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Video is getting more and more an important means of communication. With a normal/simple camcorder everybody can make interesting video's...Arts
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17:58:46 03/03/08
Rembrandt and the nightwatch
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Optical theory
An article published in 2004[67], by Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, suggests that Rembrandt, whose eyes failed to align correctly, suffered from stereo blindness. This conclusion was made after studying 36 of Rembrandt's self-portraits. Because he could not form a normal binocular vision, his brain automatically switched to one eye for many visual tasks. This disability could have helped him to flatten images he saw, and then put it onto the two-dimensional canvas. In Livingstone's words, this could have been a gift to a great painter like him, "Art teachers often instruct students to close one eye in order to flatten what they see. Therefore, stereo blindness might not be a handicap — and might even be an asset — for some artists." However, among Rembrandt's greatest talents was an ability to create the illusion of full volume, the perception of which requires healthy stereoptic vision.
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13:24:59 03/03/08
Windsor Castle
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Costume drama
A costume drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture the ambience of a particular era.
The term is usually used in the context of film and television. It is an informal, cross-over term that can apply to several genres but is most often heard in the context of historical dramas and romances, adventure films and swashbucklers. The implication is that the audience is attracted as much by the lavish costumes as by the content.
The most common type of costume drama is the historical costume drama, both on stage and in movies.
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08:05:36 03/01/08
Limelight
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Limelight is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be "in the limelight". An intense illumination is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of calcium carbonate, which can be raised to white heat without melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence.
Limelight was first used in public in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots. To this day, theatre followspots are referred to as limes. Limelight was quickly replaced by electric arc lighting in the late 19th century.
The film.
Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin plays an aging music-hall comedian who befriends a young dancer (Claire Bloom) who has attempted suicide. Highlights include a famous Chaplin-Buster Keaton comedy skit as the two comedians portray faded stars seeking an audience in a changing world.
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13:18:00 02/29/08
Living in North-Brabant
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An old super-8-mm film
Add Background Music,
Background Music: If you intend to publish this digital story on the Internet, you should not use commercial music from a CD or the WWW. Freeplaymusic.com is a good starting point. If you purchase any music from iTunes, it is protected to the computer where you downloaded it when you purchased it. You will need to burn any purchased song on a Music CD (with iTunes) and import the music directly from the CD.
Music often overwhelms voiceovers. Edit volume on the low end under your narration (> 10%) but you could increase the volume when no voice is present. (or add with Garage Band on the Macintosh). The following websites are good places to find royalty-free music to use in your project.
* Freeplay Music -a good collection of royalty-free music
* Soundzabound.com - Royalty Free Music For Schools - short clips free, reasonably-priced CDs available
* MagnaTune
* download.com
* Partners in Rhyme
* Free piano music by William Cushman at Ghost Notes Blog
iMovie users:
There is a second audio track for background music.
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12:39:44 02/28/08
Windows XL
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Open-source' is a term originally used to describe the development process of software. In open-source software development, the program code (akin to the blueprints) of the project is laid bare for anybody to download, examine, test, correct and improve. They then add their altered version back into the mix and so on.
This seemingly chaotic process can produce some impressive results: the Open Office suite, the Firefox web-browser and the Apache Web Server (on which around 90% of the Internet sits) to name but a few. Since its inception within software development, use of the term has grown. It can be used to describe any project where the development is an open process, with Wikipedia being the best known, non-software open-source example.
The ideas and methods of open-source are becoming firmly established within the media world as well and could change both how we consume, and produce media, forever.
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12:34:32 02/27/08
Highlights of the Highlands
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A super 8 mm film from 1974
Super-8 film comes in two types of film: Reversal and Negative. Reversal film is processed as a positive image for projection. Negative film is processed as an orange based negative for direct digital - or printing for projection.
*Negative film can not be processed as a positive film.
*Reversal film such as the Ektachrome can be cross-processed as a negative with mixed and unstable results; this also halves the sensitivity value of the film.
THE MAIN DIFFERENCES IN NEGATIVE & REVERSAL FILM.
Reversal Film:
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Reversal film requires exact exposure because of limited latitude.
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Reversal film was originally esigned for projection.
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Copy Prints are not readily available from Reversal Prints.
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Reversal film is higher in contrast.
Negative Film:
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Negative film has a greater latitude for exposure.
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Super-8, 16 & 35mm negative needs to have a print made for Projection.
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Negative film can be telecined direct without a print.
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Negative film is lower in contrast, offering more detail in shadow.
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17:57:39 02/26/08
Town picture (Amsterdam)
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Future state
While motion picture films have been around for more than a century, film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In the 1950s, when television became widely available, industry analysts predicted the demise of local movie theaters. Despite competition from television's increasing technological sophistication over the 1960s and 1970s, such as the development of color television and large screens, motion picture cinemas continued. In the 1980s, when the widespread availability of inexpensive videocassette recorders enabled people to select films for home viewing, industry analysts again wrongly predicted the death of the local cinemas.
In the 1990s and 2000s the development of digital DVD players, home theater amplification systems with surround sound and subwoofers, and large LCD or plasma screens enabled people to select and view films at home with greatly improved audio and visual reproduction. These new technologies provided audio and visual that in the past only local cinemas had been able to provide: a large, clear widescreen presentation of a film with a full-range, high-quality multi-speaker sound system. Once again industry analysts predicted the demise of the local cinema. Local cinemas will be changing in the 2000s and moving towards digital screens, a new approach which will allow for easier and quicker distribution of films (via satellite or hard disks), a development which may give local theaters a reprieve from their predicted demise.
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12:24:10 02/25/08
Up to Ullapool
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Right now there are countless reels of movie film on shelves, in drawers, and in attics. The films themselves may be brand new 16mm experimental works or 8mm home movies from the 1930s. They may be dirty and faded or as vivid as the day they were returned from the lab. All types of film have organic components, which, like all organic material, are subject to decay. Over the past several decades, film archives around the world have discovered new techniques for preserving film, but many are prohibitively expensive or complicated for individuals with small collections and limited resources. However, many can be adapted for collections that are stored in homes and studios.
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14:15:00 02/21/08
Trip to Sweden
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This film was made with a simple super 8 fixed focus camera by my daughter when she was 11/12 years old. With the transformation to digital video Daddy did some ( basic) editing.
To sit and watch 8mm, Super-8 and 16mm other people'shome movies. Not your own home movies,
That may sound like a pretty terrible way to spend an evening, but it is not. If you've had many painful moments watching home movies with people you know and love, so how is it you can enjoy a night of this with strangers?
Home movies are part social commentary, part historical record and in a certain way, part artistic expression. No matter what family they document, old films are at the same time unfamiliar and entirely familiar. Moving pictures of strangers have an ability to evoke empathy, reveal the human condition, bring joy.... or maybe it's simply fun to laugh at others' embarrassing families instead of your own.
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11:27:10 02/21/08
See the light
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This is a tutorial about (mostly) daylight. As you will see there are various appearances of illumination, with all their different aspects.
This video can be seen over and over again and will certainly contribute to your style of filming
Your eye may perceive the light streaming in your window as similar to that of a Lowel DP, but to the video camera, all light sources are definitely not equal. The camera sees the distinction as a difference in light temperature. You measure light temperature using degrees Kelvin (i.e., 3200K). Lower numbers result in redder lights and higher numbers translate to bluer lights.
How does this apply to you? Many video lights are "warm" (3200K), and give off a reddish light. Daylight, on the other hand, is "cool" (5500K) and thus bluer. When you plan your lighting setup, you'll need to decide what the primary light source will be: daylight, tungsten or fluorescent. Then balance all the other lights to that temperature. You should avoid mixing light temperatures, unless that mixed light look is specifically called for!
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11:47:32 02/20/08
Hadrians wall
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Super 8 Film Cameras
In 2007 and beyond Super 8 Film cameras use 50 ft. Kodak Super 8 film cartridges containing either Ektachrome colour reversal film , Plus X and Tri X black and white reversal film or Vision 2 colour negative films in 200 ISO and 500 ISO speeds . Super 8 film is often transferred to video during the professional Telecine process for use in TV commercials, music video and special title and other sequences in television and feature motion picture projects throughout the world. As long as the 50 ft. Kodak Super 8 film cartridge continues to be manufactured, any film available as 35 mm motion picture film can be split and loaded in the film cartridges. In 2007 most Super 8 Film cameras used for filming are used, older cameras from the 1960s and 1970s. If well maintained and repaired those older cameras will be able to continue working until motion picture film is no longer available.
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15:51:07 02/14/08
Russian orthodox church
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Special effects are traditionally divided into two rough categories. Optical effects include techniques in which images or film frames are created and manipulated for film and video. Optical effects are produced photographically, either in-the-camera or in post-production processing via an optical printer.
Mechanical effects are usually accomplished during the live-action shooting. These include mechanized props, scenery and scale models, and pyrotechnics.
In recent years, a greater distinction between "special effects" and "visual effects" has been recognized, with visual effects referring to post-production and optical work, and "special effects" is used for on-set and mechanical effects.
Since the 1990s, computer generated imagery (CGI) has come to the forefront of special effects technologies. Many special effects techniques of both kinds have been superseded by CGI.
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13:03:47 02/13/08
Edinburgh 1974
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Welcome to our world of Super 8 film!
The Super 8mm film format has undergone a creative renaissance in the last five years due to the digital revolution and the re-discovery of small film by users the world over.
In 2007, the first Cambridge Super 8 Festival was a hugely successful event with more than 70 films in 3 competitive programmes and 2 non-competitive programmes. All genres of film were represented (animation, fiction, documentary and experimental film), illustrating the diversity of the format and our film selection.
For our second festival, we're planning to focus on the work of some specific Super 8 artists (in our retrospective programme) and we hope to welcome even more filmmakers to competition than last year.
Our competition and panorama programmes will show the best films originated on the brilliant Super 8 format.
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13:38:00 02/07/08
Our garden
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Super8 footage without digital effects
Macro photography is close-up photography; the classical definition is that the image projected on the "film plane" is close to the same size as the subject. Another important distinction is that lenses designed for macro are usually at their sharpest at macro focus distances and are not quite as sharp at other focus distances.
Limited depth of field is an important consideration in macro filming.
This makes it essential to focus critically on the most important part of the subject, as elements that are even a millimetre closer or farther from the focal plane might be noticeably blurry.
The problem of sufficiently and evenly lighting the subject can be difficult to overcome. Some cameras can focus on subjects so close that they touch the front piece of glass in the lens. It is impossible to place a light between the camera and a subject that close, making this extreme close-up photography impractical.
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11:46:13 02/06/08
Dutch Theme-Park
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Amusement park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group of people. An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, usually providing attractions meant to cater to adults, teenagers, and small children. A theme park is a type of amusement park which has been built around one or more themes, such as an American West theme, or FairyTales. Today, the terms amusement parks and theme parks are often used interchangeably.
Amusement parks evolved in Europe from fairs and pleasure gardens which were created for people’s recreation.
Most amusement parks have a fixed location, as compared to travelling funfairs and carnivals.
Often a theme park will have various sections of the park devoted to telling a particular story. Non-theme amusement parks rides will usually have little in terms of theming or additional design elements while in a theme park all the rides go all with the theme of the park.
For other films of mine on this subject search under 'amusementpark'
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17:45:09 02/05/08
City of ice
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Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a method of compiling films partly or entirely of footage which has not been created by the filmmaker, and changing its meaning by placing it in a new context. It should not be mistaken for documentary or compilation films. It is also not to be mistaken with stock footage. The term refers to the "found object" (objet trouv
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