Lights, Camera, Action! A Beginner’s Guide to Video Production
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The Power of Visual Storytelling: Video Production Unleashed
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Mastering the Art of Video Production: A Comprehensive Guide
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Making movies in video games: why the film world is finally ready to take ‘machinima’ seriously
Last week in a small city in the Ruhr area of Germany, a film that I made inside the video game Grand Theft Auto was screened at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, as part of an extensive overview of machinima. “Machinima” is a linguistic mash up of machine, animation and cinema. The term has […]
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Wes Anderson has an obsessive, systematic repetition of stylistic choices. He’s perfect for this TikTok meme
Iconoclastic film director Wes Anderson says of his films: I always feel like any character from one of my movies could walk into another one of the movies and be at home there. With the premiere of Asteroid City at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival next week, fans have been doing just that – walking […]
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If the camera was there with the blessing of Father Bob Maguire, people felt safe: my relationship with a marvellous man
They told me the church was my mother. I learned that at school, and in the seminary. ‘Holy Mother Church’, they said. But I soon discovered that she was a bitch. This was one of the first things Father Bob Maguire ever said to me in a background interview I did with him in 1990 […]
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How art inspired by peatlands can help us confront the climate crisis
As environments, peatlands have undergone a remarkable transformation over the last few decades from “Cinderella” habitats, regarded as ecologically worthless in the 1980s, to today’s ecosystem superstars – crucial for biodiversity, carbon capture and regulating the water supply. This new appreciation has seen a rise in media coverage of these special places. But peatlands across […]
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Yes, #OscarsSoWhite – but there are still plenty of reasons to celebrate contemporary Black film
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for its 95th Oscars and three of the most celebrated films of the season – “The Woman King,” “Till” and “Saint Omer” – received no nominations, a familiar refrain of frustration rang forth. These films demonstrated typical dramatic and technical markers that tend […]
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Resounding success of ‘Black Panther’ franchise says little about the dubious state of Black film
When Marvel Studios released “Black Panther” in February 2018, it marked the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to feature a Black superhero and star a predominantly Black cast. Its estimated production budget was US$200 million, making it the first Black film – conventionally defined as a film that is directed by a Black director, features […]
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Why the re-release of iconic porn film ‘Deep Throat’ fizzled
In 1972, “Deep Throat,” a feature-length porn film directed by Gerard Damiano, was hailed for moving pornography into the mainstream and beginning a golden age of theatrical porn. To mark the 50th anniversary of its release, a restored high-resolution version was released earlier this year. Yet outside of a few screenings in New York City, […]