Editing lessons from The Vampire Diaries Nancy Forner has written a great article over on Creative Cow with her thoughts on the art and craft of turning 40 hours of dailies into 42 minutes of...
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Telling a story well
Here are some of the best things I’ve found on the art, craft and power of storytelling. Storytelling Bobette Buster and the Arc of Storytelling gives a 15 minute overview of what Hollywood...
Common sense business help for creative people…
Business basics for creatives Creative Mornings is a world wide community based catalyst for city living creatives who gather for breakfast and some brain food on a monthly basis. In this talk from...
Compositing Breakdown – Understanding the hidden magic
Layer by Layer Compositing Breakdown In this great tutorial from Nick Campbell of GreyScaleGorilla, he walks through the many layers of an after effects project, demonstrating how different tricks...
The Future of Cinema Sound?
Dolby Atmos – the sound of the future? Wired magazine has a great article on the behind the scenes work that has gone into the development and roll out of Dolby’s new sonic cinema...
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects Design Cargo Collective has some great images from the design team that created the displays and user interfaces in The Avengers Assemble. You can view them all here...
Hugo: Behind the scenes
This cool video from Studiodaily is what you get when you stick a small HD camera on the top of a steadicam rig for the final shot of Martin Scorcese’s Hugo.
Ghost Recon Alpha – 25 minute action short
Ghost Recon Alpha – 25 min action thriller Blockbuster video game releases like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Alpha often make more money than a lot of hollywood blockbusters. Hence the scale...
Ken Burns on Storytelling
The Craft of Storytelling This is a wonderful 5 minute documentary featuring Ken Burns (famous for the moving photograph effective in documentary filmmaking) talking about the craft in storytelling...
The Avengers Sound Design
Sound Design on The Avengers Michael Coleman of the Soundworks Collection has several interesting behind the scenes featurettes on the sound design and music production of many the latest Hollywood...
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The Art of Film & TV Title Design
PBS Off Book short doc on the art of film and tv title design featuring three of the best in the business discussing some of their most famous titles; Mad Men, Blue Valentine and Zombieland. Watch...
Creating a real film look from digital footage
Creating a real film look Studio Daily recently held a 70 minute webinar in partnership with Assimilate Scratch on how to create a film look from digital footage by adding a ‘film...
Titanic in Super 3D
Titanic in Super 3D Remake George Lucas, JJ Abrams and Michael Bay remake Titanic in Super 3D
Compositing Technique – Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Rear Window Compositing Breakdown Really interesting compositing work by Jeff Desom with footage taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 Rear Window.