IDA director Pawel Pawlikowski and cinematographer Lukasz Zal, PSC This post is about the stunning Polish film IDA, and is the opportunity to present detailed examples of scene lighting with video and high-resolution images. Click on any image in this post to see a bigger version. +++ IDA was directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, with cinematography [...]
IDA director Pawel Pawlikowski and cinematographer Lukasz Zal, PSC, watching the camera monitor This post continues my in-depth look at scenes from the wonderful Polish film IDA. Once again I offer video and high-resolution images to present detailed examples of scene lighting. This 2nd post is intended to be seen after you’ve read the 1st [...]
The cinematographer and his gaffer discuss a few lighting set-ups from Spectre on thefilmbook blog on the ASC web site. +++ Link: http://bit.ly/LightingSpectreHoytema +++
Some stills from the featurette about shooting IMAX on the film Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan, with cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema. In the video, editor Lee Smith states that: “70 something percent of the film is the full IMAX format” +++ LINK Dunkirk featurette video on YouTube
— Martin Halle’s vimeo channel offers an interesting split-screen of a bridge disaster VFX sequence for Final Destination 5, that shows the live action and green screen elements. Notice how the real truck helps sell the effect. The link to video is below. watch on vimeo +++
A video of the shoot by the top photographer of “real women” (including Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Amy Schumer), a calendar that is offering a different media image of women. +++ Link: http://bit.ly/VideoLeibovitzPirelliCalendar +++
Larry Wright has posted 100 photos taken on the set of 2001, A Space Odyssea +++ links: Larry Wright’s post of 100 photos plus these 27 “stragglers”: +++
My posts about Eric Kress‘ Lighting Workshop on the ASC web site have been very popular. Eric was the cinematographer of the original “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. The workshop was held at Gothenburg Film Studios during Gokinema, in collaboration with Michael Petersen, and with the support of Marc Galerne of K5600 Lighting and Jacques [...]
— Camera crews from all over are contributing to a touching tribute facebook page of camera slates for Sarah Elizabeth Jones, the camera assistant who died tragically on a shoot on a railroad bridge in Georgia. Sarah was 27. +++
Uncontrollable laughter — a case of the giggles — sometimes just happens on set. It’s often triggered by one line of ordinary dialogue, that the actor just can’t say with a straight face. The more he tries not to laugh, the more he laughs. This inability of the professional actor to be “professional”, his helpless [...]