- Keya’s story: climate change in Bangladesh on Vimeo – This is a brilliant example of why the DSLRs that shoot HD video are an incredibly powerful tool. This little film for Oxfam has the same sort of visual appeal that you would expect from a photojournalist; it's just that it also happens to be moving. And have sound. Plus combined with a fast Canon L series lens, the 5DMkII can capture natural light environments that would look horrific on a RED, even assuming you could deal with the size of a RED package.
- http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/pubs/Barnes_2009_PAR/patchmatch.mp4 – Seriously impressive image editing algorithm demo from Princeton University. Seamlessly… well, sort of move stuff instantly that would take hours of Photoshopping at the moment. Will be brilliant for b3ta.com…
- Hitting the Mark…or not – "Some actor walks into frame, you push back in with him, not necessarily matching distances, as he goes to another mark and stops. If he stops 4 inches shy- hit your mark. If he overshoots by 4 inches-hit your mark. The reason? Your position on that mark is the one anchor the AC has in the room that's constant. If he sees you are on your mark, he automatically knows how much the actor is off by and can adjust."
Another great post from Dollygrippery
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Jane Doe day 4: The Therapy Session
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The final day of Jane Doe.¬† During pre production producer Rob Davies was very patient with my increasingly tedious series of “oh, you know what else I need” requests and managed to magically procure *everything* I asked for, which to be frank was something of a shock.
Especially when Phil and I had to load the whole load into a 3.5 ton van, nearly filling it to the brim.
My only promise was that at some point, I’d use everything, and day four of the shoot was the perfect opportunity, with a lengthy dialogue scene in a single location being the vast majority of the day’s schedule.¬† It was clearly time to adopt a typical DoP strategy: ‘get away with the wide, then make it look even prettier for the coverage’.