Featured Article: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (or, Whoops, We Forgot Something)
Remember that time when you were filming, and some moron forgot to bring the important thing that the other important thing won't work properly without? Me too. Sometimes I'm that moron. Sometimes it's not your mistake, but you've got to solve the issue. Here's a few stories of how we've worked around these challenges on-set. In pre-production, everything is all rosy and beautiful. Every piece of ...
Featured Article: Matthew Jeppsen interview with Pulse Network at NAB 2012
While at NAB last week, I sat down to do a short live streaming interview with the Pulse Network. We spent a few minutes talking about the announcements at NAB 2012, my production work as a "one man show" in the midwest, my evolution as a filmmaker from when I started FreshDV in 2005, and also about the new line of filmmaker apparel we just launched, Della Luce. You can watch an archive ...
Incident on Marmont Ave, an experiment in budget filmmaking
May 15th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenRight after the Canon 5D MKIII was released, Planet5D helped to shoot a short narrative film, entitled Incident on Marmont Ave. They wanted to make a ...
Little Things Matter
May 15th, 2012 by: Matthew Jeppsen"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." This is a quote attributed to Coach John Wooden. I was reminded of this ...
FS700 Dynamic Range, Noise, and Slow Motion Test Footage
May 12th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenHere's a few Sony FS700 footage examples and tests from Abel Cine and Frank Glencairn. The FS700 ...
Pixar Nearly Lost Toy Story 2 (to a bad backup)
May 9th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenVery interesting Studio Story...here, the Pixar crew talk about the time they nearly lost Toy Story 2, thanks to a fumble-fingered linux command and a bad backup. ...
Early Phantom Miro M120 Footage
May 2nd, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenJim Geduldick was fortunate enough to get early access to the new Phantom Miro M120 high-speed camera from the good folks over at Abel ...
Info on the Canon 5D MKIII Light Leak Fix
April 30th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenNice summary over at NoFilmSchool on the Canon 5DMK3 light leak issue. It's really not a concern in most shooting situations, and certainly not for video ...
Video Examples from the Blackmagic Camera
April 27th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenJohn Brawley has been shooting test footage with the new sub-$3,000 Blackmagic Cinema Camera, and there's a series of videos on Vimeo where you can see ...
Zoom H4n vs. Tascam DR-100mkII vs Tascam DR-40
April 27th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenOver at NoFilmSchool, they have a nice lengthy Audio Recorder Roundup of the Zoom H4n, Tascam DR-40, and Tascam DR-100mkII. This is a really well-done ...
Interviews and Inspiration from Screenwriters
April 26th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenThere's a beautiful and informative series of videos over at Oscars.org that address the subject of ...
Timelapse Toolkit app for iPhone and Android
April 25th, 2012 by: Matthew JeppsenHere's a simple and effective app for all that annoying math it takes to set up a timelapse. Video demo below....
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention (or, Whoops, We Forgot Something)
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