You can lead a horse to water, as the saying goes… In the same way, you can give a photographer, video editor or creative pro a tablet, but will he or she do more than fire up Angry Birds? Adobe is betting so, giving design and A/V pros an environment completely centred around touch and Cloud services. … Continue readingAdobe Touch Apps
There are a few directors working today who craft every scene, back-loading the plot, mood and the very DNA of the movie into every frame. But Terrence Malick, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Michael Winterbottom or Pedro Almodovar all owe a debt to Stanley Kubrick. … Continue readingClassic Scene: 2001, A Space Odyssey
Before a single rubber appliance has even been stuck on David (David Naughton) throws himself to the floor of his girlfriend Alex’s (Jenny Agutter) flat howling in agony. … Continue readingClassic Scene: An American Werewolf in London
German news website Teleopolis recently broke a story that global market research company GfK buried facts in their own findings about movie piracy. … Continue readingFilm Distribution 2.0
Watching for tracking shots is always fun, but they work best when you don’t even realise they’re there. Director Matt Reeves’ Godzilla homage Cloverfield had a unique device that allowed him to include some impressive sequences — the story about a giant beast attacking New York was all done from the point of view of a camcorder user, Blair Witch Project-style. … Continue readingClassic Scene: Cloverfield
DVD outstripped VHS in sales and rentals in 2003, toppling the latter’s 25-year reign over home video consumption. But some believe the Digital Versatile Disc is dying out already as the world shifts towards digital video delivery. … Continue readingThe Future of DVD
Zemeckis’ take on Carl Sagan’s classic novel of first contact with alien life is reverent and stately. Sensitive and intelligent performances from Jodie Foster and her costars give weight to
Forget referencing an external CSS file, putting everything in standards-compliant div tags or giving control over font size to your user. The only way to make sure your HTML email works in all major emails clients (and there are far more of them than web browsers) is to use tables. Yes, you read that right. … Continue readingCreate Stunning HTML Email That Just Works
Things have improved at the film, video and sound end too. The number of cameras supported in their native formats is growing all the time, including the recent addition of the RED digital range. … Continue readingAdobe Creative Suite 5
It’s not until Chapter 7; Building Your Audience that the book starts to make good on the promise we interpreted from the title, not expecting shooting advice or a YouTube How-to guide (not that they’ll be unwelcome depending on your skillset). But after awhile it’s evident most of the information is just more technicalities, explaining spambots, listing the cheats and hacks you can employ but telling you why you shouldn’t and sales strategies like Google Adsense. … Continue readingYouTube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts
