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Bandshell Case turns your iPhone up to 11! REVIEW & GIVEAWAY
This giveaway has ended. Thanks to everyone who entered! Thanks to its stunning Retina display, Apple’s iPhone makes a perfect portable screening room. I use mine to view dailies while on location, to...
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How I use my iPhone to charge all my other batteries. Wait. What?
Want to hear a funny story? Not too long ago, I drove 4 hours to a last-minute, geographically isolated, commercial shoot with an SUV full of professional camera and audio equipment, only to discover...
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Are iOS Camera Apps Helping or Hurting Filmmakers?
While that overtly sensational headline may reek of clickbait, it’s also a fair and reasonable question – one I was asked while speaking on a Photography/Videography panel at this year’s Macworld Expo...
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I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen for Green Screen
What did you do last week? I mercilessly tore my living room apart and temporarily transformed it into a green screen (a.k.a. “chroma key”) studio in which I directed a short comedy called 2084. For...
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I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen for Green Screen: Part II
Welcome back green screeners! As you may recall, last week I explained how green screens help filmmakers to composite (combine) multiple layers of imagery. Don’t remember that? Here’s a 13 word...
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Write screenplays on your iThings with Fountain
This week, we’re going to look at how Fountain is making it easier to write screenplays on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (as well as your Android device, Blackberry, Windows phone, Palm Pilot, Mac,...
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Introducing MOJOCON, The Mobile Journalism Conference!
I am profoundly excited to announce that I’ll be a guest speaker at the very first Mojocon, hitting Dublin, Ireland on March 27th! What is MojoCon? Allow me to quote the event’s website: MojoCon...
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Crop on the fly with Crop on the Fly
Picture this… You’ve been camped out somewhere in the middle of the Nevada desert for the past 3 months. You’re chewing the remaining crumbs from your final Cliff Bar, and you’re long past your last...
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Green screen images from 2084
I’ve written a lot about green screen shooting lately, so I’m going to keep this short. As I mentioned a few posts back, I recently directed a short film called 2084, and relied heavily on an awesome...
View ArticleFree iPhone Filmmaking Workshop at Santa Monica Apple Store THIS SUNDAY
Want to learn how to use your iPhone for filmmaking? Do you live in the Los Angeles area? If you answer yes and yes, you must get to the Santa Monica Apple Store THIS WEEKEND! Apple, cARTel, and the No...
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