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POV shots can be extremely effective, presenting an entirely new way of looking at a character, or their motivations.
How does one successfully navigate obstacles such as extreme weather, a tight deadline and a spontaneous shot list in a foreign country on a 360 project as a solo cinematographer?
Our recently published research finds inequitable power dynamics behind the camera on Australian film sets are pernicious and persistent.
Our new research casts a harsh light on the realities of working in film and television.
Netflix requires its narrative feature films be shot on approved cameras. This can lead to a flat, depthless look, in contrast to the graininess of celluloid.
In this 1970 Italian classic, director Bernardo Bertolucci uses the camera frame to throw the audience off-kilter again and again.
Rewatching the 1991 film classic JFK shows the intricate choreography of montage — and the line between fact and truth still being navigated today.
In a pivotal scene from Brad Pitt zombie movie World War Z, we see the frame shift from the individual to the undead mass. In doing so, it taps into deep fears.
The first world war drama is the latest feature film to claim to be a single continuous take. This list takes a look at those films that have tried and achieved the ‘oner’ before.
It’s beautiful, clever and moving. But Peter Jackson’s use of colour and added sound essentially fictionalises this account of life in the trenches.
Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.
The term “reboot” means something particular in the movies. The metaphor is drawn from computers: a “reboot” restarts a machine whose software has malfunctioned. But in cinematic terms a reboot refers…
Most Australian TV drama series are full of light … and full of surf, sand and suburbs or endless horizons and unthreatening bush. But one series that returned to ABC TV last month has a distinctive and…
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