Colorist training – a lecture on real projects Colorist Rob Bessette delivers a 2 hour lecture walking through the fundamentals of color grading and then demonstrating how he graded a...
Category - Craft
Interview with color assistant from EFILM
What does a colorist’s assistant do? Aaron Williams has a great interview with his friend Luis Silva on what its like to work at EFILM, one of the world’s major DI houses as a...
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...
Learning ‘Why’ To Edit
Learning the logic of film editing Check out these beautifully put together videos by Joe LaMattina, featuring Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter talking about editing The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, and...
Interviews with film editors
DP/30 has a whole host of candid 30 minute interviews with many film editors including the legendary Michael Kahn and Thelma Schoonmaker. Here are a selection of my favourites. There is also a...
How to be a DIT – Part 2
Learning to be a DIT If you’re impressed by things like the LightIron’s onset post production labs and want to learn more about what it takes to be a DIT then check out this free webinar...
Editing The Amazing Spiderman
The Amazing Spiderman post production Alan Edward Bell is the lead editor on Sony’s tent pole film this summer – The Amazing Spiderman. In this interview on the Digital Production Buzz...
Filmmaking Masterclass – 2 hours with Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and JJ Abrams
Steven Spielberg on a lifetime of directing The Directors Guild of America hosted this event last year where James Cameron and JJ Abrams (along with Michael Apted) interviewed Steven Spielberg on his...
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...
Editing a Pixar film
Editing an animated feature film… The art of the guillotine has a great podcast interview with editor Ken Schretzmann on how he got his start in the industry, his creative process as feature...
How to get a job as an editor
Getting your big break Zac Arnold shares how he worked his way to his ”big break” through Craigslist and Facebook (and a lot of hard work!) Assistant Editing Handbook (free chapter!) If...
How to be a VFX Assistant
What do VFX assistants do on big hollywood feature films? Anthony Snitzer has an interesting blog/journal documenting what he got up to as visual effects assistant working on The Avengers for five...
How to be a film director
Pixar directors on film directing Pixar has some really interesting filmmaking interviews with various senior members of its creative team. My favourite is probably Brad Bird on handling the barrage...
Prometheus Visual Effects Breakdowns
Behind the scenes on Prometheus With the release of Ridley Scott’s epic Prometheus a plethora of visual effects breakdown articles have popped up. Here are some of the best around: FXGuide TV...
Colourist Aidan Farrell in conversation…
Interview with Bafta winning Colourist Aidan Farrell co-founded The Farm in London and has been one of the top colourists working in the world today for decades. In this podcast from FXGuide he talks...