Ben Stahl is out to prove that you can make any kind of movie with a smartphone. A few months ago we featured his short thriller “The Sorting Room.” Now the cofounder of iMakeMobile Productions is back with “His Last Stop,” a 23-minute iPhone documentary that seeks to unravel the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe.…
read more →When you focus on a single person in a documentary, vlog, or nonfiction video, there will be no confusion about the person’s name. But if your subject is a sports team, or some other group, viewers may have trouble figuring out who is who? Luckily, solving the problem is easy. If you dedicate footage to each member of the group, all…
read more →After establishing himself as a highly successful commercial photographer, Marcelo Coelho decided to use his skills in a completely different way. He seeks to explore the often hidden connections in our lives. As the subtitle of his “Burning Man” mini-doc explains, he is determined to go “beyond the obvious.” In the interview below, Coelho discusses how…
read more →Jacob Givens comes at filmmaking from the perspectives of acting and writing. Like many filmmakers, he’s developed his skills not in the classroom but in the field. Equally important, in the tradition of Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Federico Fellini, Givens has developed the habit of making movies with friends. This valuable method is available to everyone.…
read more →For most of us, shooting with a single camera is a big challenge. So imagine the complexity that Irish filmmaker Declan Dowling had to deal with when shooting “Faoladh,” a stereoscopic VR film. Dowling used Google’s recently developed Odyssey camera rig, which brings together 16 GoPros. Yes, 16 camera shooting at once. In the interview (below), he…
read more →Starting with his first feature film—”Sex, Lies, and Videotape”—Steven Soderbergh has been an experimental filmmaker. He carries on that tradition with his latest feature “High Flying Bird.” The obvious innovation–for him–is that he shot the movie with an iPhone. Of course, he wasn’t the first to do so. But as the trailer demonstrates, Soderbergh seems intent…
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