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Check out this retrospective in the September issue of the Motion Imaging Journal! Written by SMPTE member Michael Dolan back in 1999, this past article captures the enthusiasm and optimism of the era, particularly surrounding film and videotape. Read it here! https://hubs.la/Q02LgLF00

Sometimes being "correct" isn't "right". Gareth Edwards discovered this while working on his film "The Creator". To be a good VFX artist/supervisor, one must be obsessed with accurately integrating CG elements into plate photography, which requires matching their lighting with the lighting on set. But this BTS video reveals our "dirty secret" (which even artists find surprising): sometimes to properly integrate a CG element into a scene, we must intentionally "disobey" the real world lighting of the scene. Now, in addition to being unfaithful to the footage, doing this could also be seen as "uncollaborative" since the lighting is the cinematographer's realm. How dare the VFX supervisor mess up the cinematographer's vision? Well one must remember that cinematographers use REAL lights, to light REAL things. Even when they know something will be added later (say, a CG Velociraptor like in "Jurassic Park") they won't necessarily light "for" a CG object. Sometimes because they forgot, sometimes because they didn't see the point, sometimes because I offered to take care of it in post. For this reason, I always take real world lighting with a grain of salt, and ask myself: if this CG object was "physically there on the day" how would THIS cinematographer light the scene? *** Interestingly, Oren Soffer doesn't actually mention CG lighting adjustments but rather compliments the VFX team for successfully interpreting the lighting he did place despite not having proper (horizontal) lighting references. What's your favorite example of having to "Disobay" plate photography?

The amount of experience, love and dedication to the craft is something that you only catch a glimpse of when companies spend the time to create videos like this. Panel discussions, commentary on BTS from the people who made a campaign possible, even debrief chats about what worked and what didn't. These bits of gold can be caught on camera and are very real ways for companies to build authenticity and authority in their industries. Your audience is there on your website, social channels or blog post. They want to learn more about you and what value you bring to the table. Give them an excuse to stay around longer. #contentcreation #videoproduction #bts #eurkish

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Industrial Collapse (A Student Film collaboration) Collapse of the industrial sector; the scene I worked for in a Student Experimental Film, depicting decay and decryption caused to human through the use of industrial machines processing the main character of the film.

What do starlings have to do with voice? Well, the flight of starlings is an excellent example of self-regulation in #complexsystems. I'm preparing video materials for my next #voice workshop (Rome) and complex systems theory is one of the pillars of the type of voice work I offer. Believe it or not, this theory offers a fascinating (and effective) model of how the voice can be managed and developed. If not interfered with, complex systems can create impressively efficient and flexible #structure by themselves. In certain conditions, the free interactions between individual elements gives rise to a form of impersonal, collective #intelligence that runs the system and optimizes its operation without any need of controlling inputs from the outside. If and when treated as a #complexsystem, a voice can produce the acoustic and perceptual equivalent of the images you will find in this fascinating videoclip. Powerful but effortless. Impactful, yet weightless. These birds are not trying to convince me, but I can't stop paying attention to them because in which they they do what they do. Nothing is more captivating than fascination.

Q3. In X-ray work the quality of the radiographic image is assessed by the: 1. The density of the film 2. IQI indicator 3. KVA available 4. Stand-off distance (For answer, please click: https://lnkd.in/geU5xySs)

This is going to be increasingly important for 2K resolution films of the 2010s in a 4k era. Digital resolutions cannot be remastered in the same way as film masters. Upscaling does not provide more detailed pixels.

the phenomenon of subconscious transmission of traumatic experiences to subsequent generations is the topic this experimental short movie is based on. lately exhibited at #filefestival saõ paulo, brazil #videoart #experimental #soudart #audiovisual #transgenerationaltrauma #transgenerationalestrauma

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