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How Does an Editor Think and Feel?
For the past ten years, I’ve been editing professionally. Yet one question always stumps me: “How do you know when to cut?” And I can only answer that it’s very instinctual. On some level, I’m just thinking and feeling my way through the edit. So today, I’d like to describe that process: how does an editor think and feel?
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Mulholland Drive: How Lynch Manipulates You
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Film Water Tanks
Updated: June 2012 Shipping themes in many forms have long been popular movie subjects, encompassing many genres including swashbuckling pirates, fantasy, historical epics and war.
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Andrei Tarkovsky - Poetic Harmony
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"The Old New World" (Photo-based animation project)
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Freep Film Fest: Birds deliver warning in 'The Messenger'
Documentary explores the uncertain fate of migratory songbirds in the face of development and climate change
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How Alfred Hitchcock Blocks A Scene
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Joel & Ethan Coen - Shot | Reverse Shot
How do you film a conversation? Most likely, you’re going to block the actors, set up the camera, and do shot/reverse shot. But where do you put the camera? What lens do you use? And how do you cut back and forth? Today, I consider the Coen brothers — Joel & Ethan — and see how these choices lend a particular feel to their version of shot/reverse shot.
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NEW YORK | Xiaomi Yi
Trip to New York filmed with Xiaomi Yi!
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The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias
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William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’
Cautionary Tales Have Rarely Taken Such an Amazing Artistic Form
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How The Martian’s filmmakers turned a Jordanian desert into The Red Planet
It was no easy task to bring the surface of Mars to Earth for Ridley Scott's popular film. Here's how the VFX team accomplished that feat.
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‘Pan’s Labyrinth’: A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation
The 2001 gothic horror film was set in Spain, in 1939, and the picture, which del Toro allegedly considers his most personal film ever, is an exceptionally crafty and compelling portrayal of that specific dark period of European and world history.
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The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era
In his 1919 manual for screenwriters, Ten Million Photoplay Plots, Wycliff Aber Hill provided this taxonomy of possible types of dramatic "situations," first running them down in outline form, then describing each more completely and offering possible variations. Hill, who published more than one aid to struggling "scenarists," positioned himself as an authority on the types of stories that would work well on screen.
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How filmmakers manipulate our emotions using color
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Understanding Art - Children of Men: Don't Ignore The Background
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Future in Alfonso Cuarón's "Children of Men"
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Finally, A Convincing 3D Display That Doesn't Require Glasses
Viewing 3D content without glasses or goggles has proved to be one of the toughest things for interface designers to achieve — it never really looks right -until this.....
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Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
Skip Lievsay, an unassuming-looking guy in his mid-60s with highly trained ears, stood before the stacks of speakers and giant movie screen in his office, fussing quietly. Lievsay is one of the preeminent sound designers working in film today, and whatever he does – whether it’s fussing or making jokes or padding down the hall of his New York offices to murmur instructions to employees – he does it quietly, as if his personal volume dial operates...
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Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
The long read: Skip Lievsay is one of the most talented men in Hollywood. He has created audioscapes for Martin Scorsese and is the only sound man the Coen brothers go to. But the key to this work is more than clever effects, it is understanding the human mind
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How to get started with Natron, an open source compositor
You've probably heard of Blender, but do you know about Natron? Our how-to will help you get started using this open source compositing tool.
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