In this video Joel Svendson from Rosco Laboratories describes the latest products and innovations. Topics include: correct to blue, correct to orange, balancing lighting, reflectors, neutral density filters, diffusion, chroma-key, plus green and minus green applications, and using Cal Color. Learn tips and techniques of professional gaffers for both HD and 35mm.

In this video, Rush Hamden teaches how to light an action sequence where a gun or sword is present and why each instrument is needed. Topics include: key light, rim lights, flags, fill, spot, flood, barn doors, flashlights, and specials. Learn how to light a scene like an industry professional in this episode of Digital Cinema Training.

Milos Forman is a multi-award-winning director with a fascinating backstory. Born in Czechkoslovakia, he was orphaned at an early age when his parents perished in Nazi concentration camps. After an early career making films in his native country, he moved to Hollywood and his career took off. He is most well known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which won five Academy Awards, Hair!, and Amadeus, the biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,...

Made in cooperation with the American Film Institute, Directors: Life Behind the Camera features thirty-three legendary directors who reveal intimate and in-depth knowledge about the art of filmmaking and, as well, their own career in the movies. Culled from over 300 hours of interviews, this two-disc, four hour presentation is totally interactive, allowing instant access to a single director, or access to an entire topic involving all directors....

The Movie Production volume of Digital Cinema Training applies numerous concepts of basic production in the real world, such as composition, camera settings, and manipulating the camera. Part 16 focuses on cinematography principles such as the law of thirds and the 180 degree rule as it applies to outdoor settings.

Caused both by humans and by nature, disasters have played an unforgettable part in the history of the 20th century. This program contains footage of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse, and the aftermath of Pan Am flight 103's mid-air explosion over Lockerbie and the 1998 high-speed train crash at Eschede. Clips of natural catastrophes include flooding in New England; hurricanes in Florida; avalanches...

Film budgeting expert Diane Cornell leads off this lecture series regarding financing an independent film with these topics: politics of money, your script, budget strategy, financing, unions, the crew, loss and damage, bonds contingencies, SAG, production reports, set safety, sexual harassment, and animals and children on set.

When you're only 15cm high the world is a pretty frightening place! Meet Pod, Homily and Arrietty Clock - those tiny people who live under your floorboards. They exist by 'borrowing' everyday items from you that you wouldn't even miss! You will never know they're there unless they're careless and let you see them one day. That's why their lives are filled with danger and great adventures. So the next time you notice a doll's teacup missing or an old...

How does it feel to have directed a widely acknowledged masterpiece in not one but two different film genres? Only a handful of movie impresarios know, and chief among them is William Friedkin-the man who thrilled and terrified audiences with The French Connection and The Exorcist. In this program, Friedkin discusses the making of those classics and other hallmarks of his distinguished career. He recalls the laborious process of casting the Popeye...

This program details the history of this dynamic medium from its modest beginnings. In 1949, cable meant television for locations that had very poor reception or were inaccessible to broadcast signals. By the mid-1970s, cable service began to expand rapidly due to the easing of government restrictions and the use of satellite transmissions. Fiber optics, new cable-ready TVs, and an explosion of programming by an ever-growing number of networks helped...