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Cinematography, Low Budget Filmmaking, Production, Split Diopter

Splitting The Focus in De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’

11 Oct, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_2500" align="alignleft" width="200"] Schneider Optics Split Focus Diopter[/caption] SPLIT DIOPTER A Split Focus Diopter is half convex glass that attaches in front of the camera’s main lens to...

Editing

Alfred Hitchcock: Hiding the Cuts in Rope

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

03 Oct, 2013

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ROPE (1948) is Alfred Hitchcock's murder/suspense film that showcases the killing in its second shot. ROPE is often described as having no editing...a film that plays out in real-time...but it...

Editing, Low Budget Filmmaking

3 Low Budget Editing Tips for Action Movies

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

18 Sep, 2013

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Every movie has moments of action and intensity. These moments can be physical, emotional, dialog driven or even delivered through camera movement. When Walter White verbally explodes at someone in...

Editing, Low Budget Filmmaking, Production

GO DADDY Breaks All The Rules:
The Smart and Funny commercial

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

09 Sep, 2013

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Go Daddy has long been known for its sexy commercials with big breasts and racy double-entendres. Their latest commercial has a baker kneading dough, Jean Claude Van Damme and...

Average Shot Length, One Sheets

Film Editing Facts #6

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

06 Sep, 2013

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[caption id="attachment_2200" align="alignnone" width="893"] 7 effective and very differently paced films.[/caption] Until next time... Vashi Nedomansky vashivisuals.com @vashikoo

Audio, Editing, Lighting, Low Budget Filmmaking, Photography, Production

800,000+ Digitized Pages
of Film/TV/Sound History For Free

Vashi Nedomansky, ACE

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...

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