6 Tips for Setting Up a Home or Office Studio

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Today on The Slanted Lens we are going to talk about 6 tips for setting up a home or office studio. We will show you how to make a backdrop holder you can put on the wall that takes up very little space. How to control your window light and even how to make lights […]

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Second film by Joel Potrykus premieres at SXSW 2014

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Premiering at SXSW 2014, Joel Potrykus’ film Buzzard purposely doesn’t fit a particular genre. A follow on to his first film, Ape, the movie tracks a deadbeat check scammer through Detroit and is chock full of 1980s references—chugging Mountain Dew, Nintendo jokes, and heavy metal music. Brandon Bowman joined the production by chance, and shares […]

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Full Compass Systems Presents an Evening with Saturday Night Live’s DP, Alex Buono

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Saturday Night Live’s Director of Photography, Alex Buono, will be speaking live at the Discovery Center in Milwaukee on Tuesday, March 25th.   The evening will be hosted by Full Compass Systems, one of the nation’s leading professional audio, video, lighting and musical instrument retailers.  Alex is known nationwide for sharing his stories of how he […]

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K-Tek Offers Fresh Take on the Audio Bag

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The audio specialists at K-Tek have designed a fresh take on the audio bag just in time for the new small mixer/recorders like the Sound Devices 633 and Zaxcom Maxx. The new Stingray Audio Bag has incorporated never before seen innovations to allow the bag to stand upright, and offers easy access to media, crucial […]

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NAB Show and NewTek Present the Magic Behind the Most Successful Online Programming

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NAB Show, the world's largest annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage, and distribute entertainment across all platforms, is bringing back last year's highest-rated session NewTek Presents: Broadcast Minds. This year's session, moderated by actor, comedian and host Tom Green on April 9 in Las Vegas, will take a deep and entertaining look […]

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PVC meet EditStock, EditStock meet PVC

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Hello ProVideo Coalition! I’m looking forward to regularly contributing to this community. My name is Misha, I’m an assistant editor, and editor, who lives in LA.  I’ve worked 4,700 hours of Editor’s Guild work over the last three years on films and television shows including American Horror Story on FX, and the recent film JOBS […]

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Documentary on dam removal enjoys SXSW 2014 premiere

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Directors Travis Rummel and Ben Knight have been making films together for 10 years. After starting out as still photographers with no real working knowledge of how to make films, they were inspired to try theirs hands at filmmaking by the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival. Their first short film about fly fishing and water rights focused […]

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The Best Slideshow Software Has a New Version

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Considered the best photo slideshow software in a recent review by the website TopTenReviews.com, ProShow Gold 6, from Photodex, is the domestic version of the professional ProShow Producer I’ve used for years now, and consider to be the best software of its kind available for PC users. Mac users willing to emulate Windows can also […]

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Those Little Things We Love

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Photographers these days carry so many things besides their cameras and lenses that we need more than ordinary backpacks or shoulder bags. Think Tank Photo has just released new products that will interest photographers looking for modern solutions for their carrying problems: two hybrid bags for tablets, the App House 8 and App House 10, […]

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“The Immortalists” selected for Documentary Feature Competition at SXSW 2014

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Co-directors Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado met in Stanford University’s Documentary Film and Video program. They worked on a few projects together and soon realized that they shared an interest in science and technology. After graduating with MFA degrees, they came together to make the documentary film The Immortalists about two scientists working to discover […]

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