iPad DSLR Slate app + Canon 7D
If you’re shooting sync sound with a 7D the DSLR slate app for the iPad is a BIG help! Go check it out. The first slate designed specifically for the DSLR filmmaker, DSLR Slate provides unique inputs...
View ArticleSubtleties of the Clapboard
An insightful look into the extraordinary skills of the best clapper loader in the world, Cam with Inspiration Studios.
View ArticleThe Digital Slate that’s also an Assistant Editor
Digtal Slates for iDevices have been around for a while now. But now, through an innovative use of QR Barcodes, the metadata that’s on the slate can be attached to the video clip itself. With QRSlate...
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Five Tips for Holding the Slate Properly When Marking a Shot
Evan Luzi discusses the finer points of holding a slate – another tip: You don’t need to slam the clapper. It’s over in only a few seconds: ”Mark it!” *CLAP*Yet slating — clapping the sticks on a...
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What to Write on a Clapperboard
Evan Luzi breaks down the sections of a slate and discusses what goes where when your called to prepare the slate for a take. Slating: it’s a staple of filmmaking, it’s an art, and it requires a...
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Deciphering the Film Slate (Part 2): Pickups, Plates, MOS, and More
Evan Luzi continues the discussion on Film Slates with all those other little details that go onto a slate. The film slate hasn’t existed for so many years — adapting to the ever-changing filmmaking...
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Deciphering the Film Slate (Part 3): Twelve Examples of a Completed Slate
Evan Luzi compares the slating techniques from 12 Films. You want to be a slate superstar? A champion of the clapperboard? A maestro of the marker? If you want to be a slating pro, reading about it is...
View Article5 Ways the Camera Department Can Help Avoid “Fix It In Post” Headaches
Evan Luzi covers 5 ways that the camera assistant can make the editorial process as simple as possible. Have you looked around on a film set lately? You might notice that production and post-production...
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How to use a Clapper Board / Slate
Bradley Stern goes over what all those funny things on a clapper mean and how to use it in a production. One of the many roles of the 2nd Assistant Camera (2nd AC) is to use the clapper or slate board...
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The Rise of Slacker Noir
In many ways, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice is one of a kind. But it is also the latest in a long line of movies we call “slacker noir,” in which a slacker protagonist is dropped into a...
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Breaking Up Is Fantastic
Especially with the help of these prime breakup scenes from movies.
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History of the SnorriCam
A video history of the SnorriCam, the ultimate cinematic shorthand for disorientation.
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A Brief History of Godzilla
After 60 years of terrorizing the silver screen, Godzilla is ready to raid again this month. But even after 32 movie appearances, how much do we really know about him?
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