Category Archives: Video

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Fast & Furious 6: Explosive Effects

Wired magazine posted this look at VFX breakdowns for one of Fast & Furious 6's most over-the-top effects sequences, narrated by Double Negative VFX Supervisor David Vickery. Read more about it at Wired.com.

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All in the Family: Edith’s Accident

The great TV actress Jean Stapleton, who died on Friday, really delivers as Edith Bunker opposite Archie (Carroll O'Connor) in this signature scene (it involves cling peaches) from the second season of All in the Family, originally aired in 1971. 

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Joel Compass: Back to Me

Here's another music video influenced by cinemagraphs. Directors Ian & Cooper shot the enigmatic mini-movie first, then learned After Effects in a hurry to matte out most of the motion in any given shot. (And then they won an MVPA Award … more »

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Daft Punk: Get Lucky (Dance Supercut)

In the age of the Internet, if you have a hit record and you don't make a music video for it, odds are someone else will. That's what happened when Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories, debuted at #1 … more »

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Kelsi Luck “That’s What I Like”

Director Chris Grieder modeled this music video on "cinemagraphs" — animated GIFs that resemble still photographs in which only a small portion of the image is in motion. (The best-known archive is on Tumblr at If We Don't, Remember Me.) … more »

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Playdate

An exceptionally awkward dinner party is the setting for this short comedy about incompatible couples. Directed by David Shane with cinematography by Sebastian Pfaffenbichler, it premiered last month at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Bob Dylan: Duquesne Whistle

Celebrate Bob Dylan's 72nd birthday today with a look at the music video for "Duquesne Whistle," the jaunty lead single from Tempest, released last year. It was directed by stuntman-filmmaker Nash Edgerton (Star Wars: Episode II and III, The Matrix, … more »

From Phasers to Warp, the Sound Design of Star Trek

Cnet News talks to sound-design legend Ben Burtt (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T.) about the different sound effects that went into Star Trek Into Darkness.

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She & Him: I Could’ve Been Your Girl

Musician-actress Zooey Deschanel turns director with this music video for the new single from her She & Him duo for production company Doomsday Entertainment. The DP was Matthew J. Lloyd, CSC, it was edited by Luke Lynch, and the dance … more »

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Speedrun: Aliens in 60 Seconds

Remember when James Cameron made a little movie about space marines and a hazardous bug hunt? So do the fans behind this cartoon remake from 1A4 Studio, which compresses two hours of Aliens into just one minute of animation. (NSFW, … more »