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Blender Foundation Releases 4TB of 'Tears of Steel' Sony F65 4K Footage & Demonstrates Post Workflow
The Blender Foundation is constantly pushing the boundaries of availability, openness, and access to the raw materials it uses to create its ‘proof-of-Blender’ animated shorts. This type of access is usually more associated with open source software than filmmaking, but especially since the Project Mango live-action CGI/VFX-heavy Tears of Steel was realized, that distinction has become increasingly blurred. Now filmmakers, animators, or compositors looking to cut their teeth on professional-grade material have access to the entirety of Tears of Steel‘s footage, in 4k OpenEXR (in the ACES color space), courtesy Xiph.org. In the meantime, the Foundation has also made available a number of resources concerning their post-production pipeline, which allowed them to transcode 4K Sony F65 footage to those Linux-workable OpenEXR frames. Check below for more details. More »
In the midst of some tension and even some quite literal (and legal) contention, Sony’s RED/Alexa-aimed F55 and its less feature-rich sibling the F5 are in-stock at B&H and shipping out order to order. We’ve previously mentioned the comprehensive firmware update timeline released by Sony for the F5/F55 family, which also sees eldest little brother the FS700 rejuvenated with RAW support using Sony’s R5 recorder in July. Meanwhile, Sony is urging F5/F55 owners to update their cameras to firmware release 1.03, a previously unscheduled update which corrects a “black edge on highlights issue” in S-Log2 or HyperGamma modes. More »
What if you needed to share hundreds of Gigabytes (or even Terabytes) with a partner to finish a project, but you’ve reached the limits on the sharing service you already use? Well, that’s where SoShare comes in. The new service is utilizing the power of BitTorrent to share an unlimited amount of data with as many users as you want — up to 1 Terabyte per transfer — and the best part of all: it’s 100% completely free. Sound too good to be true? Read on for more about the service. More »
One of the more controversial screenplays of the 2012 award contenders was also the only screenplay of the ten Oscar-nominated screenplays not available for legal download for your consideration. Until now. Thanks to Sony Pictures, Mark Boal’s screenplay for Zero Dark Thirty has been declassified and put online for dissemination, dissection, and analysis by screenwriting aficionados, and perhaps a few U.S. senators and representatives, too (or at least their aides). More »
As the days wind down to the official balloting for the Academy Awards, the last holdouts for putting their award-contending screenplays online for your consideration are finally making their moves. Of course, voting members most likely received their copies of these screenplays to consider privately months ago. For the rest of us unwashed masses, 20th Century Fox has finally posted David Magee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi online for free and legal download. More »
The awards machine is now in full throttle. Not that we necessarily care what pundits think about the awards race (or even the awards themselves), but we may have the pundits and their chatter to thank for our latest screenplay available for legal download for consideration: the long-awaited Argo, written by Chris Terrio, adapted from Joshuah Bearman’s Wired magazine article and Tony Mendez’s autobiography. More »
Grab Some 4K Canon 1D C DSLR Sample Footage, and Check Out a Possible FCPX Workflow
Canon’s 4K video capable DSLR, the EOS-1D C, has marked an upset for the DSLR industry — and in more ways than one. Many feel that the addition of Motion-JPEG alone is not worth the camera’s $12K price point. This is particularly the case when weighing in controversial speculation that internally it’s mostly identical to its $7K 1080p sibling, the 1D X — and the fact that Canon is likely anticipating with gritted teeth the possibility of firmware hacks 4K-ifying the 1D X. That said, it could be a near-perfect blend of features depending on your application. If this is the case for you, but you want the chance to check out or grade some full-res video footage before pulling the trigger, you’re in luck — planet5D has just posted some downloadable 1D C 4K footage for your viewing consideration (assuming of course your machine can handle it). More »
If ever there was a screenwriter that was fun to read, but really shouldn’t be emulated, that screenwriter would be Quentin Tarantino. Of course, that hasn’t stopped several screenwriters from trying, but it’s a fool’s errand (for that matter, it’s a fool’s errand to emulate any screenwriter). On the heels of several awards nominations, The Weinstein Company is revving up its tried-and-true awards machine and has recently churned out the screenplay of Django Unchained as an early holiday gift for your consideration. More »
In the midst of the flurry of screenplays popping up on studio awards websites for your consideration over the past few days, astute NFS reader deanareeno tipped us off to the official Looper tumblr page posting the screenplay for Looper on Saturday. Rian Johnson includes a short intro in the PDF of the screenplay to point out that this particular draft was the final draft before production, so for fans of the film, you’ll be able to find several points of departure from this script and the final film. More »
'Flight,' 'Wreck-It-Ralph,' 'Promised Land,' 'Hyde Park on Hudson' Screenplays For Your Consideration
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, you discover not one, not two, not even three, but four new screenplays available for your consideration. To date, we have discovered 24 screenplays available for free, legal download from the major studios, specialty divisions and smaller distribution companies. Today, we are happy to announce the availability of the screenplays for Flight from Paramount Pictures, Wreck-It-Ralph from Walt Disney Pictures, and Promised Land and Hyde Park on Hudson from Focus Features. More »
'Silver Linings Playbook,' 'The Master,' and 'Quartet' Screenplays For Your Consideration
It’s a beautiful day in awards season when I wake up, rub the sleep from my eyes, scurry down the stairs and discover not one, not two, but three new screenplays have magically appeared for my consideration and the consideration of screenwriters the world ’round. I’ll never know how jolly ol’ Harvey gets down that chimney, but I do know I’ll enjoy reading the screenplays for Silver Linings Playbook, The Master and Quartet courtesy of The Weinstein Company. More »
'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Lincoln,' 'Les Misérables,' 'Frankenweenie' Screenplays For Your Consideration
In an effort to keep the NFS community up-to-date with all of the latest screenplays available for legal download for awards consideration, today we offer a potpourri of scripts. You want a personal, heart-rending journey? Got it. You want a presidential biopic? Here you go. A sweeping epic musical? Got that, too. A stop-motion comedy about a resurrected wiener dog? We’ve got not one, but two drafts of that one. All of these screenplays have two things in common: they all hope to get that coveted nomination, and they are all available for download for your consideration. More »
Michael Haneke provided a sober anchor during the Screenwriter Roundtable video we featured last week, making no apologies for creating a film that The Hollywood Reporter executive editor Stephen Galloway said shattered his screening guest who had recently experienced a loss similar to that depicted in the writer/director’s Cannes 2012 Palme d’Or winner Amour. Now that Amour has opened will open Dec. 19 in limited release here in the U.S., Sony Pictures Classics has graciously made the screenplay available for download for your consideration. More »
As the awards season goes into overdrive, we are seeing more and more (and more) screenplays available online for (legal) download from the studios and specialty arms. Most recently, two more screenplays have appeared after their limited release debuts here in the U.S. over the past two weeks: the French-language Rust and Bone (De Rouille et d’Os) from Sony Pictures Classics and the Tom Stoppard-penned adaptation of the novel Anna Karenina from Focus Features. More »
Screenplays for 'Beasts of the Southern Wild,' 'The Sessions,' and More Now Online
Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and screenplays gonna be online for your consideration. We have recently posted links to screenplays available to download for your consideration from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Sony Pictures Classics and Lionsgate. Now, thanks to Fox Searchlight, we can read all of Hushpuppy’s pearls of wisdom in the screenplay for Beasts of the Southern Wild, plus download (legally) screenplays for The Sessions, Hitchcock, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. More »
But Wait, There's More! 'Arbitrage' and 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' Screenplays Now Available
The list of screenplays available for your consideration (and legal download) for this year’s awards keeps growing and growing. Two of the most recent successful limited releases have come out of Lionsgate: Nicholas Jarecki’s debut narrative feature Arbitrage (in conjunction with Roadside Attractions) and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (from its Summit Entertainment banner). In their push to garner awards attention for these two character-driven dramas, Lionsgate has kindly posted their screenplays online for download. More »
'Smashed' and 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' Screenplays Now Available For Your Consideration
Now that the election is over, we can focus on voting that matters – voting for the unending parade of film awards. Or, as the case may be, figuring out how to dominate the Oscar night ballot for bragging rights among your non-film-obsessed friends who could really care less. Again. Last week, we shared with you the early releases of screenplays available for your consideration (and legal download in PDF format) from Universal Pictures and Focus Features. The remaining studios and specialty arms are rolling out their websites for awards consideration, and two contenders from Sony Pictures Classics, Smashed and Celeste and Jesse Forever, have kindly posted their screenplays for download. More »
One of the best ways to learn about screenwriting is to read produced screenplays. A little bit of Google research can certainly turn up several screenplays in various formats (some less helpful than others). Admittedly, finding a pirated copy of a screenplay online doesn’t make me feel that great, either, even if I’m just searching for it for my own educational purposes. This time of year, however, the Interwebs deliver a pleasant surprise for aspiring screenwriters everywhere: award-hopeful screenplays for your consideration (and available for legal downloading). More »
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