Like many middle-schoolers, I had the opportunity to choose an instrument and join the school band. My parents vetoed my drumming dreams, so I ended up trying the clarinet. (It wasn’t the same.) As part of the agreement for participating in band, I was required to practice for half an hour every day. So every…
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Seven Final Lessons in 360-Degree Video
I finally finished the 360-degree video short course. The first weeks offered an overview of virtual reality and 360-degree video and the following weeks moved into pre-production and gear. The final weeks covered editing and other considerations. I found this module the least helpful of the three as it relied on external videos and offered…
‘Rain’ Tells a Subtle Story, Shot by Shot
YouTube offers a treasure trove of older titles, though some offerings raise questions. Is the title part of the public domain? Is it made available through fair use? A handful of descriptions claim public domain, while most others claim nothing at all. The murkiness of copyright laws makes these claims questionable anyway. I would prefer…
Editors Take it to ‘The Cutting Edge’
Some of the most interesting documentaries reveal the “hidden” aspects of the movie-making process. The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing delves into one of the most invisible of the film arts, editing. At its simplest, editing is the assembling of shots into a cohesive whole. But editing is so much more than that,…