Posted By Neil Matsumoto
WAYNE, NJ (January 31, 2011) – JVC Professional Products Company, a division of JVC Americas Corp., today introduced the GY-HM750U ProHD compact shoulder-mount camcorder. Ideal for ENG news, sports, documentaries, events, and other location shoots, it offers the industry’s fastest shoot-to-edit workflow by recording native HD or SD footage in ready-to-edit file formats on low-cost
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
On January 25 at the the Slamdance Film Festival, Kodak sponsored a special event, which featured a morning coffee discussion with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, who many consider the best living cinematographer. The Hungarian born, Oscar winning DP shot some of the most celebrated movies of the ‘70s, including Deliverance, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
I usually bring a DSLR to Sundance every year to take photos that will appear in the magazine and website. This year, instead of lugging my Canon 7D and heavy Zeiss lenses around, I decided to travel light and try my luck with my iPhone 4. Here are some photos I took, courtesy of my
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
Filmmaker Joe Swanberg is one of main figures (along with Andrew Bujalski and The Duplass Brothers) of the Mumblecore independent film scene that sprouted in the early ‘00s. Even though the filmmakers have different voices, Mumblecore was a small movement or genre of films that focused on the lives of educated 20-somethings as they pontificated
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
If you were into indie rock in the early ’90s like I was, you may recall a famous audio recording that went viral way before we heard the now infamous Christian Bale rant on the set of Terminator 3. The audio recordings were known as “Shut Up Little Man!” and were recorded in 1987 in
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
The first film I’ve seen at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Buck, a documentary in U.S. Competition directed by Cindy Meehl. Real-life cowboy Buck Brannaman is considered a living legend in the horse world and was the real-life inspiration for The Horse Whisperer, which was directed by Sundance founder Robert Redford, who is also interviewed
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
In past years, whenever I would find myself walking down Main Street during the Sundance Film Festival, my iPhone would suddenly drop its signal. The reason for this was the high number of film industry people with their smartphones at hand making their way to Park City, UT to network, make deals, shop, and oh
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
In a little more than two years, we’ve seen a revolution in independent filmmaking like never before. This revolution has has had a huge impact in not only how low budget films are made, but also how they are viewed. Two of the biggest factors responsible for this revolution are the Canon 5D Mark II
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Here’s an exciting trailer for Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the Chauvet Cave in France, preserved since its discovery in 1994. Within lies the oldest known cave paintings, approximately 32,000 years old, in an underground museum that is also home to significant levels of radon, carbon dioxide and possible hallucinations. Especially interesting is
Posted By Neil Matsumoto
Abel Cine Tech has posted Part 3 of Noah Kadner’s review of the long awaited Panasonic AF100. In the final section, Kadner offers his final thoughts on the camera and describes working with the camera in post-production, as well as the AVCHD codec. Check out Noah’s final words
