- 52 amazing After Effects tutorials – because you can never know everything about After Effects
- 5 Skills That Will Make You a More Valuable Filmmaker – more great advice from Caleb Pike
- DIY – How To Make A Microphone Isolation Box For High Quality Audio Recording – looks a little ridiculous but could be useful
- The Subtle And Sneaky Power Of EQ And Compression – TheRecordingRevolution.com
- Shoot a movie for under $1,800 – not sure I agree with all the advice but it is nice to see what is possible and doable on a limited budget
- 6 Filmmaking Tips from David Lynch – love me some Lynch
- Ten Lessons on Filmmaking From Terry Gilliam – … and some Gillian
- Pudovkin’s Montage: 5 Editing Techniques That Speak Louder Than Words
- Easy light wrap in After Effects – light wraps sell green-screen matte’s, making the composite footage look much more realistic but they’re usually really complicated to pull off. Can’t wait to try this method myself.
- 10 Filmmaker Apps You Need to Have
- 60 Seconds on Set: Focus Pulling
- Cheap Lighting Tricks for DIY Filmmakers – a short section from Ryan Connolly’s CreativeLive webinar that’s fun (as usual) and informative.
- How to make a super bright LED light panel (for video work etc) – I’ve already bought the parts to try this myself. Now I just have to put it together.
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Linktresting: Content Worth Your Time
Linktresting: Stuff Worth Reading
Pudovkin’s Montage: 5 Editing Techniques That Speak Louder Than Words
- Splitting The Focus in De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’
- Creating the Sound of the Film ‘Gravity’
- The Sound of Silence: How Gravity Created a Terrifying Score for Outer Space
- What It Takes to Film One of Top Gear’s Mesmerizing Car Reviews
- How To Make A Hyperlapse
- The Secret Of Viral Video: Emotionally Connect With Your Audience
- Lens Flare Enthusiast JJ Abrams Has Heard Your Complaints and is Ready to Change
- Going Viral: Is It Necessary?
Links of the Week: 3rd May 2013
Links to the most interesting articles I read/saw/heard this week:
- No Video is (far) better than a bad video: an older article but one I hadn’t seen. Although I don’t agree 100% with all of the post I do agree totally with the title.
- Sous Productions: A professional Corporate Video Production company but has some great articles applicable to anyone in the field.
- I am not very cool to I am, only now, discovering the genius of Film Crit Hulk. Here are my two favorite articles this far into my read:
- Need Creative Podcast Interview with Philip Bloom: long but worth a listen with some great content.
- Is the camera industry in meltdown or is this a new age for cinematographers. And can you build a camera in your shed?
- The Top Branded Video Ad Campaigns for April 2013
Links of the Week: 26th April 2013
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