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fromwww.nytimes.com
1 day ago

How Technology Has Transformed Cinematography

The MiniDV camera revolutionized filmmaking by enhancing accessibility and enabling a raw visual language, leading to significant industry shifts.
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 days ago

Beyond breaking news: local reporter follows his passion for film making

Sean Au emphasizes the emotional connection movies create between characters and audiences, inspiring his journey as a filmmaker.
Photography
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 day ago

How Technology Has Transformed Cinematography

The MiniDV camera revolutionized filmmaking by enhancing accessibility and enabling a raw visual language, leading to significant industry shifts.
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 days ago

Beyond breaking news: local reporter follows his passion for film making

Sean Au emphasizes the emotional connection movies create between characters and audiences, inspiring his journey as a filmmaker.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
1 day ago

How the 'Blue Heron' Editor Turned the Director's Childhood Into One of 2026's Best Films

The film 'Blue Heron' explores time and memory through the lens of a family's emotional journey on Vancouver Island.
#dji
Gadgets
fromEngadget
1 day ago

The Morning After: Our verdict on the DJI Osmo Pocket 4

The Osmo Pocket 4 offers significant improvements over its predecessor, including a new sensor, better framerate, and extended battery life.
Gadgets
fromEngadget
2 days ago

DJI Osmo Pocket 4 review: The only vlogging camera you'll ever need

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 features an upgraded sensor, improved slow-motion capabilities, and new customizable controls, enhancing its performance for creators.
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
2 days ago

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 camera is better at capturing slo-mo footage and photos

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 features upgraded capabilities but will not be available in the US market.
Apple
fromEngadget
1 day ago

Blackmagic Camera for iOS now has a companion Watch app

Blackmagic Camera app now supports Apple Watch for remote control and monitoring, enhancing usability for solo creators and streamers.
#ai-in-film
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago
Venture

Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster | TechCrunch

AI can transform Hollywood by reallocating budgets to produce more films, increasing the chances of success.
fromKotaku
6 days ago
Independent films

Soderbergh Says He's "Obligated" To Use AI On John Lennon Doc

Steven Soderbergh plans to incorporate AI in future projects, including a documentary about John Lennon's final interview.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

Runway CEO says AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster | TechCrunch

AI can transform Hollywood by reallocating budgets to produce more films, increasing the chances of success.
Independent films
fromKotaku
6 days ago

Soderbergh Says He's "Obligated" To Use AI On John Lennon Doc

Steven Soderbergh plans to incorporate AI in future projects, including a documentary about John Lennon's final interview.
#davinci-resolve
fromThe Verge
4 days ago
Graphic design

DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop

Photography
fromEngadget
4 days ago

Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page

DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces a new Photo page for photo editing, aiming to compete with Lightroom and Photoshop.
fromThe Verge
4 days ago
Graphic design

DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop

Photography
fromEngadget
4 days ago

Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page

DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces a new Photo page for photo editing, aiming to compete with Lightroom and Photoshop.
Television
fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

Seven Documentaries for Fans of Fiction

Documentaries can effectively tell engaging stories, appealing even to those typically averse to the genre.
fromThedrum
5 days ago

The Mill and MPC Advertising unite under The Mill brand

The new consolidated studio will be led by Josh Mandel, previously CEO of The Mill, who will be taking on the new role of President of Advertising at Technicolor Creative Studios.
Marketing
React
fromJoshwcomeau
5 days ago

Squash and Stretch * Josh W. Comeau

The 'squash and stretch' principle enhances animation by creating visually appealing motion effects.
Careers
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in 2 weeks

"It seems to be something we can't avoid"

The creative industry faces challenges for juniors due to budget cuts and AI replacing entry-level roles, threatening the future talent pipeline.
#photography
Online marketing
fromWhat's Trending
4 weeks ago

Marketing Tips for Photographers: Building a Profitable and Recognizable Brand

Strategic marketing, branding, and high-quality visuals are essential for photographers to succeed in a competitive market.
Photography
fromThe Phoblographer
1 week ago

The C-Word That Every Photographer Should Hate

Photographers should reject the term 'creator' as it undermines the artistic value of photography and conflates it with commercial content.
Online marketing
fromWhat's Trending
4 weeks ago

Marketing Tips for Photographers: Building a Profitable and Recognizable Brand

Strategic marketing, branding, and high-quality visuals are essential for photographers to succeed in a competitive market.
Online marketing
fromSocial Media Examiner
1 week ago

AI Video Editing: Save Time and Create Better Videos : Social Media Examiner

AI video tools significantly reduce editing time and costs, enabling marketers to produce consistent, high-quality content efficiently.
Graphic design
fromMedium
4 days ago

Practical Guide for Creating Animated Effects with Claude Code

Use specific, clear prompts for Claude Code to create effective animated effects.
Graphic design
fromGeeky Gadgets
5 days ago

Inside Seedance 2.0 : The Next Big Shift in AI Video Generation

Seedance 2.0 enhances AI-driven video production with lifelike avatars, precise sound synchronization, and customizable features for diverse industries.
fromVulture
1 day ago

The Masterful Blue Heron Uses Cinema As a Seance

"It's true I spent most of my life being angry at him. The older I get, the more I feel like I never even knew him at all. My image of him now, I know, falls flat compared to reality."
Independent films
Photography
fromWIRED
4 days ago

GoPro's New Mission 1 Cameras Have 8K Video and Interchangeable Lenses

GoPro's new Mission 1 series features advanced sensors and capabilities, aiming to reclaim its leadership in the action camera market.
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 day ago

8 Essential Animated Films

The gunshot scene in Bambi allows the audience to build fear, making them feel as frightened as Bambi, with visuals that resemble looking through tears.
Independent films
fromPetaPixel
1 week ago

The Secrets Behind a Successful Photography Business

Running a photography business can be incredible fun, offering unique experiences and opportunities to meet diverse people. However, it requires significant dedication and effort, often demanding extra hours beyond a typical workweek.
Photography
Graphic design
fromBusiness Matters
3 weeks ago

10 Best AI Video Tools for Creators, Brands, and Growing Channels

AI video tools simplify content creation by allowing creators to start with a strong visual idea and produce videos for various platforms.
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

"Personal Storytelling, Experimentation, and a DIY Spirit": A Look Inside LAFM 2026

This year's festival showcases debut features emphasizing personal storytelling and experimentation from both international and local filmmakers.
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Apple acquires video editing software company MotionVFX | TechCrunch

We are extremely excited to share that MotionVFX is joining the Apple team to continue to empower creators and editors to do their best work. For over 15 years, we've been on a mission to create world-class, visually inspiring content and effects for video editors. From the very beginning, we've been all about quality, ease of use, and great design. These are also the values that we admire most in Apple's products.
Apple
#independent-film
Independent films
fromIndieWire
1 week ago

Brands Won't Save Indie Film: They're Changing It

Independent filmmakers face financing challenges while brands are shifting towards storytelling, but brands won't fill the financing gap for traditional filmmaking.
Independent films
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Mountain View filmmaker goes back to school at Cinequest

Independent filmmaker John Kim completed his comedy film 'Reunion' despite production beginning during the devastating Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires in Los Angeles on January 7, 2025.
Online marketing
fromFstoppers
1 month ago

Write a Photography Blog That Drives Bookings | Fstoppers

Photography blogs fail because they lack SEO strategy and client-focused content; writing one targeted post weekly answering client search queries generates qualified leads and transforms inquiry rates.
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago

Harlowe has a cheaper solution for lighting 360-degree shoots

Harlowe, a company known for lighting accessories that cater to influencers and amateurs, has released a $95 alternative called the Omni 360 that evenly illuminates with a diffused soft glow in all directions. The Omni 360's 2W of light output can be boosted to up to 4W as needed but neither mode is quite bright enough to fully illuminate a dark environment.
Gadgets
fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

In Film, Sometimes the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen

"Cinematic Immunity" offers a workers'-eye view of Hollywood on the Hudson, revealing the intricate dynamics of filmmaking in New York City from 1954 to 9/11.
Independent films
Graphic design
fromForbes
3 weeks ago

Freepik Magnific Precision Signals AI Video's Post-Production Era

Freepik's Magnific Precision tool enhances video upscaling, focusing on improving existing footage quality for commercial content production.
#cinematography
fromIndieWire
1 month ago
Film

'Train Dreams' Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Explains Why Digital Cameras Were the Key to Period Accuracy

fromIndieWire
1 month ago
Film

'Train Dreams' Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Explains Why Digital Cameras Were the Key to Period Accuracy

Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

Pump Up The Volume! The Rise OF Virtual Production - Hollywood's Most Confusing Miracle

Virtual production technology evolved from 1930s rear projection to modern LED walls, revolutionizing how filmmakers create backgrounds while keeping actors stationary on set.
Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

Honor partners with legendary video camera maker ARRI

Honor and ARRI partnered to bring cinema-grade video recording capabilities to smartphones, enabling professional-quality mobile capture with authentic cinematic aesthetics.
Film
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

This Cult Filmmaker Learned Something About Audiences Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know'Make Them Feel Something'

Kevin Smith built a personal brand by connecting directly with fans, which created lasting career opportunities beyond individual film projects in an unpredictable industry.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

How to Film ICE

Filming federal immigration agents is legal but can provoke dangerous, even lethal, responses; video both documents abuses and can place observers at risk.
fromDigiday
2 months ago

Inside Goalhanger's shift from podcast producer to screen studio

On YouTube, The Rest is History podcast draws roughly around 500,000 viewers, who stick around for an average of about 48 minutes. That's close to the length of a traditional hour-long show and even longer than the podcast's strong audio average of around 40 minutes.. For the production team, seeing that level of engagement, especially on TV screens, was a turning point. People weren't just listening along to podcasts. They're settling in to watch now too.
Media industry
#ai-filmmaking
#short-form-video
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.

Atsushi Nishijima, an on-set stills photographer, has documented major films over the past decade and a half, capturing candid moments between takes on sets directed by prominent filmmakers.
Podcast
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The surge of video podcasts raises an awkward question for the industry: Why do we still call them 'podcasts'?

The definition of 'podcast' has expanded from asynchronous talk radio to any episodic audio or video content with people speaking, making the original term increasingly obsolete as consumption shifts toward video-based formats.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"...As Long as You're Telling the Truth": Jordan Lage, Back To One, Episode 376

Jordan Lage is an award-winning actor, writer, director and founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, which celebrates its 41st anniversary this year. He studied acting at New York University under the tutelage of playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy and then taught acting and playwriting at the Atlantic Theater Acting School for nearly 30 years. Best known for his work performing the plays of David Mamet's, he
Arts
Bicycling
fromBikeMag
2 months ago

Made By Mountains: A Riding Film Worth Waiting For

Made By Mountains presents mountains as active forces that shape identity, community, perspective, and lifelong meaning through immersive, visual mountain-riding storytelling.
Design
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Adobe's Creative Collective assembles multidisciplinary experts to analyse and advise on the industry's big changes

The Creative Collective convenes creatives to explore AI, provide practical support, events, and published digests that promote responsible and expressive creative practice.
Marketing
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

How to create video content your audience wants to see

Video advertising is underused despite smartphone and social-video dominance; advertisers must tailor mobile-friendly, attention-grabbing videos and measure ad performance.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Indie Film Has an Architecture Problem

The indie film model is structurally designed to fail, with misaligned incentives between investors, filmmakers, distributors, and audiences, resulting in only 0.025% of screenplays achieving profitable theatrical outcomes.
Artificial intelligence
fromSocial Media Examiner
1 month ago

AI Video Made Easy: How to Create High Quality Content That Grows Your Business : Social Media Examiner

AI video tools enable marketers to create professional, avatar-based and repurposed videos without production skills, dramatically scaling output while saving time and money.
Photography
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

A National Geographic photographer gave me 4 tips for taking better pictures with my phone

National Geographic photographer Kiliii YĂĽyan recommends getting closer, trying new angles, and immersing yourself in environments to improve phone photography.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Amazon to begin testing AI tools for film and TV production next month | TechCrunch

Albert Cheng, who heads the AI Studios initiative, emphasized that the goal is to support creative teams, not to replace them. The focus is on improving efficiency and reducing costs while ensuring that intellectual property is protected and AI-generated content isn't absorbed into other AI models. One example used is Amazon's "House of David" series, which featured 350 AI-generated shots in season two.
Artificial intelligence
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

EZCast Just Turned Every Phone Into a Professional Camera Monitor - Yanko Design

EZCast's CamCast CT-1 is a compact wireless HDMI transmitter that streams 1080p 60fps video to up to four iOS or Android devices simultaneously over 5GHz Wi-Fi, bridging the gap between basic camera monitoring and expensive professional systems.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
Gadgets
fromEngadget
2 months ago

DJI launches the lightweight RS 5 camera gimbal for video creators

The DJI RS 5 is a lightweight, highly stable camera gimbal with enhanced intelligent subject tracking, long battery life, and compatibility with mainstream mirrorless cameras.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

A Tech Writer's Appreciation of Scott Macaulay

Digital technologies and the internet democratized filmmaking, enabling indie filmmakers with low-cost equipment and new distribution platforms, reshaping production, post-production, and exhibition.
Gadgets
fromGSMArena.com
2 months ago

Oppo releases a short film shot entirely on the Find X9 Pro

Oppo released a short film shot entirely on the Find X9 Pro that uses 'stealing time' to explore young people's emotional and family pressures.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

The Unknown: A Filmmaker's Search for Lost Connections

Filmmaker Simplice Ganou, from Burkina Faso, spends his time documenting people and relationships, but when he travels to Winterthur, Switzerland, he faces a new challenge: nobody wants to talk to him.
Film
Independent films
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Mountain View filmmaker goes back to school at Cinequest

Independent filmmaker John Kim completed his film Reunion despite starting production during the devastating January 2025 Los Angeles fires that displaced cast and crew members.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Do you believe in magic?

Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real.
Film
fromeLearning Industry
1 month ago

How To Remove Background Noise From Video: Best Practices For Professional Content

When professionals talk about how to remove background noise from video, they are really talking about improving the audio track of a video so the speaker's voice is clearer, more consistent, and easier to understand. Background noise refers to any unwanted sound that competes with the main voice, like air conditioning hum, office chatter, keyboard typing, traffic, or the low hiss created by recording equipment and compression. In video production, background noise removal is about reducing distractions so the listener can focus on the message.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Top of the props: meet the unsung heroes behind the memorable objects in your favourite films

It's nice that you are asking about props, because they're not really acknowledged, says Jode Mann, a TV prop master in Los Angeles. When Mann worked on the children's comedy show Pee-wee's Playhouse in the 1980s, she got a call from its star, Paul Reubens, who said he was nominating her for an Emmy. It was only after Mann told her mother and promised to thank her if she won that Reubens called back to say he couldn't nominate her because there's no category for you.
Film
Film
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Wheelchair camera 'is milestone for disabled film-makers'

A patented wheelchair-mounted Steadicam system enables wheelchair users to operate professional camera rigs, improving accessibility and production value in film and broadcast.
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 month ago

"I Feel Like It's Very Sacred, What Happens Between the Camera and You": Samantha Smart, Back To One, Episode 380

Charliebird, written, produced, and led by Samantha Smart, won the 2025 Tribeca top prize and stars Gabriela Ochoa Perez as Charlie.
Film
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

The Ultimate Guide to Using a Video Trimmer and Video Editor Free Tools

Free video trimming and editing tools make high-quality video production accessible, enabling creators and businesses to produce polished content without expensive software or advanced skills.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies

This year's Oscar contenders feature nonprofessional actors alongside established performers, creating authentic performances that distinguish these films in the new casting achievement category.
Film
fromThe Hollywood Reporter
2 months ago

Film Academy Creates Academy Studios to Oversee Digital Output, Will Be Led by Jennifer Davidson

The Academy launches Academy Studios to professionalize and expand digital content and promotes Jennifer Davidson to chief marketing, communications and content officer to lead it.
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