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Bookmarks from the internet

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The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" Part 1

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Points - The most advance wayfinding system on earth 

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An empty warehouse + endless paint

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cycloid

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Franka Potente and Matt Damon on the set of The Bourne Supremacy (2004).

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‘Photos Every Day’

This is a spot by TBWA/Chiat/Day for Apple, called ‘Photos Every Day’. The craft is fantastic, and there’s some subtle, unusual attention to detail in it.

Let’s take a look at the sound mix. Here’s a waveform of the spot:

And now here’s the waveform of a conventionally mixed spot – this is that ‘Old Spice’ commercial everyone flipped out for a couple years ago. It might as well be any ad you see on TV today.

Huge difference. There’s incredible restraint in the amount of compression applied to the music in ‘Photos Every Day’.  From Wikipedia, compression “reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds by narrowing or ‘compressing’ an audio signal’s dynamic range”. My point here is that if you caught this on TV, it would be substantially ‘quieter’ sounding than other ads around it.

The other interesting thing about the mix is that the iPhone shutter click sound is substantially undermixed. It comes across as incidental, and unobtrusive. The ambiences are the real star here, and the sound editor wasn’t even afraid to drop them out entirely for effect (see snowy skyscraper, 0:23).

Other Observations:

• There’s a real nice match-cut at 0:06 of the guy jumping off his skateboard into the shot of the jogger running. • 0:25, the iPhone bobs up and down at a concert, and halfway through, the shot itself starts bobbing with the phone, keeping the screen stationary in the frame. • Overall, there’s a very careful variety of perspective, scale, and involvement. Are we peering over someone’s shoulder? Watching from across the street? Ostensibly taking the picture, ourselves? • I could have done without the voiceover at the end.

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Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito:

Have you ever been to earth?

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Glow-in-the-dark stick-on stars. Favorite shot of the new Nest thing.

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Life Science Book Covers from the 1960s

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Gear oh gear

Maybe a montage of old movie clips followed by a tagline isn't the most original idea in the first place, but still...

I rest my case.

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'Gravity'

The trailer for this movie looks epic. Look at the way the camera spins around the spacecraft in total darkness. It's dizzying in the best possible way. A total mind-bending space thriller. And it's in IMAX 3D so you'll basically be spiraling through space at the movie theater. I am so excited for this.

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Chicago from the air (via Reddit)

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Playing with focal length

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Taken with Instagram

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I like HTCs creativity here with the separating list.