We’ve previously featured movies shot under challenging time constraints. But “Identity Theft” is the first film we’ve showcased that was an entry in the LumaFusion editing competition. Entrants had 24 hours to create a short movie that met five requirements: Use at least three layers of video to create an effect. Use at least three…
read more →Moviemakers and writers are often warned: “Show, don’t tell.” But that advice overlooks the possibility of combining showing and telling. As evidence that the combo can be effective consider “We Are Special” directed by Chetan Tankaria. A finalist in the 2021 Moment Invitational Film Festival, this three-minute movie blends pictures and narration to remind us…
read more →The short horror flick “Vinyl” illustrates a number of classic horror film techniques: isolated protagonist, flickering candles, in-your-face close-ups. But perhaps director Harrison Nowak’s most powerful trick is quick cutting. In three and a half minutes, we get 50 cuts, which means that the average cut is 4.2 seconds. But averages can be deceiving. Close to…
read more →Editing is a crucial activity whether you’re documenting a straightforward event—like a birthday party—or producing a complex music video. While mastering the art of editing can take a lifetime, today’s editing apps make it easy to handle the fundamentals such as choosing shots, rearranging them, trimming the shots, and adding transitions, visual effects, and sound. iMovie covers the basics, and its price—$0.00—is appealing.…
read more →The new CTPro Mobile Video Suite app offers a complete on-the-go video production software program especially suited to mojo journalists and video creators working out of studio. The product features camera tools, such as face recognition that automatically holds focus on a moving subject. Post production tools cover all the usual challenges such as adding text , importing music,…
read more →This video demonstrates how to edit an interview. Its purpose is to illustrate how to approach the interview editing process, and not how to edit in iMovie. The subject of our interview is Lee Foster, author of “Travels in an American Imagination, The Spiritual Geography of Our Time”. The interview was shot on a iPhone…
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