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Production is the filming stage of your shoot which includes cinematography, audio and lights, as well as directing, art and effects. The following articles will help you in your search for proper equipment and new techniques which will make your video look more professional.

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  1. Art
  2. Audio
  3. Cinematography
  4. Directing
  5. Effects
  6. Stunts

Production

  • IBM Produces the World's Smallest Movie

    Mike Wilhelm - May 02nd, 2013

    IBM's Andreas Heinrich standing in the microscope room used to shoot A Boy and His Atom.
    Nanophysicists at IBM must have had some time on their hands. When they're not developing the world's smallest memory bit (consisting of only 12 atoms), they somehow found the time to throw in a few dozen more atoms to make the world's smallest stop-motion movie.

  • Make Video With Wood

    Jackson Wong - April 30th, 2013

    tall redwood trees seen though two shadowy trunks
    Maybe this is due to a recent drive through the Avenue of the Giants, but trees are more and more bringing me to humility. If you ever have the chance, visit Northern California's coast and see the redwoods, especially the northern-most areas where portions of forest were filmed as the Endor moon from Return of the Jedi. Aside from making great backdrops, let's focus on wood products for video.

  • Mastering Depth-of-Field - Part 2

    3 shots compared with different settings to demonstrate depth of field

    The basic concepts of controlling depth of field with aperture, focal length, and distance are fairly easy to grasp, and we covered those topics in part one of this series, but now it's time to dig a little deeper. In this segment, we talk about perceived depth of field, how sensor size and angle of view can affect your ability to get the depth of field you want, and using depth of field to rack focus. There's a lot of confusion surrounding these topics, but a little common sense, and of course a bit of math and science can help us break it all down.

  • Steadicam Inventor Garrett Brown Honored

    Jennifer O'Rourke - April 26th, 2013

    Luke and Leia from Star Wars on a Speeder Bike
    It's hard to imagine a movie today that doesn't have a scene with a camera closely following the subject and Garrett Brown is getting much deserved recognition in the National Inventor's Hall of Fame for his creation of the Steadicam.

  • Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Footage (Graded) Hits the Web

    Mike Wilhelm - April 24th, 2013

    Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera over a screen capture of John Brawley's test footage.
    John Brawley, beta tester for Blackmagic Design, posted footage from the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera on this blog today. The subject of his footage looks like home video material, but the quality definitely doesn't look like what you might see from a consumer camcorder.

  • Zylight Unveils Ultra-Thin F8 LED Fresnel

    Luis Maymi - April 24th, 2013

    Zylight F8 LED

    Zylight new F8 LED Fresnel is a compact lighting instrument that collapses to less than four inches thick for easy transport and storage and delivers all the performance of a traditional Fresnel lighting instrument in a much more energy efficient design.

  • Samsung NX300 2D/3D Compact System Camera

    Luis Maymi - April 23rd, 2013

    Samsung NX300
    Samsung NX300 is the new flagship model in the NX series delivering advanced and practical features for the professional photographer and videographer looking for a compact system camera (CSC).

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