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. ...
By Michael Goldman
To efficiently produce a non-profit, eight-minute, HD art film promoting a message of peace, called Hope, filmmakers at Luna Media, San Francisco, decided...
By Michael Goldman
A one-hour, HD-acquired special for Discovery's Military Channel, Red Flag, challenged filmmakers from Evergreen Films, Pacific Palisades, Calif., with...
By Barry Braverman
Take one look around and witness an explosion of consumer and prosumer DV cameras, and even broadcast cameras like Sony's XDCAM, with IEEE 1394/iLink...
The Carnivàle Life By Michael Goldman
Director Scott Winant understands that it's taking too long to chop an actor's arm off, and he's a man pressed for time. Winant needs to get the bloody sequence right since it's crucial to the season finale of HBO's critically acclaimed series Carnivàle. The stylish show, currently midway through its second season, tells the story of dust-stained “carneys,” circus freaks, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. ...
By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
We tried. The script went out a month before the shoot and the talent said they would memorize it. But once on the set for the shoot, it was clear that...
Shoot Review — Velbon Videomate 500 By Tom Patrick McAuliffe
One of the main things that differentiates a mediocre video from a professional one is the steadiness of the shots. The smoothness of the pans and the...
Scorsese's Color Homage By Michael Goldman
If you are ever lucky enough to find yourself in Martin Scorsese's private screening room discussing the history of color feature film processes, he will no doubt school you on such movies as Follow Thru, an obscure 1930 film about golf that illustrates the limitations of the early Technicolor two-strip, dye-transfer process by showing golf courses with blue grass. He might also show you clips from other two-strip films...
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