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When a tech giant chooses practical effects over CGI and AI.
Simple, powerful technique for motivated edits and better storytelling.
The inspirations and approach powering the show’s look and feel.
The craft and impact of the four single-take episodes.
Is the quest to digitally preserve film doomed?
Tools for breathing analogue life into digital footage.
The polite first draft of a heartfelt tribute.
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos: creating unique perspective.
Creating tension with an elusive subject – and an out-of-this-world lead performance.
Inside the cinematography, editing, and VFX of David Fincher’s thriller.
How to convey unspeakable horror with sound and a mirror.
Until AI replaces us all, here are tools that can be helpful to human creators.
It’s official: AI will replace us all – and sooner than we may think.
An overview of how major movies are shot on digital cameras, from camera setup to final export.
Breakdowns of ways this sound design technique is used in major feature films.
Cinematographer of Joker, The Hangover, and Garden State gives a masterclass accessible to beginners – in 15 minutes.
A writer-director’s “fever dream… that he doesn’t know he’s constructed”: beautifully and expansively shot, but perhaps not as vividly realised at it is felt.
Smoother, more powerful, and more transportive techniques to take your viewer from one shot, character, location, or idea to the next.
Or: How sustainable practices can make a $14.3 million film look like a blockbuster.
Why hi-res isn’t always better – and how it isn’t even always hi-res.
A roundup of explainers on both technical and creative things to consider.
Breakdowns of form and function in Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic.
The dramatic peak of a dialogue scene is often a close-up… of an object.
The film editor’s words on her craft, and her longtime working relationship with Martin Scorsese.
Tools for making your digital footage look more like it was shot on film.
An intro to using the DAW with video files.
A guide to creating sound effects for your film.
Ways to work with less-than-ideal footage in your edit.
Stop doing these things – they’re easy enough, and we’ll all win.