Wired On DIY DSLR Filmmaking
Wired magazine has caught up with the changes sweeping filmmaking, with a short piece on some DSLR successes of the last couple of years.
Wired magazine has caught up with the changes sweeping filmmaking, with a short piece on some DSLR successes of the last couple of years.
Next time you need to give feedback on someone else’s video project – or maybe next time you’re getting feedback on your own – make sure you spend a few minutes watching and laughing at this first.
Jack Douglass achieves so much here, and I don’t mean fitting in more continuity changes than most people can count (honestly, I tried, but I gave up in the 30s, and there are many, many more than that).
This is The Good North, a short film shot on a Canon 7d by director Jonathan Entwistle and cinematographer Justin Brown. It was won a multitude of award nominations, and combines a tight script about racism, some wonderful location shooting in the north of England, and great acting performances. … Continue Reading
Robin Schmidt is a very, very happy man.
More happy than someone who got the chance to go and make a movie in the Bahamas ought to be. I mean, we’d all be happy after that.
But the 32-year-old British filmmaker is happy for another reason.
His delightful musical number Open Your Eyes won the 14 Islands Film Challenge – a contest set up by the Bahamas tourism office to get something new, something different as a promotional tool. His prize? A fat check, an official Ambassadorship for Canon and its digital imaging products, and recognition from all over the world for his work.
If Schmidt’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s made a bit of a splash in recent months, before he starting winning awards for things.
His forthright and hilarious weblog, on which he has posted numerous scathing comments about the Canon 7D DSLR, has become one of the best places for others to learn about its quirks. We’ve mentioned his blogging at Photocine News before.
In the light of his 14 Islands Challenge success, I spoke to Schmidt during a break in the middle of “a nasty edit”, and started by asking him why, out of all the things he could have done, he made a comic musical for the competition?
