Production

Pictures with attitude

Posted on February 20, 2025

For a little while, in the early 2000s, there was a tendency to put out commercials and music videos...

Post Production

BSC Expo combines the best of all worlds

Posted on February 19, 2025

The BSC’s London exhibition is possibly the first film and TV expo of the year, unless we count the...

Production

Wireless lighting control is wonderful

Posted on January 23, 2025

Often, development in technology gives us wonderful new things over time. Sometimes, though, it results in a teetering jenga...

Production

New year’s resolutions for crew

Posted on January 2, 2025

Resolution is a word that gets more airtime than it should in a world where pocket-money cameras have four...

Production

Fantastic fairy dust

Posted on December 21, 2024

Fire up the particle generators, folks: it’s the time of year when every third commercial features snow and a...

Production

Exploring the extremes of dynamic range

Posted on November 22, 2024

When camera manufacturers start talking (or at least creatively leaking) about twenty-plus-stop cameras, it might not be too much...

Production

A cheat’s manifesto part 5: Disco inferno

Posted on October 7, 2024

In that heady moment before the slate closes, some people have felt sometimes an undeniable sense of spiritual responsibility...

Production

Space to grow

Posted on September 23, 2024

There’s a reason low-rent independent short films often lack dynamic staging, feeling static and limited in their use of...

Production

Lens good, crop factor bad

Posted on September 9, 2024

Let’s imagine what would happen if you walked into this coffee shop* and asked for a latte that was...

Production

Bayer best?

Posted on August 26, 2024

Building colour images from red, green and blue is probably one of the most fundamental concepts of film and...