Hello everyone, Madeline here, and welcome to the 50TH Movie Minute! For this entry, we’ll be exploring why focusing on a certain audience as opposed to mass appeal can sometimes be beneficial. While it is true that blockbuster movies and franchises have the potential to bring in wide audiences and attention, that doesn’t always translate…
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Greetings all, Madeline here, back with yet another Movie Minute. For this entry, we’ll be discussing why a slate is one of the most important tools in filmmaking. Also known as a clapper, a slate is not just a notable symbol of cinema that has been used for more than a century- it has been…
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Greetings all, Madeline here, with yet another Movie Minute. For today’s topic, we’ll be focusing on why safety is one of our most important values in our productions! No matter how big or small the production of a project is, safety must always be the top priority, no matter how it can affect the finished…
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Greetings everyone, Madeline here, back with the 47th entry in The Movie Minute. For this entry’s topic, we’ll be touching on something more technical but important- media compression! You’ve probably encountered a message about a file being too large to upload- and even if you don’t encounter that message, whenever you upload a video or…
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Greetings all, Madeline here for the 46th Movie Minute. For this entry, we’ll be doing another project spotlight- this time on the annual Mountain Man Memorial March with Legacies Alive, for which we will be travelling to the Great Smoky Mountains this weekend! Mountain Man is one of three major events we cover for Legacies…
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Greetings all, Madeline here, hope everything is well with you all! For this entry, we’ll be exploring how Frame.io forms an essential part of our workflow. It is a platform that allows uploading of drafts of our projects to share amongst each other that is simple and easy to use. And with its integration with…
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Greetings all, Madeline here, back with the first Movie Minute for March. For this entry, we’ll be focusing on one of our most powerful tools for the projects we produce- Adobe Media Encoder. When we finish a cut of our projects, we have to export it into a format that can be played easily- usually…
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Hey everyone, Madeline here with the 43rd entry in The Movie Minute. Today we’ll be digging into why it’s important to measure how much footage you shoot on a project. In addition to my work as an assistant editor and DIT, I also have the duty of shooting B-roll with my GH5 on projects that…
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Greetings all, Madeline here with the 42nd entry in The Movie Minute. For this entry’s topic, we’ll be diving into a common tool used in our productions-shooting in LOG format. So what is LOG? Each camera we shoot with, whether the GH5, FS7, A7IV, EOS R, etc. has different color profiles for shooting video. While…
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Greetings all, Madeline here with the 41st entry in the Movie Minute. For today’s topic, we’ll be focusing on how to properly take care of camera equipment! Many of the cameras we use, from the GH5 to the A7IV and FS7, are powerful tools for cinematic storytelling, but they’re also huge investments that must be…
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