Notes On Video

Need Creative Podcast   Episode 57 is a celebration of the Music Video artform! Ben Consoli of BC Media Productions is joined by Stephen Gottlieb, founder of VideoStatic.com A website dedicated to music videos and their creative community. We talk about the current state of the music video industry, the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards and how you can become a better music video director or producer. Guest Post: Building a Story’s Foundation … One Board at a Time | Hollywonk Using the Amazon Studios Storyboard tool: Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is a screenwriter, columnist, and co-founder of #scriptchat, a weekly gathering of writers on Twitter. Amazon Studios asked her to try Amazon Storyteller, a tool that lets you turn your script into a storyboard (like hers). Here’s how it went: Story Structure: The Art of the Dilemma | Script Mag When I came to the recognition that having a strong dilemma is the key component of the setup in each story arc, my perspective opened up...

(SR5) New NEX-FS700R and NEX-FS700RH camcorders to be announced soon too | Sony Alpha Rumors Practically no details about a suspected enhancement/replacement for the Sony NEX-FS700 . Using Lens Files | Sony Community Doug Munro has posted a lengthy forum post about creating lens files for the Sony F55 : First we setup the Flares. Flare refers to how some of the light coming through the lens bounces around causing and overall increase in the brightness level this causes the blacks to get lifted from the zero point  and the flare adjustment brings the blacks back to zero. This is done by shooting a properly lit grey scale chart, you then using a WFM set the lens exposure an set the green flare adjustment so that the 2 black chips are at zero then overexpose the lens by one stop. Shooting Documentaries with Sony's NEX-FS700, PMW-F5, and PMW-F55 | Sony Professional USA PRO | Vimeo In this Cine Gear 2013 presentation, Cinematographer David Leitner discusses his experi...

Traveling with the Sony F55 | Sony A post by Gavin Rawlings about shooting with the Sony F55: I remember the first shot I filmed with the F55. It was at the top of the largest sand dune in the Simpson Desert; Big Red. The environment just leant itself to being filmed in 4K. I combined the 4K shooting with Canon’s 30-105 light weight zoom and the F55 produced some remarkable imagery Upcoming Adobe Webinars Create a distributed production pipeline with Creative Cloud Thursday, August 22, 201310:00 AM - 11:00 AM US/Pacific Controlling Time in Adobe Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC Thursday, August 29, 201310:00 AM - 11:00 AM US/Pacific TECH: Complete Guide to Aerial Photography & Video |  chase jarvis Helicopter safety. It is critical that you understand how to navigate your way safely in and around this machine. There are two hard and fast rules that all helicopter people live by when it comes to helicopters: 1) Never walk around the tail-end of the ...

TOM AKERMAN TALKS ABOUT THE BEACH CAPTAIN, SHOT USING MAGIC LANTERN RAW ON A 5D MKIII | NewsShooter Been curious about using Magic Lanten? This piece is great because it's a detailed interview with someone who has actually used it, and had some concerns about it too: When the team announced they had cracked silent imaging, and that RAW video was on the horizon for the 5D mkIII, I’ll admit, even with my prior use of the firmware, I didn’t exactly jump straight on board. My mkIII was my primary source of income, and for it to break or malfunction while using an alpha build, no matter how small the chance, was not an option I could afford to take. And if you've been tempted by Magic Lantern, their latest claim: 14 stops of dynamic range is - to me - more intriguing that shooting RAW. Magic Lantern cracks “dual ISO” on 5D2 and 6D for 14 stops of dynamic range | Planet 5D It seems that Sony does have a "lens camera"; basically a lens with a sensor inside it ...

Hollywood’s Biggest Bang for Its Buck | Economix | The New York Times This is fascinating: The genre with the biggest box office R.O.I. was actually documentary, with domestic box office returns averaging 12 times the original production budget, and global returns at nearly 27 times the original budget.  VIDEO: ARE ALL NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTERS CREATED EQUAL? TRUE ND SAY NO | News Shooter Interesting piece about Neutral Density filters: Like most people I have never really taken the time to look into how ND filters shift colour, so the results were quite surprising. While a lot of modern day video cameras have built-in ND and IR protection even these can produce a certain amount of colour shift. Say Hello to Rec. 2020, the Color Space of the Future | Wolfcrow Rec. 2020 is the designated color space for ultra high definition TV, or UHDTV, in both its variants: 4K and 8K. It gets its name from the standards classification: ITU-R Recommendation BT.2020. Rec st...