Last February I shared a video of editor Eddie Hamilton talking at an Avid event about his career and how he worked his way through two drastically different editing experiences, Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class. A reader commented, wondering what was all the fuss about editors, since they seemed ...
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If you've one of mentorless.com avid readers, you are aware of my admiration for Darren Aronofsky and his body of work. Discovering that two of the behind-the-scenes shot by Niko Tavernise were available online in their full version was pretty much like fast forwarding to Christmas 2013. T ...
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Making-of Voila - Picture by Ferhat Sen For this second and final part about Low to No Budget Filmmaking, Miles Maker, No-Budget Film School, Sean Baker and more participants gave great insights about: how to produce a low to no budget film how to hire a crew how to handle casting and ...
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'We are shooting a no-budget feature film.' We hear this sentence all the time, we say it ourselves, but what does it really mean? What is a no-budget film? Can you really say you made a movie for $0? What about food? post-production? parking? What about permits, insurance and SAG? What abou ...
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Take a moment to watch this under two minutes stop-motion animation made out of still frames by Willie Witte and try to keep up with the smooth cuts allowing this visual experiment to progress. Witte said he was 'testing an experimental process of printing out still frames from videos and u ...
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Time Lapses, Hyper Lapses and Tilt Shifts are three of the most popular filmmaking technics at the moment. Time Lapses, by far a photographers/filmmakers' favorite, can now be seen in reality TV, documentaries and movies to evoke time passing and transition from one sequence to another. Just ...
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12 Monkeys is one of my favorite sci-fi movie and yet, it took me a long time to watch The Hamster Factor after @LaFamiliaFilm pointed out its existence. The Hamster Factor is both a full-length documentary and 12 Monkeys' official behind-the-scene, ordered by Terry Gilliam himself to protect ...
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Like many, I find Terrence Malick's universe fascinating and enchanting. The filmmaker with 6 movies over 35 years has such a strong vision of the stories he wants to tell that there is a visual consistency that carries throughout his work, story after story, no matter the subject, the setting ...
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Back shot from Another Earth Take a look at "The View: a 'Back-to-the-Camera' Supershot", a video edited by Zach Prewitt that compiles back shots from 90 different sources (films and TV-Shows) and organically mixes film genres and decades. Back shots are often used to reveal either an imp ...
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20 years ago, Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere and surprised everybody with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, gaining worldwide attention and becoming the symbol of an "alternative" filmmaking movement. 20 years ago it was hard to know if Tarantino was more than a one trick pony director. ...
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