Louisiana composer Andrew Morgan Smith was tasked with crafting a score that could anchor Nicolas Cage’s role in a good old-fashioned Montana revenge adventure ‘The Old Way’.
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Helping Ben Affleck Get Away With Murder: Deep Water BTS Special FX Breakdown
Zack Kutcher of SpectrumFX, Special Effects Coordinator of Deep Water (starring Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck), talks about all the practical special effects for this Hulu Original Film.
“F*** yeah, let’s do it.” The creators of ‘Shapes’ banter about creative chemistry, good horror, and crafting brain gore from a grape
John Kellar, Noel Savoy, and Kevin Conlon sat down (or laid in bed) to reflect on ‘Shapes’, a short horror film about a shapeshifting entity that has a habit of preying on the flesh of its roommates.
The marsh atmosphere in ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ and the editing and VFX relationship that helped shape it
When you cut through the external buzz of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’, what you have is an adventure mystery built on the foundation of an atmosphere. The marsh – the buzz of cicadas and the sun that drips down through the cypress trees – it’s a living piece of this story. The effects and the composition are paramount.
We talked to editor Alan E. Bell and VFX Supervisor Kolby Kember of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ about how they helped build the atmosphere of Crawdads with their editing and visual effects expertise.
Composer Andrew Morgan Smith talks the intimate musical magic that sparks our love for the movies
Andrew Morgan Smith is one of those creators fusing music with narrative to evoke a specific emotion. He is a multi-faceted musician, a composer with almost 100 film credits, and one might say most importantly – a contributor to the world that once inspired him.
He gave us his time to talk about his path to scoring movies and the nuances behind the ideas, performances, and convergence of sounds that are melded together to create a complete film score.
Ethan Hawke admires the heart put into art and talks about competition in the movie industry
Ethan Hawke, the now “Moon Knight” actor, went viral on social networks due to an opinion he made in a 2018 video about superhero movies.
‘Strapped’ by Pierre St John jr. is a tension-filled one-take of lean cinematic muscle
Strapped is a new short thriller film by Pierre St Jean jr. This one-take taut dramatic film was released in June and is available for viewing on Youtube.
Taproot’s Josh Carrasquillo talks shooting three cross-country stories in six days for Chevy’s “Silverado” campaign
Josh Carrasquillo, the executive producer at Taproot, exercised his technical and creative physique with the new Chevy Silverado “Silverado Presents” campaign, a three-part campaign shot in six days across three geographically unique landscapes.
Compare Camera Senzor Sizes
Easily compare digital cinema camera sensor sizes as well as analog formats and verify lens coverage. "Compare Sensor Sizes" is a free, open source tool to compare multiple digital camera sensor sizes, celluloid film formats and lens image circles – graphically as well as in tabular form.In...