Category: Hollywood

This former Nuclear Bunker is now home to over a hundred years worth of American cinema

John Aldred

Located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, the Library of Congress Packard Campus was originally built as a nuclear bunker. It stored $4 billion in gold, and would’ve been the location to which the President would have been taken had the need arisen during the Cold War. Now that this potential need […]

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Grip it Good – The indespensable members of a film crew

John Aldred

On a film set, the grip handles all means of camera support. Grips assist the cinematographer and gaffer in managing and sculpting the light. They also deal with safety aspects of cast and crew while working on set. In the world of photography we may occasionally have an assistant, but such jobs are usually up to us. In this video from […]

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Lytro are out to change the future of cinema and they want to get into the hands of all filmmakers

John Aldred

We all saw the big announcement a couple of weeks ago about Lytro’s new Cinema camera, but the folks over at No Film School sat down to have a more in-depth discussion with Lytro’s Head of Light Field Video, John Karafin, and got an exclusive look into some of the features and abilities of the Lytro Cinema camera system. With […]

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Lytro is making big waves in Hollywood with their groundbreaking new Cinema camera

John Aldred

While Lytro might’ve exited stage left from the world of photography, they’ve set their sights on Hollywood and they’re looking real hard, as is their new camera. Lytro Cinema is the world’s Light Field solution for film and television.  This technological breakthrough capture system allows filmmakers to do things that simply haven’t been possible before, […]

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