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Breaking down the film crew roles
What do the ending credits of a film mean? We’ve all seen the ending credits to a film and it’s at that point we sometimes realise how...

Colour Grading
Let’s start with what is it? The best way to simplify what a colour grader does is to relate it to adding a filter to Instagram images....


The film process
Before digital we used an analog system to record the images coming through the lens - or in other words it was captured onto ‘film’...


Film vs Digital
It’s now been long enough that film has really become either a boutique way of filmmaking or something we reflect back on as a past. From...

The 101 on Anamorphic Lenses
Anamorphic lenses: If you are here reading about anamorphic lenses it’s most likely because you have heard of them and perhaps also heard...


Tilt Shift Lenses
Read first here about understanding focal distance and how it works in regular lenses… A tilt shift lens is a specialty lens that is...

Interior Lighting - Part 2
A lot of the time we can get caught up in the latest technology or expensive camera, however, since the camera is only capturing light,...

Interior Lighting - Part 1
Lighting is such a fundamental part of filmmaking. It's what can make an amateur film into a professional looking one - regardless of...

Dynamic Range
Let’s make this concept very simple - the dynamic range is how much a camera can see the detail of the shadows/ darkest part of the image...

SD, HD, 4K, 8K, 16K... The resolution to resolutions!
We have all heard the terms ‘HD’ and ‘4K’, however, when being upsold at the home appliances store do we know what we are being upsold...

Aspect What? 16:9 and what it means
16:9 is a term that we are all familiar with - whether we are a filmmaker or not, however, what does that actually mean? Note: this may...


Prehistoric Editing – How did we get where we are today?
Knowing the history of certain aspects may seem a little boring and going back in time a little unnecessary, however, the origins of the...
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