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Real Light: 5 Tips for Working with Practicals (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Mar 20, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Industry, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

As the sensitivity and dynamic range of cameras has increased, practicals have become a more and more important and popular tool in the cinematographer’s arsenal. A practical is any light source that appears in the frame. It could be a fluorescent strip-light, a table lamp, car headlights, candles, a fireplace, an iPad, fairy lights, street lamps, a torch, a security light… any light that could be realistically found in the place where your scene is set.

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Serving Hard Light: 5 Ways to Light Through a Window (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Feb 27, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Lighting Tutorials, Lighting/Gaffing, Tips, Tutorials, Walk Throughs | 0 comments

The first step in lighting a daytime interior scene is almost always to blast a light through the window. Sometimes soft light is the right choice for this, but unless you’re on a big production you simply may not have the huge units and generators necessary to bounce light and still have a reasonable amount of it coming through the window. So in low budget land, hard light is usually the way we have to go.

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She Has a Name: Unveil Studios Offers Humanitarian Perspective through Filmmaking (Article/Retrospective)

Posted by on Feb 15, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases | 0 comments

She Has a Name, the latest independent film out of Canada-based Unveil Studios, is a dark documentary-style thriller based on the taboo subject of human sex trafficking. More than a movie for filmmakers and brothers Andrew (writer), Matthew (director/editor/colorist) and Daniel (director/editor) Kooman, She Has a Name is human rights statement designed to remove the public’s numbness to what has become a global epidemic.

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Far, Far Away: Recreating Star Wars with Drones and a Whole Lot of Color (Article/Retrospective)

Posted by on Sep 23, 2016 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured | 0 comments

A big production topic of the past few years has been drones, drones and more drones. And when it comes to hyper realistic aerial chases, no one does it better than Corridor Digital. Known for their insane VFX tricks and professional quality fan films on YouTube, creators and filmmakers Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski will do just about anything to get that perfect shot, even 3D printing and hand painting racing drones to replicate Star Wars ships and racing them in the air above a national forest. It is quite the joyride.

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Origins of MicroFilmmaker Magazine: The Existential Case of the Virtual Kevin Project (Editorial/Article)

Posted by on Aug 5, 2016 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, CrossMedia Snapshots, Editorials, Featured, MicroFilmmaking, Retrospectives | 0 comments

For me to ever have created MicroFilmmaker Magazine in 2005, two key elements had to occur in my life. The first was that, in 2003, I make a narrative first film called Commissioned, which revolved around the world of commissioned computer sales, that broke all the cardinal rules of Indie filmmaking and suffered because of it. (The audio ended up being so bad that the film couldn’t be salvaged, even after a year of redubbing, due to the fact that two actors never returned to loop their work.)

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