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The Future of 3D Cameras

With this seemingly sudden flood of interest in 3D movies, many are wondering if movie marketers are just jumping on the bandwagon and trying to appeal to the public fascination with a new fad. But 3D camera work is not necessarily a new fad, with 3D films being heavily marketed throughout North American pop culture beginning in the 1950s and seeing a broad resurgence in the 1980s. Critics are torn as to whether consumers will wake up to an overhyped fad or embrace the technology and look forward to all of the things that can be done with it. 3D […]

Hope – A Review

The movie Hope is the latest project from Azure Production and CC Films, starring Mindy Eklove and Chris Public. The 10-minute short action thriller is produced and directed by Caine Chow. The short film follows two characters in a suspenseful race against time to get to safety once the planet Earth is no longer habitable because all of its natural resources have been used up. The pair, Simon and Hailey, literally have a ticket off the planet – they just have to get there first. The film shows the viewer a snapshot of the final leg of this journey, […]

Making Your Own Survivorman Videos This Summer

(image from: http://lesstroud.ca/survivorman/episodes.php) If you’ve ever watched Survivorman and thought “I could do that”, then why not make your own Survivorman-style videos this summer on your annual camping trip? Survivorman is a show created by Les Stroud, who goes into the wilderness and demonstrates how to survive in any part of the world. What makes the show unique is that Stroud is also a documentary filmmaker and goes into the wilderness without a camera crew, filming the entire the journey himself. However, the show is filmed as if he has a full camera crew at his disposal with multiple angles […]

Video Conversion

Is it time to copy your VHS tapes over to DVD?

There’s really no sense in holding onto old video tapes, because they will degrade over time – slowly on the shelf, and much quicker if they are played frequently. If you’ve got irreplaceable memories like weddings, births or holidays on video tape, it’s a good idea to transfer them over to DVD as soon as possible. If they’ve degraded a little bit, it may still be possible to salvage them and still have them transferred, but it’s best to do it right away to avoid the tapes getting too far damaged. Otherwise, they may lose their original quality. Is copying […]