All posts tagged "davinci resolve"
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Eye Piece: DP Roman Vasyanov (Suicide Squad) on Shooting Doug Liman’s Sniper Thriller The Wall on Super-16
The shooting schedule for Doug Liman’s sniper-centered thriller The Wall was very short—14 days—and the location and conditions were not very forgiving, to say the...
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What’s in Your Kit? Cinematographer and Director Michael Williams (The Atoning)
For our series “What’s in Your Kit?,” we ask a range of working cinematographers to share the gear they can’t live without. Michael Williams is...
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One-Stop Shop: Low-Budget Horror Feature American Gothic Made Blackmagic Design Work Three Times Over
This post was sponsored by Blackmagic Design. The lives of two convicts, Nick and Guy, are turned upside down when their prison transport crashes and...
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Foreign Contenders: Sparrows Explores Modern Icelandic Masculinity on Beautiful 16mm
MovieMaker’s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Each...
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Tech Mecca: Essential Takeaways From NAB Show 2016
Are there tools that would make my moviemaking more efficient or streamlined? Are there methods that will improve my end product, and the process I...
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Beauty, Resurrected: Inside the Cinelicious Restoration of Lost Anime Classic Belladonna of Sadness
Post-production house and distributor Cinelicious Pics restored the lost animated masterpiece Belladonna of Sadness, and the team—Craig Rogers, Caitlin Díaz, Zach Rogers and Trevor Dauten—lived...
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How to Perform a Camera Test: Narrow Your Focus to Three Simple Things
“Why would I need a camera test? I’ve shot with this camera so many times before!” This is something I have heard more frequently than...
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Editing in a Pinch: Sony’s Catalyst Production Suite Makes a Speedy, Simplified Tool
There have never been so many good options for non-linear editing (NLE) software. Over the years, one-time industry standard Avid Media Composer has met with...
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Eye Piece: How Sarah Adina Smith Shot Three Visual Styles in Midnight Swim
For any filmmaker, switching genres between movies is a tough task. But Sarah Adina Smith decided to switch between genres three times in the same...
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4K Revolution: New Standard Delivery Format Looms
If you happened to be walking around the floor this year at NAB, you probably noticed that 4K was everywhere. Whether it was Blackmagic’s 4K Production...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...