18.02.2010

christopher.slaughter

Stargate Studios is a high-tech production house that specialises in visual effects for the tee-vee and film industry, and they are playing at the top of the game.  Check out the very impressive showreel for their "virtual backlot"... where they film sequences for a whole range of programmes you've definitely seen.  Very cool stuff.

post production | technology | film | tools | 3D | after effects | Hollywood | Studios | rendering

20.09.2009

christopher.slaughter

Not just because I'm a Scotch-drinker (yes, blended as well as malts), but also because I'm a fan of actor Robert Carlyle, I enjoy both bagpipes and the Highlands, and have always been a big fan of master shots...

interesting | whisky | film | clever | master shot

27.04.2009

christopher.slaughter

Very good (if a bit self-serving) "making of"... followed by the actual ad itselfwhich is pretty cool.  I mean, who doesn't  love putting up a 60-foot crane in the middle of the desert for a nighttime shoot?

But it occurs to me that if this car is supposed to be an "energy-saving" hybrid, isn't this a rather extravagant way of advertising it... by turning the lights of about a thousand cars on and off all night long...?

automobile | interesting | making of | TVC | Commercial | Spot | Advertising | TV | film | time-lapse | video

05.03.2009

christopher.slaughter

I officially started my career in media by running the projector in Miss McDougall's fourth grade class, and carried on as an A/V geek all through high school (Mr. Guptill's 3/4" videotape player) and college (antique carbon-arc projector in Durango, 16 and 35 mm in Boulder).   I can't begin to tell you how happy these guys make me:

For more than a decade, we’ve been rescuing old 16mm school films from dumpsters and obscurity and showing them to folks like you.

They claim 22,000 films, with such  fascinating titles as:

Body Care and Grooming (1948)

Explosives - Tool for Progress (ca 1970s)

Kingdom of Plastics (1945)

Good Table Manners (1951)

...just to name a few.  And then there's Journalism (1940)... check 'em out.

archive | film | historical | geek | video | interesting | Cool Websites

19.02.2009

christopher.slaughter

Mike Barrett writes:

This was the winner of last year's Tropfest competition in New York. Tropfest was started in Australia and the finalists will be showing their videos this weekend for the 2009 competition.

Short videos with a storyline, very limited budgets and crew....any format etc.  The NY winner (below) was shot entirely on a mobile phone.....total cost....less than $500. 

movies | winner | contest | interesting | short-form | art | film | festival | Barrett

05.02.2009

tony.reno

Funny parody of PC vs. Mac for the film industry.

film | fun