Filmmaker's Forum Blog
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Filmmaker's Forum
Overcoming Limited Resources on My First Feature: Before the Dawn
It’s easy to feel intimidated when you’re facing your first feature, and it’s especially daunting when you know you’ll have limited crew and resources.
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Filmmaker's Forum
Don’t Panic, It’s Organic: A Swamp Thing Discovery Saga
The cinematographer details his experience while shooting this fantastical series based on the long-running DC Comics title — combining the Arri Alexa LF with Panavision T Series anamorphics for a distinctive look.
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Filmmaker's Forum
Filming With Firearms
Firearms experts and cinematographers form relationships that go beyond mutual respect. We share many characteristics. We want it good, we want it safe, we want it quick, and we want it within budget.
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Filmmaker's Forum
Cielo: Consider the Stars
Writer-director Alison McAlpine, director of photography Benjamín Echazarreta, visual-effects cinematographer Mathieu Laverdière and visual-effects supervisor Philippe Toupin discuss the making of this award-winning documentary.
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Filmmaker's Forum
Digging Deep Into My Vocation
The cinematographer details her experience on the creative endurance test of shooting a weekly series.
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Filmmaker's Forum
Drones Lend an Antarctic Advantage
Bringing a new perspective the docs-adventure series Whale Wars with aerial camera drones also established a new layer of security for the show's majestic stars.
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Filmmaker's Forum
God Knows Where I Am: A Soul’s Story
Cinematographer Gerardo Puglia and directors Todd and Jedd Wider discuss combining film and digital capture while making their stark, haunting documentary.
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Filmmaker's Forum
Filmmaker’s Forum: Switching in Style Between TV and Features
The opportunity to shoot the feature Going in Style came my way serendipitously after a number of years of shooting drama for television. The project is a remake of director Martin Brest’s 1979 feature of the same name, but unlike the original, ours would have a happy ending...