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Trends in Cinematography PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Iain Blair   
While digital cameras are getting smaller, lighter and increasingly user-friendly, paradoxically, film labs are busier than ever, and the newest film stocks are helping to ensure that the reports of film’s death are premature. Many DPs and directors agree that the digital format will ultimately take the place of film, but that day is still a while away for most filmmakers...
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RAID Solution for the Small Shop PDF Print E-mail
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Written by David Hurd   

It’s hard to understand how important drive failure is unless you’ve had a drive fail during a project. If you were using a RAID configuration with redundancy, like RAID 4, 5 or 50, then you just had to wait and hope that the rebuild would be finished before your deadline. If you went for pure speed with a RAID 0, then everything on the RAID was gone, including your project. (I had that happen once with another manufacturer’s drive, and the loss was devastating.) My old 1.5GB Seagate Cheetah 15K drives were kind of pricey, but they’re still fast...

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Lighting on the set of "Irene in Time" PDF Print E-mail
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Written by John Law   
Veteran Writer/Director Henry Jaglom has been making small but acclaimed indie films since the early ’70s, and Emmy Award-winning Israeli DP Hanania Baer has been working with him since 1984. By his own estimate, Baer has shot “about 12” of Jaglom’s films, including Festival in Cannes, Déjà Vu and Last Summer in the Hamptons. Their recent feature Irene in Time...
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Cinematography on "Trail of Blood" PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Count Alexander   
What camera gear did you use? We chose to shoot on the RED ONE camera –– RED ONE, Build 15 –– because it has a beautiful film-like look and, most of all, because in our tests, it responded better than comparable HD cameras in high-contrast situations
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Audio on an Indie Budget PDF Print E-mail
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Written by David John Farinella   
Orloff had to find ways to adapt to the smaller budget, location and process issues that are inherent on an indie production. “I like it,” Orloff admits. “I think it keeps your perspective a little more honest. What’s the saying? Necessity is the mother of invention? That’s it in a nutshell.
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