Category Archives: Shooting

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Cameras & Lenses

HD is slowly gaining footholds in the rarefied feature film world, with high-profile, sky's-the-limit projects like Collateral and the Star Wars movies showing just what's possible with the new breed of more »

Q&A: Animator/director Chris Landreth

Chris Landreth Academy-Award winning 3D animator/director On: Ryan This year Chris Landreth won the Academy Award for his animated short about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, a one-time Oscar nominee more »

Gearing Up for the Jungle

"We didn't go in trying to show every gadget we could," says David Allen, DP and series producer on PBS miniseries Deep Jungle, part of the Nature series. "It turned out to be a tour of more »

Three DPs/Three Cameras

Efficient workflow, great images, on budget: these are all magic words, not just for cost-conscious producers but for the cinematographers who paint and frame the images we see on television. With a choice of HD cameras, cinematographers can now more »

Doing the Math

The show, which shoots on location all over the L.A. area, has a distinctive look, thanks to the Scotts and DP Ivan Strasburg ( Bloody Sunday, Live From Baghdad, The Corner) who was hired by director Mick more »

Essential Gear

Hot technology picks by Tyler Knight, Broadcast IT Manager, Wexler Video, Burbank more »

Todd Solondz on the Beauty of Flaws

Todd Solondz burst on the scene with Welcome to the Dollhouse, an excruciatingly funny and painful movie about a hapless middle child, Dawn Wiener. Growing up in New Jersey, Solondz told stories more »

Archos AV420 Pocket Video Recorder

Sometimes the right tool is a heavily discounted consumer product rather than an overpriced professional product. That may be the case with the Archos AV420 Pocket Video Recorder. This 9.88-ounce device offers more »

HDV Goes Native: NAB '05

It's time to give the HDV (High-Definition Digital Video) format it's due. While critics might call it "bit-starved HD," many professionals are realizing that, like its standard-definition more »

Cameras and VTRs: NAB '05

Though HDV Will Likely Grab The Most Attention At This year's NAB, with lower-cost yet professional-grade HDV offerings from manufacturers such as Sony (the HVR-Z1U) and JVC (the GY-HD100U), there will be more »