The World’s Most Riggable Camera is HERE!!

The World’s Most Riggable Camera is HERE!!

The “World’s Most Riggable Full Frame Camera” has arrived!!! I know you were waiting on it! It’s finally here!! I have to admit, I wasn’t sure where to start when Blackmagic Design backed up the new product truck for NAB and unloaded them all in an over 2 hour broadcast but I figured the “World’s Most Riggable Full Frame Camera” would be a good place to start for a lot of reasons not the least of which is the fact that it’s the most riggable camera in the world… The Blackmagic Design Pyxis is a 6k camera that comes ready for the world.

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REVISITING A SCRIPT: FOCUS on CONFLICT & CHARACTER
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REVISITING A SCRIPT: FOCUS on CONFLICT & CHARACTER

Consider this: most films that you see focus on two characters talking up on the screen.

Sometimes, they’re doing something, but most times, two or more characters are sitting down (maybe they are eating or drinking) and talking -- we call that a talking heads scene because the audience is literally watching two huge heads (on the screen) have a conversation

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4D Filmmaking: Make your audience “feel” your story.
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4D Filmmaking: Make your audience “feel” your story.

Skull Island: Reign of Kong. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Mixed with 3D visuals, a 4D ride incorporates sensory enhancements like heat blasts, water misters, fog machines, and seat prodders. The intention? Immerse the rider in a visual and visceral experience.

Although it may not seem obvious, filmmaking also has the ability to create the sensory enhancements of the 4D experience with the four major elements of filmmaking: sound design, mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing.

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Hollyland’s COSMO C1 is a Game Changer for Wireless Video Live Streaming
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Hollyland’s COSMO C1 is a Game Changer for Wireless Video Live Streaming

COSMO C1’s boosted signal strength and superior anti-interference capability in the 5.1GHz-5.8GHz spectrum guarantee buttery-smooth video transmission, even in complex environments. The COSMO C1 is also the first in its field to integrate UVC (USB Video Capture) technology, COSMO C1 offers a whole simplified solution to stream and cloud-share your video works.

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Win $600 & Wireless Video Gear for Sharing Your film & Photo projects
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Win $600 & Wireless Video Gear for Sharing Your film & Photo projects

Hollyland, an international leader in wireless video technology, launched a new challenge today asking you to share your creative video and photography projects for a chance to win up to $600 and an awesome gear package! All you have to do to enter is create a 30-second video or photoset to show off your innovative application of wireless video transmission. Upload it to your YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram, and click the button below to submit.

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3 Work-From-Home Opportunities for Entertainers and Content Creators
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3 Work-From-Home Opportunities for Entertainers and Content Creators

Around 71 percent of Americans who say their job responsibilities can be done from home are doing so, according to a Pew Research Center report. And even after the pandemic is in our rearview, many foresee maintaining that trend going forward. If you’ve been affected by the pandemic and have been looking for work, here are some remote opportunities for people in the entertainment and content creation industries.

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How To Find Your Niche In Filmmaking
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How To Find Your Niche In Filmmaking

Armed with that knowledge, I entered the world of entrepreneurship at the tender age of 24 with a fancy camera, some basic shooting skills, and a lot of unearned bravadoes. One of the first things my father – a fractional CFO with more than a few years of experience – told me was that if I was going to be successful I needed to find a niche.

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5 Camera Tips For Beginner Filmmakers
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5 Camera Tips For Beginner Filmmakers

The number one thing I found out from throughout my experience in video production is that many beginners don't take advantage of their youth to get better at their craft. If you know at a young age that you want to be a filmmaker, I think that you should honestly start as soon as possible. At that note, you may not have an outlet on where to start with your brand new equipment. By writing this article, I hope to help someone with their first steps on the right path to success in camerawork.

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How To Name Your Files To Streamline Your Video Project
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How To Name Your Files To Streamline Your Video Project

Are you looking for a suitable method of tracking projects for grading and archiving?  Here is a standard of practice I developed for our students about ten years ago that drastically improved our workflow process.  With hundreds of projects, shows, and events being produced each year, we needed a better system in place, and it had to start with project naming.

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Veteran Documentary - The Best Production Project
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Veteran Documentary - The Best Production Project

You get to do so many great projects with students when you run a video productions and broadcast journalism program.  News packages highlight some of the exciting things happening in your school and community, music videos bring out everyone's creative side, short films generate some unique narratives, and live sports provide a rush that is hard to beat.  We have all of these forms of production going on at Hoover High School in North Canton, Ohio, in what we call our NCtv Media program, and it makes for an excellent comprehensive education.

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What Student Filmmakers Can Learn From Watching Horror Films
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What Student Filmmakers Can Learn From Watching Horror Films

As a starting filmmaker, horror is a scary genre to get right (pun intended). In this article, I am listing five movies that are great to introduce yourself to the horror/thriller genre. These five movies combine storytelling, aesthetics, and filmmaking in order to complement the horror genre. I’m also not trying to spoil anything about these films, so I apologize in advance if my comments are vague in this article.

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How To Make the Fake Blood From The Evil Dead!</em>
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How To Make the Fake Blood From The Evil Dead!

The Evil Dead is one of the best horror films of the 20th century. It is iconic, campy, and filled with blood. The 1981 American supernatural classic was written and directed by Sam Raimi and it stars the most famous B movie actor of all time --Bruce Campbell. If you are interested in making a short horror movie this is a great place to start. Bruce Campbell spills it all and shows us how to make his infamous fake blood that actually shows up well on camera.

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