Recently, Peter Hurley has posted two videos designed to help folks look better when they step in front of the camera. Once I watched them, I realized I have watched a lot of great videos like this over the years. So, I took a few moments to collect them in a YouTube playlist called “Talent Skills“.
If you find this playlist useful, please let me know and I’ll consider doing more.
Alias traveled to New Zealand for the world premiere of The Return of the King and to meet with four of the key players at Weta Digital to find out more about the 3D effects in the third movie. Scott…
It was Antony Johnston who first switched me on to the joys of Final Draft, and gave me a copy of his own comic-book template to go along with it. Since then I’ve developed my own version of the template, which more closely resembles traditional screenplay format – right down to the pig-ugly Courier font….
I have a project that requires a lot of complex, yet static Pages in WordPress … think lots of tabular data with heavy CSS styling. This sort of content is best written in an external editor like Zend IDE or Dreamweaver and then dropped into WordPress. However, if you’ve ever done this, testing the page…
If the rumor mill is to be believed, Apple will refresh four of their five PC form factors next week. Reliable sources have been reporting that updates are all but certain for the Macbook Pro, MacBook Air and iMac. So, the fourth refresh will either be the Mac Mini or the Mac Pro workstation. Over…
At NAB 2012, the Sound Devices PIX 260 (shown above) was at the top of my list of “must sees”. We use the PIX 240 in daily production and it is … butter. In my opinion, there is no better all-around production capture device for BOTH audio and video. The PIX 240 brings all of…
Recently, a friend asked me for some advice on the best beginner camera setup for the shooting web documentaries. Her parameters were: Documentary/interview series. Probably be about an hour long. Uncut, raw, conversational. Distribution via the web. Initially, she was looking at the Canon Rebel T3i. Her logic was sound as the video DSLR can,…