Category: Documentary
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Barton Springs documentary premieres in Houston July 7
The film Unforeseen will be premiering at the Houston Aurora Picture Show this Saturday . The director will be on hand to discuss the film. I definitely plan to be there. The Unforeseen – 93 minutes Director : Laura Dunn Executive Producers : Terrence Malick and Robert Redford Date : Saturday, July 7 Location :…
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$1.50 in Late Fees
Peter John Ross talks about the mythology and Truth about Robert Rodriguez: No one seems to remember that Robert had made well over 200 movies on video from the time he was 9 years old. How many other filmmakers, even in our cheap DV 1394, Non Linear World, can claim to have made over 200…
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Scott Spears on video production
Blogumentary, Chuck Olsen blogs about his documentary about blogging. How self-referential is that (I wonder if he’ll link to this post about him?). He also seems to do a lot of blogging about the vlogging world. Here’s a Wired feature story on him and the vlogging community. Here’s a scoop by Wired of interesting vloggers…
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Learninglog
More video links: Fireant is the free windows version of Ant, the video RSS aggregator. Their windows version beta release came out recently. The product is creative commons, the interface is great, and the opportunities posed by this new distribution method are absolutely incredible. The directory of vloggers is quite finite at the moment, so…
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Calibrating Your Monitor
I’ve been learning an awful lot about video production this past week. Every day I learn I need some new gadget I never heard about (Today it’s filters and filter rings). Yesterday it was wide angle lenses. Calibrating your monitor . Here’s another article WordPress Backup program
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Low-Budget Light Kits & High Budget Cameras
Scott Spears on setting up a budget light-kit: Part 1 and Part 2. DIY Network has a three part TV show about making home movies. Ok, I’m waffling between 2 cameras: the Panasonic PV-GS400, a 3CCD camera with lots of manual features, but poor low-lighting performance (1200$), and the Sony Sony VX2100 ($2400). Both are…
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Good Audio for Video Production
Found links on audio/video: Multimedia tutorials. Basic stuff on lighting, mounting microphones, making a dolly. To be honest, I’ve been bookmarking a lot on google groups about mikes and audio. See this newsgroup. Also, thankfully, most bulletin board applications include ways to bookmark threads (AFT!). Jay Rose on getting the best sound (scroll down a…
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2 Filmmaking Books: Photographing the Trivial
I just wanted to mention that I’ve found two excellent books on film narrative: Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger and Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of screenwriting by Robert McKee. Both books contains lots of insights and both combine the rigors of academic analysis with the practical knowledge of people who have…
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Video Equipment, Technology, Linux & Documentary Links
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll be working on a film documentary this summer. I’ll be providing details over time. Here are some links I’ve been accumulating. I’ll be periodically updating this. BTW, if any surfers have good video links to suggest, feel free (though nothing about via$$a, te##as h##dem or…