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Dolly Shots Explained
A camera dolly is one of the oldest tools in filmmaking for smooth camera movement — but there's a lot more to it than pushing a cart. In this guide, we break down what a camera dolly is, the different types of dollies (Chapman, Fisher, doorway dollies, Dana dollies), and how dolly shots actually get set up and executed on a professional set.
Why Film Crews Watch Yesterday’s Footage
Dailies, traditionally the next-day physical screenings used by studios to evaluate a director's raw footage, have evolved into a highly technical, five-stage digital pipeline. Today, this fast-paced process involves ingesting media, syncing audio, applying primary colors, and rendering distinct packages for both editorial and creative review within strict time constraints, such as Netflix's 12-hour post-wrap standard. A critical, often overlooked component of this pipeline is technical quality control, which catches errors like frame obstructions or file corruption early when they are still cheap to fix, preventing costly future reshoots or lost data.
Camera glasses contain footage that appears to have been incidentally filmed inside factory | 7.30
Big Tech wants its AI glasses or other so-called wearables to replace the phone as everyone's primary device. Others are calling the new tech cringey stalkerware. Camera glasses have been used for secretly filming women without their consent and a battle over privacy is only just beginning.
Meta and Zuckerberg to face a $1.4 trillion social media addiction trial
Meta - the operator of social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram - and its boss Mark Zuckerberg are facing their biggest trial yet, with the tech giant being sued for the value of the company: $1.4 trillion.
Why we're so sure our phones are listening to us
It has, almost certainly, happened to you. You have a conversation in person, you mention something specific, and minutes later, there’s an ad for it on your phone. For the past decade, most of us have come to the same conclusion: Our phones must be listening. But are they, really? I wanted to dig into the “phone listening” theory — where it came from, what the official research says, and what’s actually happening every time you load an ad on the internet. What I learned is that creepy ads are just the tip of the iceberg, powered by a system auctioning off our location, identity, and behaviors to countless companies vying for our attention… and others looking for something else.
How Movies Fake Rain
How do they make it rain in movies? Almost every rain scene you have watched was built by a crew — rain towers, a fire hydrant, and a wall of backlight.
Longing for a Time Before Smartphones - YouTube
Gen Z has romanticized the technology of the ’90s—or the era’s lack of it. Young long for a time when people were looking at each other instead of their phones. But could that nostalgia for a smartphone-free society actually help guide the future?
Why Movies and TV Use Fake Brands
There's a beer that's shown up in dozens of unrelated movies, a cigarette brand that's been the villain's smoke of choice since the studio era, and an airline that keeps crashing in stories that have nothing to do with each other. None of them are real.
Why horror is the last real genre
Somehow Horror has survived while pretty much every other kind of original genre film has slowly disappeared from the top box office slots... but why?
Why This Shot Works
Every cinematographer has one question to ask before a shot is composed — and it's not about the camera at all.
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