Links to the most interesting articles I read/saw/heard this week:
- Crowdsourcing Creativity At The Cinema: Ron Howard leads on a great NPR story about how creatives in Hollywood are using the crowd as a source of inspiration as well as a way to finance their work.
- The importance of audio in video making: Sennheisser “Audio for Video” collated on Red Shark – definitely worth a watch.
- Become a Video Making Rockstar! Aimed at the average YouTube newbie but good tips nonetheless and really energetic delivery. Oh, to be so your and enthusiastic.
- Seiki 50″ 4K TV with be $1500 and available late April: I’m still not convinced that we need to be consuming 4K video in our homes but Seiki seem to be trying to prove that it needn’t be any more expensive than a regular, large LCD.
- DIY Lego Remote Follow Focus: the ingenuity of Makers never fails to amaze me. I’m not sure I could turn up to a client with Lego on my camera but a really creative, simple solution.
- Why Music Videos don’t Cost $500: Of course a Guerrilla filmmaker could make something for $500 but here’s what a professional (not especially expensive) video costs.
- DIY Spider Trax Dolly: well made project and video
- 3 Reasons to Embrace Video Storytelling: storytelling as a differentiator
- 4 Ways to Quickly Generate a Great Library of Content: good information if you’re starting out
- Camera motion for Filmmakers: The Why, The Where and The When to Move the Camera