen and crude pen drawings. Although this method may get the point across ...
Cinematic Sluggers By Michael Goldman
"There have been some great fight films, and I wasn't sure I wanted to take that on," says Ron Howard of his hesitation to direct Cinderella Man. "I found it daunting to face the challenge of trying to present boxing in a more compelling fashion than has been done in the past." A conversation with actor Russell Crowe, who stars in the film as the Depression-era fighter, James J. Braddock, however, convinced Howard to take up the challenge. ...
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