Through the years, here at MFM, we've dealt with a number of lighting manufacturers from venerable giants like ARRI to major companies transitioning into lighting like Rosco to lesser known companies like Smith-Victor. Flashpoint (a house brand for photographic giant, Adorama) has been making lighting systems and DSLR accessories that've been impressing us of late.
Friends of Microfilmmaker Magazine. The last month has been a bit crazy with some transition stuff we've been up to over here. As such, you haven't seen new content on our core site. The good news is that we are now transitioned to our new hosting home and are very happy. WE think this is going to be a great place for our magazine to...
As MicroFilmmaker's emphasis continues to evolve with the technology and the creative options available to low-budget content creators, it became clear that we needed to explore one of the more overlooked emphases for many multimedia creators: still photography. Whether you need a killer poster to advertise your film, a cover that makes people want to buy your next app, source imagery for use within your next multimedia comic book, or an amazingly detailed storyboard for your DP, the art of still photography is unbelievably necessary...
SPARKS is a comic book movie with a refreshingly dark twist. It starts not unlike a mash up of a lot of super hero movies: shortly after a meteor destroys most of Rochester, NY, young Ian Sparks (Chase Williamson) is orphaned by a violent crime, raised by a loving grandmother in a small town, and then moves to the big city to fight crime.
At the beginning of the year, I was challenged by one of our readers to update my commentary on the 2012 state of the industry in a new editorial that was fitting for 2014. Although this should have been a pretty simple thing for someone like me to do, I found that I spent the first three months of this year trying to really wrap my head around everything that’s been going on that’s been intriguing me, confusing me, and leave me feeling strangely more excited about the future than I have been in awhile.