Production
The joy of student film season
All they need is some Arri-branded workwear and it’ll look like they’re shooting the next Bond movie. By Pexels...
Production
Pictures with attitude
For a little while, in the early 2000s, there was a tendency to put out commercials and music videos...
Post Production
BSC Expo combines the best of all worlds
The BSC’s London exhibition is possibly the first film and TV expo of the year, unless we count the...
Production
Wireless lighting control is wonderful
Often, development in technology gives us wonderful new things over time. Sometimes, though, it results in a teetering jenga...
Production
New year’s resolutions for crew
Resolution is a word that gets more airtime than it should in a world where pocket-money cameras have four...
Production
Fantastic fairy dust
Fire up the particle generators, folks: it’s the time of year when every third commercial features snow and a...
Production
Exploring the extremes of dynamic range
When camera manufacturers start talking (or at least creatively leaking) about twenty-plus-stop cameras, it might not be too much...
Production
A cheat’s manifesto part 5: Disco inferno
In that heady moment before the slate closes, some people have felt sometimes an undeniable sense of spiritual responsibility...
Production
Space to grow
There’s a reason low-rent independent short films often lack dynamic staging, feeling static and limited in their use of...
Production
Lens good, crop factor bad
Let’s imagine what would happen if you walked into this coffee shop* and asked for a latte that was...