February 2010
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Mean to Me
“Mean to Me” is a minute short film written and directed by David McDermott and Peter McGough and featuring model Agyness Deyn and Linus Roache.
Huffington Post sums up the film’s style nicely: ‘Aesthetically-speaking, “Mean to Me” itself is a studiously detailed, 13-minute love letter to the Deco era: deep, rich, film noir lighting; ornate period opening...
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First Spring by Yang Fudong
Commissioned by Prada for its Spring/Summer 2010 campaign.
Interesting thought by Wee Ling Soh of the Shangaist: “While we get the bleak overtone, we see the perfectly attractive models and we’re amused by its accompanying surrealist art references, we wonder - if a film looks better when it is paused (flawlessly-executed visuals in almost every frame), is something seriously...
Che and the Digital Cinema Revolution
On shooting Che with the RED ONE (via The Playlist).
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Steenbeck & Hokushin
This afternoon we worked with the Steenbeck editing machines for the first time. We’ll be using them to cut our 16mm films shot on Arri S cameras.
The coolest part was, with lights all off, we started scrolling through the film, and the film was moving across to the other reel really fast, and all the individual pictures turned into motion. It was so quick! That’s probably a...
The 180 Rule and When to Break It →
“The 180 degree rule is the most basic rule in filmmaking. There is a really good short primer on it here (thanks wikipedia!). I will attempt to explain it briefly for those who are unfamiliar with the rule, but mostly I want to talk about the fact that live action filmmakers break it occasionally, while in animated films (at least in my experience at Disney) it is considered a big taboo. On...