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Is the Canon C100 Currently the Best Fully-Featured Budget Filmmaking Camera?

12.24.12 @ 8:57AM Tags : c100, cameras, canon, canonc100, lukeneumann, stillmotion

The Canon C100 is an interesting addition to the Cinema EOS line. Available for about a month now, the camera spec-wise falls right in line with the Sony FS100, except it has ND filters and isn’t capable of anything higher than 30fps. It’s designed to be a budget camera from Canon — as it’s basically a shrunken C300 with a different internal codec — but it’s more than twice as expensive as the nearest somewhat-affordable and high-quality DSLRs, the Canon 5D Mark III and the Nikon D800. Many have now gotten their hands on one, so let’s take a look at some of the results, and check out some more real-world footage examples. More »

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Lighting an Interview with $26 Worth of Equipment: a Free SMAPP Tutorial from Stillmotion

12.20.12 @ 8:39PM Tags : cinematography, lighting, patrickmoreau, smapp, stillmotion, tutorial, tutorials

The team over at stillmotion has come all the way from wedding films to producing Emmy Award-Winning television content, and along the way, they’ve done their part to try to teach as much as they can about their techniques and how to achieve professional-looking results. They eventually created the SMAPP App, which began its life as a low-cost app with quite a few in-app purchasable tutorials — now they’ve made it completely free, and in celebration, they are releasing a great low-budget tutorial we all can appreciate: how to light an interview with just $26 worth of equipment. More »

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Lighting for Mood: Another SMAPP Lighting Tutorial from Stillmotion

05.24.12 @ 7:52PM Tags : cinematography, lighting, patrickmoreau, smapp, stillmotion, tutorials

We’ve covered plenty of tutorials before, but most recently, we featured a particularly useful interview lighting demonstration from stillmotion, which is designed to be a complement to their SMAPP iPhone application. This application was conceived to teach new filmmakers about all of the creative choices that going to making different types of videos. Embedded below we’ve got another tutorial, but this time instead of interview lighting, we are introduced to a deconstruction of creative film lighting and how different lighting setups can be used to enhance the mood of a scene. More »

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Two Interview Lighting Tutorials That'll Kick Your Footage Up a Notch

05.11.12 @ 6:35PM Tags : cinematography, evehazelton, interviewlighting, lighting, realmpictures, smapp, stillmotion, tutorials

So you’re getting ready to interview that expert for your short documentary, and you want to review your interview lighting technique.  Or maybe you’re just looking for an introduction to lighting in general — where do you look?  Check out these two interview lighting tutorials — not only are they a great review of the basics, but they each do a great job of illustrating just how every light can help shape the subject and tone of  your footage: More »