Shoot Like an Editor

7 tips from Caleb Pike on how to shoot with the edit process in mind, getting the shots and the organization that will make your editor love you

Five Special Effects You Can Make for Free

Director/Cinematographer Matthew Rosen from KINETEK explain five relatively simple but very effective effects you can achieve almost for free.

How to Add Depth to Your Cinematography

Director/Cinematographer Matthew Rosen from KINETEK explain some simple techniques to add depth to your cinematography.

How to Shoot Rear Projection

Director/Cinematographer Matthew Rosen from KINETEK explain how to shoot rear projection, demonstrating demonstrates a practical, good looking alternative to chroma key for invisible composites.

How to Light a Room for Three Different Moods

In this lighting tutorial by Dugly Habits for the 30th Anniversary of Dedolight International Competition 2015, they show you how to create 3 different atmospheres in one single room by using an SPS5 Dedolight Kit, some other lights and a couple of simple but pretty cool tricks!

The Dutch Angle

The Dutch Angle is a technique created by tilting the camera any number of degrees to either side. Here is a look at the Dutch angle used in a variety of films to a variety of extremes.

16mm Crew Prepares for Filming

David Whitson (camera), John Adderley (camera assistant), Bill Chesneau (sound), Alan Muhley (electrician), Ray Sutcliffe (director) demonstrate how they used to work together in the late 1960s and 1970s to produce a standard TV product on film.

This 4 screen version reveals many details of the routines they went through:

the division of labour
how they worked together and separately
the decision making process
the skills needed to operate the machinery (including how to load film)
the problems of getting all the machinery to work together

Following Paul Thomas Anderson from Arnau Orengo

A look at Paul Thomas Anderson's tracking shots

Films:
Hard Eight (1996)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
There Will be Blood (2007)
The Master (2012)
Inherent Vice (2014)

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