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NEW CAMERA ACCESSORIES DESIGN ON THE MARKET
These are some awesome designs from MariSue Original Designs. Camera lens bags small and large, camera straps with quick release and without, sd card holders and all in matching sets. They look really cool.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
CREATE SHAREABLE NETFLIX PLAYLISTS WITH FLIXTAPE
Remember mixtapes? I sure hope you do, otherwise I’m dating myself here. Basically, back in the 80s and 90s, instead of creating playlists, we created mixtapes on audio cassette tapes. Making a great tape was a far more laborious task since you needed to play the media back in real time and time the records and stops by hand. There were also a lot of rules.
Netflix has decided to bring the concept back for the new streaming medium called Flixtape. I can’t help but think that the streaming service is on an 80s kick right now after releasing Stranger Things. Here’s how the service works.
- Name your Flixtape
The name of your Flixtape is everything, it’s how we kick off your playlist with a few movies and shows that capture the vibe you want. Type in the feeling you’re trying to capture, a nod to the genre you love to geek out on or a message to the person receiving it.- Edit your playlist
Mix it up. The editor allows you to replace and remove any of the 3 titles Flixtape has suggested for you. You can also search for and add up to 6 total titles to your playlist.- Customize your cover
Your Flixtape is meant to be personal. Each one has a customizable cover with doodles that match just about any theme. Feel free to personalize it even more by adding the name of a friend, loved one, or whoever else is lucky enough to get your awesome Flixtape.- Share it
Launch your Flixtape into the world with Twitter or Facebook. You can also share it with someone special via email or text. Anyone who has the privilege of viewing your Flixtape will see your amazing title, experience your custom cover, peruse your playlist and watch the titles on Netflix (as long as they have an active account).
What I really like about this, is that it solves one of the fundamental problems of a streaming service like Netflix, which is the ability to talk about an episode over the watercooler the next day. While you won’t be able to synchronize it, you will be able to send your friends a tailor-made favorites kind of like, well, a mixtape.
I would still like to see more features included into this if Netflix plans on taking the service seriously. There’s a definite use for user curated playlists, and it could introduce a more social aspect to the streaming service.
Check out Netflix’s video introducing the concept below:
You can head on over to flixtape.netflix.com to get started right now. Leave a comment.
July 19, 2016 By
WHY WOODY ALLEN SHOT HIS NEW FILM 'Café Society’ ON DIGITAL
There is no greater fight in modern cinematography than the film vs. digital as a medium. You have proponents and detractors on both sides, with (generally) new blood preferring digital (with some exceptions), and the old guard defending film.
The latter is where you would expect to find a technically unsavvy director like Woody Allen, who has shot all of his movies on film for decades. Well that perfect run is about to come to a close, as his new film Café Society, which opened the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival, was shot digitally on the Sony F65 and F55.
Collider had a chance to speak with spoke with Allen’s two long-time producers Edward Walson and sister Letty Aronson. According to Aronson, the switch wasn’t made without some concern:
“He’s not a big technical person so he was very concerned about it but then we were lucky enough to get Vittorio Storaro for this film.”
Not only is this Allen’s first time shooting digitally but Apocalypse Now cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s first time as well. The legendary cinematographer’s willingness to switch mediums is what convinced Allen. Here’s whatAronson revealed:
“Vittorio’s never done digital, either, but he knows that is the future and so Woody was convinced when Vittorio said he’d do it.”
I tend to find digital a bit too crisp and harsh, which I think is where film’s softness really shines through. But I also realize that there are technical limitations to film, plus there aren’t a lot of development labs in existence anymore. Just because film isn’t the first format filmmakers reach for, however, doesn’t mean that you can’t shoot digitally and make it look like film, which is how Storaro and Allen approached the cinematography for Café Society. Producer Walson remarks:
“I think they both painstakingly took measures to make digital look more like film than many other filmmakers out there today who are shooting on digital cameras. I think there was a certain artistic element that was put into it and they’re both very phonetical about light and knowing when to use natural lighting cues or what should use artificial light. I believe they developed a way to create a more film-like quality with the lighting, the time of day, and so forth. They were able to give more of the allusion of film than most digital films out there today.”
In an interview over at Celluloid Junkie during Cannes, technophobe director Woody Allen noticed no difference between shooting on digital or film on set saying:
“There’s a camera, it has to be lit. It’s an identical thing except instead of celluloid you’re working digitally. But everything has to be composed and you go through the exact same motions as if you were shooting with celluloid. If anything, you have a few more options later because you’re working digitally. But if you’re working with a master photographer the effect can be very beautiful as you can see in the movie. There were no compromises. No modifications or anything had to be different because it was digital.”
Café Society will premiere in theaters on July 15, 2016. Here’s the trailer:
July 19, 2016 By
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