Mike 'The Greek' drops by the Film Lab to deliver his own TED talk. The subject: How to make an Best Picture Oscar-winning film (based on numbers and statistics, which he loves maybe even more than money)
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Mike breaks it down for you: zoom lenses have their advantages, and prime lenses have their advantges. It's just that prime lenses have more of them...
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Rajo shows off his new favourite iPhone app, the incredibly cheap and easy to use Stop Motion Recorder from bitween. Holy cats is it ever cool... Watch this quick and easy tutorial!
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Mike explains stop motion animation, which is incidentally the coolest kind of animation out there.
Continuing his series on the very basics of non-linear editing, Rajo finally gets to the fun part: editing with Final Cut Pro.
Happy Hallowe'en! Mike shows us how far a little corn syrup, warm water and food colouring can go, especially if you're looking to save a few bucks in your SFX budget. Fake Blood!
Rajo lays out a fairly basic primer on 3D film technology. Show of hands, who's going to Piranha 3D this friday?
If you had Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis on board with a concept that let them run full idiot wild, would you spend two hours telling a story about the straight man? That's a rhetorical question, btw.
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Bingo's back to explain just what the heck a Dutch Angle (or Dutch Tilt) is! Ha ha!
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Ashton Kutcher sure is handsome, but I mean come on... A CIA assassin? Please... you're better off watching Jonah Hill play a music executive in GET HIM TO THE GREEK
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Rajo finally gathers the info he needs to balance the white!
Mystified by the end credits? Still don't know what a best boy is? Welcome to thesubstream.com's Anatomy of a Film Set. Today's lesson: Production.
In song form, thesubstream gang sing the ballad of the boom-holder, his steady feet, his microphone placement, his mighty boom-pole, the actor’s mouth-hole.
How to create effective, dramatic lighting on a portrait subject with three lights. It looks cool as hell and once you know how to do it, it’s pretty easy to reproduce. Mike and Rajo let you in on the secret…
Anatomy of a Film Set! In part two, we look into the heart of a film set, the artsy-fartsy types like the art department, wardrobe, hair and make-up.