By: Chris Collins I came to Los Angeles with dreams of filming big names like Johnny Depp and Hugh Hefner. I wanted to see my cinematographer heroes like Roger Deakins and Chivo Lubeski. I was gonna make it! I’d get an internship in a camera rental house and learn everything about every camera. I’d get a job as an AC, and I’d be able to fix anything that went wrong. If the camera went...Read More
As you probably know by now, I’m a limey Brit scumbag, delivering my posts from across the Atlantic and occasionally the odd bit of slang slips in from these fair shores. We Brits seem to have a capacity for linguistic creativity that puts other anglophone nations to shame. We did invent if after all. If you really want to know what creativity is put down your DSLR and come hang out in South East...Read More
Thought for the day: if it’s not in focus, it’s shit. Well, we have DSLRs to thank for removing the validity of this statement. Never has the cause of great lensmakers like Zeiss (the sharper the lens the more we’re prepared to pay for it) been so undermined by a vein of filmmaking in which what’s out of focus is almost of greater value than what’s in focus. Bokeh bokeh. Bollocks. This whole issue...Read More
Are you an editor on a Final Cut Pro workflow? Do you handle a lot of HDSLR footage? Then the new Canon E1 EOS Log & Transfer plug-in should be your new best friend. Read More
Jake was pregnant. His man-baby was a short film that ended up being titled Waiting For a Stranger. The film is a 50's period piece set in England, in which a lonely woman--Anne--becomes intrigued in a murder that happens right under her nose. This leads her into the world of an interesting and mysterious stranger, which threatens to jeopardize her life as she knew it, including her only joy--her young son. Read More
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