Technology
Writings on diverse topics dealing with media technology, the cinema industry and the future of moving image arts.
Mechanical I
Camera technology and our Visual Language
The ‘Film Look’ is a crock, Shallow Depth of Field is banal and Rack Focus is lazy.
Would all you indie filmmakers please get Over It!
A look at the cultural patterns that have lead indie filmmakers to a dark unimaginative obessesession of style over substance.
Cinema Theory and Practice: the divide we dont need
More than any other art form Cinema has long suffered from an entrenched separation between Theory and Practice. And sadly it’s film scholars who are to blame.
The myth of intuitive software
What does intuitive really mean?
Great for the web..?. Are your eyes pained on?
A look at the arbitrary distinction between viewing qualities.
The philosophy of the tools
Blaming the hammer for the problems of the digital house.
DIY Colour Grading
Colour Grading is too often regarded as an arcane, exclusive science not fit for mere mortals. But the digital age is slowly starting to reshape this mentality
Machinima and the filmmakers virtual immersion
What is machinima and what bold future does it herald?
Poetry in Motion or Vertical Editing
An introduction to constructing meaning through video motion graphics and compositing.
Letting the digital pony have its head
The tools may have advanced into 21st century but has the creative culture changed with it?
Not so Special FX
Theorising visual normality.
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