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How to shoot red carpet photos

The Oscars are coming up in February, it may be too early for some people to think about shooting red carpet photos, but now is the best time to prepare yourself. Shooting celebrity fashion and red carpet photos are unlike any typical photography photographers normally experience. It’s fast pace, cut throat, loud and bright. With all this competition missing a good photo opportunity can make or break your career. On a TV show premier the number of photographers that you’re typically competing with can range from 8 to 10, while on a large block buster release, you’re sometimes looking at over […]

The Toronto 48 Hour Film Project

On November 9th 2012 through November 11th 2012, hundreds of filmmakers will make a movie in 48 hours! Over the course of this single weekend, up to 48 teams will write, shoot and edit a short film. Then, on November 19th and 20th, their works will be premiered (12 per screening group) on the Revue Cinema’s big screen! A panel of industry professionals reviews the films and the winners, one for each of the 10 categories, will receive prizes provided by our generous sponsors. This is the 48 Hour Film Project’s 11th year in operation and we’re now in over […]

How Does Film Sound Work?

When you go to a movie theatre, producing perfectly synched sound that completely envelopes the room isn’t as simple as just playing an audio track. There are two forms of analog sound: optical process and magnetic. In the early days of movies, many films used an optical process to create sound synched to the film. In the optical process, a clear line is recorded into one side of a film strip, and the line’s width changes according to the film’s sound frequency. A light shines through this strip, and the light transforms into an electrical current thanks to a photocell. […]

The Hollywood Film Restoration Process

When classic movies are re-released, they’re often advertised as being “restored”. What does this mean, and how do they do this? Universal, for example, is marking its 100th anniversary this year and has been restoring films since the 1990s. Technology is available today that allows film studios to go back to older movies and remove any small imperfections in the original film, not to detract from the original vision of the filmmakers but to make these imperfections less distracting and visible. Using the film’s original camera negative, every single frame of a film is turned into a digital frame that […]