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27 Aug, 2013

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Every Filmmaker owes a debt of gratitude to the people in "The Industry" who have come before them. Every creative or technical decision you make on your film, TV show,...

Low Budget Filmmaking, Production

Visual Effects – Low Budget Filmmaking
Miniatures and Forced Perspective

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

20 Aug, 2013

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FORCED PERSPECTIVE In filmmaking, sometimes the simplest solution will be the cheapest, most realistic and easiest. This doesn't happen often...but when it does, embrace it and enjoy it. In...

Editing, Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark – Fast Cutting & Center Framing

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

16 Aug, 2013

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In a previous post, I discussed the power of the "long take" during two scenes in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". This time around, let's focus on the opposite...fast edits...

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David Fincher, Lighting

David Fincher: Into The Darkness

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

09 Aug, 2013

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David Fincher's wonderful House of Cards is very dark. Dark in content, dark in tone and especially dark in visual aesthetics. Characters are shrouded in low light levels even in...

Average Shot Length, One Sheets

7 European Directors’ Average Shot Length

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

03 Aug, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_1803" align="alignnone" width="893"] Bela Tarr's film The Turin Horse (2011) has an ASL of 229 seconds[/caption] The average shot length is calculated from all films by each of the...

Production, Uncategorized

Cinefex – The Movie Special Effects Magazine

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

01 Aug, 2013

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Cinefex is an amazing quarterly magazine that came out in March 1980. Growing up...I remember trolling my local bookstore in Detroit and always hoping that the new edition of this...

Low Budget Filmmaking

#VashiVisuals Giveaway –
10 Free DSLR Cinema Books

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

17 Jul, 2013

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To celebrate the 6th month of the Vashi Visuals Blog launch...I'm giving away 10 FREE copies of "DSLR Cinema: Crafting the Film Look with Large Sensor Video Cameras" by Kurt...

Average Shot Length, One Sheets

Billy Wilder Likes Long Takes
(Average Shot Length)

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

15 Jul, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_1724" align="alignnone" width="536"] Billy Wilder edited "The Apartment" in one week[/caption] Vashi Nedomansky vashivisuals.com @vashikoo

Editing, Low Budget Filmmaking

Video Remixes: Edit To
Creatively Reboot Your Brain

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

11 Jul, 2013

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Sometimes an editor/creative person/human being needs to reboot his mental computer. Often when work crushes you down with its repetitiveness and sheer volume...one can get stuck in a place of...

Low Budget Filmmaking

Creative Inspiration Through Podcasts

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

08 Jul, 2013

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Often when I'm doing paperwork, logging footage, color grading or locating the source of weird smells in my studio (cats leaving "presents")...I will listen to a podcast. There are so...

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