On set

Oct 1, 2020
4 min

Staying awake through the test

I was once again fortunate enough to be invited by Art Adams, Cinema Lens Specialist at ARRI to participate in a lens comparison test. Th...

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SHOOTING A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE WITH DIGITAL CINEMA GEAR

Fabio Giolitti

Aug 17, 2020
4 min

SHOOTING A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE WITH DIGITAL CINEMA GEAR

SHOOTING DOCUMENTARY FEATURES WITH DIGITAL CINEMA GEAR Back in the days, at least here in Spain, the word “documentary” usually meant low...

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"Make sure you shine lots of light on it!"

Caitlin Brown

Jul 27, 2020
4 min

"Make sure you shine lots of light on it!"

My story starting out as a film loader in the digital age

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ambarcapoor6

Jul 18, 2020
4 min

I fucked up ...

100% my fault and I said so. The setup. I have 3 different ways of dealing with digital media on set depending on the job, the DIT and th...

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tiffany aug

Jul 16, 2020
6 min

Prepping the job vs. Prepping the bay

As a camera assistant, most jobs you’ll get will likely start with a prep day. Ideally, but not always. Before this first day of physical...

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ambarcapoor6

Jul 15, 2020
1 min

Tale of the tape...

I finally booked my first job during this pandemic and so it was with much excitement that I pulled out all my gear and started going thr...

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The Uncertain Efficiency of a Corona Protocol:
Rising Stress Levels

Rozemarijn Stokkel

Jul 14, 2020
2 min

The Uncertain Efficiency of a Corona Protocol: Rising Stress Levels

July 14th 2020 Last week was wrap day. Production has come to an end. As filmmakers, you can almost certainly recognize the simultaneous ...

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Rozemarijn Stokkel

Jun 28, 2020
2 min

Corona Catch 22

June 28th 2020 An optimist thinks of a dilemma as a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more undesirable ...

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Rozemarijn Stokkel

Jun 23, 2020
3 min

THE TEMPORARY NORMAL

It has been 95 days since I closed my pink Peli Case and put the remote to bed. Whilst going through what seemed like a rollercoaster rid...

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