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Emily Price: "The film Searching For Sugar Man is nominated for Best Documentary at this year’s Academy Awards. But it might have not been completed if it wasn’t for an iPhone."
Jean-Luc Godard famously said, “Cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.” He clearly isn’t balancing 3-D glasses on his nose and watching the fantasy action between elves, dwarves, and a low-key hobbit named Bilbo in filmmaker Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated and sparkly bright The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, shot at a much discussed 48 frames-per-second (fps) for release in High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D).
Lauren Drell: "Because of his experience and success in entertainment, from web video to feature films, we asked Jon M. Chu to curate the top 5 innovations of 2012 in entertainment for Mashable's Innovation Index" ...
Mark Wilson: "Remember when we said that Google Glass needed Gucci and Prada to reinvent its tech as cool? Well, apparently they took the advice pretty literally."
Susan Karlin: "Long before ParaNorman’s protagonist could start battling zombies, Laika’s Brian McLean and his 40-member team had to tame a new stop-motion technology process. McLean talks about the bloody road to the film’s bleeding-edge character design."
Steve Rubel: "Visual storytelling is in renaissance -- but with a twist. Photography, rather than video, is fast becoming the lingua franca of a more global, mobile and social society" ...
Joe Bailey, Jr. sizes up independent theatrical distribution and the arrival of Tugg via a case study of “Incendiary: The Willingham Case,” the award-winning documentary he co-directed with Steve Mims.
Mark Wilson: "With just an SLR and a Kinect, these striking, 3-D avatars come to life. So what does tech like this herald for the future of film-making?"
"ESSAY: A combination of technological advances and financial pressures has ushered in a new style of movie making, which, to many viewers raised on the grain and texture of film, looks like a bug that is well on its way to becoming a feature."
Rene Van Meeuwen: "The growth of augmented reality (AR) will almost certainly change the way we visually experience the everyday world."
"iPads are here, apps are here: there's no way of being a Luddite any more! You have to go with the flow," says Gilliam.
Brent Lang: "Peter Jackson responded to criticism of his preview of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at CinemaCon this week, saying that audiences will eventually "settle into" the hyper-realistic look of the film shot at a higher frame rate."
"Orly Ravid, founder and co-executive director of The Film Collaborative, shares ten tips that all filmmakers should know about the tricky world of digital distribution."
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"Let's start by making a distinction between participatory culture and Web 2.0. Today's participatory culture is the result of more than a hundred years of struggle" ...
A new platform for digital comics is exploring the world of Tolkien while expanding the very idea of what a comic book can be.
John Pavlus: "If Popcorn.js is the Final Cut Pro of online interactive video--a professional-grade tool for creating world-class multimedia experiences from scratch--Popcorn Maker is more like iMovie" ...
Leslie Horn: 'Come with me. I've got something to show you. A dark-haired woman clad in a long beaded dress said this to me as she whisked me away into the strange underworld of "Sleep No More."'
Adnaan Wasey: "Later this month, teams of filmmakers and developers will be challenged to create web documentary prototypes — be they mobile sites, web apps, widgets, games or something we’ve never seen before — over two days of intense collaboration."
Katherine Brooks: "Scott Snibbe is a New York-based media artist whose innovative vision has taken the art and music worlds to new depths of interactivity. From giant, digital public installations to touch-screen based art, the visual artist behind musicians like Bjork and Passion Pit is bringing together art, music and technology in groundbreaking ways."
BrandSpeak: "We've come a long way in the world of animation. Check out the innovations that have made animated characters so lifelike" ...
Michael Harrison: "Incantor, a smartphone-based augmented reality game currently in the works by developer MoveableCode, hopes to offer geeks like me a way to wizard-duel in the real world."
John Paul Titlow: "Today, the idea of what we used to call "television" is being turned entirely on its head, and we don't really know for sure what it will look like a decade from now."
Via siobhan-o-flynn
Victoria Jaye: "As more and more internet connected devices enter the living room, we can extend entertainment beyond broadcast and the TV screen, bringing our shows to life for audiences in ever more exciting ways.
Our editorial approach to companion experiences is three fold: - Build on existing audience needs and behaviour
- Go beyond broadcast
- Drive creative renewal and innovation"
Via Nicolas Weil, Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist
Ben Fritz: "As Hollywood's major movie studios try to trim costs every way they can — including layoffs, mergers and slashed expense accounts and producer deals — there's one budget item that heads ever upward: the movies themselves"...
"First screening of extended footage at CinemaCon meets with mixed reactions to 48 frames-per-second format"...
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